Updated September 2026 · all three apps now carry their own dated listing figures, and the monthly plan prices this page quoted are withdrawn for the in-app purchase band the listing publishes
If you came here because you heard Yahoo cut your storage, you heard right. The old promise of 1TB free is gone. North American free accounts dropped to 20GB in 2025, and UK and EU free accounts fell to 15GB on 5 May 2026. That stung a lot of long-time users, and it changes the whole pitch for this app. So the question is no longer "who wants free space?" It is whether Yahoo Mail, now rebuilt and renamed Yahoo Mail: Email & Planner, still earns a place on your phone. Here is the setup, the features that matter, and where it falls short.
Install Yahoo Mail: Email & Planner from the Play Store and open it. If you already have a Yahoo address, sign in and your mail loads in a few seconds. No Yahoo account? You can make one inside the app in a couple of minutes. It asks for a phone number to verify you.
Here is the part people miss. Yahoo Mail is not only for Yahoo addresses. During setup it offers to add other accounts, and it takes a Gmail account, an Outlook address, and a plain IMAP mailbox, all feeding one inbox. So it can be your main email app, not just a place to read old Yahoo messages. Before you do anything else, go into settings and fix two things: the swipe gestures and the notifications. The defaults buzz you for almost everything, and you will want that calmed down before the badges pile up.
Planner, the Orders Hub and one-screen bulk unsubscribe
4.1 stars from 8,807,314 reviews · 100,000,000+ installs · free to install · in-app purchases $0.99 to $119.99 per item · last updated 3 September 2026 · by Yahoo · Contains ads: Yes · checked 5 September 2026
Google Play listing · 4.1 (8,807,314) · read 5 September 2026
The app this page is about, listed on Play as Yahoo Mail: Email and Planner, by Yahoo. Free to install, with the Contains ads label and in-app purchases of $0.99 to $119.99 per item, read 5 September 2026: the listing publishes that one band across everything sold inside the app and does not break it down per product, and Yahoo's own Mail Plus page, read 6 September 2026, publishes $5 a month for the 200GB Mail Plus tier. It sits at 4.1 stars from 8,807,314 reviews, level with Gmail and below Outlook, on a data safety card that says the app may share data types with third parties.
The redesign leans hard on AI and on sorting your inbox for you, and some of it actually helps. The Primary Inbox pushes the senders that matter to the top and lets the marketing settle below. Open a long email and you get a one-line AI Summary at the top, which is handy for the wordy newsletters you skim and never read. Reply suggestions sit under each message if you want a fast answer.
Then there is Planner. It reads your mail and pulls out the things with a date attached: a flight, a dinner reservation, a bill due Friday. Those land in one view instead of buried in twelve separate threads. Around it sit Quick Actions (track a package, view a bill, grab a verification code, RSVP straight from the inbox), an Orders Hub that watches your deliveries, and Shopping Saver, which digs out gift cards, store credits and discount codes you forgot you had. How useful any of this is depends on how much of your life runs through that address. For an inbox full of shopping and travel mail, it does real work.
The older stuff still holds up too. Views still group your deliveries, travel, receipts and subscriptions into tidy sections. And the bulk unsubscribe tool is still the first thing to open. It lists the senders clogging your inbox and lets you cut them loose from one screen.
This is the honest part, and it is not the cheerful number it used to be. Free Yahoo Mail now gives you 20GB in North America, dropping to 15GB in the UK and EU from May 2026. If you have years of mail and big attachments sitting in there, 20GB fills faster than you would think, and you notice the day a sender's reply bounces because your box is full. Yahoo gives a roughly 30-day grace window where you can still read existing mail but cannot receive new messages, then the account effectively freezes until you clear space or pay.
So what are the real choices? Clear out the heavy stuff (search for large attachments and old newsletters and delete in batches). Or pay. Yahoo sells extra storage in 100GB and 1TB plans, and the middle option a lot of people land on is Yahoo Mail Plus, which bundles 200GB with an ad-free inbox. All of them are in-app purchases, and the Play listing read 5 September 2026 publishes a band of $0.99 to $119.99 per item rather than a monthly price, so the per-plan prices this page used to quote are withdrawn. The free 1TB that this app was famous for is now a paid add-on, plain and simple.
A few tips that still apply. Turn on priority notifications so only people who matter buzz your phone. Connect the built-in calendar so confirmation emails turn into events. And if you share the phone, set an app lock or fingerprint in settings so your mail is not one tap away for whoever picks it up.
Ads are the main trade-off on the free tier. Promoted messages sit inside the inbox, and on a small screen you will mistap one sooner or later. Yahoo Mail Plus, sold as an in-app purchase on the listing read 5 September 2026, clears them out and adds more than "a few extras." You get 200GB of storage, up to 500 disposable addresses you can spin up and bin when a site starts spamming you, domain blocking, auto-forwarding, and no account expiry, so your mail does not get purged after a long quiet spell. Whether that is worth a monthly fee is up to you, but it is a fuller package than the free app lets on.
Permissions are the usual email set. Notification access to alert you. Contacts if you want name suggestions and photos when you compose. Storage or photo access when you attach a file. You can decline contacts and still send mail fine, just with less autocomplete. One more thing worth saying plainly: Yahoo is an advertising business, so as with any free mail service, open the privacy settings and switch off the personalized ad options you are not comfortable with.
Gmail is still the smoothest on Android, with the tightest Google integration and its own long established spam filtering. Its own Play listing, read 5 September 2026, carries the Contains ads label too, so ads are not a Yahoo-only trade-off. Its free storage is 15GB shared across Drive, Photos and Gmail, and Google has been testing a tighter cap on brand-new accounts unless you add a phone number. That used to be Yahoo's whole argument. Not anymore. Yahoo's free 20GB barely edges Gmail's 15GB in North America, and in the UK and EU the two have been level at 15GB since May 2026, so storage is no longer the reason to pick it.
What is the reason, then? The AI and the cleanup tools. Planner, the Orders Hub and the bulk unsubscribe do things Gmail makes you piece together yourself. For work mail and calendars, Microsoft Outlook (the main app, now that Outlook Lite was retired on May 25, 2026) is still the one to beat, with a strong agenda and focused inbox, though it feels corporate next to Yahoo.
Want a side-by-side across every major client? We line them up in our guide to the best email apps for Android, and you can browse more in our communication apps hub. Email is only one way we talk to people, so if you are tidying the whole phone, look at our roundup of the top free messaging apps for Android and the most customizable messaging apps too. Yahoo Mail is a fair pick if you already live at a Yahoo address and like the smart inbox, as long as you have made peace with the smaller free storage and the ads.
Google integration and spam filtering, with nothing to buy
4.1 stars from 14,431,345 reviews · 10,000,000,000+ installs · free · no in-app purchases · last updated 3 September 2026 · by Google LLC · Contains ads: Yes · checked 5 September 2026
Google Play listing · 4.1 (14,431,345) · read 5 September 2026
The client most Android phones start with. Free with no in-app purchases, and, a detail this page used to leave out, the Contains ads label on its own listing, read 5 September 2026, so ads are not a Yahoo-only trade-off. Its rating is 4.1 stars from 14,431,345 reviews, the same score as Yahoo Mail, on 10,000,000,000+ installs, with a data safety card that says no data shared with third parties and an independent security review. The 15GB of free storage is shared with Drive and Photos, per Google's own storage documentation, read 6 September 2026.
Work mail and calendars, with the strongest rating here
4.3 stars from 10,629,216 reviews · 1,000,000,000+ installs · free to install · in-app purchases $1.99 to $12.99 per item · last updated 5 September 2026 · by Microsoft Corporation · Contains ads: Yes · checked 5 September 2026
Google Play listing · 4.3 (10,629,216) · read 5 September 2026
The best rated app on this page at 4.3 stars from 10,629,216 reviews, read 5 September 2026. Free to install, with the Contains ads label and in-app purchases of $1.99 to $12.99 per item. Its data safety card, like Yahoo Mail's, says the app may share data types with third parties. Outlook Lite, the cut-down sibling this page mentions, had no Play page when read on 5 September 2026, which matches the retirement the page reports, so the main app is the only Outlook left to compare.
Yes. The free version of Yahoo Mail: Email & Planner gives you the full inbox, 20GB of storage (15GB in the UK and EU from May 2026), the Planner and AI features, the bulk unsubscribe tool, and support for multiple accounts. It shows ads inside the inbox. Yahoo Mail Plus removes the ads and bumps storage to 200GB; it is sold as an in-app purchase, and the Play listing read 5 September 2026 publishes a band of $0.99 to $119.99 per item rather than a monthly price.
It did. Yahoo dropped free storage from 1TB to 20GB for North American accounts in 2025, and UK and EU free accounts fall to 15GB on May 5, 2026. The old 1TB is now a paid plan, sold as an in-app purchase inside the $0.99 to $119.99 per item band the Play listing publishes, read 5 September 2026. If your box fills, new mail stops arriving straight away: Yahoo's own storage FAQ, read 6 September 2026, says you cannot send or receive until space is cleared, and mail sent to you while the box is full is not stored. Clear space or upgrade before you hit the limit.
Free accounts get 20GB in North America, dropping to 15GB in the UK and EU from May 2026. If you need more, Yahoo sells 100GB and 1TB storage plans, and Yahoo Mail Plus includes 200GB and removes ads. All of them are in-app purchases, and the Play listing read 5 September 2026 publishes only one band of $0.99 to $119.99 per item across everything sold inside the app. For a plan price, Yahoo's own Mail Plus page, read 6 September 2026, publishes $5 a month for the 200GB Mail Plus tier.
You can. During setup, and later in settings, Yahoo Mail lets you add Gmail, Microsoft Outlook and standard IMAP accounts into one unified inbox. That makes it a workable main email app rather than just a Yahoo reader.
It depends on what you value. Gmail has the tightest Google integration and its own long established spam filtering, and its free 15GB is now close to Yahoo's free 20GB, so storage is no longer a real gap. Both listings carry the Contains ads label and both sit at 4.1 stars, read 5 September 2026: Yahoo Mail from 8,807,314 reviews and Gmail from 14,431,345 reviews. Yahoo's edge is its inbox tools: the Planner, the Orders Hub and the one-screen bulk unsubscribe. If those appeal and you can live with in-inbox ads, Yahoo Mail is a solid choice.
Both do, and so does Outlook. Gmail's Google Play listing, read 5 September 2026, carries the Contains ads label, as do Yahoo Mail's and Microsoft Outlook's. The difference is what each sells: Gmail lists no in-app purchases, Yahoo Mail lists $0.99 to $119.99 per item, and Outlook lists $1.99 to $12.99 per item.
Checked 5 September 2026: the page named three apps and linked none, with no ratings, no ads labels, no table and no dated line. All three now carry fact lines read today, and the listings corrected the page in three places. Yahoo Mail's listing publishes in-app purchases of $0.99 to $119.99 per item and no monthly price, so the plan prices $1.99, $9.99 and $5 a month that this page quoted are withdrawn and the band replaces them. Gmail's listing carries the Contains ads label, which the comparison had left unsaid. Outlook Lite's Play page returned nothing when read today, consistent with the retirement the page reports. Two claims about our own use are withdrawn: it handled a Gmail account, an Outlook address, and a plain IMAP mailbox for us, and It handled all three at once for us. The line the thing we'd point a friend to first is rewritten in the reader's voice, and one FAQ question moves to the second person.