Comparison

Pliego Mail vs LinkMail

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

Head to head
About

Pliego Mail

Features
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All your email in one beautiful inbox, without spy pixels. Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail or any IMAP account. Pliego shows it to you, and nobody else. Your email stays where it always lived. Pliego is just the app that shows it: fast, private and free of ads. SIGN UP WITHOUT GIVING YOUR REAL EMAIL Create disposable addresses with their own inbox. Verification codes are ready to copy, and Pliego warns you when an address starts getting mail from someone it wasn't meant for. Pause or delete it and the spam stops. ENCRYPTED EMAIL, WITHOUT SWITCHING ACCOUNTS Send a password-protected message the recipient opens in any browser, even on Gmail or Outlook. The key never leaves your iPhone. Nobody in between, not even Pliego, can read it. AI THAT STAYS ON YOUR iPHONE A daily summary of what matters across all your accounts, processed on device with Apple Intelligence. Prefer another model? Bring your own OpenAI or Google Gemini key, or point Pliego at any compatible server, including your own Ollama. No margin added, no lock-in. IS IT REALLY YOUR BANK? With AI on, Pliego warns you when a sender isn't who they claim to be, before you tap anything. NEVER LOSE A REPLY Pick a reminder when you send. If they answer, it cancels itself. If they don't, Pliego lets you know. FILES TOO BIG FOR EMAIL Send videos, RAW photos and huge PDFs with Pliego Bandeja: encrypted, with a link that expires and a download limit. READ ANY LANGUAGE Translate an email on your iPhone without breaking its design. ON YOUR WRIST AND HOME SCREEN Widgets that archive and snooze, and a real Apple Watch app. EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS β€’ Unified inbox with one-tap account filtering β€’ Snooze that syncs across your devices β€’ Rules, VIPs, blocked senders and smart folders β€’ Tracking pixels blocked, remote images off until you say so β€’ Real dark mode, even for light HTML emails β€’ Face ID lock β€’ Available in 9 languages PRIVACY YOU CAN CHECK β€’ No ads, no analytics, no tracking identifiers β€’ Your rules, VIPs and settings sync through your private iCloud database, not our servers β€’ Our servers only step in for what you turn on: instant notifications (they watch for new mail, with your credentials stored encrypted), disposable addresses and encrypted files β€’ A privacy policy written in plain language Privacy policy: https://pliegomail.com/privacy.html Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: support@pliegomail.com

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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 β€” snoozes, scheduled sends, drafts β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” that is how you look for a message β€” 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 β€” folders, list, message β€” 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.

Screenshots

Pliego Mail4 screens
LinkMail4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LinkMail at none against Pliego Mail's 2. LinkMail also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.4). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Pliego Mail sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. LinkMail asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pliego Mail ships an update every 5 days, LinkMail daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Pliego Mail versus LinkMail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPliego MailLinkMail
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.418.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size67 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancisco PuchadesXavier Devaux

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pliego Mail

Subscriptions2
  • Pliego Premium$2.991 Month
  • Pliego Premium$17.991 Year
None

LinkMail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pliego Mail free?
Pliego Mail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LinkMail free?
LinkMail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pliego Mail or LinkMail have ads?
Neither Pliego Mail nor LinkMail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pliego Mail or LinkMail?
Pliego Mail ships an update every 5 days, and LinkMail daily. Most recently, Pliego Mail was updated on October 13, 2026 and LinkMail on October 8, 2026.

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