Comparison

Preside email vs Note To Self Mail

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Note To Self Mail

Quickly capture your thoughts and send them directly to your inbox. This app integrates with popular to-do list applications, streamlining your workflow by sending notes via email. It offers basic note-taking with advanced features available in the pro version.

Highlights
  • Send notes directly to inbox
  • Integrates with Trello, Evernote, etc.
  • Attach photos (pro)
  • Create sketches (pro)
  • Attach audio notes (pro)
  • Scan documents (pro)
Features
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"Note To Self Mail" is the fastest app for your notes. You can send your notes directly into your inbox, fast and without much effort and detours. "Note To Self Mail" was designed to support mail import for your favorite todo apps like Trello, Evernote, Wunderlist, Any.do, Todoist and many more. The app is not intended to manage your notes, but it offers everything you expect from a note app: - Writing notes - Attaching photos or files (pro version) - Creating sketches (pro version) - Attach audio notes (pro version) - Scan documents (Pro-Version) To make things easier and more flexible: you can use different e-mail addresses as recipients and connect to your own e-mail account for sending. Suggestions or feedback? support@note2selfmail.app Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Preside email4 screens
Note To Self Mail3 screens

Verdict

The call

Preside email and Note To Self Mail are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Preside email sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Note To Self Mail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Preside email against 4.8 for Note To Self Mail. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 185 and 377 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Preside email's written reviews are positive against 90% of Note To Self Mail's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Preside email ships an update every 2 months, Note To Self Mail every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Preside email versus Note To Self Mail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPreside emailNote To Self Mail
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (185 ratings)4.8 (377 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.3% of reviews — better90.2% of reviews
Number of ratings185377 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB85 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperGoodHumansMathias Lipowski

Customer experience

Preside email

All ratings185 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive93.3%
Neutral1.7%
Negative5.0%

Note To Self Mail

All ratings374 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews122 reviews
Positive90.2%
Neutral1.6%
Negative8.2%

User reviews

Preside email

From 185 App Store ratings

What 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

Note To Self Mail

From 377 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Extremely fast and quick to use
  • 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
  • ⚙️ Highly customizable settings and options
  • 🔒 Secure SMTP-based email delivery
  • 📧 Seamless email integration with multiple accounts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Google OAuth authentication issues
  • 🔐 Requires SMTP server configuration (technical barrier)
  • ⚠️ Occasional reliability issues after extended use
  • 📱 Limited Apple Watch support
  • 🌐 Browser sharing functionality sometimes fails

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

Note To Self Mail

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Google OAuth doesn't work properly
  • Messages stuck in outbox with Google authentication
  • App stops working after several weeks of use
  • Safari share extension crashes or fails silently
  • Browser sharing shows grey rectangle and fails
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  • Music playback stops when sending notes
  • Exchange server incompatibility

Requested features

8 requests
  • Scheduled/delayed send functionality
  • Apple Watch native app
  • Document scanning with PDF export
  • YouTube title preservation in sharing
  • iOS 26 UI updates
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  • Improved browser extension performance
  • Pop-up interface option instead of full screen
  • Better Exchange server support

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Preside email

One-time2
  • Preside Premium - 1 month subscription$4.99
  • Preside Premium - 1 year subscription$24.99
3 purchases

Note To Self Mail

Subscriptions1
  • Buy me a coffee$4.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pro Version$4.99
  • Buy me a coffee$4.99

Questions

Is Preside email free?
Preside email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Note To Self Mail free?
Note To Self Mail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Preside email or Note To Self Mail?
Note To Self Mail is rated higher. Preside email averages 4.8 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while Note To Self Mail averages 4.8 from 377 ratings.
Do Preside email or Note To Self Mail have ads?
Neither Preside email nor Note To Self Mail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Preside email or Note To Self Mail?
Preside email ships an update every 2 months, and Note To Self Mail every 6 weeks. Most recently, Preside email was updated on October 20, 2026 and Note To Self Mail on October 21, 2026.

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