eMailDodo vs Making Sense Community
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Shared group email address
- Centralized cloud administration
- Send emails to groups
- Create polls/questions
- Easy to use interface
- iPhone and iPad optimized
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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.
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.
- Real name profiles
- Focused discussion threads
- Direct messaging
- Customizable notifications
- Intellectual honesty focus
- Healthy moderation
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
eMailDodo ships an update every 6 months, Making Sense Community every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | eMailDodo | Making Sense Community |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (156 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 156 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 111 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Blommers Software Company | MAKING SENSE MEDIA LLC |
Customer experience
eMailDodo
Making Sense Community
In-app purchases
eMailDodo
No in-app purchases
Making Sense Community
No in-app purchases
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