Epistles Mail vs LinkMail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Epistles Mail
Consolidate multiple email accounts into a single, unified inbox. Enjoy a native mobile experience with responsive gestures and offline functionality. Prioritizes user privacy with a zero-knowledge cloud vault for secure cross-device setup.
- Unified inbox for multiple providers
- Native mobile experience
- Offline functionality
- Privacy-first design
- Zero-knowledge cloud vault
- Local-first sync
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Epistles is a fast, powerful email app for people who use more than one provider. Bring Fastmail, Gmail, Microsoft 365 / Outlook, ProtonMail, and generic IMAP accounts into one unified inbox, with the polish of a premium client and architecture built for real-world email. MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS, ONE EXPERIENCE See everything in one timeline or drill into a single account when you need focus. Switch providers without switching apps. NATIVE WHERE IT MATTERS Built as a real native mobile experience. Responsive gestures, solid offline behavior, and attention to the small details that make daily email less painful. PRIVACY-FIRST DESIGN Epistles is not an “AI that reads your threads” product. Your mail stays oriented around you and your providers, not server-side content mining for ads or training. ZERO-KNOWLEDGE CLOUD VAULT Cross-device setup backs up connection metadata with encryption designed so the relay can’t unwrap your secrets. LOCAL-FIRST SYNC Keep working when connectivity is spotty; sync when you’re back online. WHO IT’S FOR • Multi-account professionals juggling work and personal mail • Power users coming from Fastmail, Gmail, Outlook, or Proton who want one inbox • Anyone who wants a universal client without giving up control Epistles is independently developed with a simple goal: make excellent email software that respects how people actually use email today. Terms of Use: https://epistles.net/terms/
LinkMail
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LinkMail is a native email client for iPhone and iPad that keeps your mail with you. YOUR MAIL STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Everything is stored in a local database, the way Apple Mail does it. Our servers receive no message at all. They only carry what IMAP cannot synchronise between two devices — snoozes, scheduled sends, drafts — and the references passing through are fingerprints computed with a key that never leaves your keychain. HOSTILE HTML, BLOCKED BY DEFAULT An email is HTML that comes from outside. LinkMail stops remote images, fonts, scripts and tracking pixels before a single byte goes out: the sender does not learn that you opened the message, nor from which address. A discreet bar tells you how many trackers were blocked, and you decide — for this message, for this sender, or for the whole domain. ALL YOUR ACCOUNTS, WITHOUT MIXING THEM iCloud, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and any IMAP server. A unified inbox when you want to see everything at once, and spaces to keep apart what should be: work on one side, the rest on the other, in a single gesture. A HIERARCHY YOU CAN READ FROM A METRE AWAY You skim a mailbox by seeing, not by reading. The sender dominates — that is how you look for a message — the subject follows, the preview recedes. An unread message is marked once, decisively, not by three lines in bold. AT HOME ON IPHONE AND ON IPAD On iPhone, four destinations in the tab bar: mail, calendar, contacts, settings. On iPad, columns — folders, list, message — and a calendar that takes the full width with its calendars on the left. This is not the same app resized; these are two layouts, each thought out for its size. BUILT FOR LARGE MAILBOXES Incremental synchronisation with CONDSTORE and QRESYNC, message structure downloaded before the bodies, instant full-text search across a hundred thousand messages, accents and prefixes included. A mailbox of fifty thousand messages is navigable in under a minute. TRULY OFFLINE Flag, file, delete, reply: everything applies locally at once, then replays on reconnection. A tunnel, a plane, a train cancel nothing you have just done. The optional offline copy also brings down the mail you choose, within its disk budget. THE CALENDAR NEXT TO THE MAIL Your CalDAV calendars beside your messages. Invitations are read and answered from the reader, an appointment spotted in a message goes into the calendar in one step, and reminders never fire on their own. AN ASSISTANT THAT RUNS ON YOUR DEVICE The day’s briefing, promises made and received, meeting preparation, finding a slot. On devices that support Apple Intelligence, the model runs on the device: nothing leaves. Using a remote service is an explicit choice, and what is sent is listed word for word in the privacy policy. NEWSLETTER HOUSEKEEPING What you receive, what you actually open, and what to unsubscribe from in one go. Unsubscribing goes through the header meant for it, without opening a single tracking page. AND ALSO Rich editor and signatures per account or per folder. A contacts book to file mail by your own rules. Export a message as PDF. Notifications with quick actions. Out-of-office replies. Background fetch. Light, dark or automatic theme, independent of the system’s. VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. LinkMail is developed in France by LinkInfo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkMail at none against Epistles Mail's 2. Epistles Mail's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Epistles Mail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per year. LinkMail asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Epistles Mail | LinkMail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Netwarden LLC | Xavier Devaux |
In-app purchases
Epistles Mail
- Pro Annual$49.991 Year
- Bereans Edition$149.99
LinkMail
No in-app purchases









