Inbox Pro vs Ocean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inbox Pro
This email client prioritizes your privacy and security for Gmail accounts. It offers robust protection through data-free access, biometric locks, and encrypted communication, ensuring your sensitive information remains safe.
- Data-free email access
- Fingerprint/Face ID lock
- Encrypted communication
- Passcode protection
- Seamless Gmail integration
- User-friendly interface
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Secure Mail is the ultimate email client for iOS, designed to provide you with the highest level of privacy and security when accessing your Gmail account. Say goodbye to worries about your sensitive email data falling into the wrong hands in case of a lost or stolen phone. Key Features: Data-Free Security: Unlike conventional email clients, Secure Mail doesn't store your emails or attachments on your device. All your data is accessed directly from Gmail's secure servers. This means that even if your phone is lost or stolen, your emails remain inaccessible to unauthorized users. Fingerprint/Face ID Lock: We understand the importance of an extra layer of security. Secure Mail allows you to set up biometric authentication (Face ID or Fingerprint) to ensure that only you can access your email client. Encrypted Communication: Secure Mail uses advanced encryption protocols to secure the communication between your device and Gmail's servers. This ensures that your email data is protected at all times. Passcode Protection: In addition to biometric authentication, you can set a unique passcode to further enhance the security of your email client. Gmail Integration: Secure Mail seamlessly integrates with your Gmail account, giving you access to all your emails, attachments, labels, and folders, just as you would expect from a Gmail client. User-Friendly Interface: With an intuitive and user-friendly design, Secure Mail ensures that you can easily manage your emails, compose new messages, and stay organized with your Gmail account.
Ocean
This app intelligently sorts your Gmail inbox into actionable categories like 'Action', 'Review', and 'Cleanup'. It offers features to quickly reply, schedule, archive, and bulk delete emails, helping you manage your inbox more efficiently.
- Inbox classification (Action, Review, Cleanup)
- Quick email actions (reply, schedule, dock)
- Bulk email cleanup
- Google Calendar integration for invites
- Global search across emails and invites
- VIP contact highlighting
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Your Gmail inbox wasn't built for the way you work. Ocean was. Ocean brings Beacon Intelligence to your Gmail. On-demand intelligence that classifies your inbox into what actually matters, so you spend less time sorting and more time doing. Designed exclusively for Gmail and Google Workspace. ⎯ BEACON INTELLIGENCE Beacon analyses your inbox and classifies what matters into 3 swim lanes: Action, Review, and Cleanup. Each lane contains a list of emails that you need to act on. - For the Action lane, you can quickly reply, dock an email on a specific date or send a meeting invitation. - For the Review lane, you can swipe to archive or discard the email. - For the Cleanup lane, you can leverage our powerful bulk Cleanup functionality to clear hundreds of emails in seconds. ⎯ DROPS: INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT THE COMMITMENT Every new account gets 30 free Drops. Enough for about 12 to 14 days of active use. Drops never expire and are only consumed when you use them. Skip a day, skip a week. You don't pay for days you're not working. Once your free Drops are used, Ocean's core features remain free forever. Need more? Drop packs are available for quick top-ups. Or go Ocean Blue for 50 Drops every day, refreshing at midnight. No subscription required. No rush hitting cancel. ⎯ CORE FEATURES: ALWAYS FREE Email: Compose, reply, forward, and manage your Gmail. Full email client, always free. Clean Up: Filter and clear your inbox in seconds. - First Timers, Persistent Pingers, Subscriptions, and more. - Archive entire categories with one tap. Dock: Dock emails you want to action later. - Swipe into time-based buckets: Today, This Weekend, This Week, This Month, Whenever. - Never lose what needs your attention. Invites: Direct Google Calendar integration. - Share your availability, block last-minute bookings, and automatically add confirmed meetings to your calendar. Global Search: Search across emails and invites from one place. VIP Contacts: Mark important senders as VIP. Never miss their emails. ⎯ PRIVACY-FIRST Your emails are never stored on our servers. When you invoke Beacon Intelligence, we ask your consent to use our intelligence provider to analyze your email conversations. Only when you ask, never in the background. Not sneaky. ⎯ BEAUTIFULLY NATIVE Dark mode, clean design, built for iPhone. Not a web wrapper. ⎯ Built in Canada by a small team who actually use this thing every day. Privacy Policy: https://ocean.app/privacy-policy Terms and Conditions: https://ocean.app/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ocean at 5.0 against Inbox Pro's 4.4. Ocean also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). Inbox Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and ratings volume (40 vs 1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Inbox Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ocean holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inbox Pro has 40 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Inbox Pro ships an update every 2 months, Ocean every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on August 20, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inbox Pro | Ocean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (40 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChromaticApp Ltd | BigWave Labs Inc |
Customer experience
Inbox Pro
Ocean
In-app purchases
Inbox Pro
No in-app purchases
Ocean
- Ocean Blue 14-day TrialFree
- Ocean Drops Small$2.00
- Ocean Drops Medium$3.00
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- Ocean Drops Large$5.00
- Ocean Drops XLarge$9.00
- Ocean Blue (Early Adopter)$67.00
- Ocean Blue Access$79.00
- Ocean Blue$99.00








