Comparison

Dove by Canary Mail vs FlowMail

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

Head to head
About

Dove by Canary Mail

This AI-powered email client intelligently prioritizes your communications, extracts tasks, and offers real-time assistance. Automate repetitive actions, organize messages with smart labels, and gain context for delegation, all while learning your workflow to improve efficiency.

Highlights
  • Smart Inbox for prioritized emails
  • Daily Tasks extraction
  • Wingman AI for real-time advice
  • AI Actions for automation
  • Briefs for context-rich delegation
  • Smart Labels for organization
  • Memory for personalized learning
Features
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Dove Mail is the AI email app for real work. Manage multiple email accounts in one place, cut through inbox noise, and turn emails into action. Write and reply with AI, find what matters faster, organize your inbox, and stay on top of tasks — without spending your day sorting through messages. The app helps teams using Gmail and Outlook save hours per person each week, focus on what needs their attention, and move work forward faster. Use an easy way to clean your inbox and keep your inbox under extra control with Dove Mail — the most productive email client app ever made. Try it now. CONNECT ALL OF YOUR ACCOUNTS Bring all your email accounts together in one app. Connect Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, iCloud, Office 365, Exchange, IMAP, POP3 accounts, with support for Exchange ActiveSync and EWS. Then switch between accounts with a single swipe. Keep all your inbox in one unified view, or manage each account separately — without jumping between apps. ONE-TAP UNSUBSCRIBE FROM EMAILS Clean out inbox clutter with one tap. Unsubscribe from unwanted emails instantly and block senders, domains to keep recurring messages out of your inbox. Secure your inbox from phishing and scams using email cleaner. Dove Mail is the email app that helps keep your device secure. UNDERSTAND EMAIL FASTER WITH AI SUMMARIES Get the key information from long emails in seconds with AI- summaries. Quickly understand messages without reading every word, so you can focus on what matters. Find emails and information faster with AI search. Search across your inbox, team emails, and attachments, with smart spark suggestions and advanced filters to narrow down results. AI EMAIL WRITER Write spark personalized email in seconds with AI email writer, or get a complete AI reply draft with Wingman AI generator in just one tap. Use Voice Input to search your inbox or compose webmails hands-free. With AI Email Writer, you can draft, rewrite, and refine emails while keeping your own tone and style. READ RECIPES Send from the address you choose with Custom Email Aliases, see when recipients open your messages with Read Receipts, and export individual emails as EML files when you need them. DRAFT EMAILS IN YOUR TONE Write and refine emails with an AI editor and mailbox generator. Complete drafts, adjust length and tone, translate emails into other languages, and polish your writing in seconds. TAKE ACTIONS FASTER WITH CUSTOM SWIPES Extra instantly archive, delete, mark as read, snooze, or move emails with customizable swipe actions. FOCUS ON WHATS MATTERS Spend less time managing email and more time getting things done. Group important emails by sender, smart labels, email classification to quickly sort subscriptions, travel plans, bills, packages and more. With Smart Notifications, choose which webmail deserves your attention and reduce unnecessary distractions. Dove Mail also supports system text sizing and email zoom, with a modern interface featuring Liquid Glass styling, redesigned navigation, and haptic feedback. With Flexible Navigation, choose whether Dove Mail opens to Smart Inbox, Today, or the last screen you used. Multilingual Experience supports localized interfaces and AI suggestions in the app's language. TRY DOVE PRO FREE FOR 7 DAYS After the trial, continue using the free plan or upgrade to a subscription whenever you're ready. Choose the email client app workflow that works for you — and let Dove Mail help you turn your inbox into a more organized, actionable part of your day. Less inbox noise. More focus. More extra time for real work. Privacy Policy: dove.email/privacy Terms of Use: dove.email/terms Help and Support: hey@dove.email

About

FlowMail

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FlowMail is an email client that lets you look at the same mail three ways — as a list when that is all you need, as a Kanban board when you are working through it, and as a graph when you need to see how a conversation actually unfolded. It is the same app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it runs on your device. There is no FlowMail server. WORK YOUR INBOX LIKE A BOARD Move messages between columns — To Do, In Progress, Done — without leaving your mail. A message keeps its board position as mail syncs, so the board is a real working state rather than a view you rebuild each morning. Kanban is in the free version. SEE THE SHAPE OF A CONVERSATION The Graph view lays a thread out as a force-directed graph — who replied to whom, where it forked, who went quiet. Useful when a long thread has stopped making sense as a stack of quoted replies. On iPad it takes the whole screen. CHECK WHO REALLY SENT IT Ask any message whether it is what it claims to be. FlowMail checks the domains in the thread and whether you have the message it replies to, and says what it found. To know who owns a domain, it fetches the public suffix list from publicsuffix.org once a day, sending nothing about you (you can turn this off). A lookup server and an on-device model are off until you turn them on; the lookup sends domains and hashes, never the message. READ MAIL IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE Translate a message in place, keeping its formatting and its quoted history. It uses Apple's on-device translation, so the mail you are reading does not leave your device to be read by a service. WORKS WITH THE MAIL YOU ALREADY HAVE Microsoft — Outlook, Hotmail, Office 365 — and Google, through their own sign-in pages, so your password is never typed into FlowMail. iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail and anything else that speaks IMAP and SMTP, with server settings looked up for you. As many accounts as you like, on either tier. MAIL THAT ARRIVES WHEN IT ARRIVES Live sync holds an open connection to your Inbox, Sent and Archive folders while the app is open, and background refresh keeps the mailbox current when it is not. Notifications are grouped rather than one per message, and tapping one opens that message. FIND IT, AND ACT ON IT Search runs over your whole mailbox rather than a recent window of it. Filter the list down to what you have replied to, or what you have not. Select several messages and archive, flag or delete them in one go. AUTOMATE THE PARTS YOU REPEAT Build workflows from steps: find messages, apply or remove a label, move a card on the board, draft a reply, summarise, classify, transform text, fetch a web page, or call a tool on your own MCP server. Run them from the app, from Siri, from Spotlight, or from a Shortcut — ten Shortcuts actions ship with it, from Compose Email to Find Emails. AI THAT RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE FlowMail's AI steps use a language model running locally, on Apple's MLX. You pick the model. Message content is not sent to us or to any AI provider. OPEN WHAT LANDS IN YOUR INBOX Read .eml, .msg, .vcf and .ics files directly. A contact or an event can be added to Contacts or Calendar with one tap — and until you tap, FlowMail never touches either. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your messages are stored on your device. red8.io never receives, stores or processes them, and there is no account to create with us. Sign-in tokens and app passwords live in the Keychain. There is no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting in the app. FREE, AND PRO Free is a complete email client: unlimited accounts, the List and Kanban views, search, live sync, notifications and one workflow. Pro adds the Graph view, unlimited workflows and on-device AI triage, as a monthly or yearly subscription with a free trial, or a one-time lifetime unlock. A purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Requires iOS or iPadOS 18.6 or later. In English, French, German and Brazilian Portuguese. Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Dove by Canary Mail4 screens
FlowMail3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dove by Canary Mail at 15.6 against FlowMail's 18.6. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dove by Canary Mail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and FlowMail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dove by Canary Mail ships an update every 6 days, FlowMail every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Dove by Canary Mail versus FlowMail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDove by Canary MailFlowMail
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB30 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperCartasec Pte. Ltd.Luiz Carlos Maia Junior

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Dove by Canary Mail

Subscriptions2
  • Dove Pro7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Dove Pro7 Days trial$199.991 Year
3 purchases

FlowMail

Subscriptions2
  • FlowMail Pro Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • FlowMail Pro Yearly14 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • FlowMail Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Dove by Canary Mail free?
Dove by Canary Mail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FlowMail free?
FlowMail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dove by Canary Mail or FlowMail have ads?
Neither Dove by Canary Mail nor FlowMail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dove by Canary Mail or FlowMail?
Dove by Canary Mail ships an update every 6 days, and FlowMail every 2 weeks. Most recently, Dove by Canary Mail was updated on November 6, 2026 and FlowMail on October 31, 2026.

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