MailTime vs Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MailTime
This app transforms your email inbox into a streamlined, chat-like experience. It integrates multiple email accounts and uses AI to help you draft replies, proofread messages, and manage conversations efficiently. Enjoy a clutter-free inbox and communicate as easily as sending a text message.
- SMS-style email conversations
- AI-powered email replies
- Proofread, shorten, expand messages
- Group chat-like email management
- Integrates multiple email accounts
- Secure and ad-free interface
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MailTime is the easiest email inbox management app on your phone. Send and receive emails in SMS style without needing all your contacts to download the same app. MailTime simplifies your email inbox and helps declutter your daily life and business. Now supports integrating mailboxes like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Hotmail, and more. Download now to experience the easiest email experience! 【MailTime AI: Email Protocol-based AI Assistant】 Experience disruptive email messaging powered by generative AI - MailTime AI generates contextual email replies that are tailored to the conversation thread - Choose from "Positive" or "Negative" tones and select "Long" or "Short" reply length. Click "Generate" to receive personalized, AI-powered email drafts - Refine your message with "Proof-read", "Shorten" or "Expand" options, optimizing both AI-generated and your own text - MailTime AI Wallet*: Sign up for RewardMe to get daily FREE tokens, or Subscribe to Monthly or Yearly plans to enjoy unlimited use 【Email as easy as text】 - MailTime reformats your cluttered email threads into clean bubble conversations just like Whatsapp. Communication should be like a dialogue, not in threads! - Our smart inbox prioritizes important senders from all your newsletters, marketing emails, and other bot-generated mails in All Mail. 【Emails as group chat】 - Manage your conversations in MailTime just like a group chat - Open a group chat with all relevant email addresses and email subject - Swipe left to change your participants' status in the email group chat. Easily add, remove, or switch participants to “cc” or “bcc” for the latest message that you desire to send out 【Connect with new contacts】 - Contact anyone with their email address in MailTime, instead of phone numbers - Start a new conversation with people who are not in your contacts by writing a message-like email only using the recipients’ email address 【Support multiple email accounts and storages in one app】 - Do not need to download other email apps. MailTime integrates multiple email platforms and supports various email accounts, including Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, Office 365, Mail.ru, Hotmail, QQ, 163, 126, Tencent Enterprise, Google Apps Mail services - Easily attach files from Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, Box, and OneDrive with MailTime 【Secure and ads-free】 - Email chats encrypted by multi-layered passcodes, protecting your privacy and personal information - Unlock MailTime using Face ID/Touch ID and passwords, and enable App Password to activate two-factor authentication(2FA) for specific email address - No ads will block you from our interface “MailTime makes emails more manageable, easier to read, and quicker to respond to.” — TechCrunch "MailTime puts what we love about SMS in an email client." — LifeHacker We love emails! Click “Write to MailTime Team” or send an email to support@mailtime.com. We would love to hear from you to improve your email experience in MailTime. Website: http://mailtime.com Twitter: @mailtimeapp Facebook: @mailtimeapp Instagram: @mailtimeapp Have a Good MailTime! ======== 【Introduction of MailTime】 People don't email like they used to. Why hasn't email changed along with time? We reformat your cluttered email threads into clean bubble chats, and separate people in your inbox from all the discounts and newsletters. 【Our mission】 We are a team of mail senders and recipients tired of sending lengthy and formal emails in complicated formats. We aim to build an easy email platform that reformats email to raise productivity and efficiency, and to bring convenience to your daily life. We believe that the integration of email accounts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Hotmail etc. could achieve the mission of serving various email functions in one app. We revolutionize emails into a new generation, and you will be a part of us in the journey. *Subject to Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Consolidate all your email accounts into a single, organized inbox. Prioritize important messages, quickly respond with smart replies, and manage your inbox efficiently with features like scheduling and snoozing. Enjoy enhanced privacy with IP address hiding and read receipt prevention.
- Unified inbox for multiple accounts
- Automatic message categorization
- Priority Messages and summarization
- Schedule send, snooze, and unsend emails
- Smart Reply for quick responses
- Mail Privacy Protection
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Access, view and manage messages from all your email accounts in one place. Categorize your messages into easy to browse categories. Catch up on email easily with Apple Intelligence powered Priority Messages and summarizations. Manage your inbox by scheduling emails to send later, snoozing emails you want to get back to later and unsend an email in one tap. Features • Access email from iCloud, Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo, and Outlook as well as many other email providers - all in one place. • View all of your accounts in a single inbox, choose a specific mailbox or filter to see just Unread or Flagged messages. • Automatically organize your messages in to Primary, Transactions, Updates and Promotions categories and focus on the messages that matter most. • Stay on top of emails with Priority Messages, a new section at the top of your inbox that shows urgent emails. • Use Smart Reply to quickly respond to messages with a few taps. • Catch up on email quickly with summarization of messages and threads. • Find messages by sender, recipient or subject. Top hits make it easy to find what you’re looking for. • Manage your inbox by blocking a sender or muting notifications from an overly active thread. • Flag important contacts as VIPs to receive notifications when their emails arrive. • Triage email messages using swipe gestures that help you quickly archive, delete, flag, or mark messages as read or unread. • Use Mail Drop to send large attachments from any account through iCloud. • Hide your IP address with Mail Privacy Protection so senders can’t link it to your other online activity or determine your locations, and prevent senders from seeing if you’ve opened their email. • App Keywords (do not to exceed 70 characters): Mail, email, email app, productivity email, intelligent email
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mail at 4.6 against MailTime's 3.7. Mail also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (4.5M vs 97). MailTime's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 10 months) and review sentiment (60% vs 34%). On price and ads 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. MailTime sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Mail asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mail holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mail has 4.5M ratings behind it against 97, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of MailTime's written reviews are positive against 34% of Mail's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MailTime ships an update fortnightly, Mail every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MailTime | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (97 ratings) | 4.6 (4.5M ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.7% of reviews — better | 34.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 | 4.5M — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MailTime | Apple |
Customer experience
MailTime
User reviews
MailTime
From 97 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and smooth
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 💡 Innovative email-as-chat concept
- 🚀 Efficient email management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🔌 Slow sync and update issues
- 🔒 Concerns about data privacy and security
- 📤 Limited email account support
What we love
- 🚀 Efficient email management
- 🔒 Secure and private
- 👍 Simple and intuitive interface
- 💡 Useful categorization of emails
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent swipe gestures
- 🐛 Unreliable search function
- 🐛 Emails disappearing or not syncing properly
- 🐛 Slow email download and loading times
- 🐛 Buggy performance after updates
Bugs and requests
MailTime
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes on iPhone 6 and older devices
- Inability to log in to certain email accounts
- Sync issues causing missed or delayed notifications
Requested features
4 requests- Support for more email providers (e.g., Naver, Daum)
- Ability to organize emails into folders
- Option to customize notification sounds
- Improved search and archiving functionality
Reported bugs
4 issues- Emails not downloading from server
- Inconsistent behavior when deleting emails
- Notifications not working as expected
- Drafts and sent emails disappearing
Requested features
4 requests- Add snooze functionality
- Improve email organization and filtering options
- Provide more customization options
- Integrate better with other Apple apps and services
In-app purchases
MailTime
- AI Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- AI Yearly Subscription$4.991 Year
- One MailTime account$0.99
- 20 MailTime AI Credits$0.99
- 100 MailTime AI Credits$0.99
No in-app purchases









