Ocean vs MailBroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
MailBroom
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Stop drowning in junk email. MailBroom uses on-device AI to scan your inbox, find the clutter, and let you delete thousands of messages in seconds — saving you time, freeing up storage, and cutting your email's carbon footprint. All without your data ever leaving your device. SAVE TIME MailBroom groups junk and newsletter senders together so you review and act on hundreds of emails at once, not one by one. Your dashboard tracks exactly how much time you've saved — turning hours of manual tidying into minutes. FREE UP SPACE Find your oldest, biggest emails and clear them in bulk. Watch your storage usage drop in real time, broken down by age and size so you can see exactly where the clutter is. Full undo means you can always bring something back. CUT YOUR CO₂ Every email you delete is one less stored on a server, forever. MailBroom shows your personal CO₂ savings as you clean up, so you can see the real-world impact of a tidier inbox — small actions, real impact. SMART DELETE MailBroom groups junk and newsletter senders together so you can review and delete in bulk. Risk scores flag anything that might be important before you act, so you never delete by accident. SMART UNSUBSCRIBE One tap sends real unsubscribe requests to mailing lists that support it. For everything else, Smart Delete clears them in bulk so they stop arriving for good. SMART ORGANISE Create folders directly on your mail server, build rules to auto-file incoming messages, and move emails between folders — all without leaving the app. Set it up once and let your inbox stay tidy. SWEEP MODE Guided, sender-by-sender decisions instead of email-by-email scrolling. The fastest way to take control of a large inbox. AI THAT LEARNS MailBroom's on-device classifier gets smarter with every scan. It learns your safe senders, adapts to your inbox patterns, and shows you exactly which AI layer handled each decision in the Intelligence Hub — full transparency, zero black boxes. WORKS WITH YOUR EMAIL Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Microsoft 365, Exchange, BT Internet, or any standard IMAP server. Connect as many accounts as you like. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your emails never leave your device. MailBroom connects directly to your mail server over SSL and runs all AI processing locally — no cloud servers, no third-party data sharing, ever. FREE FOREVER WITH GENEROUS LIMITS MailBroom is free with generous limits on premium features: 5 Sweep Mode sessions 3 AI-drafted replies 1 bulk delete operation 5 unsubscribe operations 1 organise rule Unlimited scanning, basic features, and privacy protection are always free. MailBroom Pro Subscription Try Pro from just £0.99 for the first month, then from £1.99/month depending on your plan (up to 50 email accounts). Auto-renews after the first month unless cancelled. 4 subscription tiers: 3, 10, 20, or 50 email accounts Monthly or annual billing (save ~30% annually) Unlock unlimited Sweeps, AI scans, organising, and more Payment charged to your Apple ID at confirmation Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions Privacy Policy: https://www.aiert.co.uk/mailbroom/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.aiert.co.uk/mailbroom/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MailBroom at every 2 days against Ocean's every 8 days. 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
Both are free to download. Ocean sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and MailBroom sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ocean ships an update every 8 days, MailBroom every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ocean | MailBroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BigWave Labs Inc | AIERT LTD |
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
MailBroom
- MailBroom Pro1 Month trial$1.991 Month
- MailBroom Pro – 10 Accounts1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- MailBroom Pro – 20 Accounts1 Month trial$9.991 Month
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- MailBroom Pro – 50 Accounts1 Month trial$14.991 Month
- MailBroom Pro – 3 Accounts (Yearly)$19.991 Year
- MailBroom Pro – 10 Accounts Yearly$49.991 Year
- MailBroom Pro – 20 Accounts Yearly$99.991 Year
- MailBroom Pro – 50 Accounts Yearly$149.991 Year









