MailBuzzr for Outlook vs Speaking Email
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MailBuzzr for Outlook
Manage all your Hotmail and Outlook accounts in one fast, beautifully designed app. Get smart notifications, organize emails with tags and filters, and undo actions easily. Enjoy a frustration-free email experience with an elegant interface and custom themes.
- Unified inbox for multiple accounts
- Smart notifications with customizable alerts
- Quick email preview and undo actions
- Automatic email organization with tags and filters
- Built-in file viewer for attachments
- Customizable themes and signatures
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MailBuzzr – Smart, Fast & Beautiful Email for Hotmail and Outlook MailBuzzr is a powerful yet simple email app built for speed, convenience, and clarity. Whether you’re using Hotmail, Outlook, or both, manage all your inboxes in one beautifully designed app — fast and frustration-free. Smart Notifications Know who emailed you — and what it’s about — just by the notification sound. Customize alerts based on sender, priority, or message content. Why You’ll Love MailBuzzr • Multiple Accounts – Add all your Hotmail and Outlook accounts. Switch between them with one tap. • Unified Inbox – See all your emails in one place, or view them by account. • Quick Peek – Long-press a message to preview without opening. Speed through your inbox effortlessly. • Smart Tags & Filters – Automatically organize emails by sender, subject, or keywords. • Undo Actions – Accidentally deleted or sent something? Quickly undo it with a tap. • Professional Signatures – Choose a clean and polished email signature that fits your style. • Elegant Interface – Designed for ease of use with smooth performance and intuitive navigation. • Custom Themes – Pick from a variety of color themes to suit your mood or taste. • Built-in File Viewer – View attachments like PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and photos — no extra apps needed. More Features You’ll Enjoy • Swipe to delete, archive, reply, and more • Draft minimization for multitasking • Bulk editing and color-coded accounts • Unread/flagged quick filters • Contact import from Outlook and Google • Push notifications with 5 customizable priority levels • Lock the app with passcode or fingerprint • Quiet time mode for peace of mind • Advanced search: by keyword, sender, subject, or content • Attach files from Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more • 30+ custom ringtones for notifications Need help or have feedback? Contact us at support@aversys.com
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Speaking Email at none against MailBuzzr for Outlook's shown. Speaking Email also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1). MailBuzzr for Outlook's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. MailBuzzr for Outlook sells 7 one-off in-app purchases 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.
Speaking Email holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 517 and 206 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of MailBuzzr for Outlook's written reviews are positive against 68% of Speaking Email's.
MailBuzzr for Outlook ships an update fortnightly, Speaking Email every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MailBuzzr for Outlook | Speaking Email |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (517 ratings) | 4.5 (206 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.7% of reviews | 67.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 517 — better | 206 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AverSys Mobile | BEWEB LTD |
Customer experience
MailBuzzr for Outlook
Speaking Email
User reviews
MailBuzzr for Outlook
From 517 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🔒 Secure email access
- 💡 Convenient email management
- 👍 Great app design and interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Sync and connectivity issues
- 🐛 Deleted emails reappearing
- 🐛 Attachment and draft handling problems
- 🔋 High battery consumption
Speaking Email
From 206 App Store ratingsWhat 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
MailBuzzr for Outlook
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and password problems
- Notifications not working properly
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
- Slow email loading and refreshing
Requested features
5 requests- Add more email account support
- Improve email organization and search
- Implement a junk mail folder
- Allow bulk email deletion
- Add customization options
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
MailBuzzr for Outlook
- No Ads$1.99
- Remove ads$2.99
- Upgrade to Lite$2.99
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- Upgrade to Pro$2.99
- Lite$3.99
- Upgrade to Pro$3.99
- Pro$4.99
Speaking Email
- Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
- Premium Subscription Annual$34.991 Year
- Premium Plan$4.99
- Premium Plan 3 Months$14.99
- Premium Plan 12 Months$49.99
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