Comparison

Yandex Mail vs Speaking Email

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

Head to head
About

Yandex Mail

A secure and efficient email client with built-in translation and document scanning. Manage multiple accounts, unsubscribe from unwanted lists, and even conduct video meetings directly within the app. Offers offline access and robust spam protection.

Highlights
  • Built-in translator
  • Document scanner
  • Offline email access
  • Multi-account support
  • Spam and virus protection
  • Video meetings via Telemost
  • 5 GB free cloud storage
Features
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Try Yandex Mail, a free email service for work and personal messages, with a simple interface and protection against spam and viruses. Yandex Mail helps you stay organized and keep track of what matters. All your mailboxes, calendar events, documents, and notes — in one app. Protection against spam and viruses Smart algorithms filter out spam and viruses, so your in box only shows what you need. PIN code sign-in helps keep your emails private. Your data is stored in multiple copies in Yandex data centers, so your emails and attachments stay safe. Easy email management on the go What if I need to check my mail between tasks? In the app, you can reply to emails in one tap with smart suggestions, quickly browse new messages, and open attachments. Offline mode No connection on the metro or train? Received emails are still available offline, and outgoing messages are sent automatically as soon as the app is back online. An organized inbox without manual sorting Set up rules so Yandex Mail can automatically sort emails into folders, forward them, or turn on auto-reply. You can also unsubscribe from all newsletters at once in settings, without having to manually go through each email. Emails in any language Got an email in another language? The built-in translator translates it into your language, so you can easily read emails in any language. All your mailboxes in one app If you have several mailboxes across different services, connect your Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Rambler, iCloud, Mail and AOL Mail accounts, and import emails from other mailboxes to view everything in one app. Yandex Disk, Yandex Calendar, and Yandex Documents Create events in Yandex Calendar, upload files to cloud storage on Yandex Disk, edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and take notes. The built-in scanner turns a document or photo into a scan and attaches it to an email. More features with Yandex 360 Want to do more with Yandex Mail? Yandex 360 gives you access to extra features: — Alice Pro smart assistant. Highlights important emails in your inbox and gives you a brief summary. Alice can also find information in your emails and help you write a reply. — Custom address instead of @yandex.com. Choose a short, unique address with your name or line of work, such as me@my-business.com. It shows what you do and helps your emails stand out. — Subscription approval. New promotional newsletters will no longer appear in your inbox without your permission: Yandex Mail will notify you, and you can choose whether to receive or block them. Who Yandex Mail is for Yandex Mail is for anyone who needs convenient, secure, spam-free email for work and personal tasks. It's especially useful for: — users with several mailboxes who want to keep them in one place — users who correspond in foreign languages — users who need email, calendar, and documents in one app Install Yandex Mail to keep all your emails and tasks within reach. Yandex Privacy Policy: https://yandex.ru/legal/confidential/ Yandex Mail Terms of Use: https://yandex.ru/legal/mail_termsofuse/

About

Speaking Email

This app reads your emails aloud and allows you to manage them using voice commands. It's ideal for hands-free and eyes-free email access, benefiting drivers and individuals with visual impairments or motor difficulties.

Highlights
  • Reads emails aloud
  • Voice commands for replies and management
  • Hands-free and eyes-free operation
  • Smart content detection
  • Multilingual email support
  • Secure connection to various email servers
Features
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Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands. Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free. Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition. (Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP') — WHY DO I WANT IT? — FOR DRIVERS Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move. Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox. Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move. (Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP") FOR ACCESSIBILITY Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app. Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled! — HOW DOES IT WORK? — Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox. Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go. You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands. Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails. — FEATURES — - Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter - Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices - Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending - Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future - Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In) - Voice commands and buttons include: Next Back Archive/Done Flag Trash Reply Forward Ignore (thumbs down) Important (thumbs up) Block Sender Rewind Fast Forward Compose Search Voice Slower Faster People When - Many preferences to set up your experience how you like — QUESTIONS — Reach us at feedback@speaking.email See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email — RECOGNITION — - Gizmodo - "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today - TV3 News (NZ), Sky News - The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph - NZ Herald, National Business Review - Featured by Apple in Best New Apps - Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO - Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards — QUOTES — “This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR “My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave “I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton https://speaking.email/page/privacy https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use

Screenshots

Yandex Mail4 screens
Speaking Email4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Speaking Email at none against Yandex Mail's shown. Speaking Email also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 47%). Yandex Mail's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 206) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence, 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. Yandex Mail sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month and Speaking Email sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yandex Mail holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yandex Mail has 14K ratings behind it against 206, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 47% of Yandex Mail's written reviews are positive against 68% of Speaking Email's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Yandex Mail ships an update every 2 weeks, Speaking Email every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Yandex Mail versus Speaking Email: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYandex MailSpeaking Email
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (14K ratings) — better4.5 (206 ratings)
Positive reviews47.3% of reviews67.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14K — better206
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#202 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size695 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDirect Cursus Computer Systems TradingBEWEB LTD

Customer experience

Yandex Mail

All ratings14,440 ratings
Positive93.9%
Neutral1.5%
Negative4.6%
Written reviews461 reviews
Positive47.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative46.4%

Speaking Email

All ratings206 ratings
Positive88.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative7.8%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive67.5%
Neutral2.6%
Negative29.9%

User reviews

Yandex Mail

From 14K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Efficient and fast
  • 🔒 Secure and trustworthy
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 💡 Useful translation feature
  • 🌐 Great for international users

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
  • 📢 Excessive advertising
  • 🔍 Difficulty finding/accessing features
  • 🔒 Account/login problems
  • 📤 Issues with sending/receiving emails

Speaking Email

From 206 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Life-changing for accessibility
  • 👍 Great for visually impaired
  • 👍 Excellent for ADHD/focus issues
  • 👍 Time-saver for busy users
  • 👍 Useful for commuting

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🐛 Unreliable connection issues
  • 🐛 Difficult to set up
  • 🐛 Poor voice recognition/robotic voice
  • 🐛 Battery drain

Bugs and requests

Yandex Mail

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Emails disappearing or not syncing
  • Inability to delete or archive emails
  • Frequent crashes on launch
  • Inconsistent performance across devices
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Unified inbox view
  • Improved email organization tools
  • Customizable email signatures
  • Calendar integration
  • Dark mode option

Speaking Email

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Keeps crashing
  • Doesn't work reliably
  • Granting Gmail access is buggy
  • App crashes after an update
  • Doesn't save place in emails
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  • Cannot skip forward in emails
  • Cannot connect to emails
  • Times out from mail setup screen
  • Frozen in settings page
  • Emails disappear after reading
  • Unstable with Exchange
  • Archived emails disappear
  • Doesn't recognize passwords
  • Cannot delete the app
  • Hidden icon floating around screen
  • Browser cookies disabled error for Gmail
  • Too loud with AirPods
  • Emails don't load properly

Requested features

13 requests
  • Ability to search using voice command
  • CarPlay support
  • Apple Watch App for interaction
  • Support for Exchange using Active Sync or Outlook Web Access
  • Dark mode option
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  • Better voice quality
  • Option to turn off voice command prompts
  • Ability to set to only pull 'primary' for Gmail
  • Improve editing of responses
  • Better battery optimization
  • Clearer understanding of settings
  • Ability to save place in emails
  • Search functionality

In-app purchases

16 purchases

Yandex Mail

Subscriptions16
  • Lite$2.491 Month
  • Premium 200 GB$3.991 Month
  • Standard 100 GB$3.991 Month
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  • Premium 400 GB$4.591 Month
  • Premium 400 GB$4.691 Month
  • Premium 1 TB2 variants$5.991 Month
  • Premium 2 TB$8.491 Month
  • Premium 2 TB$8.691 Month
  • Premium 3 TB$9.991 Month
  • Standard 100 GB$22.991 Year
  • Premium 200 GB1 Year trial$24.991 Year
  • Premium 1 TB$34.991 Year
  • Premium 1 TB1 Year trial$37.491 Year
  • Premium 2 TB$49.951 Year
  • Premium 3 TB$72.001 Year
  • Premium 3 TB$79.991 Year
5 purchases

Speaking Email

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription Annual$34.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Plan$4.99
  • Premium Plan 3 Months$12.99
  • Premium Plan 12 Months$39.99

Questions

Is Yandex Mail free?
Yandex Mail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speaking Email free?
Speaking Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Yandex Mail or Speaking Email?
Yandex Mail is rated higher. Yandex Mail averages 4.8 out of 5 from 14K ratings, while Speaking Email averages 4.5 from 206 ratings.
Do Yandex Mail or Speaking Email have ads?
Yandex Mail shows ads; Speaking Email does not.
Which is updated more often, Yandex Mail or Speaking Email?
Yandex Mail ships an update every 2 weeks, and Speaking Email every 3 weeks. Most recently, Yandex Mail was updated on September 25, 2026 and Speaking Email on September 4, 2026.

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