MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert vs Mailbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert
Easily open, read, and search large MBOX email archives on your Apple devices. Convert emails to various formats like PDF, CSV, or JSON, and extract contacts. All processing happens offline for maximum privacy.
- Open MBOX and MBX archives
- Read emails with attachments
- Full text search
- Export attachments to ZIP
- Convert to PDF, CSV, JSON
- Extract contacts as vCards
- Offline functionality
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MBOX Viewer & Reader is the fastest way to open, read, search and convert MBOX email archives on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Stuck with a huge .mbox or .mbx file you can't open? MBOX Reader loads it in seconds, even archives with tens of thousands of messages, and shows every message exactly as it was sent. KEY FEATURES • Open .mbox and .mbx archives from Files, Mail, Safari, AirDrop and any other app (MBOX Opener) • Read every message exactly as sent: sender, recipients, date, formatted body and attachments • Lightning fast full text search across the whole archive • Browse, preview and save attachments, or export them all as a ZIP (Compressed MBOX Viewer) • Works fully offline, so nothing is ever uploaded CONVERT AND EXPORT • Export single messages to PDF (MBOX to PDF) • Convert a whole archive to CSV for spreadsheets, or to JSON (MBOX Converter) • Extract every sender and recipient as a vCard contact (Konverter) • Split a large archive into smaller MBOX files • Combine several MBOX files into one archive PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your email never leaves your device. No account, no sign in, no tracking. Everything happens on device, even offline. MBOX Reader turns an archive you couldn't open into something you can read, search, convert and share in seconds.
Mailbox
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Downloaded your email archive as an .mbox file and can't open it on your iPhone? Mailbox opens MBOX mailboxes — like a Google Takeout mail export — so you can read the messages and save their attachments, right on your iPhone. Choose the .mbox file in the Files app. Mailbox lists every message with its subject, sender, date and attachment count; tap one to read it. • EVERY MESSAGE IN A LIST — subject, sender, date and a paperclip count for messages with attachments. • READ THE MESSAGE — From, To, Date and Subject plus the message text. HTML emails are shown as clean readable text, and you can select and copy text. • ATTACHMENTS — see each attachment's name, type and size, and save it to Files with one tap. • REAL-WORLD MAIL FORMATS — multipart messages, nested parts, base64 and quoted-printable encoding, encoded subject lines and mboxrd-escaped lines are decoded. • SINGLE EMAILS TOO — open an .eml file to read one message on its own. Honest scope: Mailbox is a read-only viewer. There is no search, sorting or reply, and HTML emails are shown as text without images or formatting. Every message in the file is listed, and large archives of several GB open too: the mailbox is read from storage one message at a time instead of being loaded whole. Text in older encodings such as ISO-2022-JP, Shift_JIS or ISO-8859-1 is decoded using the character set the message declares. Your mailbox is read on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. Reading messages is free and unlimited. Saving attachments includes 3 free exports; a one-time $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited attachment exports. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert at 3 against Mailbox's 1. 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
Both are free to download. MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Mailbox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert ships an update every 4 days, Mailbox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert | Mailbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rush Tools LLC | Jhomar Maravillas |
In-app purchases
MBOX Viewer & Reader · Convert
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Pro Weekly$9.997 Days
- Pro Annual$19.991 Year
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- Pro Annual$29.991 Year
- Pro Annual$39.991 Year
- Pro Annual$44.991 Year
- Pro Annual$49.991 Year
- Pro Annual$79.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$110.99
Mailbox
- Unlock Unlimited$4.99
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