# WEB.DE review (2026): is the free plan enough? > German freemail with a sorted inbox, cloud space and paid MailPlus Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. WEB.DE is a German email and portal service operated by 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH. The free FreeMail mailbox includes 1 GB of email storage, 4 GB of online storage, a calendar and address book, and apps for Android and iOS. The site is in German and prices are in euros; MailPlus adds storage and larger attachments. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH - **Website:** https://web.de - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you don't read German, as the site and sign-up are in German. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, WEB.DE has a free plan, and paid plans start at €3.99 per month (MailPlus). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** FreeMail: €0 with 1 GB of email storage, 4 GB of online storage, attachments up to 20 MB and 2 email addresses. - **Free trial:** MailPlus: first month free. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | FreeMail | €0 | 1 GB email storage, 4 GB online storage, 20 MB attachments, 2 addresses; includes WEB.DE informiert. | | MailPlus | €3.99 per month | 5 GB email storage, +5 GB online storage, 100 MB attachments, 4 @email.de addresses, double cashback. | | Eigene Domain | €2.47 per month | FreeMail mailbox on your own domain, with up to 500 addresses you create yourself. | Read from https://web.de/email/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with WEB.DE before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **MailPlus first month free** (Other savings): The tariff comparison page offers MailPlus with the first month free. Source: https://web.de/email/tarifvergleich/ ## Key features - **Intelligent inbox:** Incoming mail is also shown sorted into five categories such as Social or Newsletter; messages are only sorted, not changed. - **Mail app for Android and iOS:** The app offers push notifications, a personal spam filter, a four-digit PIN lock and one-time setup of email encryption. - **PGP encryption:** WEB.DE has a help page on encrypting email in three steps with PGP, and the app can encrypt selected messages. - **Calendar, address book and cloud:** A calendar and address book sit in the mailbox, and the online storage is reachable from it; Windows and macOS cloud apps are listed. - **Cashback portal:** A free WEB.Cent cashback portal sits in the mailbox; the paid tariffs earn up to double the cashback. ## Good for - German-speaking users who want a free address with local data centers - People who want a sorted inbox plus a bit of cloud space ## Worth knowing - The site and sign-up are in German, and prices are in euros. - FreeMail includes the 'WEB.DE informiert' messages as a fixed part; MailPlus lets you opt out. - FreeMail storage is 1 GB for email, much less than free tiers of some rivals. - The €2.47 own-domain plan is for the domain itself; the page does not state a separate price for MailPlus on a custom domain. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. WEB.DE is a German email service whose free FreeMail box has 1 GB of email storage, 4 GB of online storage and 20 MB attachments. MailPlus is €3.99 a month. The site and sign-up are in German, prices are in euros, and 1 GB of mail is small next to some free rivals. - **Value for money: B.** Free with 1 GB of email storage, and MailPlus is €3.99 a month, inside the cheaper half of email prices. The free mail space is small. - **Free plan and trial: B.** FreeMail is free with 1 GB of mail, 4 GB of online storage and 2 addresses, which one person could live on. - **Features: C.** Mail, calendar, address book, PGP and a cashback portal. The gaps are in the listing: only 1 GB of mail storage and fixed WEB.DE informiert messages on the free plan. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record, but you sign up and start using it with nothing to set up. The site is in German. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iPhone and Android apps. No desktop app or API is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email apps - WEB.DE's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 88 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on ease of use (B, above 94 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at about $4.46 a month, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 36 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 6 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 WEB.DE 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. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 88 of the 122 other email apps we grade. It costs $53.49 a year. - You could make: Calendar: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. - You could not: Filters that read every message as it arrives. - You could not: Storing and serving files for other people. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WEB.DE Cloud, MailCheck **Tags:** Email client, Inbox filtering, Calendar, File sharing ## Alternatives - [GMX Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gmx-mail): Free webmail with 65GB storage, aliases and a mail collector. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gmx-mail-vs-web-de) - [Mail.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mail-com): Free webmail with 100+ domain names and optional ad-free Premium. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mail-com-vs-web-de) - [mailbox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailbox-org): Paid, ad-free email with cloud storage and office tools from Germany. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mailbox-org-vs-web-de) - [Posteo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/posteo): Ad-free, green-powered email from Berlin for €1 a month. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/posteo-vs-web-de) - [Gmail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/gmail): Google's email service, free for personal use with 15 GB of storage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/gmail-vs-web-de) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://web.de/email/ - https://produkte.web.de/premium/tarifevergleich/ - https://web.de/email/app/ - https://web.de/email/intelligentes-postfach/ - https://web.de/email/sicherheit/pgp/ - https://web.de/impressum/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/web-de Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).