Preside email vs Mail Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Preside email
This app offers a full-featured mobile email client for comprehensive email management. It allows users to organize, send, and manage emails efficiently, providing desktop-level functionality on a mobile device. Features include advanced filing, folder management, and task integration.
- Predictive filing with shake-to-undo
- Universal Inbox and custom 'Smart' folders
- HTML rich composer with inline images
- Offline, full-text email search
- Assign Exchange categories and IMAP keywords
- Add emails to various task management apps
- Configurable swipe actions and color themes
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Download Preside for calm control of your email. Preside is a full featured email client that allows you to perform all of your email management from your mobile device. No more waiting to get back to the desktop for organizing, assigning categories, sending or doing anything else with an email. No more reading emails twice. Preside improves your productivity and gives back valuable time. With Preside, you can file emails in seconds, even if you have thousands of folders. Preside gives YOU complete control by allowing you to optimize the app to exactly match your email management style. Preside is real email. It can do anything a desktop email client can do. Check out these awesome features: Filing • Files emails in seconds with predictive filing • Move emails between accounts • Copy emails & folders • Search for destination folders by name • Shake-to-undo previous filing action • Batch deletes and moves • File to favorite folders instantly • Swipe to file Folders • Expand & collapse folders • Find folders by searching • Add, move, rename, & delete folders • Off-line operation for later synchronization • Universal Inbox, Unread, & custom 'Smart' folders • Show all folders/labels for email Email Actions • Mark read/unread • Flag • Snooze/Defer • Batch processing • Custom multi-step actions Sending • HTML rich composer • Always bcc option • Inline images • Send attachments from iCloud, Dropbox, & more Search • Offline, full-text email search • Search by date, sender, subject, or anything else • Perform actions on search results • Stored searches • Search history Tags & Categories • Assign Exchange categories to emails • Tag emails with IMAP Keywords • Browse categories • Show all emails for a category • Show all cagetories in email • Color emails based on category Contacts • Edit/Add senders to iOS contacts • Quickly view all messages from any sender • Search To's, From's, Cc's, & entire message. Tasks & ToDos • Add emails to iPhone Calendar • Add emails Reminders, Exchange/Outlook & Toodledo • Add emails to OmniFocus, Appigo Todo, Things, The Hit List, Evernote, Drafts, Notebooks & more • Manage tasks in Reminders, Exchange/Outlook, & Toodledo Customization • Configurable swipe actions • Over 20 different color themes • Quickly change multiple options using Presets • Make the app look exactly like the iOS app • Configurable buttons, fonts, & everything else iPad • Split Screen Multi-Tasking • Multi-pane layout • Single-tap predictive filing • Drag and drop • Personalized layout options • Keyboard shortcuts iOS Features • Enhanced for 3D Touch • iOS Share extension support More • S/Mime encryption • Email threading with conversation view • Defer/Snooze emails • Passcode lock with Touch ID • Pull to sync • Speak emails • Real-time sync progress ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Please contact us for any & all support issues. We'll help you to get the app working the way you like. Here's some more information that might be helpful: Privacy • Preside stores all information directly on your phone. • Our servers do NOT have access to your email or account information • All email communication is between your device and your email account. In app purchases • Preside really is free. We hope you'll purchase Premium, which adds some cool features, but none of those are essential to using the app. Please visit our website at: preside.io to learn more about Premium. Compatibility • Outlook • Office 365 • Exchange • IMAP (gmail, Rackspace, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, iCloud, & any other modern email account). • POP3 (not recommended) Former Blackberry users • If you're missing features from your Blackberry that you'd like to see implemented in Preside, please contact us. Privacy • Preside is fully private. Preside doesn't transmit emails or account information to our servers.
Mail Notes
Quickly send emails to yourself for reminders and notes. This app streamlines the process to under a second, allowing for easy email address switching, direct sharing from browsers, and even sending notes via an Apple Watch app. It offers features like labeling, history, and subject prefixes for efficient organization.
- Email under 1 second
- Share widget for browser links
- Apple Watch app for on-the-go emails
- Label emails with icons
- Sent email history
- Optional subject prefix
- Paste clipboard contents
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Like to send emails to yourself for reminders, notes and to-do? Mail Notes makes the process 100 times faster. Just launch the app, type, and tap Send. If you have multiple emails to which you would like to send notes, changing the email address is as simple as a tap. • Email under 1 second. • Share widget makes it super easy to email browser links and URLs directly, without opening the Mail Notes app. • The included Apple Watch app allows you to send emails on the go. • Label each email and add an icon for easy identification. • One-time-use email address. • Sent email history. • Add an optional subject prefix for each email address for easy email filtering. • Use single or multi-line mode. • Auto Correct option. • Paste your clipboard contents with a single tap. • Support for Dark mode for those late-night emails. • Haptics give you feedback when the email is sent successfully. Mail Notes is simply the fastest emailing app on the planet!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Preside email at 4.8 against Mail Notes's 4.3. Preside email also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Preside email sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Mail Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Preside email holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 184 and 106 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Preside email's written reviews are positive against 75% of Mail Notes's.
Preside email ships an update every 2 months, Mail Notes every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Preside email | Mail Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (184 ratings) — better | 4.3 (106 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 184 — better | 106 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GoodHumans | Tech Positive |
Customer experience
Preside email
Mail Notes
User reviews
Preside email
From 184 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Powerful and customizable
- 👍 Excellent email management
- 🔒 Respects user privacy
- 💡 Intelligent predictive filing
- 👍 Responsive and helpful support
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional UI/UX issues
- 🔋 Steep learning curve for some users
Mail Notes
From 106 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Quick and efficient
- 💡 Simple and clean interface
- 👍 Handy for sending notes to self
- 🚀 Fast setup
Room to improve
- 💰 Unreasonable pricing
- 💸 Money grab business model
- 🚫 Features removed after purchase
- LIMIT Only 2 free reminders
- 🚫 Limited to 1 free email per day
Bugs and requests
Preside email
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional syncing issues
- Incompatibility with some email providers
Requested features
2 requests- Delayed outgoing messages
- Improved attachment handling
Mail Notes
Reported bugs
5 issues- iPad version cannot switch to horizontal view
- Ability to add pictures to notes removed
- Cannot send messages anymore
- App stopped working
- Paid version no longer works
Requested features
5 requests- Combine text notes, PDFs, and pictures in one app
- Allow horizontal view on iPad
- Option to set up multiple instances of the same email address with different subject prefixes
- Allow autocorrect to work
- Replace scroll wheel for multiple emails with radio button click
In-app purchases
Preside email
- Preside Premium - 1 month subscription$4.99
- Preside Premium - 1 year subscription$24.99
Mail Notes
- All Access$2.991 Month
- All Access$29.991 Year
- Unlock Pro Version$69.99









