BoxHelper vs Pimkin Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BoxHelper
Easily manage your belongings by organizing boxes, items, and locations. Use QR codes to quickly identify contents without opening containers. Search your inventory by various criteria and back up your data securely.
- Create boxes, items, and locations
- Organize with custom lists and photos
- Generate and scan QR codes for boxes
- Advanced search by boxes, items, locations, and tags
- Local data storage and backup/restore
- Export/import data via CSV
- Support for app shortcuts and actions
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Take control of your boxes items and storage with my app. It helps you keep track of what you own where it is and how to find it again anytime. Create boxes items and locations in the way that fits your life. Add photos organize everything with custom lists and sort your inventory so it stays clear across your home office basement or storage unit. With the QR code feature you can create and print a unique code for every box. Scan it anytime and instantly see what is inside without opening it. Search is built to go deeper than just names. You can find things through boxes items locations tags and even linked content so hidden stuff is much easier to track down. Your data stays on your device and under your control. With the built in backup feature you can create ZIP backups export them share them restore older versions and import your data again whenever you need. You can also export and import CSV files for boxes items and locations. The app also supports photos for boxes items and locations which makes visual organization much easier. If you like to automate things you can use shortcuts and app actions to speed up recurring tasks. My goal is simple. I want to make organizing feel easier more personal and a lot less chaotic.
Pimkin Mail
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Pimkin brings your mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks together in one app — using the accounts you already have. Connect Gmail, Microsoft 365, iCloud, or any IMAP, CalDAV, and CardDAV account. Pimkin is a client, not another inbox: your mail stays with your provider, and nothing moves or migrates. Add an account and it is simply there, alongside the others. One place for everything Read and write mail across every account at once, or one at a time. Your calendars overlay in a single view. Contacts and tasks sync from the same accounts, so there is nothing extra to set up. Search that actually finds it Full-text search across every account and every mailbox, with filters you can save and return to. Narrow by sender, folder, tag, or date without learning a query language — or use the operators if you prefer them. Rules that run without you File, tag, forward, or archive automatically. Mute a mailing list in one tap. Unsubscribe with a single confirmation instead of hunting for the link at the bottom of the message. Built for a phone Swipe to archive or delete. Pull to refresh. Long-press to select. Push notifications tell you who wrote, and tapping one opens that message — not just the app. Works when the network doesn't Your recent mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks are kept on the device. Read on the train, write a reply, change a flag — it sends when you reconnect. Optional AI, off until you ask Inbox triage, message summaries, and reading booking details out of a confirmation email so you can add them to your calendar. Each has its own switch and each starts off. Nothing about your mail is sent anywhere until you turn one on, and turning it off stops it. No ads. No tracking. No data brokers. Pimkin has no advertising, no analytics SDKs, and no third-party trackers of any kind. It is not free because you are the product — it is a tool that works for you. Sign in the modern way Passkeys, Sign in with Apple, or Google and Microsoft sign-in. Your provider credentials live in the iOS keychain. Pimkin requires accounts you already own. It does not host mail itself.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pimkin Mail at daily against BoxHelper's every 5 days. Pimkin Mail also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BoxHelper ships an update every 5 days, Pimkin Mail daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BoxHelper | Pimkin Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TOBIAS MICHAEL RUDOLF HEINE | GEOFFREY SELLERS BLOSSER |
Bugs and requests
BoxHelper
Reported bugs
5 issues- QR code generation/printing not working
- Location entry shows 'Default'
- Cannot change box name after creation
- Cannot upload photos from album
- Watermark cannot be removed
Requested features
20 requests- Add iCloud synchronization
- Rename existing boxes
- Move contents to other boxes
- Assign boxes to different rooms
- Add rooms retroactively
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- Edit rooms
- Print all QR codes at once
- Account creation and sharing within household
- Different QR code colors per room
- Edit existing boxes (location, name)
- Move photos to choose title image
- Enter quantity of objects
- Change location info later
- Share boxes with multiple people
- Assign different colors to rooms/boxes
- Share app with family members
- Ability to move boxes between rooms
- Ability to move items between boxes
- Ability to use with multiple people/share
- Remove watermark
Pimkin Mail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BoxHelper
No in-app purchases
Pimkin Mail
No in-app purchases









