Comparison

Email Myself vs SelfNote

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

Head to head
About

Email Myself

Quickly send notes, to-dos, or photos to your email inbox with a simple swipe. Customize destination emails and subject lines for efficient organization. Share content from other apps directly to your inbox.

Highlights
  • Swipe to send notes
  • Set different destination emails
  • Email photos from gallery
  • Share from other apps
  • Customize subject lines
Features
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Do you email yourself notes or to-dos? This is Email Myself, a simple app where all you have to do is type a message and swipe. With simplicity and efficiency, Email Myself helps quickly offload a thought from your brain into your email inbox. Key features: - Set different destination emails for left vs right swipes - perfect for personal vs work emails - Take a photo or pick a photo from your gallery to email yourself - Use the "Share" functionality from other iOS apps to quickly send what you're looking at to yourself - Customize the start of your email subject lines for easy identification in your inbox ======== For Terms of Use & Privacy Policy: https://emailmyself.app/

About

SelfNote

Capture ideas, reminders, and links by sending them directly to your email inbox. Supports text, audio, photos, and drawings, with extensions for seamless sharing from other apps. New features include Apple Watch integration and home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Send notes via email
  • Attach text, audio, photos, drawings
  • Browser extensions for quick sharing
  • Apple Watch app for wrist capture
  • Home screen widgets for quick actions
  • On-device AI for subject lines and categorization
  • Speech-to-text dictation
Features
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With SelfNote, you can quickly write notes, reminders or bookmark links from your browser and send them to your own email. The concept is to send notes to self and receive them in the email inbox to be read or managed at a later time. With just a few taps and its quick share to self functions, you can create a new note and send it directly to your email inbox. This makes it easy to capture ideas and thoughts as they occur to you, without having to worry about forgetting them later on. SelfNote allows you to not only write text notes but also to add quick audio recordings, dictate to notes, drawings, and photos as notes. Additionally, you can use one of the extensions available for sending a reminder to self in the form of a link to a website, a photo, or a document (including PDFs) while browsing the internet or using any other app. KEY FEATURES - Apple Watch App: Capture notes from your wrist. Dictate text, record audio, or send quick phrases instantly. Your Watch syncs with your iPhone automatically. - Home Screen Widgets: Quick Actions for one-tap compose, dictate, or record. Quick Send to fire off pre-written phrases without opening the app. Recent Notes to see your latest notes at a glance. - Multiple Recipients: Add up to 10 email addresses and choose which ones receive your notes. Pro subscribers can send to up to 3 recipients simultaneously. - On-Device AI (Pro, iOS 26+): Smart Subject generates email subject lines from your note. Auto-Categorization tags your notes. Action Items detects tasks and highlights them. All processing happens on your device. - Speech-to-Text Dictation: Speak your notes with real-time transcription for hands-free capture. - Custom Note Subjects: Set a custom email subject line for any note. - Improved Note History: Gallery and list views, search, filters by color, type, or attachment. - Siri and Shortcuts: Send notes with Siri or build workflows with the Shortcuts app. - Available in 8 Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Portuguese (Brazilian), and Italian. Whether you're looking to organize your work tasks, read an article later, plan a vacation, remember something, or simply jot down your thoughts as they occur to you, SelfNote has everything you need to stay on top of your thoughts. Overall, SelfNote is a versatile tool that helps you to easily create and manage reminders and notes, making it an essential app for anyone who wants to stay organised and on top of their tasks. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Email Myself3 screens
SelfNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Email Myself at none against SelfNote's 3. SelfNote's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. SelfNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Email Myself asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Email Myself against 5.0 for SelfNote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SelfNote has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Email Myself versus SelfNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmail MyselfSelfNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAllen YangMakai Labs Srl

Customer experience

Email Myself

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

SelfNote

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Email Myself

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SelfNote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly - Unlimited access$1.991 Month
  • Unlimited access7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Email Myself free?
Email Myself is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SelfNote free?
SelfNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Email Myself or SelfNote?
Email Myself and SelfNote are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Email Myself or SelfNote have ads?
Neither Email Myself nor SelfNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Email Myself or SelfNote?
Email Myself ships an update monthly, and SelfNote monthly. Most recently, Email Myself was updated on June 1, 2026 and SelfNote on June 13, 2026.

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