Pensieve vs EmailMe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
EmailMe
Quickly send notes to your inbox without opening your email client. This app streamlines jotting down thoughts, to-dos, and ideas for instant retrieval. It offers a simple, clutter-free experience for using your email as a second brain.
- One-screen interface
- Single text input box
- Instant note sending
- No accounts or logins
- Ad-free experience
- Unlimited notes with Pro subscription
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Send It to Yourself Because sometimes the fastest way to remember something… is to email it to yourself. I built this app for one reason: I was tired of opening my inbox, tapping compose, typing my own email address, and waiting for the damn thing to send. No more subject lines. No more drafts. No more swiping through five different apps to jot something down. Just type what's in your head — or snap a photo, or record a voice note — and it shows up in your inbox. Instantly. Cleanly. Reliably. Why does this exist? Because I — like many people — use my email as a second brain. To-dos. Links. Notes. Book ideas. Shopping lists. Code snippets. Random thoughts at 2 a.m. Email is searchable. It's everywhere. And it works. But sending yourself an email shouldn't feel like filing your taxes. What this app does: • Type a note, snap a photo, or record a voice memo • Tap send — it's in your inbox in seconds • Jump straight in from the Share Sheet, a widget, or a long-press Quick Action — no need to even open the app • Save up to 10 destinations, so it's just as easy to send to a partner or shared inbox as it is to yourself That's it. No accounts. No logins. No clutter. What this app doesn't do: • It doesn't replace your email client • It doesn't send from your address — we use a fast, fixed sender for speed • It doesn't overcomplicate things with tags, folders, or rich formatting Free to try. Send a couple notes. See if it clicks. If it does, it's a few bucks a year. Less than a coffee. Way more useful. No ads. No tracking. No gimmicks. Just one button to send it to yourself. ---- InstaNotes Pro: • Send unlimited emails on a subscription basis • Your payment will be charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period • You can easily manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in Apple's settings • Read the Terms & Conditions at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Read the Privacy policy: https://coffeeandjunk.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-c75b31be8f164b18b5ead4909126a6df You can email up to 3 notes for free. After that you'd have to purchase InstaNotes Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pensieve at every 6 weeks against EmailMe's every 13 months. Pensieve also leads on ratings volume (82 vs 4) and device support (4 vs 1). EmailMe's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, rating, 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. Pensieve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and EmailMe sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pensieve against 4.8 for EmailMe. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pensieve has 82 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Pensieve's written reviews are positive against 100% of EmailMe's.
Pensieve ships an update every 6 weeks, EmailMe every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pensieve | EmailMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (82 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 82 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Window Seat Labs, LLC | Abhishek Chakraborty |
Customer experience
Pensieve
EmailMe
In-app purchases
Pensieve
- 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
EmailMe
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$12.991 Year








