Comparison

eMailDodo vs Making Sense Community

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

Head to head
About

eMailDodo

This app allows you to create and manage a single email address for your entire group, simplifying communication for teams, classes, or friends. It enables sending emails and creating polls directly from your iPhone, all managed centrally in the cloud.

Highlights
  • Shared group email address
  • Centralized cloud administration
  • Send emails to groups
  • Create polls/questions
  • Easy to use interface
  • iPhone and iPad optimized
Features
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EMAIL, QUESTION your GROUPS All group members can use the same single email address. From anywhere on any device. Now tailor-made for your iPhone. eMailDodo eMailDodo is world’s leading simple and free email grouping service. You can create and administer messages and email groups in one central place (‘in the cloud’). To share with your friends, team, class or clients: √ One email address √ Easy to use √ Friendly central admin √ Questions (‘polls’) functionality x Individual data keeping x Wrong addresses x Wrong numbers x Forgotten persons Email, send Questions to your (selection in the) group members straight from your iPhone. Simplify your life.

About

Making Sense Community

A community for thoughtful discussion and idea exchange, prioritizing intellectual honesty and civil discourse. Members use real names and engage in focused conversations on diverse topics, fostering genuine connections.

Highlights
  • Real name profiles
  • Focused discussion threads
  • Direct messaging
  • Customizable notifications
  • Intellectual honesty focus
  • Healthy moderation
Features
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The Making Sense Community is a dedicated place for curious minds to trade ideas, sharpen their thinking, follow good arguments wherever they lead, and have fun doing it. This is not another social network. Members use their full, real names, and we do not optimize for engagement, outrage, or any of the other mechanisms that have made the existing platforms so poisonous. This is a community in a more traditional sense—one that is organized around shared interests and the working assumption that the people you are talking with are arguing in good faith. Topics consist of current events, politics, books, spirituality, health, film, travel, as well as episodes of the Making Sense podcast and whatever else is on your mind. The most important house rules are intellectual honesty and basic decency. Keep it civil, don’t spam or self-promote, steelman before you criticize, and don’t use AI as a replacement for your own voice. Within that, this is meant to be a genuinely good time. Inside, you'll find: • Sam showing up how he would in a chat with people he trusts: dropping links he’s come across, reacting to events in the news, floating ideas that aren't yet ready for an episode of the podcast. • Member-created threads on wide-ranging topics. • Member profiles and direct messaging, so the connections you make here don't have to stay inside a single thread. • Notifications you control, so the community is available when you want it and quiet when you don't. • Healthy moderation that protects the space for the community by removing anyone engaging in toxic behavior. Come join our community of curious, sharp, good-humored people who take ideas seriously without taking themselves too seriously. *Names and images in the screenshots have been changed for privacy.

Screenshots

eMailDodo4 screens
Making Sense Community3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Making Sense Community at 4.8 against eMailDodo's 2.5. Making Sense Community also leads on ratings volume (156 vs 2) and review sentiment (93% vs 71%). eMailDodo's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Making Sense Community holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Making Sense Community has 156 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of eMailDodo's written reviews are positive against 93% of Making Sense Community's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eMailDodo ships an update every 6 months, Making Sense Community every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
eMailDodo versus Making Sense Community: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereMailDodoMaking Sense Community
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (156 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2156 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB111 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperBlommers Software CompanyMAKING SENSE MEDIA LLC

Customer experience

eMailDodo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Making Sense Community

All ratings126 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

eMailDodo

No in-app purchases

None

Making Sense Community

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is eMailDodo free?
eMailDodo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Making Sense Community free?
Making Sense Community is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, eMailDodo or Making Sense Community?
Making Sense Community is rated higher. eMailDodo averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Making Sense Community averages 4.8 from 156 ratings.
Do eMailDodo or Making Sense Community have ads?
Neither eMailDodo nor Making Sense Community shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eMailDodo or Making Sense Community?
eMailDodo ships an update every 6 months, and Making Sense Community every 2 months. Most recently, eMailDodo was updated on October 24, 2026 and Making Sense Community on October 24, 2026.

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