Comparison

ChatInbox vs Weft

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

Head to head
About

ChatInbox

This app reimagines your email by organizing it around people, not dates. View all conversations with a contact in a chat-style format, making it easy to find past messages and attachments. It supports multiple email accounts and devices, offering a streamlined inbox experience.

Highlights
  • Contact-centered inbox
  • All accounts in one inbox
  • Smart contact grouping
  • Attachments by person
  • Calendar view
  • Email reminders
Features
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ChatInbox organizes your inbox by people. Each person you email gets one conversation that holds everything you've exchanged: every subject, every reply, every attachment. When a new email arrives, its person moves to the top, with your whole history right there. Newsletters, receipts and alerts file themselves into Feeds, so mail from people is never buried. ORGANIZED BY PEOPLE Your list shows people, not a pile of messages. Tap a person to see every email between you, across every subject, in one place. Read it as cards by thread or as a chat with your replies on the right. Put a company or a team together in one row. Many people use ChatInbox as a simple CRM: every client's emails, files and follow-ups in one place. PEOPLE FIRST, FEEDS SEPARATE Newsletters, receipts and notifications go to Feeds automatically. Clear a sender in one go: Mark All as Read, Archive All, or Unsubscribe & Delete All. TODAY'S INBOX, DONE FAST Triage sorts today's mail into a plan: what needs a reply, what can be archived, codes you no longer need. Apply it at once, with Undo. AI THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE With Apple Intelligence, ChatInbox shows what people are waiting on you for, lists the questions in an email and drafts your answer, catches you up on what's new from people, and answers questions about your mail with the email it came from. Translate an email in place, on your device. FIND ANYTHING Search reads the words inside your emails and even inside PDFs and other attachments. Or open a person, and everything with them is already there. YOUR ACCOUNTS, YOUR DEVICES Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account. Type your address and ChatInbox finds the settings. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one purchase covers all three. CALENDAR, TO-DOS AND TAGS See your week beside your mail, turn an email into an event or a to-do, and tag conversations to track them on a board. PRIVACY FIRST Your email never passes through our servers: ChatInbox connects directly to your mail provider. No data mining, no tracking. Turn on image blocking and tracking pixels load only for senders you approve. FREE AND PREMIUM ChatInbox is free with one email account. Premium adds unlimited accounts with Profiles, advanced filters, your full mail history and custom notifications. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan, or buy Lifetime once. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Weft

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Weft is the task board your AI agents work on. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex over MCP: they read the board, pick up tasks, move cards and close sprints, and you see what's done and what's next from your phone. ONE BOARD FOR YOU AND YOUR AGENTS Weft exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint. Point any MCP-compatible client at it, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex or Gemini CLI, and your assistant works on the same board you do. What it plans in a chat becomes real tasks instead of disappearing with the conversation. KANBAN AND SPRINTS, WITHOUT THE CEREMONY Columns you control (Backlog, Todo, Doing, Done by default), time-boxed sprints when you need a deadline, and tasks with priority, due dates and estimates. That's Scrumban: the flow of kanban and the cadence of sprints, minus the meetings. ON YOUR PHONE - See what your agents finished and what's in progress between sessions - Drag cards, add tasks, start and close sprints - Works offline: changes wait on the phone and sync when you're back online - Speaks 34 languages and follows your phone's EVERYWHERE YOU WORK iPhone, iPad and the web at letsweft.com. One account, one board. HOW IT'S PRICED - Free: 50 tasks and 200 AI tool calls a month - Pro: unlimited tasks, history and AI tool calls, a 30-day trash you can undo, and work memory (what your agents learned, kept across sessions). $7 per month or $60 per year (saves 29%) Subscribe in the app or on letsweft.com. Your plan follows your account everywhere. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Weft Pro is an auto-renewable subscription: - Weft Pro Monthly — $7.00 per month - Weft Pro Yearly — $60.00 per year Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within that same 24 hours. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://letsweft.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ WHO IT'S FOR Solo founders and small teams who build with AI: an indie product, a side project, a young startup. If your agent writes most of the code, Weft keeps the list of what it builds next. THE NAME In weaving, the warp is the frame that never moves, and the weft is the thread that runs across it, row by row. Your workflow is the warp; every task is a weft thread.

Screenshots

ChatInbox4 screens
Weft4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ChatInbox at every 5 days against Weft's every 2 weeks. Weft's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. ChatInbox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Weft sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChatInbox ships an update every 5 days, Weft every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ChatInbox versus Weft: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChatInboxWeft
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (34 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings34 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInnovatism LLCAI PRODUCTS

In-app purchases

3 purchases

ChatInbox

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99
2 purchases

Weft

Subscriptions2
  • Weft Pro · Monthly$7.001 Month
  • Weft Pro · Yearly$60.001 Year

Questions

Is ChatInbox free?
ChatInbox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Weft free?
Weft is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ChatInbox or Weft have ads?
Neither ChatInbox nor Weft shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChatInbox or Weft?
ChatInbox ships an update every 5 days, and Weft every 2 weeks. Most recently, ChatInbox was updated on November 7, 2026 and Weft on November 5, 2026.

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