Ever wondered what people are checking their email with? Here’s the statistics. Calculated from 1.23 billion email opens tracked by Litmus Email Analytics in December 2017.


Email client market share

Email client usage worldwide, collected from 1.23 billion email opens.

  1. Apple iPhone 28%
  2. Gmail 26% +0.24
  3. Apple iPad 11% +0.4
  4. Apple Mail 7% +0.15
  5. Outlook 6% -0.05
  6. Samsung Mail 5% -0.52
  7. Outlook.com 4% -0.13
  8. Google Android 3% -0.13
  9. Yahoo! Mail 2% +0.08
  10. Windows Live Mail 1%


About these stats

This leaderboard of the most popular webmail, desktop, and mobile email clients is compiled from data collected worldwide by Litmus Email Analytics, and displays up-to-date figures for the top 10 email clients. These statistics are automatically updated each month, and are current as of 1 December 2017— 1 January 2018.