Email Yourself vs Mail Docs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Email Yourself
Instantly email yourself notes, links, and reminders with a single tap. This app helps you capture ideas quickly and clear your mind by sending thoughts directly to your inbox. It prioritizes privacy and offers seamless integration with your device.
- One-tap email to yourself
- Share links via iOS Share Sheet
- Attach photos
- Dark Mode support
- Privacy-first design
- Works on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
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Use your inbox as your second brain. Pigeon makes it effortless to email yourself notes, links, reminders, and ideas in just one tap. Open the app, type your thought, hit send — it’s in your inbox. Use it to clear your mind, capture ideas, or remember something for later. Designed for speed and simplicity, Pigeon helps you move thoughts out of your head and into your inbox instantly. It features an integrated share sheet for sending content from any app, photo attachments, and a privacy-first design—your data stays yours. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, with support for iOS 18 and WatchOS 11. Features: - One-tap email to yourself - Share links from any app using the iOS Share Sheet - Attach photos for added context - Dark Mode support - Privacy-first: we never read or store your notes - Works on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Upgrade to Pigeon Pro to send unlimited emails with a one-time purchase. No subscriptions, no limits. Pigeon is the fastest way to send something to your future self. **Support** Questions, comments, or feedback? Email us at steven@ritchiemason.com
Mail Docs
Effortlessly send documents from your device or cloud storage via email with a single tap. Streamline your workflow by quickly emailing files to yourself or others without needing to open separate mail or file management apps.
- Single-tap document emailing
- Cloud storage integration (iCloud, Dropbox)
- Share extension for sending from any app
- Support for multiple email addresses
- Option to send as compressed zip file
- Clean and streamlined interface
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Tired of manually emailing documents to yourself? Like to email documents to yourself? or want to email documents to someone regularly? Mail Docs makes it super fast and super easy with our single-tap technology. Just launch the app and tap to select documents from your device or the Cloud. Access documents from the device, iCloud, Dropbox and all other sources. Tap Open to email automatically right away. No need to open Files, Mail or individual apps. If you have multiple emails you like to send documents to, it just takes a single tap to change the email address. • Simply add your email address once. No passwords required. • Next time, just open the app and start emailing. • Documents you choose get emailed instantaneously. • Use our share extension to send files from any other app directly to email without opening our app. • Send original files or opt for one compressed zip file for faster transmission and reduced file size. • Clean, streamlined and to-the-point interface. • Unlimited email addresses • Email under 1 second*. Mail Docs is the only app which takes the pain away of opening the Files app, sending document to Mail app, then typing email address every time you need to email a document to yourself. *Emailing larger media may take longer. Please see our Terms of Use at http://techpositive.co/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mail Docs at 5.0 against Email Yourself's 4.5. Mail Docs also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Email Yourself's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Email Yourself sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mail Docs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mail Docs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Email Yourself has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Email Yourself | Mail Docs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ritchie & Mason | Tech Positive |
Customer experience
Email Yourself
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In-app purchases
Email Yourself
- Pigeon Premium$6.99
Mail Docs
- All Access$2.991 Month
- All Access$29.991 Year
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