Comparison

SRT Email vs ChatInbox

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SRT Email

Manage multiple email accounts and PIM data with a clean, responsive design. Offers powerful search, quick filters, and swipe gestures for efficient email management. Supports integration with popular cloud storage services.

Highlights
  • Unified mailbox for multiple accounts
  • PIM sync for contacts and calendars
  • Smart search and quick filters
  • Customizable swipe gestures
  • Support for cloud storage attachments
  • Sender avatar for visual inbox
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Featuring an elegant, responsive design, SRT Email makes reading and sending email across multiple accounts and devices a breeze. With anytime, anywhere access, manage personal and business email, contacts and calendars from your desk and while on the move. It’s like having feature-rich desktop email at your fingertips. *** Note: This app is exclusively for residential email accounts powered by SRT Communications (www.srt.com/). Please check with your IT admin to verify that your company's email service is hosted with SRT. Powerful Features in a Small Package Packed with tons of features, this modern email app is loaded with advanced mobile technologies and capabilities: Clean Navigation — Beautiful, flat design focuses on what is important — email. Feature-Rich — With a comprehensive set of easy-to-use tools unmatched by any other mobile email app, manage your email efficiently and optimize productivity. Optimized for High Performance — With smart features, like pre-loading, caching and auto-detection, doing things like refreshing an Inbox, loading more messages and retrieving contacts, take only a second or two. All Accounts in One — Manage emails from Gmail, Google Apps, Outlook, Office 360, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, iCloud or any other IMAP server. Unified Experience — Combine emails from all of your accounts into a unified mailbox or view each account separately. PIM Sync — Sync your contacts, calendars, documents, photos and videos between your mobile device and the cloud. Smart Search — Powerful predictive search allows you to find any email, contact or attachment quickly and accurately from all accounts whether it’s stored locally or on the server. Quick Filters — Use the app’s handy filters to display emails the way you want to see them. Sort email using multiple filters, including Note to Self; From Sender; Unread; Starred; With Attachments; Date; and other criteria. Swipe Gestures — Part of a responsive design, customizable quick-swipe options make it a breeze to quickly manage your Inbox. Folders and Labels — Full support for folders, sub folders and Gmail labels. Visual Inbox — With the Sender Avatar feature, add profile pictures to your contacts so you can find email from important people quickly. Multiple Attachments — Attach an unlimited number of photos or files from your device or from your favorite cloud storage service with just a few taps. Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, Evernote, iCloud Drive and Amazon Drive are all supported. In-app Support — Get help with a comprehensive integrated Support Center, which includes a How-To section, FAQs, trouble-shooting Guide, and tips and tricks. Help is just a tap away. Private and Secure — Full support for OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol and SSL encryption for all IMAP connections. Account passwords are heavily encrypted.

About

ChatInbox

This app reimagines your email by organizing it around people, not dates. View all conversations with a contact in a chat-style format, making it easy to find past messages and attachments. It supports multiple email accounts and devices, offering a streamlined inbox experience.

Highlights
  • Contact-centered inbox
  • All accounts in one inbox
  • Smart contact grouping
  • Attachments by person
  • Calendar view
  • Email reminders
Features
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ChatInbox organizes your inbox by people. Each person you email gets one conversation that holds everything you've exchanged: every subject, every reply, every attachment. When a new email arrives, its person moves to the top, with your whole history right there. Newsletters, receipts and alerts file themselves into Feeds, so mail from people is never buried. ORGANIZED BY PEOPLE Your list shows people, not a pile of messages. Tap a person to see every email between you, across every subject, in one place. Read it as cards by thread or as a chat with your replies on the right. Put a company or a team together in one row. Many people use ChatInbox as a simple CRM: every client's emails, files and follow-ups in one place. PEOPLE FIRST, FEEDS SEPARATE Newsletters, receipts and notifications go to Feeds automatically. Clear a sender in one go: Mark All as Read, Archive All, or Unsubscribe & Delete All. TODAY'S INBOX, DONE FAST Triage sorts today's mail into a plan: what needs a reply, what can be archived, codes you no longer need. Apply it at once, with Undo. AI THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE With Apple Intelligence, ChatInbox shows what people are waiting on you for, lists the questions in an email and drafts your answer, catches you up on what's new from people, and answers questions about your mail with the email it came from. Translate an email in place, on your device. FIND ANYTHING Search reads the words inside your emails and even inside PDFs and other attachments. Or open a person, and everything with them is already there. YOUR ACCOUNTS, YOUR DEVICES Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account. Type your address and ChatInbox finds the settings. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one purchase covers all three. CALENDAR, TO-DOS AND TAGS See your week beside your mail, turn an email into an event or a to-do, and tag conversations to track them on a board. PRIVACY FIRST Your email never passes through our servers: ChatInbox connects directly to your mail provider. No data mining, no tracking. Turn on image blocking and tracking pixels load only for senders you approve. FREE AND PREMIUM ChatInbox is free with one email account. Premium adds unlimited accounts with Profiles, advanced filters, your full mail history and custom notifications. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan, or buy Lifetime once. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

SRT Email4 screens
ChatInbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ChatInbox at 4.5 against SRT Email's 2.0. ChatInbox also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (61% vs 33%). SRT Email's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ChatInbox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SRT Email asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ChatInbox holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChatInbox has 32 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of SRT Email's written reviews are positive against 61% of ChatInbox's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SRT Email ships an update every 3 months, ChatInbox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SRT Email versus ChatInbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSRT EmailChatInbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings)4.5 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews61.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings432 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMail2World IncInnovatism LLC

Customer experience

SRT Email

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

ChatInbox

All ratings30 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral8.3%
Negative30.6%

In-app purchases

None

SRT Email

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

ChatInbox

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99

Questions

Is SRT Email free?
SRT Email is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChatInbox free?
ChatInbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SRT Email or ChatInbox?
ChatInbox is rated higher. SRT Email averages 2.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while ChatInbox averages 4.5 from 32 ratings.
Do SRT Email or ChatInbox have ads?
Neither SRT Email nor ChatInbox shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SRT Email or ChatInbox?
SRT Email ships an update every 3 months, and ChatInbox every 5 days. Most recently, SRT Email was updated on October 24, 2026 and ChatInbox on October 30, 2026.

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