Email Yourself

Best $5 I've ever spent. I get multiple texts a week I want to follow up on at work, or pictures I've taken that I need in a work document. Up to now, it's been "Copy text / Hit Home button / Swipe to page with Outlook / Open Outlook / Hit Compose / Enter email address / Select body / Paste / Send". Now it's "Share / Email Yourself". I can now see myself doing the same thing with web pages too. Thanks!

This app solves a problem that Google seems to think we don't have. Maybe I'm the only one, but searching the net says otherwise. I like to share pictures I take with two specific people via email. Not on google photos or some other share site, but as attachements in an email. This isn't an option in the google share menu, although it does occasionally show up there. There doesn't appear to be a way to KEEP it there, instead the share menu thinks I'd rather text the picture to people I NEVER text. This app solves that problem very well. You can pin it to your share menu and with it you can create shortcuts (as many as you want) to send an email with the attachment to anyone OR to a group in one or two clicks. And it is consistent - it stays there and it always works. I looked for several days and couldn't find an app or setting that does this consistently at any price. So far there are only two drawbacks: there is a cost (not free) and the instructions could be better. Support is amazing, though - I went back and forth several times with the developer to fix what didn't work for me - and it wasn't something that needed fixing. He just had to explain to me how to do it, the program was more than capable. If sharing photos (or anything else) to specific email addresses is an issue for you, this is the fix. You won't be disappointed.

UPDATE: Email Yourself continues to be an essential app for me. And it continues to be well supported by the developer. Recently I notified him of a problem that had cropped up, and he swiftly issued a new version to fix it. PREVIOUS REVIEW FROM 2018: I use the Email Yourself app in conjunction with K9 Mail to share browser links, photos, etc. to my own email account and to friends/family. Once set up, it's simple and quick to use. I used it often. There are 2 methods available. The 1-click method sends the content immediately in the background. The other method brings up either your default message or allows you to select among multiple default messages. With the 2nd method, you are presented with a draft email and can edit it before sending. Note that some of the configuration is done not in the app itself but via the app's share icons. This is puzzling at first but easy to adjust to once understood. There is also a home screen widget that can be configured to send emails to one or more people, aside from the sharing function. The developer is responsive.