Comparison

Scroller vs Lumen Mail

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

Head to head
About

Scroller

This email client transforms your inbox into a fast, scrollable feed, displaying clear summaries, sender context, and previews. It allows for quick reading and efficient management of your messages, with full email viewing available when needed.

Highlights
  • Scrollable email feed with summaries
  • Image and attachment previews
  • Threaded replies view
  • Full email viewing
  • Multiple Gmail account support
  • Search Gmail history
Features
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Scroller turns your inbox into a scrollable feed, helping you understand your email without opening every message one by one. Read clear summaries, see image and attachment previews, and follow conversations in one place. Need more detail? Open the original email. Prefer a traditional inbox? Switch to All Mail. Connect Gmail, Outlook.com, or Microsoft 365 accounts and bring your personal and work email together. YOUR EMAIL, AT A GLANCE • Scroll through email summaries with sender context • Preview images and PDF attachments • Follow threaded conversations and replies • Open original messages whenever you need the full picture • Automatically mark messages as read as you scroll past them MORE THAN AN INBOX • See email-derived highlights and suggested tasks in Today’s Brief • Find recent purchases, order details, and shipping updates in Purchases • Keep upcoming flights, hotel stays, and rental reservations together in Travel • Ask Scroller questions to find information in your email PURCHASES AND TRAVEL, ORGANIZED Turn confirmations and updates into useful information you can return to. Purchases brings together physical orders and their shipping updates. Travel helps you find upcoming booking details without digging through individual emails. Purchase and travel information is based on emails in your connected accounts. Availability and status depend on the messages you receive. A FULL EMAIL CLIENT • Compose, save drafts, reply, reply all, and forward • Search your connected email accounts • Find messages with more flexible matching • Get recipient suggestions as you type • Manage read and unread status, archive messages, and move email to Trash • Connect multiple Google and Microsoft accounts • Choose your default sending account and customize email signatures MAKE THE FEED YOURS • Focus on a specific sender or connected account • Use Feed filters to reduce unwanted content • Hide senders from the Feed without deleting their emails • Access unsubscribe options when available • Switch between the visual Feed and a traditional All Mail view YOUR EMAIL STAYS YOURS Scroller does not sell your personal data. Email access is used to power features such as summaries, previews, search, replies, purchase and travel organization, and account management. Spend less time opening emails and more time understanding them.

About

Lumen Mail

Features
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Lumen is a mail app that does mail, and nothing else. No account to create, no ads, and no servers of ours in between. Your mail travels directly from this device to your mail provider; your password lives only in the system Keychain. What it does: - Receive, read, reply, archive. That's the whole feature list. - Reader mode turns cluttered newsletters into clean, readable text. - Long message? Tap Summary. Generated on your device; nothing leaves it. - Opens instantly from a local cache; the latest messages are fetched ahead of time so they're ready when you tap. - New mail arrives in real time while the app is open, with no polling. - One app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. What it doesn't do: No calendar, no to-dos, no team features, no "smart" feeds, no cloud AI of ours, no AI-written replies, no tracking pixels of our own, no analytics SDKs. This isn't a promise—it's how the app is built. Currently supports iCloud Mail and NetEase Mail (163, 126, yeah.net, and 188). iCloud uses an app-specific password; NetEase uses an authorization code. The app walks you through getting either one.

Screenshots

Scroller4 screens
Lumen Mail2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Scroller at every 5 days against Lumen Mail's every 3 weeks. Lumen Mail's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scroller ships an update every 5 days, Lumen Mail every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Scroller versus Lumen Mail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScrollerLumen Mail
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperScroller, Inc.腾 骆

In-app purchases

None

Scroller

No in-app purchases

None

Lumen Mail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scroller free?
Scroller is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumen Mail free?
Lumen Mail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scroller or Lumen Mail have ads?
Neither Scroller nor Lumen Mail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scroller or Lumen Mail?
Scroller ships an update every 5 days, and Lumen Mail every 3 weeks. Most recently, Scroller was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lumen Mail on October 31, 2026.

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