Email vs Mail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Manage multiple email accounts in one unified inbox. This app offers fast email fetching, smart search for important information, and tools to reduce inbox clutter. It prioritizes privacy and security with features like sender blocking and biometric protection.
- Unified inbox for all accounts
- Fast email fetching and search
- One-tap unsubscribe
- Sender blocking
- Customizable swipe actions and templates
- Biometric inbox security
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"The way to go if you own an iPhone" -Business Insider "Unsubscribe with just a tap!" -TechCrunch "Faster than Gmail, faster than Outlook" -Walt Mossberg @The Verge "Well designed" - New York Times “All essential features of every other mail app, clear and easy to use interface, free and very transparent about how it handles your data and how it stays free. I cannot really find anything to complain.” - msaiddi (Edison Mail user) Edison Mail is the #1 independent email app on the App Store (4.5 rating) for a reason. Reduce email volume and eliminate inbox distractions. Research shows that over checking email wastes as much as 21 minutes per day. Take time back with the best app to manage and clean your inbox. Edison Mail fetches email faster than other mail apps (we have the speed tests to prove it) and simplifies searching for important information like subscriptions, travel plans, bills, packages, and more. Manage everything in one place. Edison Mail allows you to connect an unlimited number of email accounts and offers a unified inbox that keeps all of your inboxes in one view. We support all the major providers — Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, iCloud, Office/ Outlook 365, Exchange, AOL, Gmail, and IMAP* mail accounts on both iPhone and iPad. From the Pioneers of One-Tap Unsubscribe. Block senders to banish unwanted senders permanently. No targeted ads or invasive tracking pixels are allowed into your inbox. Protect your email with Touch and Face ID. Secure your inbox even further from the dangers of email phishing scams with Edison Mail+. Mail, the way it should be. Yours. Customize Edison Mail to fit your inbox needs. Change swipe actions, create custom templates, change the color settings, enable or disable Focused Inbox, and more. Life just got easier. Download Edison Mail today. It just works. – *Support for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 and above. **Please note select assistant features (i.e. bill and receipts, entertainment, travel, and package alerts) are currently limited to US, UK, Canada, Australia, and India only. Privacy By Design is Our Promise to Our Users All emails are fetched from your phone and stored on your device directly. We access new email subject headers (deleted thereafter), required to send notifications of an email arrival. Only commercial emails (example: receipts, Travel, Package Delivery) are stored to deliver Edison Mail Assistant features built into the Email app and Edison Trends. Personal information like your name or email address is NEVER shared. If you’d prefer to opt-out of participating in our anonymized research, you can do so in the settings menu. Edison Mail+ An auto-renewable premium subscription that offers more advanced email experience, particularly in the areas of contact management and security, for 14.99 USD / Month or 99.99 USD / Year. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period.
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 in-app purchases: Mail at none against Email's 22. Mail also leads on ratings volume (4.4M vs 79K) and device support (5 vs 3). Email's advantage is review sentiment (66% vs 34%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 11 months). On price, rating 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. Email sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Mail asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Email against 4.6 for Mail. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mail has 4.4M ratings behind it against 79K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Email's written reviews are positive against 34% of Mail's.
Email ships an update every 2 weeks, Mail every 11 months. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | ||
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (79K ratings) | 4.6 (4.4M ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.0% of reviews — better | 34.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 79K | 4.4M — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 220 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edison Software Inc. | Apple Inc. |
Customer experience
User reviews
What we love
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🔒 Secure with Face ID support
- 📦 Helpful package tracking and delivery updates
- 🔍 Effective unsubscribe and spam blocking features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unreliable notifications and email sync issues
- 🔄 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🔍 Inconsistent search and filtering functionality
- 🔑 Issues with logging in and account connectivity
- 📧 Problems with sending and delivering emails
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
Reported bugs
4 issues- Emails disappearing from the Outbox
- Incorrect unread email badge counts
- Emails not loading or displaying properly
- Account settings randomly resetting
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Customizable snooze and scheduling options
- Integration with calendar and reminders
- Ability to move emails between accounts
- More granular control over folder management
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
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$3.997 Days
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$9.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$9.991 Month
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- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$11.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial2 variants$14.991 Month
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$14.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$16.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial$66.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$66.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
- Edison Mail+1 Month trial2 variants$99.991 Year
- Edison Mail+7 Days trial$109.991 Year
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