Comparison

Extra vs Ocean

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

Head to head
About

Extra

This app streamlines your email by understanding what's important, organizing it around your life, and surfacing actions. It helps you find information, reply without typing, and reduce inbox noise.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily email summary
  • Automatic inbox organization by category
  • Natural language search and action
  • Voice-to-email replies
  • Noise reduction and email removal
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Meet Extra - your life’s inbox. Your life already runs through your inbox: plans, travel, packages, bills, events, and conversations. Extra turns that overwhelming stream into a personal, proactive inbox for your life. It shows you what matters today and helps you take the next step. • Know what's important today. Extra gives you a calm daily brief with the things worth your attention. • Never miss what matters. Catch deadlines, travel changes, plans, packages, and important moments before they slip. • Turn details into action. Draft replies, schedule events, and handle the next step without digging through messages. • Keep life organized, quietly. Extra groups the noise so the important stuff is easy to find.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Extra4 screens
Ocean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Extra at none against Ocean's 8. Extra also leads on ratings volume (396 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Extra asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ocean holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Extra has 396 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Extra ships an update weekly, Ocean every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Extra versus Ocean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExtraOcean
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (396 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings396 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.618 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBuildForever, Inc.BigWave Labs Inc

Customer experience

Extra

All ratings386 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews93 reviews
Positive84.9%
Neutral4.3%
Negative10.8%

Ocean

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Extra

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Ocean

One-time8
  • 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

Questions

Is Extra free?
Extra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ocean free?
Ocean is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Extra or Ocean?
Ocean is rated higher. Extra averages 4.8 out of 5 from 396 ratings, while Ocean averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Extra or Ocean have ads?
Neither Extra nor Ocean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Extra or Ocean?
Extra ships an update weekly, and Ocean every 8 days. Most recently, Extra was updated on October 28, 2026 and Ocean on October 14, 2026.

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