Comparison

FlowMail vs Email for Hotmail App

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

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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/

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Email for Hotmail App

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Your Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail and Yahoo mail — together in one calm, unified inbox. Read, archive, star or delete once, and it syncs everywhere in seconds. No ads, ever. Mailfly is a premium email app that brings every account you own into a single, quiet inbox. Add your Hotmail and Outlook mail, your Gmail, your Yahoo, your iCloud — even any other IMAP account — and manage it all from one place, or focus on one account at a time. REAL TWO-WAY SYNC — WHAT SETS MAILFLY APART Star an email on your iPhone and it's starred on the web. Archive on your iPad and it's gone from your desktop. Every action — read, archive, star, delete, move — reflects across all your devices and accounts in seconds. Never do the same thing twice. ONE UNIFIED INBOX FOR EVERY ACCOUNT • Outlook & Hotmail (Microsoft) • Gmail & Google Workspace • Yahoo Mail • iCloud Mail • AOL • Any other IMAP email account See all your mail together in one unified inbox, or switch to a single account whenever you like. A CLEANER, CALMER INBOX • One-tap unsubscribe from lists you never wanted • Spam control and block senders to keep junk out • Snooze emails to come back to them later • VIP senders, so the people who matter rise to the top • Smart folders that organize your mail automatically BUILT TO MOVE FAST • Powerful search that finds anything, fast • Schedule send for exactly the right moment • Customizable swipe actions — set the gestures your way • Built-in calendar, so your schedule lives right beside your mail MAKE IT YOURS • Beautiful themes and hand-picked fonts, with full dark mode • Dynamic Type for comfortable reading at any size • 150+ languages • Designed for both iPhone and iPad PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads — ever • Your password is stored securely in the iOS Keychain • Every connection to your mail server is encrypted • We never read or sell your email Whether you live in Outlook, rely on Hotmail, run your day through Gmail, or keep a Yahoo or iCloud account on the side, Mailfly pulls it all together into one calm, fast, private inbox that finally feels like a relief to open. Download Mailfly and turn email from a chore into one clean, quiet, unified experience. Mailfly is an independent email client and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, or Apple. Outlook, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and iCloud are trademarks of their respective owners. Mailfly works with IMAP accounts (POP is not supported). — SUBSCRIPTION Mailfly Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, offered monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sirvendor.com/privacy

Screenshots

FlowMail3 screens
Email for Hotmail App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Email for Hotmail App at none against FlowMail's 3. Email for Hotmail App also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. FlowMail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Email for Hotmail App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlowMail ships an update every 2 weeks, Email for Hotmail App every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
FlowMail versus Email for Hotmail App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlowMailEmail for Hotmail App
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuiz Carlos Maia JuniorSir Vendor Inc

In-app purchases

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
None

Email for Hotmail App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FlowMail free?
FlowMail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Email for Hotmail App free?
Email for Hotmail App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FlowMail or Email for Hotmail App have ads?
Neither FlowMail nor Email for Hotmail App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FlowMail or Email for Hotmail App?
FlowMail ships an update every 2 weeks, and Email for Hotmail App every 10 days. Most recently, FlowMail was updated on October 31, 2026 and Email for Hotmail App on October 31, 2026.

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