News and Updates About EPIM

We're pleased to announce the release of EPIM 26.5, a major update that introduces powerful new capabilities for Notes, important Mail enhancements, improved Calendar functionality, and greater flexibility throughout the application.

This release focuses on making information easier to organize, access, and act upon, while continuing to improve EPIM's overall performance, reliability, and user experience.

Below are the highlights of what's new in EPIM 26.5.

Notes Become More Actionable and Accessible

EPIM 26.5 delivers the most significant Notes improvements in recent releases.

The standout addition is the ability to set reminders for Notes, allowing important information to generate timely reminders just like other EPIM items. Whether you're tracking ideas, project milestones, or personal information, your notes can now actively help you stay on top of what matters.

We've also introduced the Notes module on the Sidebar, making your notes accessible from anywhere in EPIM without switching modules. This provides a much faster way to capture, review, and reference information while working throughout the application.

Markdown users will appreciate the ability to drag and drop Markdown (*.md) files directly into Notes, while advanced users can now include note leaf names in Search and Find & Replace operations. Working with note leaves is also faster thanks to support for standard date and time insertion shortcuts.

Additional Notes enhancements include:

Lorenzo manages a small company and needs to change his email service. He has been using Google Workspace, a subscription service that provides a suite of Google products to businesses. He wants to know if EPIM can handle migrating his Google Workspace mail account to his new provider.

EPIM is an ideal tool for this, especially since it has been Lorenzo’s third-party client for Google Workspace. These are the steps:

If John Gruber had created Markdown 10 years earlier, the tools I use to write might be very different.

By 2004, when Gruber developed the Markdown language, I was already experimenting with marking up files as Rich Text Format (RTF). These plain text files were compatible with most word processing packages and the note taking apps that I was sampling.

RTF coding to format fonts and layouts looks cryptic, but didn't intimidate me— I was a programmer who supported commercial printing. Marking up an RTF file is tedious, however, and the code makes the document hard to read. I abandoned my home-grown efforts when I discovered EPIM in 2005.

We are pleased to announce the release of EPIM Mail and EPIM Pro 26.0.6.

This update fixes an issue that prevented translations from working correctly in Mail and resolves a problem that could require administrative privileges when installing or updating EPIM as a non-administrative Windows user. The release also includes additional technical improvements behind the scenes.

We recommend that all EPIM users update to this version to benefit from these fixes and improvements.

As usual, the update is available through EPIM's automatic update feature or can be downloaded from the Download Free page.

We announce the immediate availability of EPIM Mail and EPIM Pro 26.0.5. This is primarily a stability and bug-fix release aimed at further improving the overall EPIM experience.

Among the improvements in this version are better handling of replies to certain rich-text emails, further refinements to conversations in Mail, fixes for custom field types and column layouts in Contacts, as well as improvements to copying and pasting checkbox lists between notes fields. As always, the release also includes additional bug fixes, UI enhancements and performance improvements.

We recommend that all users of previous EPIM versions update to this release for improved stability, performance, and overall user experience.

The new version is available through EPIM's automatic update feature or can be downloaded from the Download Free page.

In the last post, we reviewed miscellaneous enhancements in EPIM 26.0. Here, we'll concentrate on changes in the Mail module.

Two enhancements to templates and encryption advance EPIM's position as a comprehensive email client.

To achieve this position was part of the rebranding that began in mid-2025, when the long-time EssentialPIM Free was renamed EPIM Mail. Announcing the change, EPIM said, “This new identity highlights its focus as a premier email management solution.”

We announce the immediate availability of EPIM Mail and EPIM Pro 26.0.4. This release introduces a couple of useful enhancements and continues our work on improving the overall stability and reliability of EPIM 26.

In Calendar, you can now choose between previewing an item and editing its name directly with a single click. We've also improved quick search in Notes, making it faster and more precise, and refined the handling of message conversations in Mail for a smoother experience when working with grouped messages.

In addition, this release includes several fixes related to Undo actions in Today and Notes, along with other performance improvements and minor fixes.

We recommend all EPIM 26 users update to this version to enjoy the best possible EPIM experience.

The update is available now via the Download Free page and through automatic updates in EPIM.

We announce the immediate availability of EPIM Mail and EPIM Pro 26.0.3. This release brings a number of important improvements and fixes aimed at enhancing performance, reliability, and overall user experience.

In this update, we've refined the interface for emails grouped by conversation in both Card and Table views, making it clearer and more consistent. We've also improved the reliability of mail synchronization, especially for accounts with a large number of messages. Full support has been added for 163.com mail accounts, allowing EPIM to work seamlessly with this widely used email service in China.

This version also fixes an issue with deleting email messages in Table view, resolves several text formatting issues in notes fields across different item types, and addresses rare cases where EPIM could unexpectedly shut down during startup.

As usual, this release also includes other minor bug fixes and improvements to further enhance stability and performance. We recommend EPIM 26 users to update to this version for improved stability.

You can download the update from the Download Free page or receive it automatically via EPIM, depending on your update settings abnd preferences.

We began to notice the changes last fall when v12.5, the last major release in 2025, renamed EssentialPIM to EPIM with two products: Pro (paid) and Mail (free).

Unaware of more significant changes to come, I wrote in September that “Version 12.5 feels like a new era in EPIM's development.” Besides the rebranded name, EPIM upgraded to 64-bit architecture to address performance and security, and to lay the groundwork for future development.

Then, we learned at year-end that new releases would reflect the year they are published. The next version of EPIM Pro after v12.5.6 would be v26.0.

EPIM 26.0 released in May, but, more than that, Astonsoft Ltd., the Estonian company that created EssentialPIM in 2005, announced that it had partnered with /n software, Inc., a United States enterprise, to form a new company: EPIM Technologies, Inc.

You can read the announcement and concerns that users have raised on EPIM’s website. A particular point emphasized in the announcement and the team’s replies to questions is, “EPIM remains the same product you trust. This change is designed to strengthen EPIM, not alter its direction.”

This commitment is already evident. Two minor releases for v26.0 have already been published to improve performance and modify features as users respond to the new version.

We're glad to announce the release of EPIM Mail and EPIM Pro version 26.0.2. This update brings another set of small but useful fixes and improvements to keep your everyday work with EPIM running smoothly.

In this version, you now have the option to hide sender images in the Mail message list when using Card View, giving you more control over how your inbox looks. We’ve also resolved an issue with EPIM data file optimization, ensuring it works as expected and fixed a couple of problems related to Mail templates.

In addition, this version includes several minor improvements and fixes behind the scenes to make EPIM run even more smoothly and reliably.

You can grab the update from our Download Free page or simply let the automatic update run in EPIM.