Skiff Mail is a privacy-first email address that you may actually want to use.

Skiff Mail is the latest addition to Skiff’s productivity suite, and at first glance it might even seem a little too bare bones for many people. But the designers at Swift have focused on getting the basics right and providing the one thing you don’t have to think about when using Gmail: privacy. But is privacy important enough to convince people to switch?

"Will people switch from Gmail to Skiff because of privacy concerns? Absolutely. Will it make a significant difference to Gmail's dominance of the email market? None at all," Dragos Badea, founder of hybrid work company Yarooms, told Lifewire via email. "While privacy is extremely important to a niche group of users, it's not a big enough niche to expect anything big to happen."

First, the privacy angle. Unlike most email service providers (ESP), Skiff protects all of your data with end-to-end encryption. That means no one on Skiff can access your emails or any other data (like in the collaborative document editor), even if they want to. Compare this to Gmail, which reads your email to show you relevant ads. Not only that, all emails sent between Skiff users remain encrypted throughout their entire journey.