Comparison

mail.com vs Our Gatekeeper

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

Head to head
About

mail.com

Manage your emails and cloud storage from a single app. Receive instant notifications for new messages and access your contacts and documents on the go. Secure your account with PIN or biometric authentication.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for all email addresses
  • 2GB cloud storage
  • Push notifications
  • PIN or biometric authentication
  • Automatic photo backup
  • Contact synchronization
Features
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The mail.com mail app for iPhone and iPad lets you take your email and cloud wherever you go. The mail.com mail app brings comprehensive functionality to your mobile device. Perfect for iPhone and iPad users, the email app from mail.com puts a wealth of productivity tools directly into your hand. Check all your email addresses and view your cloud documents from one centralized mailbox – wherever you go. Enable push notifications to ensure you never miss an important message again. Discover the many features of the mail.com email app and get your emails whenever you need them, wherever you are. What customers are saying: "Everything you could wish for. Simply open, read, delete, done. No frills or 1000 options to subscribe or play. Thanks" "Good stuff. The way email should work today!" "Cool. I have been using this app for such a long time and I would not change." "Best email account in the world. Thank you" "Great app! Convenient, easy to navigate" Reliable and secure e-mail The mail.com email app is optimized for use with a mail.com email account by 1&1. With an mail.com email account you can select from our 100+ email domains, like @email.com and @usa.com. Ideal for business emails, our mail app lets you set personalized notifications and use many organizational features that our webmail solution provides. This means you can easily access your mail.com contacts and synchronize them with the contacts on your iPhone. The mail.com email client for iOS enabled devices also includes powerful security features to ensure your communications are never compromised. The email app for iOS is simple to install and intuitive to use. You can even make it the default mail app on your iPhone. This makes managing your mails a breeze – giving you the opportunity to write, reply and organize your mail wherever you go. Syncing your inbox between multiple devices is also possible, allowing you to move seamlessly from your iPhone to your iPad without breaking your concentration. Cloud storage and emails in one With mail.com freemail you also get 2GB of reliable cloud storage. Store e-mail attachments, photos, documents and more in your mail.com Cloud and your online file manager is right at your fingertips in this combined e-mail and cloud app. The app will automatically sync not only every message in your inbox but all the files in your cloud storage, so you can access them whenever and wherever you are online. Just open the app and get started! You can even activate automatic photo backup from your iPhone or iPad to your mail.com Cloud and keep your precious memories safe in our secure online storage. All you need to do is sign up for a freemail account from mail.com and download the app to enjoy these gr eat features: • iPhone optimized • Convenient push notifications • Increased security through PIN or biometric authentication • Mobile access to your mail.com contacts • Integrated cloud with automatic photo backups • Customizable interface • 100+ email domains available to create email address of your choice • Sync automatically with mail.com web browser email client • Set as default mail app on iPhone or iPad • Convenient folder and file manager in Cloud 100+ email domains One of the best things about using the mail.com app as your iPhone email app or iPad email app is creating unique email addresses. Customize your email address with our 100+ email domains. In addition to our @mail.com domain, here are just five of the available email domains that we offer: 1 @email.com domain 2 @usa.com domain 3 @post.com domain 4 @techie.com domain 5 @dr.com domain Feedback welcome! We’d love to hear what you think and we welcome your feedback and user experiences with the iPhone and iPad app. Contact us today and help us improve your email experience. Terms & Conditions: https://www.mail.com/company/terms/

About

Our Gatekeeper

This community-based app enhances convenience and security for residents and estate management. It offers features like panic buttons, guest access requests, financial management for levies and projects, and real-time communication.

Highlights
  • Panic button with location coordinates
  • Guest access requests and notifications
  • Facility levy and project payment management
  • Real-time payment dashboard with export
  • Individual and group messaging
  • Automatic payment reconciliation
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Our Gatekeeper is a community based convenience and security driven application. There is currently a community administrator interface, resident interface and security interface. All three interfaces have been unified to provide convenience and security services for the community. Individual estates or communities have the ability to customize their usage of the application suite. Access Module: 1. Panic button to notify residents of an emergency within a range automatically, with location coordinates of the house 2. Residents request access for their guests, scanned at the security and notification of this interaction is communicated to both resident and estate management. 3. Estate management has access to a week of guest entry data 4. Data on security personnel activity at the gate 5. Multiple entry access request from the same access code Messaging Center: Estate management is able to send individual messages to residents, or to everybody within the estate Finance Module: Estate Interface: 1. Set Facility Levy for your community, with effective date functionality 2. Manage Facility Levy payments intelligently filtered by the Houses in the Estate 3. Real time payment information on a dashboard with Excel Export functionality 4. Create Estate Projects with description and amount 5. Manage intelligently filtered project payment information by houses and in real time. Projects can be set in Active, Cancelled, Pause or Completed Status 6. Automatic reconciliation of payment information from multiple people in the same house 7. Intelligent automatic payment percentage analysis for Facility Levy and Projects Resident Interface: 1. Get real time update of Facility Levy due for payment, with current and previous month status 2. Make estate levy payments directly from the app 3. Get real time update on Estate Projects 4. Make payments for your Estate Projects directly from the app 5. All time records for both Facility Levy and Projects are available 6. Real time payment notification is available and serves as receipt for payments 7. Automatic reconciliation of payments by different residents in the same house

Screenshots

mail.com4 screens
Our Gatekeeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Our Gatekeeper at none against mail.com's 11. Our Gatekeeper also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). mail.com's advantage is ratings volume (105K vs 3). On price, update cadence and device support 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. mail.com sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Our Gatekeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Our Gatekeeper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mail.com has 105K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
mail.com versus Our Gatekeeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametermail.comOur Gatekeeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (105K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings105K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size353 MB88 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer1&1 Mail & Media Inc.Castro Agbo

Customer experience

mail.com

All ratings104,587 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews1,643 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral5.7%
Negative18.0%

Our Gatekeeper

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

mail.com

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Emails not loading properly
  • Inability to delete or move emails
  • Sync issues between app and web version
  • Frequent app crashes or freezes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved email organization and folder management
  • Option to disable ads in free version
  • Enhanced search capabilities
  • Ability to attach various file types
  • Customizable email signatures

Our Gatekeeper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

mail.com

Subscriptions6
  • 25 GB3 variants$0.991 Month
  • adfree App$1.991 Month
  • 150 GB2 variants$2.991 Month
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  • 250 GB2 variants$3.991 Month
  • mail.com Premium$3.991 Month
  • mail.com Premium$29.991 Year
None

Our Gatekeeper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is mail.com free?
mail.com is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Our Gatekeeper free?
Our Gatekeeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, mail.com or Our Gatekeeper?
Our Gatekeeper is rated higher. mail.com averages 4.7 out of 5 from 105K ratings, while Our Gatekeeper averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do mail.com or Our Gatekeeper have ads?
mail.com shows ads; Our Gatekeeper does not.
Which is updated more often, mail.com or Our Gatekeeper?
mail.com ships an update fortnightly, and Our Gatekeeper fortnightly. Most recently, mail.com was updated on September 25, 2026 and Our Gatekeeper on September 10, 2026.

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