Mailfence
🇧🇪 BE · Free plan · paid from €2.50/mo
3.4/5· 225 reviews across 4 portals
End-to-end encrypted email, calendar and documents with OpenPGP
Replaces
Mailfence is sought as a European alternative to:
Features
Email and encryption
- OpenPGP-based encryption and digital signatures
- In-browser keystore for key management
- Password-protected messages for non-PGP recipients
- Aliases
- Spam protection
- Malware detection
Calendar and scheduling
- Personal and shared calendars
- Invitations
- Meeting polls and scheduling
- Public calendar sharing
Contacts
- Personal and shared address books
- Contact groups
- vCard import/export
Documents and storage
- Online document storage
- File and folder sharing
- In-browser viewing
- Online editing on paid plans
Group collaboration
- Mailfence Groups for sharing calendars, contacts, and documents
Account and business administration
- Admin console for user management
- Branding options for business plans
- Integration with SSO providers
Account security
- Two-factor authentication (TOTP)
- Recovery codes
Mobile access
- iOS and Android apps
- PWA access
Pricing
- 500 MB storage
- Full end-to-end encryption
- Productivity suite included
- 5 GB storage
- 10 aliases
- IMAP, POP3, SMTP
- 10 GB storage
- 50 aliases
- CalDAV and CardDAV
- 30 GB storage
- 100 aliases
- Exchange ActiveSync
- Online document editing
- 60 GB storage
- 200 aliases
- All Pro features
- Priority support
Business plans start at €0.90/user/month with custom pricing.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-10-29. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →EU data residency
Servers are located and directly controlled in Belgium.
- Evidence →European legal entity
Registered company in Brussels, Belgium.
- Evidence →Data Processing Agreement (DPA)
Data Processing Agreement is provided for organizations.
- Evidence →Documented data exportEmails, calendar events, and contacts via external clients/protocols
Documented export process for user data.
We list only what we could verify against a public source on the check date. A point that is absent was not established either way — it is not a finding against the vendor. The vendor's own information prevails.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Built-in OpenPGP encryption and digital signatures without plugins
- Encryption setup described as relatively easy
- Privacy-focused principles and support for EFF and EDRi
- Quick, personal, and useful support with replies within an hour
- Straightforward interface with bundled email, contacts, calendar, documents, groups, and polls
- Support for IMAP, POP, SMTP, and CalDAV for use with other clients
- Easy migration from Gmail reported by users
- Free plan with 500 MB storage for email and documents praised
Where users see room to improve
- · Rich-text editor with limited font and size choices and image positioning issues
- · Mobile friction, including contacts disappearing on a device and lack of a native app
- · Slow pace of quality-of-life improvements and feature additions
Ratings across portals
Linked facts, we bring ratings from every portal together in one place.
Integrations
Mailfence: frequently asked questions
- How much does Mailfence cost?
- Mailfence has a free plan; paid plans start at €2.50/mo. Plans: Base (€2.50/mo), Entry (€3.50/mo), Pro (€9.50/mo), Ultra (€29.00/mo). Business plans start at €0.90/user/month with custom pricing.
- Which tools does Mailfence integrate with?
- Mailfence connects with IMAP, POP3, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV, WebDAV, Exchange ActiveSync and SSO, plus 4 more integrations we found.
- Where does Mailfence store its data?
- Servers are located and directly controlled in Belgium. Data Processing Agreement is provided for organizations.
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Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-10-29), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.