BlueMail Plus and BlueMail for business

BlueMail is free, on every platform, with unlimited accounts. That is not a trial and it is not a feature-starved tier designed to annoy you into upgrading. It is the product.

So the reasonable question is what the paid version is for.

What stays free

Everything an individual needs. Unlimited accounts, the unified inbox, Clusters, calendar, push, encryption, the lock screen, tracker blocking, and every client on every platform. If you are one person with nine mailboxes, you are done. There is nothing to buy.

What Plus adds

The paid tier is aimed at organizations, and the difference is administration rather than features in the mail client itself.

Central management. A dashboard for provisioning accounts, pushing configuration and removing access when someone leaves. The thing you want at forty users and can live without at four.

Policy enforcement. Requiring the app lock, controlling whether mail can be forwarded outside the organization, setting session behavior. Policies that hold whether or not the individual user agrees with them.

Branding. Your identity in the client, which matters more to some organizations than others.

Support with an obligation attached. A response commitment rather than a queue.

The honest test

Most teams do not need it. Here is the line.

You need managed BlueMail when removing one person’s access has to be a single action you can prove happened. That is the whole test.

At five people, offboarding is a conversation and a password change. At two hundred, it is a compliance requirement with an audit trail, and doing it by hand across a fleet is how accounts stay live for months after someone leaves.

Everything else on the feature list is convenience. That one is a control.

The layer underneath

Worth being clear about what a mail client can and cannot do here, because vendors are often vague about it.

BlueMail does not hold your mail. It reads from your provider, so the authoritative controls, retention, legal hold, data loss prevention, audit logging, all live in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace where your mail actually is.

What a managed client adds is control over the endpoint: which devices, under what conditions, with what local protections. Those are complementary. A vendor implying their client replaces your provider’s compliance tooling is selling you something that does not exist.

Pricing and detail

Current pricing and the full comparison live on the BlueMail business pages. This site is not the sales channel, and the numbers there will always be more current than anything written here.

If you are somewhere in between

The awkward size is roughly ten to fifty people: too many to offboard by hand, not yet enough to have someone whose job is identity management.

At that size the honest advice is to invest in your identity provider first. Get conditional access working, get multi-factor enforced, get a real offboarding runbook. Those pay off no matter which mail client anyone chooses, and a managed client on top of a weak identity layer is a lock on a door with no frame.

See also: rolling out BlueMail across a team.