Maildash™ vs 1Shelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maildash™
Streamline communication by sending personalized emails and texts with custom stationery and signatures. Quickly send messages to contacts or groups using pre-formatted templates or your own custom phrases, saving you time and effort.
- Personalized mail-merged messages
- Custom stationery templates
- Email and text message sending
- Favorites and groups lists
- Customizable templates and snippets
- Multiple email signatures
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SEND PERSONALIZED MAIL-MERGED MESSAGES USING STATIONERY & SIGNATURES With Maildash, you'll be firing off emails and texts in rapid succession, using mail-merge stationery templates, without all the tedious typing. Just select a contact or group, choose a pre-formatted message, and tap Send. It’s as simple as that. For example, to tell your friend John Doe that you're running late, choose the “Be there soon” template, and tap the Send button. What gets sent is: “Hi John. I’ll be there soon. I am running a little late.” Your recipients will never know how fast and easy this was for you since all outgoing messages are personalized with names, current times, dates, greetings, and signatures. Find yourself writing to the same people or groups of people over and over again? Make your shortcuts even shorter by adding them to Maildash’s “Favorites” screen. This convenient option works like the iPhone’s phone number “Favorites”. Simply choose an address and a message, and Maildash will do the rest. Add email addresses and phone numbers to Maildash’s Favorites from: the iOS Address Book; keyboard; or by pasting multiple addresses or phone numbers into the Favorites screen. With Maildash on your iOS device, you can custom design your own stationery. If you don't see a message that fits the situation, just type your own personal template using the keyboard; or edit one of the pre-formatted phrases that have been included. Customizing your email has never been simpler. With the Template Editor, you can create your own unique phrases; and multiple formal and casual email signatures as well. Never again will you have to reduce your regular dialogue to a jumble of alphabet soup-like SMS speak and abbreviations. With Maildash, the only thing that will be abbreviated is the amount of time that it takes you to respond to them. GENERAL FEATURES • Quickly send email or text messages using stationery • Personalize messages using mail-merge substitutions and signatures • Favorites/Recents/Groups lists - choose an address or group quickly • Customizable Templates - make your own message stationery • Customizable Snippets - make your own shortcuts • Customizable Tabs at bottom of screen • For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch EMAIL FEATURES • Send mail-merged, personalized Emails to Groups of people • Send Email without leaving the Maildash app • Send quick replies to incoming email TEMPLATE FEATURES • Templates can have default email addresses and/or phone numbers attached • Choose different languages for Templates/Snippets using the globe button • Templates include Subject and Body fields REQUIREMENTS • iOS 12+ • iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
1Shelf
This app transforms your documents into an intelligent knowledge base. It automatically curates travel itineraries, provides proactive insights with smart alerts, and offers an AI chat for complex queries. Securely organize and access your files across devices with lightning-fast search and auto-categorization.
- AI-powered document understanding
- Automated travel itinerary curation
- Proactive insights and smart alerts
- Intelligent AI chat for complex queries
- Lightning-fast document search
- Auto-categorization of files
- Bank-grade security and privacy
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Your life runs on documents. 1Shelf runs them for you. Insurance, leases, prescriptions, visas, warranties, boarding passes, receipts — the paperwork of a life is scattered across six apps, three clouds, and a camera roll you will never scroll through. 1Shelf is the layer that holds all of it, understands it, and acts on it. An operating system for your life admin. EVERYTHING COMES IN • Connect Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive—your files import themselves • Forward anything to 1Shelf on WhatsApp, or to your own 1Shelf email address • Scan your camera roll for receipts, bills, tickets, and IDs—detection runs on your device, and nothing is saved until you confirm • Or just snap a photo and let go IT FILES ITSELF • Every document is read, given a name you would actually recognize, and sorted—Identity, Vehicle, Finance, Medical, Travel, and more • Search inside your documents, not just their names—every word of a PDF, photo, or receipt • Your whole shelf stays searchable with no signal IT KNOWS WHO'S WHO • 1Shelf finds the people on your documents—you, your family, everyone else—and gives each of them a card • Every passport and ID in one place, with its expiry date; numbers stay hidden until you tap • Each person's documents together, sorted by category, along with the trips they're on • Filter any search by person—your father's medical reports, your daughter's school forms • Got someone wrong? Merge, split, or correct them, and undo any change IT TELLS YOU WHAT'S NEXT • Weekly Spotlights surface expiring passports, lapsing insurance, and renewals—before the late fee hits • The reminder comes from the document itself; nothing to set up, nothing to enter twice ASK IT ANYTHING • "When does my car insurance expire?" "When does Dad's passport run out?" "What did I spend on groceries last month?" • 1Shelf answers in plain language, does the math across every receipt, and sends the file back • On WhatsApp too, without opening the app IT TRAVELS WITH YOU • Forward your bookings and a live itinerary assembles itself—flights, hotels, activities, weather, and PNRs pulled from the documents • Invite family and friends by link or code; everyone sees the plan and the documents—and each other on the map, when they choose to share • See whether each traveler's passport and visa is still valid for the trip dates • Split what you spend—equally, by shares, or custom amounts—with running balances until everyone is settled, in any currency, even offline YOURS, AND PRIVATE • 256-bit AES encryption, at rest and in transit • Your data is never used for advertising or to train our AI models • Stored in your own region—United States, Europe, or Asia Stop filing. Start living. Terms of Use: https://1shelf.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://1shelf.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: 1Shelf at Free against Maildash™'s $3.99. 1Shelf also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 36%). Maildash™'s advantage is rating (4.1 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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
1Shelf is free to download; Maildash™ costs $3.99 up front. 1Shelf sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Maildash™ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Maildash™ holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Maildash™ has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Maildash™'s written reviews are positive against 50% of 1Shelf's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Maildash™ ships an update every 3 months, 1Shelf every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Maildash™ | 1Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (11 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.2% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PureBlend Software | OneShelf Innovations Private Limited |
Customer experience
Maildash™
1Shelf
In-app purchases
Maildash™
No in-app purchases
1Shelf
- Pro - Monthly$9.991 Month
- Ultimate - Monthly$29.991 Month
- Pro - Annually$99.991 Year
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- Ultimate - Annually$299.991 Year









