Outlook on your desktop, inside Franz
Use Outlook.com as a desktop app on Mac, Windows, and Linux, with multiple accounts and new-mail notifications, in Franz.
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- Linux
Outlook.com is where a lot of personal and small-business mail lives, and the web version is perfectly capable, right up until it is one more tab competing with your chat apps, your calendar, and a dozen other things. Franz loads the full outlook.live.com experience as a first-class desktop service, so your Outlook.com inbox sits permanently in the sidebar, signed in and ready, instead of being something you dig a browser window out to check.
Outlook.com without hunting for the tab
Open Outlook.com in Franz once and it stays put. Your mail, calendar, and contacts load exactly as they do on the web, and the session persists, so you are not logging back in every morning or scrolling through a row of tabs to find it. If you keep a personal Outlook.com address alongside a separate one for a side project, Franz lets you add the service more than once and stay signed in to both at the same time, each in its own tab with its own unread count. A red badge always tells you which inbox needs you.
New mail you hear about right away
Franz delivers native desktop notifications for Outlook.com, so a new message lands on your desktop the moment it arrives rather than waiting quietly behind another window. The unread badge on the tab gives you a running count at a glance, and because the inbox runs as its own service, it keeps notifying you reliably even while you are deep in another app. You stay on top of incoming mail without leaving a browser open all day just to watch for it.
One desktop home across every OS
Franz is a native desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and Outlook.com works the same on all three, with a real dock or taskbar presence and consistent notifications wherever you are. Instead of treating your inbox as a browser bookmark you keep losing, you give Outlook.com a fixed spot next to the rest of your day. It is the easiest way to make web-based Outlook.com feel like a proper desktop mail app without installing anything heavier.
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Frequently asked questions
Which platforms does Outlook work on in Franz?
Franz runs Outlook as a native desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux, with the same notifications, badges, and fast switching on every operating system.
Can I use multiple Outlook accounts at once?
Yes. Franz lets you add Outlook as many times as you need, one tab per account, all signed in at once. Each tab keeps its own session and unread badge, so you never sign out of one to check another.
Is Outlook in Franz free?
Franz is free to use with Outlook and every other service. A free account covers the essentials and takes minutes to set up; paid plans add extra features, but running Outlook in Franz costs nothing to start.