Compare Mail and Calendar apps for Windows 10 with Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2013

The Mail and Calendar apps on Windows 10 provide a basic, touch-friendly email and calendar application that is great for use with personal email services, and comes free with every Windows 10 device.

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 also are available for Windows 10 devices, with the purchase of Office 2013, Office 2016, or Office 365. Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 are the leading applications for professional email, calendar, contacts, and task management, for those who want the richest feature set for email and calendaring.

See below for a comparison of features.

Mail

Folder pane

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Folders list	Yes	Yes
Favorite folders list	Yes	No
View PSTs	Yes	No
View Online Archive	Yes *	No
Create new folder	Yes	Yes
Rename folder	Yes	Yes
View Clutter folder	Yes	Yes
Access Office 365 Groups	No	No **
Empty Deleted folder	Yes	Yes
Empty Junk folder	Yes	Yes
Hard delete from Deleted Items	NA	Yes
View/Send mail from Shared Mailboxes	Yes	No
Access to Public Folders	Yes	No
Access Site Mailboxes	Yes *	No

^* Not available in Outlook in Office 365 Business.

^** Can receive email and calendar notifications if subscribed to a Group .

Message list

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Conversation view	Yes	Yes
Disable conversation view	Yes	Yes
Flag/Follow up	Yes	Yes
Categorize	Yes	No
Ignore conversation	Yes	No
Clean up thread	Yes	No
Report as junk	Yes	No
Quick steps	Yes	No
Undo	Yes	Yes
Assign Policy archive or retention policy	Yes *	No
Mark as Clutter button	No	No
Mark as Clutter by moving email to Clutter folder	Yes	Yes
Empty Spam folder	NA	No
Schedule/Snooze	No	No
Swipe Gestures	No	Yes
Ability to customize Swipe Gestures	No	Yes

^* Not available in Outlook in Office 365 Business.

Reading pane

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Read IRM messages	Yes	Yes
Apps for Office - reading pane	Yes	No
Voicemail in Inbox	Yes	Yes
Unsubscribe (One-click option on mass emails)	No	No

Compose New Message/Reply

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Respond to IRM messages	Yes	Yes
Create new IRM messages	Yes *	No
MailTips - recipient is Out of office or outside of organization	Yes	No
Insert/change signatures	Yes	Yes
Follow Up/Flag when creating email	Yes	No
Set High/Low importance	Yes	Yes
Add Voting buttons	Yes	No
Spell check	Yes	Yes
Attach files	Yes	Yes
Attach links to files from OneDrive for Business	No	No
Attach and permission links to files from OneDrive	No	No
Alias support for Outlook.com	Yes	Yes
Alias support Gmail.com	No	No
Send email as plain text	Yes	No
Select All messages	Yes	Yes

^* Not available in Outlook in Office 365 Business.

Mailbox controls

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Work Offline mode	Yes	Yes
Create Inbox rules	Yes	No
Unified Mailbox	Yes	Yes*
Local Email storage	Yes	No
Import PST	Yes	No
Sync slider (sync locally)	Yes	Yes

* The Mail app for Windows 10 feature is called Linked Inboxes.

Contacts

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Contacts list	Yes	No *
Search Global Address List to find contacts	Yes	Yes
Global Address List search	Yes	Yes
People Card	Yes	Yes
People pivot (recent emails, meetings, files from contact view)	No	Yes**

^*The Mail and Calendar apps contain your contacts in the system directory. When you write or reply to an email, you can find the people that you've recently exchanged emails with in the To line. Simply start typing a name to see the suggestions, or select Search directory at the bottom of the suggested names.

**Available through the People app.

Search

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Local search	Yes	Yes
Server/Online search	Yes	Yes
Highlight search terms in search results	Yes	No

Connect to other accounts

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Connect to multiple accounts	Yes	Yes
Exchange Server	Yes	Yes
Office 365Office 365 Exchange Online	Yes	Yes
Outlook.com	Yes	Yes
Gmail.com	Yes	Yes
Yahoo!	Yes	Yes
IMAP accounts	Yes	Yes

Calendar

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Accept/Tentative/ Decline meeting	Yes	Yes
Edit response	Yes	Yes
Propose new time	Yes	No
Remove from calendar button	Yes	Yes
Weather Bar	Yes	Yes
Share Calendar *	Yes	No
Open colleagues' calendars	Yes	No
Send Availability (share available time)	NA	No
Forward a meeting	Yes	No
Create a new meeting	Yes	Yes
See attendee free/busy information	Yes	No
Meeting room finder	Yes	No
Meeting attendee response status	Yes	Yes
Add Lync or Skype Online Meeting details	Yes	No

^* Share Calendar (set permission level and share entire calendar).

Mobile

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
EAS Policy Pin lock (device level)	NA	Yes
EAS Policy Execute Remote Wipe	NA	Yes
EAS Policy Wipe after N incorrect password attempts	NA	Yes
EAS Policy Maximum inactivity time lock	NA	Yes
EAS Policy Force Encryption	NA	Yes
ADAL-based authentication for Office 365 mailboxes	Yes *	Yes*
Support for Multi-Factor Authentication	Yes *	Yes*

^* If enabled for the account.

Other

Feature	Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016	Mail and Calendar on Windows 10
Set automatic replies, (Out of office	Yes	Yes
Print	Yes	Yes
App Themes	Yes	Yes
S/MIME support	Yes	Yes
Touch Mode	Yes	Yes

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