Comparison

Pensieve vs Email Myself

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

Head to head
About

Pensieve

Easily capture fleeting thoughts, ideas, and to-dos by emailing them to yourself. This app provides quick capture tools like audio recording, photo attachments, and text pasting, ensuring your ideas are saved without interrupting your flow. It prioritizes user privacy with no data mining or ads.

Highlights
  • Audio recording with speech-to-text
  • Built-in camera for photo attachments
  • Attachment picker for photos and files
  • Quick paste for text, links, and images
  • Email from Apple Watch
  • Share extension for in-app capture
  • Customizable email formatting
  • Offline capture
Features
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If you’ve ever emailed yourself, Pensieve is for you. Just capture, send, and remember! Pensieve is the perfect Idea Inbox companion, a Magic Warp Zone for your mind. Ideas, to-dos, and inspiration pop into your head throughout the day, often at the wrong time and in the wrong place. You want to capture those thoughts somehow, but you’ll forget to check your other notes app, texting yourself won’t work, and writing an email is clunky. You need to get these ideas out of your mind and off of your phone now, so you can get back to what you’re doing and stay in the moment with a clear head. You need a powerful, easy-to-use tool that can teleport your thoughts from here and now to the time and place where they belong. You need an idea warp zone. You need Pensieve, the notes app you'll actually use. == Features == Powerful capture tools, deep customization, and lightning-fast email delivery: • Record audio memos and get automatic speech-to-text transcripts. • Built-in camera that attaches photos as soon as you take them. • Attachment picker with quick access to your photo library and files. • Quick paste button for emailing yourself text, links, and images. • Email yourself from your Watch using the Pensieve watch app. • Email yourself from within other apps using Pensieve Share. • Custom rules put you in control over how emails from Pensieve are formatted. • With the power of Pensieve you can send to multiple inboxes with one tap. • Works offline. Capture thoughts without the internet and send them later. == Privacy & Security First == Pensieve is committed to your privacy and security. The app doesn't contain any of the icky practices of big tech or other companies! - NO data mining. - NO advertisements. - NO attention-grabbing tactics. Only respect for you and your time, attention, and data. Learn more at https://privacy.pensieve.io. == Get in Touch == Tweet to @PensieveTweets with questions, feedback, etc. == Terms == By using Pensieve you agree to the Pensieve Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Email Myself

Quickly send notes, to-dos, or photos to your email inbox with a simple swipe. Customize destination emails and subject lines for efficient organization. Share content from other apps directly to your inbox.

Highlights
  • Swipe to send notes
  • Set different destination emails
  • Email photos from gallery
  • Share from other apps
  • Customize subject lines
Features
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Do you email yourself notes or to-dos? This is Email Myself, a simple app where all you have to do is type a message and swipe. With simplicity and efficiency, Email Myself helps quickly offload a thought from your brain into your email inbox. Key features: - Set different destination emails for left vs right swipes - perfect for personal vs work emails - Take a photo or pick a photo from your gallery to email yourself - Use the "Share" functionality from other iOS apps to quickly send what you're looking at to yourself - Customize the start of your email subject lines for easy identification in your inbox ======== For Terms of Use & Privacy Policy: https://emailmyself.app/

Screenshots

Pensieve4 screens
Email Myself3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Email Myself at none against Pensieve's 4. Email Myself also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Pensieve's advantage is ratings volume (82 vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Pensieve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Email Myself asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Email Myself holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pensieve has 82 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Pensieve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Email Myself's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pensieve ships an update every 6 weeks, Email Myself every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pensieve versus Email Myself: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPensieveEmail Myself
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (82 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings82 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWindow Seat Labs, LLCAllen Yang

Customer experience

Pensieve

All ratings82 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral3.7%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive91.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.9%

Email Myself

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pensieve

Subscriptions4
  • Boost Monthly3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • All Access Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Boost Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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  • All Access Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

Email Myself

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pensieve free?
Pensieve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Email Myself free?
Email Myself is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pensieve or Email Myself?
Email Myself is rated higher. Pensieve averages 4.7 out of 5 from 82 ratings, while Email Myself averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pensieve or Email Myself have ads?
Neither Pensieve nor Email Myself shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pensieve or Email Myself?
Pensieve ships an update every 6 weeks, and Email Myself every 2 months. Most recently, Pensieve was updated on October 23, 2026 and Email Myself on October 27, 2026.

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