Gmail vs Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gmail
This application provides a secure and efficient email experience with advanced features like spam blocking, smart replies, and multi-account support. It integrates with other Google services for enhanced productivity and collaboration.
- Robust security & spam blocking
- Real-time notifications
- Multiple account support
- Smart Reply & Compose
- Undo send
- Google Chat & Meet integration
- Threaded conversations
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The official Gmail app brings the best of Gmail to your iPhone and iPad with helpful AI features, robust security, real-time notifications, multiple account support, and intelligent search that works across all your mail. With the Gmail app, you can: • Make Gmail your default email app on iOS • Stay up to date on your latest packages, upcoming events, bills, and travel details with helpful summary cards • Declutter your inbox with built-in email subscription management • Use Gemini* in Gmail to summarize lengthy emails, craft or refine responses, or search your inbox to find what you’re looking for • Connect and switch between multiple email accounts from different providers • Automatically block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, malware from ever reaching your inbox • Quickly add events to Google Calendar based on your emails with Gemini in Gmail • Find top deals faster with a personalized Promotions tab • Respond to emails faster with AI-powered Suggested Replies that understand the context of your emails and match your unique tone and style • Undo send for up to 30 seconds, to prevent embarrassing mistakes • Access Google Meet and Google Chat without leaving Gmail • Organize your mail by labeling, starring, deleting, and reporting spam • Swipe to archive/delete, to quickly clear out your inbox Gmail is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create, and collaborate. You can: • Connect with coworkers via Google Meet or Google Chat, send an invite in Google Calendar, add an action to your task list, and more without leaving Gmail • Use Gemini in Gmail features like Help me write, Suggested Replies, AI Overviews, and Proofread to help you stay on top of work and take care of simple tasks, so you can be more efficient with your time • Stay safe. Our machine learning models block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching our users *Some Gemini features may require a Google One AI subscription. Internet connection required. Language and country availability may vary. Check responses for accuracy.
Consolidate all your email accounts into a single, organized inbox. Prioritize important messages, quickly respond with smart replies, and manage your inbox efficiently with features like scheduling and snoozing. Enjoy enhanced privacy with IP address hiding and read receipt prevention.
- Unified inbox for multiple accounts
- Automatic message categorization
- Priority Messages and summarization
- Schedule send, snooze, and unsend emails
- Smart Reply for quick responses
- Mail Privacy Protection
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Access, view and manage messages from all your email accounts in one place. Categorize your messages into easy to browse categories. Catch up on email easily with Apple Intelligence powered Priority Messages and summarizations. Manage your inbox by scheduling emails to send later, snoozing emails you want to get back to later and unsend an email in one tap. Features • Access email from iCloud, Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, and Outlook as well as many other email providers - all in one place. • View all of your accounts in a single inbox, choose a specific mailbox or filter to see just Unread or Flagged messages. • Automatically organize your messages in to Primary, Transactions, Updates and Promotions categories and focus on the messages that matter most. • Stay on top of emails with Priority Messages, a new section at the top of your inbox that shows urgent emails. • Use Smart Reply to quickly respond to messages with a few taps. • Catch up on email quickly with summarization of messages and threads. • Find messages by sender, recipient or subject. Top hits make it easy to find what you’re looking for. • Manage your inbox by blocking a sender or muting notifications from an overly active thread. • Flag important contacts as VIPs to receive notifications when their emails arrive. • Triage email messages using swipe gestures that help you quickly archive, delete, flag, or mark messages as read or unread. • Use Mail Drop to send large attachments from any account through iCloud. • Hide your IP address with Mail Privacy Protection so senders can’t link it to your other online activity or determine your locations, and prevent senders from seeing if you’ve opened their email. • App Keywords (do not to exceed 70 characters): Mail, email, email app, productivity email, intelligent email
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mail at none against Gmail's 14. Mail also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (5 vs 2). Gmail's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Gmail sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Mail asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Gmail against 4.6 for Mail. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.4M and 4.4M respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 29% of Gmail's written reviews are positive against 34% of Mail's.
Gmail ships an update weekly, Mail every 11 months. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Gmail | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.4M ratings) — better | 4.6 (4.4M ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.3% of reviews | 33.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4M | 4.4M — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 719 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | |
Customer experience
Gmail
User reviews
Gmail
From 2.4M App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient email management
- 👍 Easy to use interface
- 🔒 Secure and reliable
- 😊 Positive user experience overall
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 💡 Lacking advanced features
- 🔒 Security concerns
- 🔋 Drains battery quickly
What we love
- 🚀 Efficient email management
- 🔒 Secure and private
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 💡 Useful categorization of emails
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent swipe gestures
- 🐛 Unreliable search function
- 🐛 Emails disappearing or not syncing properly
- 🐛 Slow email download and loading times
- 🐛 Buggy performance after updates
Bugs and requests
Gmail
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notifications not working properly
- Emails disappearing from inbox
- Inability to remove accounts
- Conversation view issues
Requested features
4 requests- Swipe to delete/snooze emails
- Ability to mark all emails as read
- Customizable notification settings
- Improved file attachment functionality
Reported bugs
4 issues- Emails not downloading from server
- Inconsistent behavior when deleting emails
- Notifications not working as expected
- Drafts and sent emails disappearing
Requested features
4 requests- Add snooze functionality
- Improve email organization and filtering options
- Provide more customization options
- Integrate better with other Apple apps and services
In-app purchases
Gmail
- 100 GB2 variants$1.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial3 variants$1.991 Month
- 200 GB2 variants$2.991 Month
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- 200 GB1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- 2 TB1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)2 variants$9.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial$19.991 Year
No in-app purchases







