

It’s possible that some or all of these features could make their way to Android on the future, but they’re not yet on the roadmap.Īlso still under evaluation? An iOS app. It won’t support desktop features like a calendar, task manager, feed reader, or the recently-added support for the Matrix chat protocol. While the goal is to bring features some of the desktop Thunderbird client to the mobile app, the two will continue to have different user interfaces, since the desktop UI is clearly not optimized for small touchscreen devices.Īnother difference? At launch, the Thunderbird mobile app will only be an email client.

Synchronization between Thunderbird’s desktop and mobile clients.Thunderbird account auto-configuration for account setup.Eventually new features will be added to the app and its name will change to Thunderbird.Īmong other things, new features coming to the mobile email client include: Rather than designing a mobile email client from the ground up, the organization has acquired the existing open source Android email app K-9 Mail and the developer of that app now works for Thunderbird.

