Lookout
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Lookout, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Lookout's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Lookout | Free | Free and open source · GPL-3.0-or-later |
The facts
Each one read from Lookout's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account connections
- Accounts can be added through GNOME Online Accounts or configured directly with IMAP and SMTP settings.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Calendar features
- Its CalDAV calendar offers month, week, day, agenda and split views, recurring-event editing, invitations, webcal subscriptions and .ics imports.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Calendar tools
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Credential storage
- For manually configured servers, passwords are stored in the GNOME keyring and fetched when needed; the maker says they do not touch disk.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Desktop requirement
- Lookout is built for a GNOME session; other GTK desktops can run it if GNOME Online Accounts and the keyring services are available.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker lists Google, Microsoft 365 and Nextcloud support through GNOME Online Accounts, plus Google Tasks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- Lookout is described as an independent, free and open-source GPL-3.0-or-later reimplementation of the Outlook desktop experience, with no Microsoft code or Exchange dependency.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mail features
- The app supports multi-account IMAP sync, conversation threads, full-text search, snooze, follow-up tasks, tags and message actions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Mail protocols
- It uses IMAP and SMTP for mail, CalDAV for calendars and tasks, and CardDAV for contacts.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Offline use
- Mail, calendar and contacts are cached locally in SQLite and remain readable offline.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Messages render in a sandboxed WebKit view, remote images are blocked by default, and the maker says data is sent only to users’ own servers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Lookout is a native GNOME email client that combines mail, calendar, contacts and tasks in one app.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App coverage
- desktopchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Linux packages
- The maker offers Flatpak, Snap, .deb and .rpm packages and instructions to build from source.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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