eM Client vs Boogie Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eM Client
This app unifies email, calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes into a single, AI-enhanced platform. It offers advanced features typically found on desktop, including instant message translation and robust encryption, for seamless management of multiple accounts on your iPhone and iPad.
- AI-enhanced email drafting and replies
- Unified inbox for email, calendar, tasks, contacts, and notes
- Instant message translation
- PGP and S/MIME encryption
- Quick import from desktop app
- Mail-tracking pixel detection
- Snooze and Undo Send features
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These features include: • Super easy setup including quick import from the desktop app via QR code • AI Support for replies and email drafting • Emails, calendars, tasks, contacts and notes all in one place • Favorite, Global, and search folders to easily manage multiple accounts • Instant message translation • PGP and S/MIME encryption • Tags and Gmail labels support to sort and color-code your messages • Signatures you can choose from and assign to your accounts • QuickText: snippets of text you can quickly insert into your emails • Templates • Messages grouped into conversations • Advanced privacy options • Mail-Tracking pixel detection • Snooze • Watch for reply • Undo Send • Password protection • Online meetings integration • Cloud storage providers integration • Mobile device management (MDM) support and more
Boogie Mail
A modern, native email, calendar, and contacts client utilizing the JMAP protocol. It offers advanced features like undo send, scheduled send, server-side filters, and real-time sync across Apple devices. An optional push notification service is available.
- JMAP protocol support
- Undo Send and scheduled send
- Server-side Sieve filters
- Real-time sync
- Multi-account management
- Apple Watch integration
- Native Mac and iPad apps
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Boogie is a native mail, calendar and contacts client built on JMAP, the modern protocol that replaces IMAP. No IMAP fallback, no webmail wrapper. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac. Works with Stalwart, Fastmail, or any server that speaks RFC 8620 / RFC 8621 JMAP. MAIL • One-step sign-in through your provider's secure web login. Fastmail OAuth covers mail, contacts and calendars in a single grant • Choose which folders notify you. Inbox only by default; Junk and Archive stay silent until you say so • Undo Send, scheduled send, templates, HTML signatures, font picker, multi-message forward, Send Again • Fail-safe sending: if an account can't send, your draft is kept and you're told why • Server-side Sieve filters and vacation auto-reply • Multi-account with auto-discovery and clear health badges; account removal says exactly what it will do • Spotlight indexing and 41 languages, including right-to-left CALENDAR & CONTACTS • Day, week and month views that update live as invitations arrive • Accept or decline invitations from the email; organizers get exactly one reply. Canceled events offer Remove from Calendar • Contacts across all your accounts, with contact groups you create, name and delete • Apple Contacts are read locally for recipient autocomplete and never uploaded APPLE WATCH • Sign in with a short code shown on the Watch and entered on your iPhone or Mac • Read, reply to and triage mail from your wrist MAC & IPAD • Full keyboard control on iPad: ⌘N, ⌘F, ⌘A and the rest work as they do on the Mac • A native Mac app that prints cleanly and never keeps your machine awake PRIVACY & PUSH • No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Your mail lives on your own server, never ours • Real-time sync while the app is open • Boogie Push, an optional add-on: new mail arrives on iPhone and iPad even when Boogie is closed. Alerts show sender and subject; the message content is never sent to us. First month free, then a separate subscription. Mac notifications while running are included TRIAL AND PRICING 14-day full-feature trial. After the trial, Boogie locks until you subscribe. • Yearly: US$39.99 • Lifetime: US$99, one payment • Boogie Push: US$2.49 a month or US$19.99 a year, first month free Boogie Push is sold separately and not included in Yearly or Lifetime. Privacy: Boogie is a transport between your device and the server you choose. We collect nothing. Support: support@boogie.digital Privacy: https://boogie.digital/privacy/ Terms: https://boogie.digital/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eM Client at 3.7 against Boogie Mail's 2.0. eM Client also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (48 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Boogie Mail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. eM Client asks for nothing beyond the download.
eM Client holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eM Client has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
eM Client ships an update every 10 days, Boogie Mail every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | eM Client | Boogie Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (48 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 178 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | eM Client | KTP Digital PTY LTD |
Customer experience
eM Client
Boogie Mail
Bugs and requests
eM Client
Reported bugs
4 issues- Emails not sending immediately
- Drafts not visible or editable
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between folders
- Trouble signing in to multiple Google accounts
Requested features
6 requests- Calendar integration
- Improved background refresh and sync
- Custom notification sounds
- Ability to sort emails by sender
- More customization options
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- Actions from notifications (archive, mark as read, etc.)
Boogie Mail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
eM Client
No in-app purchases
Boogie Mail
- Boogie Yearly3 Months trial$39.991 Year
- Boogie Lifetime$69.99









