# Zimbra Desktop Reviews **Vendor:** Synacor **Category:** [Email Client Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/email-client) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Zimbra Desktop Zimbra Desktop is a free and open source email client application that gives you online and offline access to all your email accounts in one place. Zimbra Desktop works with many types of email systems to synchronize email, contacts and calendar data between users mailboxes in the cloud and local data stored on your computer disk. ## Zimbra Desktop Reviews ### 1. Zimbra is the ultimate solution for all your mailing needs. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** swapnil p. | React.js Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** This system allows for the collection and analysis of numerous documents and archives, ensuring a thorough record of all received and previously sent information. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The project has been completed and is currently being diligently worked on at the optimal time. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zimbra is a valuable tool for efficient communication between various business domain clients, ensuring hassle-free communication across various email domains. ### 2. Zimbra : The Ultimate End for All your Mailing Needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra Desktop provides a great user experience as it supports various mail clients and incorporates various business domains and is of great help in communication with different business and corporations. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Glitches happen sometimes and sometimes the backed up mails can't also be retrieved.Except for that it works well sometimes even with a good internet speed, new mails don't get loaded or sent. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zimbra is a great tool because it helps to communicate with different business domain clients and we can have a hustle free communication between different email domain business clients ### 3. Business communication and collaboration among colleagues to improve productivity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa L. | Senior Frontend Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra is a very acceptable platform to improve internal and external communication within the organization; it is currently used to create videoconferences and discuss work issues between teams and with superiors, in such a way a better tuning and better knowledge of the status of the projects being carried out is maintained. On the other hand, it has also served as a way to connect with clients whenever the need arises without the need to mobilize ourselves or make them mobilize towards us, which has been positive for both parties. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The interface design can be improved, moreover, it requires high bandwidth for video conferencing. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an indispensable resource nowadays for my organization due to how agile, comfortable and efficient communication becomes, videoconference meetings, interaction with colleagues, suppliers and customers, information flow and more through the same platform; in short, we have benefited enormously with Zimbra. ### 4. The best ally to promote commercial communications saving time, energy and money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Petar P. | Software Engineer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Today, Zimbra is used throughout our organization for its communicative potential. Communication between work teams is much more effective, plus Zimbra allows file sharing up to 25MB, integrates calendar functions, calls, video conferencing and more. The user interface is simple and easy to understand and works stably on laptops, desktops, tablets and phones and is something I like. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** So far I have had no problems with this tool, I find myself happy with its functions and performance. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Zimbra abysmally promotes business communication and this is important for every company. In addition, adapting to this software is fast because of how intuitive and easy to use it can be. Recommended. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zimbra has been decisive in improving communications in the organization, both internally interpersonal and commercial. It has also provided an environment where information flow and file distribution are not only possible but also very easy. Zimbra has helped us stay connected among colleagues, with customers, suppliers and others with unique efficiency. ### 5. Mailing application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abhilash g. | Assistant System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** The main bet thing I found is we can create rules in this, using this rules option we can move certain perticular comman mails to selected folder and it also provide notification feature this is the good one. We can use this application in both mobile and PC's etc, it has good security feature, we can create rules and groups easier and it provide best security feature, it also provide notification for the meeting sheduled in the Callender. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** It have all features I liked but I dislike it provide lemited storage and it doesn't provide good performance in less bandwidth. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** I definitely recommend who like security feature and it is best for who like to use application in both mobile and laptops with same performance. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can use this application in both mobile and in my laptop,it provide same best performance.i use auto reply feature and using this application I can manage my meeting and have the mails in folder structure.i mostly like security feature this application solve my issue. They provide best quality of support. ### 6. Mest mailing app in the currebt market with lots of enabled features. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Segregations of mails is easier and geting the Notifications reminder is quite good. Mainly to talk we integrate witg calender its has an ai enabled featurw like remindes for the meeting and searches for an appoinment and inbox is unified segregation and eae of acces is quite good creation of groups and rules is easeir and good security feature and its has an mobile application to. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Despite of llts of features enabled but i disliked the mlst is its has an limites storage. Which full to its capacity easily and it does provide the good quality in low internet connwctions quite it support tge html version like other apps in market. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** I recommwnd tge user who dkesnt care aboit storage or like with little storage and with good security feature is the best application in the market. Its also provide an trial version for limited time to get handy on it. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Auto reply option i liked the most and unified inbox task manage ment and quality of suppoert is good and quick most liked feature is the filters it provide unlike any other which filetrs out best. I using the desktop and in mobile browser its supports good at both. ### 7. Zimbra Desktop - best free e-mail solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafael Coffi T. | Researcher Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra Desktop is a free tool that presents a great alternative to paid solutions like Outlook. It offers all the common and standardized features of the main email tools: support for POP and IMAP, integration with Gmail, Hotmail. The interface is simple, but very pleasant for beginners, intermediate. Features like email filters, calendars, calendars are very well implemented. Anyway, it is a tool that owes nothing to expensive tools on the market. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The tool has few negative points, but we can mention some small points for improvement: - installation is slow. It could be faster. - importing emails that are already on other clients (like Outlook) is a little difficult for lay users. - the integration with the mobile version of the application could be better. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Understand that every new tool is a challenge for lay users accustomed to tools established in the market. Here users have always used Outlook and switching to Zimbra was a little difficult. But with training, instructions and tutorials, they got used to the new interface and today they freely use the resources of this excellent tool. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** The implementation of Zimbra Desktop in our company happened for financial reasons. As it is a free client and users prefer to use a local client instead of a webmail to be able to store their emails locally, we adopted this solution. At first it was a little difficult due to the new interface, but users quickly assimilated the features and location of the windows, buttons and options. ### 8. Great software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** It is very simple and easy to use. I was able to navigate it quickly. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** I did not find anything to dislike about it **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy access of the things I need on a daily basis ### 9. Access data and emails from anywhere **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariana R. | Ingeniera en mantenimiento mecanico, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra brings many features that allow for a much more comprehensive level of search, through full texts, classification, and filtering. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** I have no complaints about Zimbra currently, it has performed all its tasks efficiently. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** I can say that I consider it one of the best applications for managing all kinds of tasks and emails. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has allowed us to sort the task list in any imaginable way, make the task list public, and collaborate with all other users on the same server, allows attaching any photo, video, or file to all tasks, and allows synchronization of various tasks across multiple Zimbra accounts. ### 10. Effective email management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco V. | Ingeniero de diseño de proyectos, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Your platform is very simple and can be understood by any worker who has computer knowledge to manage all the emails, making it capable of functioning in any sector of the company. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** when emails arrive in the spam folder there should be an alert that notifies when an email has been there for a long time and has not been reviewed. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** The best tool to manage all types of emails in a very fast, secure, and simple way. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the company, Zimbra is a very beneficial software as it has improved our entire communication network through the internet, and we can send all types of files in a very secure and efficient way while managing all our everyday emails like Gmail. ### 11. Powerful and wonderful the Zimbraa Desktop tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PABLO A. | Técnico de redes y microsistemas informáticos., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra is a free and open-source email client application. The integration of the business environment on the Zimbra desktop is powerful: emails, calendar, tasks, and the briefcase for document storage make the ecosystem work well. Multiple accounts and powerful search, with preview in the program of all attachments, make work easier. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Creating new folders in the server tree (IMAP) or on the client side (POP) is not instant; you must restart the application. It is a major issue that can cause a disaster on the server or even the loss of your email messages. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Highly recommended. Improve the management of all your users with email from the system administrator's point of view, everything will be easier from Zimbra onwards. Also, you can try the free version to clear your doubts. YOU WON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO YOUR PREVIOUS EMAIL SYSTEM ONCE YOU TRY IT!!! **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our company, we can say that with Zimbra Desktop we have improved work efficiency and productivity, as well as organization, since classic tools like the calendar, contacts, and tasks have helped keep emails synchronized. ### 12. Zimbra Is Great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Accounting Manager, Accounting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Switching to HTML formatting from options is a simplistic feature. And you can change font type, size, add headings, align, create lists, insert links or tables. I like that icons are very intuitive and easy to select quickly than other similar programs. In addition right clicking on each message allows you to create and assign new tags that may be useful to search or sort later, when you will have a lot of messages. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Downloading the program at first was a very slow process **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** In our office, a lot of the computers would crash and the computer files would be lost. But since we have Zimbra now, from Options you can activate and define settings for backups. You can backup your emails, supports to run automatically on a schedule. Is useful to make backups on a different disk that C: or to external drive in order to recover emails if computer is crashing. ### 13. Hot E-Mail **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra is a super easy navigatable e-mail resource we use for internal e-mails. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The only downside I can find is it will log me out sometimes while working. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps relay pertinent information to my colleagues and I. ### 14. Zimbra Desktop. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elvira S. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** What I like most about Zimbra is that it can be used both online and offline, allowing access to our data at any time and from anywhere. It is cross-platform because it is compatible with Linux and Windows operating systems. The implementation of Zimbra software is simple and fast, it is very easy to manage thanks to a clean, elegant, and user-friendly interface that adapts to the needs of a company. Expanding a bit more, we can also highlight that Zimbra's technical support, the help regarding storage and organization of all tasks, calendars, contact lists, and tasks, etc. Additionally, there are trial versions available that can be evaluated for free. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The downsides of Zimbra are few, but there are negative aspects mainly related to the language of the platform, as it comes in English by default. If you need to set the interface to French, you have to configure the dictionary to French, for which it is necessary to have certain knowledge for its installation since it is not an easy task. I have little else negative to say; once you start working with Zimbra, everything works well and as expected. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** I recommend Zimbra, as it correctly synchronizes the email accounts of all employees, allowing for improved email management for users with the advantage that it can be used online or offline, and thus can be used from anywhere and at any time. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zimbra Desktop is a free and open-source email client application that allows all employees to access their email accounts managed by Zimbra Desktop both online and offline. Additionally, Zimbra allows for the synchronization of email, the contacts our employees have, and all the information in the calendar. In the Zimbra mailbox, there are many intuitive and easy-to-use tools to search through previous emails efficiently. ### 15. Powerful mail client with few problems and without Zimlets support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksandar D. | Editor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Business environment integration in Zimbra desktop is powerful: mails, calendar, task and briefcase for document storage makes good work ecosystem. Multiple accounts and powerful search, with in program preview of all attach files make work easy. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Making new folders in mails tree on server (IMAP) or client side (POP) is not momentary - you have to restart application. It is huge problem which can lead to make mess on server or even losing your email messages. There are no Zimlets for ZP, it is another problem. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Wait for new ZD version, Version 8 which could be more like ZC 8. Current version 7 is graphic outdated and have some big problems with server folder management. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is free, it is powerful. Work with multiply mail accounts and it is very stable application. ### 16. Should i use Zimbra? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Demitri M. | Social Media Marketing Specialist, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** In all honesty, i loved it. It had the complexity of gmail but the simpleness of aol mail. It had some very minor downfalls, i mean it was mostly about adding more space, which wasn't much difficult, but really, much of the emails were stored anyway, after a year or two, you can just print out the old material anyway! I would definitely recommend Zimbra, especially for a small/medium office environment. We used it for a staff of 150 or so. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Cannot send huge pictures, but that wasn't much of an issue since we used to zip them and send them compressed, am talking about over 25 mb. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Take time to learn it more before thinking of switching, should you ever want to, because it really is a good software and has all the features you'd want, just have to look for them. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick, reliable, easy to navigate. One thing about google for example is that every new email is added to the same sent message, it confused many employees, zimbra, you simply get a new email again and it was much easier to search for emails, really was. ### 17. It is a very good tool that synchronizes emails and other utilities in the best possible way. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ramon M. | Gerente DSI división Ayacucho, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** One of the best advantages is that it can be used both online and offline, which allows access to all the information at any time and place, as well as documents and other important utilities, also can be used in various systems operating as Windows and Linux are the most popular, its implementation is relatively simple and its use is very easy to handle as the interface adapts to the various users and needs within the organization. With respect to the quality of functions are good as well as technical support, solves muco with respect to storage and organization of all tasks as well as what are necessary calendars, contact list and task list, has test versions which if is interested in obtaining the product can evaluate each of its functions safely. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** The bad thing is that you need to make the dictionary configuaracion to Spanish, which requires some knowledge for installation and because defect comes in the English language, and can not be configured so simply, I think it is one of the aspects Negative that happens inicailmente when you start working with the product of the rest the functionalities are correct. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** A very good experience during the use of the product, offering an adequate synchronization, order and quality in each offered functionality, this product improves the labor management and has the advantage that it can be used online and offline, allowing it to be used anywhere you are and be able to be aware of the daily tasks and responsibilities in the company, is very useful and really recommend it. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improves labor efficiency and the order of the necessary tools such as calendar, contacts and tasks, as well as helps to keep emails synchronized and a better visualization with what is working increasing performance and efficiency with the use of the product, giving better results in terms of the work of the members who make life in the organization. ### 18. A perfect companion for Zimbra users and others **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jean F. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Microsoft's Windows users brag about their Outlook solution and how it fits well under Windows OS's. But for the Zimbra users, there's a better solution available to all different OS's: Zimbra Desktop. And it also works for Yahoo, Gmail and others!!! **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** It's a bit of a resource hunger, but once you start it up, it goes well. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Perfect solution for email client with all the goodies included **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Client connectivity with an easy to use, mirror liked application that resemble the Web version. Some people really prefer to use an application instead of the web version. ### 19. Great overall product and design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Zimbra Desktop is a very powerful product in terms of handling all the typical account items you would see, like e-mails, calendar, tasks and contacts. They have an awesome "briefcase" for doc management that works like a charm. Everything works well and like it should. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** I've noticed lag when working with POP side. It is noticeable to others too. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Works so well and is cost suitable for most companies large or small. **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling all my email items like mail, calendars etc. The benefits are awesome so far as I feel much more organized in my work life. ### 20. Great tool to manage multiple email accounts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** Since it's a cross-platform its easy to have access to all emails and calendars all together in one platform. Its offline functionality helps to still have access to email even if there is a network breakdown. **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** Due to being an open source platform and reliability on the network to have an updated synchronization comes with the challenges of privacy and more dependent to have a solid network connection. **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** Really recommended as its make email management easy, **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to manage all the email and calendar accounts and remote access thus it's easy to have all things on one platform. ### 21. Email server that could be better **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** works on any device and has great feautures **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** still has a big amount of bugs that need to be fixed **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** syncing and managing emails in one spot ### 22. ZIMBRA **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Zimbra Desktop?** WITH THIS SYSTEM I CAN SHARE MANY DOCUMENTS AND ALSO KEEP MYSELF INFORMED OF EVERYTHING THAT IS RECEIVED AND WHAT HAS BEEN SENT IN THE PAST FOR BETTER WORK IN THE OFFICE **What do you dislike about Zimbra Desktop?** I STILL DON'T DISLIKE ANYTHING.. THE PROGRAM HAS WORKED WELL SO FAR EXCELLENT PROGRAM **Recommendations to others considering Zimbra Desktop:** HAVING A BETTER FORMAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE AND WITH MORE COLORS **What problems is Zimbra Desktop solving and how is that benefiting you?** IT DOES NOT PRESENT ANY PROBLEM AT THE MOMENT, FOR THIS REASON THE BENEFITS ARE BETTER ## Zimbra Desktop Discussions - [What is Zimbra used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-zimbra-used-for) - [Is Zimbra Desktop still supported?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-zimbra-desktop-still-supported) - [What features are available in Zimbra open source Edition?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-features-are-available-in-zimbra-open-source-edition) - [What is Zimbra Desktop?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-zimbra-desktop) - [View Zimbra Desktop pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/zimbra-desktop/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+23%3A06%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=fe261e48-098a-43da-8471-fc8bfefab252&secure%5Btoken%5D=bf4454c283a82df03dac11c685e54e51629fef62fb633e368714c2920eb007a9&format=llm_user) ## Zimbra Desktop Features **Inbox Tools** - Unified Inbox - Filters - Reminders - Notifications **Coordination Tools** - Calendar - Contacts - Task Management **Software Options** - Desktop Application - Mobile Application **Email Client - Agentic AI** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration ## Top Zimbra Desktop Alternatives - [Thunderbird](https://www.g2.com/products/thunderbird/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (331 reviews) - [Microsoft Outlook](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-outlook/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,375 reviews) - [Spike](https://www.g2.com/products/spike/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (250 reviews)