TouchMail

{{Short description|Email client for Microsoft Windows}}

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| name = TouchMail

| logo = TouchMail Inc Logo.png

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| caption = Main menu of TouchMail

| developer = TouchMail Inc.

| released = {{start date and age|df=yes|2013|04|17}}

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| operating system = Windows 8.1 and later

| platform = Universal Windows Platform

| language = English, German

| genre = Email client

| license = Trialware

| website = {{URL|TouchMail.co}}

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TouchMail is an email client for Microsoft Windows, launched on April 17, 2013 at the DEMO Mobile Conference in San Francisco.{{cite web| title=TouchMail Inc. Launches TouchMail -- a Modern Email App for Tablets| work=Marketwire| url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/touchmail-inc-launches-touchmail-a-modern-email-app-for-tablets-at-demo-mobile-2013-1779596.htm| date=April 17, 2013| access-date=June 5, 2013| archive-date=October 23, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023203324/http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/touchmail-inc-launches-touchmail-a-modern-email-app-for-tablets-at-demo-mobile-2013-1779596.htm| url-status=dead}}

TouchMail was developed by a Seattle-based startup founded in 2012 by former Microsoft employees Matthew Carlson and Alex Frank as an e-mail client designed for touch input.{{cite web|url=https://www.geekwire.com/2016/touchmail/|title=Startup Spotlight: Ex-Microsoft employees want to reinvent email with TouchMail app for Windows|publisher=Geekwire|date=September 29, 2016|first=Taylor|last=Soper|access-date=October 25, 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/01/24/microsoft-veterans-launch-touchmail-innovative-gesture-based-email-client-windows-8/|title=TouchMail launches its innovative email client for Windows 8, but it's not finished yet|publisher=The Next Web|date=January 24, 2014|first=Josh|last=Ong|access-date=October 25, 2017}} It runs on both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. The emails in the client can be color-coded with zoom out features to view more messages.{{cite magazine | author=Harry McCracken| title=Windows 8 Needs More Apps Like TouchMail | magazine=Time magazine | url=https://techland.time.com/2013/04/18/windows-8-needs-more-apps-like-touchmail/ | date=April 18, 2013| author-link=Harry McCracken }} The application integrates work and social messaging using visual and touch capabilities of computing devices.