EmailStorm vs ChatInbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EmailStorm
This app helps you find the right contact information for important people, even if you don't have their email address. It generates a smart email list using available data, saving time for cold outreach or reconnecting with contacts.
- Smart email list generation
- Find contact information
- Save time on outreach
- Improve contact results
- Reconnect with contacts
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EmailStorm takes the guesswork out of getting in touch with important people when you don’t have their email address. By generating a smart email list using information you do have, EmailStorm saves you time and helps you get better results whether you are making cold calls or reconnecting with old friends.
ChatInbox
This app reimagines your email by organizing it around people, not dates. View all conversations with a contact in a chat-style format, making it easy to find past messages and attachments. It supports multiple email accounts and devices, offering a streamlined inbox experience.
- Contact-centered inbox
- All accounts in one inbox
- Smart contact grouping
- Attachments by person
- Calendar view
- Email reminders
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ChatInbox organizes your inbox by people. Each person you email gets one conversation that holds everything you've exchanged: every subject, every reply, every attachment. When a new email arrives, its person moves to the top, with your whole history right there. Newsletters, receipts and alerts file themselves into Feeds, so mail from people is never buried. ORGANIZED BY PEOPLE Your list shows people, not a pile of messages. Tap a person to see every email between you, across every subject, in one place. Read it as cards by thread or as a chat with your replies on the right. Put a company or a team together in one row. Many people use ChatInbox as a simple CRM: every client's emails, files and follow-ups in one place. PEOPLE FIRST, FEEDS SEPARATE Newsletters, receipts and notifications go to Feeds automatically. Clear a sender in one go: Mark All as Read, Archive All, or Unsubscribe & Delete All. TODAY'S INBOX, DONE FAST Triage sorts today's mail into a plan: what needs a reply, what can be archived, codes you no longer need. Apply it at once, with Undo. AI THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE With Apple Intelligence, ChatInbox shows what people are waiting on you for, lists the questions in an email and drafts your answer, catches you up on what's new from people, and answers questions about your mail with the email it came from. Translate an email in place, on your device. FIND ANYTHING Search reads the words inside your emails and even inside PDFs and other attachments. Or open a person, and everything with them is already there. YOUR ACCOUNTS, YOUR DEVICES Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account. Type your address and ChatInbox finds the settings. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one purchase covers all three. CALENDAR, TO-DOS AND TAGS See your week beside your mail, turn an email into an event or a to-do, and tag conversations to track them on a board. PRIVACY FIRST Your email never passes through our servers: ChatInbox connects directly to your mail provider. No data mining, no tracking. Turn on image blocking and tracking pixels load only for senders you approve. FREE AND PREMIUM ChatInbox is free with one email account. Premium adds unlimited accounts with Profiles, advanced filters, your full mail history and custom notifications. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan, or buy Lifetime once. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: EmailStorm at 100% against ChatInbox's 62%. EmailStorm also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). ChatInbox's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (34 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. EmailStorm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ChatInbox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
EmailStorm holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChatInbox has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of EmailStorm's written reviews are positive against 62% of ChatInbox's.
EmailStorm ships an update every 11 months, ChatInbox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EmailStorm | ChatInbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Olga Volkova | Innovatism LLC |
Customer experience
EmailStorm
ChatInbox
In-app purchases
EmailStorm
- Remove ads$1.99
ChatInbox
- Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Lifetime Premium$59.99









