Chuck vs HEY Email
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chuck
This app offers a fast and private way to manage your inbox. It uses on-device AI to help you clean up thousands of emails, unsubscribe from lists, and organize your communications across multiple accounts. It functions as a full email client with smart notifications.
- AI-powered batch email processing
- Bulk delete, archive, and unsubscribe
- Connect multiple email accounts
- On-device AI for privacy
- Full email client functionality
- Smart notifications
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Chuck is email with superpowers. Clean up thousands of emails in seconds. Swipe through batches, bulk delete, archive, and unsubscribe — all processed privately on your device. Unlike other email apps, Chuck never reads your email content. Our on-device AI analyzes only metadata (senders, subjects, timestamps) to intelligently group and suggest what to clean up. Your emails stay on your phone, never on our servers. ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS IN ONE PLACE Connect Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Microsoft 365, Fastmail, and any standard IMAP account. See all your inboxes in one unified view and clean them all at once. AI-POWERED BATCH PROCESSING • Swipe left or right to delete or archive hundreds of emails at once • AI Select suggests messages you can safely remove, trained privately on your device • Group by Sender, Subject, or Time to find and act on email in bulk • Filter by contact, attachments, starred, unread, and more UNSUBSCRIBE & DECLUTTER • Unsubscribe from mailing lists with one tap • Mark as Spam, Snooze, or Move to folders and labels • Star, flag, and organize across all your accounts FULL EMAIL CLIENT Chuck isn't just a cleanup tool — it's your everyday email app. Read, reply, compose, and manage email across all your accounts with a clean, fast interface. Use it alongside Apple Mail or as your primary client. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Get notified about the emails that matter. Chuck learns your priorities and filters out the noise, so you only see what's important. FREE & PRO Use Chuck free with a generous daily email cleanup quota. Upgrade to Chuck Pro for unlimited processing, multiple accounts, AI filters, advanced sorting, custom signatures, and more. If you're enjoying Chuck, please leave a review — it really helps! A big thank you to everyone who has left a five star review :) About Subscription billing: • If you choose to upgrade (optional), your iTunes account will be charged as soon as you confirm the purchase. Chuck Pro subscription is billed monthly or yearly. • Your subscription will automatically renew after 1 month or 1 year, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. • You can manage your subscription and turn-off auto-renewal by going to your Apple ID Account Settings any time after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Help/Questions? Email us at support@chuck.email Privacy Policy: https://chuck.email/privacy Terms of Use: https://chuck.email/terms
HEY Email
This email client streamlines your inbox with features like call-like screening for senders, grouped message organization, and a unified attachment library. It offers unique ways to read emails, manage receipts, and protect your privacy from trackers.
- Screen senders like calls
- Naturally grouped messages
- Read multiple emails at once
- Unified attachment library
- Set aside emails for later
- Dedicated receipt management
- Blocks email trackers
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It’s “you’ll never go back” better HEY replaces workarounds, messy hacks, and daily frustrations, with built-in workflows, effortless organization, and clever features that levels-up email in meaningful ways. Screen emails like you screen calls You screen your calls, so why can't you screen your emails? With HEY, you can. HEY puts you in complete control of who's allowed to email you. Don't want to hear from someone? Screen them out and won’t hear from them again. Naturally grouped Inboxes are typically an intertwined mess of new and old messages haphazardly mixed together. Yuck. With HEY, new messages are always grouped together at the top, and previously seen emails are always at the bottom. Neat and orderly by default. No need to wade through the inbox jungle with a machete. Spread ’em out, read ’em together Let's say you have 7 unread emails. Why do you have to open one, close one, open one, close one, open one, close one, and so on. It's rediculously inefficient. With HEY, you can open multiple emails at once and just scroll though them, just like you would a newsfeed. It's a revolutionary way to read your emails. You'll never go back to the old way. Find files without pulling your hair out If you’re looking for an attachment, why should you have to find an email first? That’s backwards. With HEY, you get an attachment library that gathers up every attachment you’ve ever received in one organized, siftable place. Just set it aside Sometimes you get emails you need to reference later - travel info, handy links, numbers you need, etc. With HEY, you can 'Set Aside' any email in a neat little pile for easy access whenever you need it. At hand, but out of your face. Put receipts in The Paper Trail Receipts, confirmations, and transactional emails getting in your way? With HEY, you can send those types of emails to The Paper Trail where they'll be out of your way, but easy to find when you need them. Blocking email spies 24/7/365 Many companies track which emails you open, how often you open them, and even where you were when you opened them. It's a massive invasion of your privacy. HEY blocks these trackers and tells you who's spying on you. Fix bad subjects without busting threads If you don’t start the thread, you're often stuck with other people’s generic, non-descriptive email subjects. With HEY, you can rename a subject so it makes sense for you without changing things for the other person. Add private notes to any email thread Conversations may start in email, but they may continue somewhere else. Some emails turn into lunches or calls or video conferences. Where do you put the notes from those - especially if they relate to the initial email conversation? With HEY, you can add personal, private notes (and files) to any thread. This way you keep everything related to the conversation on one page, even if it didn't all happen via email. Notifications you control HEY push notifications are off by default so your phone doesn’t steal your attention every time an inconsequential email hits your inbox. However, HEY lets you selectively turn them on for specific contacts or threads so you don't miss the things you really care about. A built-in ‘Reply Later’ workflow What if you need to reply, but you don't have time right now? With HEY, just click the “Reply Later” button to move an email to a dedicated ‘Reply Later’ pile at the bottom of the screen so you don’t lose or forget it. Stop heavy senders from dominating your inbox When you get lots of emails from someone, they can take over your Inbox. With HEY, you can choose to bundle a sender into a single row. This means no matter how many emails they send you, they'll only take up a single row in your Inbox. Clean, controlled, and calm. Get off threads without having to ask Stuck on a mega email chain and want off? Good luck asking someone to remove you. With HEY, you can unfollow any thread and replies won’t show up as new emails anymore. Out of your face forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HEY Email at none against Chuck's 10. HEY Email also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chuck's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and ratings volume (15K vs 4.3K). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Chuck sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. HEY Email asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chuck holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15K and 4.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Chuck's written reviews are positive against 60% of HEY Email's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chuck ships an update weekly, HEY Email every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Chuck | HEY Email |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15K ratings) — better | 4.6 (4.3K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | 60.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 4.3K |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 410 Labs | 37Signals LLC |
Customer experience
Chuck
HEY Email
User reviews
Chuck
From 15K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient email cleaning and organization
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🚀 Bulk unsubscribe and delete features
- 🚀 Quickly cleans large inboxes
- 👍 Helpful for managing multiple email accounts
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync and connectivity issues
- 🔍 Limited folder/account access in free version
- 💰 Subscription required for advanced features
- 🐛 Unreliable unsubscribe functionality
- 🐛 Slow email loading and performance issues
HEY Email
From 4.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Streamlined email workflow
- 🔒 Strong privacy focus
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly design
- 💡 Innovative email organization features
- 🚀 Fast and responsive app
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔋 Concerns about offline functionality
- 💰 Expensive subscription cost
- 🔍 Limited search and navigation capabilities
Bugs and requests
Chuck
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to connect to certain email providers
- Emails disappearing or not properly deleted
- Inconsistent behavior when managing multiple accounts
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to view and manage email folders
- Customizable email sorting and filtering options
- Improved search and retrieval of past emails
- Drafts and email composition capabilities
- Syncing and backup across devices
HEY Email
Reported bugs
2 issues- Keyboard issues on iPad
- Inconsistent behavior when moving between email views
Requested features
3 requests- Support for custom email domains
- More advanced filtering and automation options
- Improved integration with other apps and services
In-app purchases
Chuck
- Chuck Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Chuck Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Chuck Pro (Monthly)$5.991 Month
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- Chuck Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Chuck Pro (Monthly)$8.991 Month
- Chuck Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Chuck Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Chuck Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Chuck Pro Yearly$69.991 Year
- Chuck Pro (Yearly)$89.991 Year
HEY Email
No in-app purchases








