Comparison

myMail box vs Email

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

Head to head
About

myMail box

Consolidate and manage multiple email accounts from various providers in a single, user-friendly interface. Enjoy customizable notifications, enhanced security features, and efficient search capabilities to streamline your communication.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for multiple email accounts
  • Customizable push notifications
  • Email thread view
  • Smart search with filters
  • PIN lock and Touch ID support
  • Contact suggestions
Features
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Use myMail to manage messages in your Gmail, Hotmail, Live, Outlook, Yahoo, MSN, iCloud and AOL email accounts at once. Our app also supports any IMAP and POP3-enabled mailbox. myMail brings all your email into one simple, bright and friendly interface whether its your iPhone or iPad. myMail was created to keep your mail securely in one place. It makes communication light, fast and mobile-friendly. With a simple tap or a swipe, you can read, reply to, forward, add an attachment and do whatever else you need to with your email. myMail has a number of unique features that make it stand out: Push Notifications — Customized to best fit your work/life schedule ◆ Receive instant notifications of new messages – even if your email service does not support this feature ◆ Turn notifications on or off for an account, or filter notifications based on folders, social networks, domains, or email addresses ◆ Set a "quiet time" for each account to separate your work life from your personal life Your Inbox — More personal and visual ◆ Navigate through the message list faster with your friends' avatars and icons for popular services ◆ Customize the appearance of the message list on your device by turning on or off the message preview and avatars ◆ Email Threads. View your entire email conversation on one screen! Search smarter ◆ Quick search through all messages ◆ Use search filters to narrow results ◆ Compose your query faster with search phrases and contact suggestions Enhanced security ◆ Set a PIN lock ◆ Touch ID support ››› You can also register with @MY.COM with a cool new email address! ‹‹‹ All your contacts right at your hand: When you create or forward a message, myMail will suggest contacts from your device’s address book. myMail also brings your contacts from all your email accounts’ address books. And we’ve added the most-frequently-used-contacts feature to help you get your emails addressed quickly. Send those pictures: Share all those party photos with a few taps! Pick a bunch of pictures from your photo gallery all at once. Technical details: We’ve worked hard to make the app incredibly fast and light. Written entirely in native code, myMail uses innovative data compression to save bandwidth and it benefits from our engineers’ expertise, research, and best practices. Security is our top priority: Whether you use myMail on a public or private Wi-Fi network, your data is always encrypted to protect all your email communications and information. myMail uses advanced security protocols and practices to ensure data integrity, security, and privacy. myMail uses AdChoices. More information can be found here https://m.facebook.com/ads/ad_choices Follow us on social media: Facebook: www.facebook.com/mymail.official

About

Email

Manage multiple email accounts in one unified inbox. This app offers fast email fetching, smart search for important information, and tools to reduce inbox clutter. It prioritizes privacy and security with features like sender blocking and biometric protection.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for all accounts
  • Fast email fetching and search
  • One-tap unsubscribe
  • Sender blocking
  • Customizable swipe actions and templates
  • Biometric inbox security
Features
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"The way to go if you own an iPhone" -Business Insider "Unsubscribe with just a tap!" -TechCrunch "Faster than Gmail, faster than Outlook" -Walt Mossberg @The Verge "Well designed" - New York Times “All essential features of every other mail app, clear and easy to use interface, free and very transparent about how it handles your data and how it stays free. I cannot really find anything to complain.” - msaiddi (Edison Mail user) Edison Mail is the #1 independent email app on the App Store (4.5 rating) for a reason. Reduce email volume and eliminate inbox distractions. Research shows that over checking email wastes as much as 21 minutes per day. Take time back with the best app to manage and clean your inbox. Edison Mail fetches email faster than other mail apps (we have the speed tests to prove it) and simplifies searching for important information like subscriptions, travel plans, bills, packages, and more. Manage everything in one place. Edison Mail allows you to connect an unlimited number of email accounts and offers a unified inbox that keeps all of your inboxes in one view. We support all the major providers — Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, Office/ Outlook 365, Exchange, AOL, Gmail, and IMAP* mail accounts on both iPhone and iPad. From the Pioneers of One-Tap Unsubscribe. Block senders to banish unwanted senders permanently. No targeted ads or invasive tracking pixels are allowed into your inbox. Protect your email with Touch and Face ID. Secure your inbox even further from the dangers of email phishing scams with Edison Mail+. Mail, the way it should be. Yours. Customize Edison Mail to fit your inbox needs. Change swipe actions, create custom templates, change the color settings, enable or disable Focused Inbox, and more. Life just got easier. Download Edison Mail today. It just works. – *Support for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 and above. **Please note select assistant features (i.e. bill and receipts, entertainment, travel, and package alerts) are currently limited to US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India only. Privacy By Design is Our Promise to Our Users All emails are fetched from your phone and stored on your device directly. We access new email subject headers (deleted thereafter), required to send notifications of an email arrival. Only commercial emails (example: receipts, Travel, Package Delivery) are stored to deliver Edison Mail Assistant features built into the Email app and Edison Trends. Personal information like your name or email address is NEVER shared. If you’d prefer to opt-out of participating in our anonymized research, you can do so in the settings menu. Edison Mail+ An auto-renewable premium subscription that offers more advanced email experience, particularly in the areas of contact management and security, for 14.99 USD / Month or 99.99 USD / Year. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period.

Screenshots

myMail box4 screens
Email4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: myMail box at none against Email's 22. myMail box also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Email's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (66% vs 46%). On price, rating, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Email sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. myMail box asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for myMail box against 4.5 for Email. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18K and 79K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 46% of myMail box's written reviews are positive against 66% of Email's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

myMail box ships an update weekly, Email fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
myMail box versus Email: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermyMail boxEmail
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (18K ratings)4.5 (79K ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews66.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings18K79K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size272 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIT CENTURY21Edison Software Inc.

Customer experience

myMail box

All ratings17,566 ratings
Positive86.5%
Neutral3.4%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews875 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral5.7%
Negative48.1%

Email

All ratings78,577 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews2,154 reviews
Positive66.0%
Neutral9.2%
Negative24.7%

User reviews

myMail box

From 18K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Organized and better than Gmail and Outlook
  • 👍 So easy to use and keep all my files organized
  • 🚀 Super fast and efficient
  • 👍 Wonderful mail app, love it
  • 👍 Great mail app, easy to use

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Unable to send email or save draft on iPad
  • 🐛 Filters not working, lost customization
  • 🐛 Keeps logging out of accounts, can't log back in
  • 🐛 Unreliable, emails not loading or syncing properly
  • 🐛 Constant login issues, app freezes and crashes

Email

From 79K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
  • 🔒 Secure with Face ID support
  • 📦 Helpful package tracking and delivery updates
  • 🔍 Effective unsubscribe and spam blocking features

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Unreliable notifications and email sync issues
  • 🔄 Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • 🔍 Inconsistent search and filtering functionality
  • 🔑 Issues with logging in and account connectivity
  • 📧 Problems with sending and delivering emails

Bugs and requests

myMail box

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Authentication issues, can't log in to accounts
  • Emails not syncing or showing up in the app
  • Constant sign-outs and login problems
  • Notifications not working properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Unified inbox for all accounts
  • Ability to customize folder order
  • Option to disable 'undo delete' feature
  • Dark mode or customizable themes
  • Better search functionality

Email

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Emails disappearing from the Outbox
  • Incorrect unread email badge counts
  • Emails not loading or displaying properly
  • Account settings randomly resetting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Customizable snooze and scheduling options
  • Integration with calendar and reminders
  • Ability to move emails between accounts
  • More granular control over folder management

In-app purchases

None

myMail box

No in-app purchases

17 purchases

Email

Subscriptions17
  • Edison Mail+1 Month trial$3.997 Days
  • Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial2 variants$14.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$14.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$16.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$24.991 Month
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+1 Month trial$66.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$66.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$79.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Edison Mail+7 Days trial$109.991 Year

Questions

Is myMail box free?
myMail box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Email free?
Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, myMail box or Email?
Email is rated higher. myMail box averages 4.4 out of 5 from 18K ratings, while Email averages 4.5 from 79K ratings.
Do myMail box or Email have ads?
myMail box shows ads; Email does not.
Which is updated more often, myMail box or Email?
myMail box ships an update weekly, and Email fortnightly. Most recently, myMail box was updated on September 23, 2026 and Email on September 24, 2026.

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