Preside email vs Speaking Email
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.
Speaking Email
This app reads your emails aloud and allows you to manage them using voice commands. It's ideal for hands-free and eyes-free email access, benefiting drivers and individuals with visual impairments or motor difficulties.
- Reads emails aloud
- Voice commands for replies and management
- Hands-free and eyes-free operation
- Smart content detection
- Multilingual email support
- Secure connection to various email servers
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Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands. Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free. Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition. (Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP') — WHY DO I WANT IT? — FOR DRIVERS Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move. Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox. Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move. (Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP") FOR ACCESSIBILITY Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app. Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled! — HOW DOES IT WORK? — Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox. Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go. You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands. Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails. — FEATURES — - Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter - Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices - Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending - Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future - Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In) - Voice commands and buttons include: Next Back Archive/Done Flag Trash Reply Forward Ignore (thumbs down) Important (thumbs up) Block Sender Rewind Fast Forward Compose Search Voice Slower Faster People When - Many preferences to set up your experience how you like — QUESTIONS — Reach us at feedback@speaking.email See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email — RECOGNITION — - Gizmodo - "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today - TV3 News (NZ), Sky News - The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph - NZ Herald, National Business Review - Featured by Apple in Best New Apps - Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO - Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards — QUOTES — “This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR “My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave “I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton https://speaking.email/page/privacy https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Preside email at 93% against Speaking Email's 68%. Preside email also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Speaking Email's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 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 Speaking Email sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 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 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 185 and 206 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Preside email's written reviews are positive against 68% of Speaking Email's.
Preside email ships an update every 2 months, Speaking Email every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Preside email | Speaking Email |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (185 ratings) — better | 4.5 (206 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.3% of reviews — better | 67.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 185 | 206 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GoodHumans | BEWEB LTD |
Customer experience
Preside email
Speaking Email
User reviews
Preside email
From 185 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
Speaking Email
From 206 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Life-changing for accessibility
- 👍 Great for visually impaired
- 👍 Excellent for ADHD/focus issues
- 👍 Time-saver for busy users
- 👍 Useful for commuting
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes frequently
- 🐛 Unreliable connection issues
- 🐛 Difficult to set up
- 🐛 Poor voice recognition/robotic voice
- 🐛 Battery drain
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
Speaking Email
Reported bugs
18 issues- Keeps crashing
- Doesn't work reliably
- Granting Gmail access is buggy
- App crashes after an update
- Doesn't save place in emails
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- Cannot skip forward in emails
- Cannot connect to emails
- Times out from mail setup screen
- Frozen in settings page
- Emails disappear after reading
- Unstable with Exchange
- Archived emails disappear
- Doesn't recognize passwords
- Cannot delete the app
- Hidden icon floating around screen
- Browser cookies disabled error for Gmail
- Too loud with AirPods
- Emails don't load properly
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to search using voice command
- CarPlay support
- Apple Watch App for interaction
- Support for Exchange using Active Sync or Outlook Web Access
- Dark mode option
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- Better voice quality
- Option to turn off voice command prompts
- Ability to set to only pull 'primary' for Gmail
- Improve editing of responses
- Better battery optimization
- Clearer understanding of settings
- Ability to save place in emails
- Search functionality
In-app purchases
Preside email
- Preside Premium - 1 month subscription$4.99
- Preside Premium - 1 year subscription$24.99
Speaking Email
- Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
- Premium Subscription Annual$34.991 Year
- Premium Plan$4.99
- Premium Plan 3 Months$14.99
- Premium Plan 12 Months$49.99
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