# Hushmail review (2026): is it worth $11.99 a month? > Encrypted email and e-signable forms for healthcare practices Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Hushmail is a paid email service aimed at therapists, healthcare practices, law firms and small businesses that handle sensitive client information. It provides encrypted email, secure web forms with e-signatures, and a signed business associate agreement on its healthcare plans. Prices below are for the Healthcare plans. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** Hushmail - **Website:** https://www.hushmail.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you need forms, as Basic has none and Essentials includes 3. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Hushmail is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $11.99 per account / month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on each plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Healthcare Basic | $11.99 per account / month, billing term not shown | HIPAA-compliant encrypted email, a signed BAA and email archive. Does not include forms. | | Healthcare Essentials | $14.99 per account / month, billing term not shown | Adds 3 forms, e-signatures, email templates and scheduling. | | Healthcare Growth | $17.99 per account / month, billing term not shown | 25 forms, custom branding, an additional security package and priority email support. | Read from https://www.hushmail.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Hushmail before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **1 month free on yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page tags yearly billing with 1 month free and billing every 2 years with 3 months free. Source: https://www.hushmail.com/pricing ## Key features - **Encrypted email:** A toggle encrypts a message, and recipients can open it with a Google, Apple or Microsoft account and send secure replies. - **Secure forms and e-signatures:** Essentials and Growth include encrypted web forms, questionnaires such as the PHQ-9, and single-party e-signatures. - **Compliance claims:** The vendor says every healthcare plan covers HIPAA with a signed Business Associate Agreement, and lists Canadian and GDPR terms. - **Own domain and aliases:** Accounts can use a @hushmail.com address or your own domain, with unlimited aliases and use in mail apps like Outlook. - **Done-for-you forms:** Customer care builds a secure web form on request for $25 per form. ## Good for - Therapists and clinicians who must exchange protected client information - Small practices that want encrypted forms and e-signatures with email - Anyone needing a signed BAA from their email provider ## Worth knowing - The plans shown are the Healthcare ones; Small Business, Law and Personal plans have their own prices on the same page. - The page offers monthly, yearly (1 month free) and 2-year (3 months free) terms; the figures read above were the default view. - Forms are not in Healthcare Basic, and Essentials includes only 3. - Done-for-you form building costs $25 per form. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Hushmail offers encrypted email with a signed BAA, secure forms and e-signatures, and its Healthcare plans start at $11.99 an account a month. Forms aren't in Basic and Essentials has only 3. Done-for-you form building is $25 each. - **Value for money: C.** Healthcare Basic is $11.99 an account a month, between the category's middle of $7 and its dearer quarter at $14. Forms sit on dearer plans at $14.99 and $17.99. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day free trial on each plan, and no free plan. The listing doesn't say whether a card is needed. - **Features: C.** Encrypted email, secure forms, e-signatures, your own domain and aliases, and done-for-you forms. Gaps: forms aren't in Healthcare Basic and Essentials has only 3. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. A web service where you set up your domain, forms and templates. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and an iOS app, with Outlook and Squarespace connections. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Hushmail's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email apps - Hushmail's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 29 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 57 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $11.99 a month, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 57 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 31 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Hushmail you would be making an email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 69 of the 122 other email apps grade higher. It costs $143.88 a year. - You could make: Forms and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: An email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. - You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: HIPAA. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Outlook, Squarespace **Tags:** Email client, Forms, Templates ## Alternatives - [Proton Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/proton-mail): End-to-end encrypted email service based in Switzerland. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hushmail-vs-proton-mail) - [Tuta Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tuta-mail): End-to-end encrypted email and calendar from Germany. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hushmail-vs-tuta-mail) - [Mailfence](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailfence): Private email from Belgium with built-in OpenPGP encryption. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hushmail-vs-mailfence) - [StartMail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/startmail): Paid private email from the Netherlands with unlimited aliases. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/hushmail-vs-startmail) - [Fastmail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fastmail): Paid, ad-free email with calendar, contacts and custom domains. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fastmail-vs-hushmail) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.hushmail.com/pricing - https://www.hushmail.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/hushmail Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).