Winmail Reader vs MailRaider
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Winmail Reader
Easily open and manage "winmail.dat" attachment files on your iOS device. This app decodes the TNEF format, allowing you to view, save, share, or resend any contained attachments and the original email message.
- Decodes winmail.dat files
- Lists all attachments and email message
- Inbuilt quick-look preview for attachments
- Save, copy, print, and share attachments
- Resend decoded email with attachments
- Create/add Outlook appointments to iOS Calendar
- Add contact address cards to iOS Contacts
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Winmail Reader is ultimate tool for reading "winmail.dat" attachment files on iPhones, iPads and iPod touch. Winmail Reader decodes "winmail.dat" file, and allows any attachments contained in them to be opened, read, saved or e-mailed. * * * Winmail Reader for Mac is also available on the Mac App Store. * * * Winmail.dat files are in fact TNEF format (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format). Microsoft Outlook e-mail program for Windows send e-mails as TNEF. Most other e-mail programs, including Mail, do not understand TNEF. If your e-mail program doesn't understand TNEF, you may only see an attachment named "winmail.dat" that you cannot open. The easy-to-use solution to circumvent this problem is provided by Winmail Reader. FEATURES: ◆ Decodes "winmail.dat" files and list all attachments contained in it including email message. ◆ Inbuilt quick-look preview to view attachments. Tap on attachment button to popup quick-look preview. ◆ Allows attachments files to Copy to… another application, Save to Files, Copy, Print, share file to nearby iOS devices via AirDrop and more... Long press on attachment button to show share action options. ◆ Resend entire decoded email as it is with message and extracted attachments. ◆ Creates, edit and adds Microsoft Outlook Appointment and Meeting to iOS Calendar. It also reads embedded note. ◆ Creates and adds contact address card into iOS Contacts. ◆ Reads nested message in full RTF format as separate file.
MailRaider
This app helps you open and read old archived emails and mysterious file types like .msg and winmail.dat. It also allows exporting contacts and appointments to standard formats.
- Opens .msg, .oft, winmail.dat, and .email files
- Exports contacts to .vcf
- Exports appointments to .ics
- Previews attachment files
- Supports multitasking on iPad
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Have you got an .msg file that you can't open? Did you get a winmail.dat file instead of the message that you were expecting? MailRaider is the app for that. MailRaider has been opening Microsoft email formats on Mac since 2009 — longer than any other tool on the App Store. The iOS version brings that same capability to iPhone and iPad, so you can deal with these files wherever you are, without needing to be at your desk. What MailRaider opens: .msg — Microsoft Outlook messages .eml — standard email format .oft — Outlook template files winmail.dat — the mystery attachment that arrives instead of an actual email message What you can do with them: Read emails with full formatting, embedded images, and attachments intact Export contacts to .vcf and calendar appointments to .ics Play back voice note recordings and export transcripts Search through your emails and browse folder structures Import from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, directly from Mail - or copy over from your Mac or Windows PC. On iPad: full multitasking support, including Split View and Slide Over. MailRaider is a proper iPad app, not a scaled-up iPhone app. No subscription. No hidden costs. Pay once and that's it. MailRaider on iOS is MailRaider — to go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Winmail Reader at 4.5 against MailRaider's 3.8. Winmail Reader also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 25%) and ratings volume (256 vs 6). MailRaider's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On update cadence, 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
Winmail Reader costs $1.99 and MailRaider $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Winmail Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Winmail Reader has 256 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Winmail Reader's written reviews are positive against 25% of MailRaider's.
Winmail Reader ships an update every 4 months, MailRaider every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Winmail Reader | MailRaider |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (256 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 256 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #120 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RootRise Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Pascal Harris |
Customer experience
Winmail Reader
MailRaider
In-app purchases
Winmail Reader
No in-app purchases
MailRaider
No in-app purchases
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