Comparison

Email vs Give A Chit

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

Head to head
About

Email

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.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for all accounts
  • Fast email fetching and search
  • One-tap unsubscribe
  • Sender blocking
  • Customizable swipe actions and templates
  • Biometric inbox security
Features
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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.

About

Give A Chit

This app helps groups track who is responsible for the next task or event. It allows for easy passing of turns, skipping individuals, and notifying members without the app via text. Ideal for managing shared responsibilities within families, clubs, or friend groups.

Highlights
  • Pass the chit with a tap
  • Skip members for a round
  • Mark members as sitting out
  • Leader and co-leader roles
  • Text notifications for non-users
  • Push notifications for your turn
  • History log of all actions
  • Syncs via iCloud
Features
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Give A Chit keeps track of whose turn it is. Every group has something that goes around — hosting the next dinner, choosing the book, bringing snacks to practice, rotating chore responsibility or even which lawnmower battery to use next. Give A Chit keeps track of whose turn it is (who/what holds the “chit”) so no one has to remember, argue, or keep a list on the fridge. Your list can be private or shared with others. If you do want to share the list with others, Give A Chit syncs your groups and shares turn-taking through your own iCloud account, so you'll need to be signed into iCloud to create and share groups. HOW IT WORKS Create a group, add members to the group and keep track of who/what goes next. When you are done, pass the chit to the next person/item in the rotation. Shared groups allow members with iPhones to see who holds the chit now and who’s up next. +Those without an iPhone can still take part: a leader passes the chit for them, and they can be notified by text that the next turn is theirs. BUILT FOR REAL GROUPS • Book clubs — whose turn to pick and host • Dinner and hosting duties • Gift exchanges and potlucks • Chores and household rotations • Carpools and shared responsibilities • Any turn that goes around a group FEATURES • Pass the chit with a tap, in rotation order • Skip someone this round without losing their place • Mark members “sitting out” and bring them back anytime • Leaders and co-leaders can run the group and pass on someone’s behalf • Members without the app can be notified by text when it’s their turn • Create groups of items as well as people for rotation • A full history log of every pass, skip, and change • Reorder the rotation; give groups your own private nicknames • Syncs across your devices with iCloud NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS Give A Chit uses your iCloud account to sync and share — there’s nothing new to sign up for, no ads, and no tracking. Your groups are yours. Give a chit about whose turn it is — so everyone gets theirs.

Screenshots

Email4 screens
Give A Chit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Give A Chit at none against Email's 22. Give A Chit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Email's advantage is ratings volume (79K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Email sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Give A Chit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Give A Chit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Email has 79K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Email ships an update every 2 weeks, Give A Chit every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Email versus Give A Chit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmailGive A Chit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (79K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings79K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdison Software Inc.Elliott Pickar

Customer experience

Email

All ratings78,801 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews2,171 reviews
Positive65.9%
Neutral9.4%
Negative24.7%

Give A Chit

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Email

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

Give A Chit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

Email

Subscriptions17
  • 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
Show 14 more
  • 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
None

Give A Chit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Email free?
Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Give A Chit free?
Give A Chit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Email or Give A Chit?
Give A Chit is rated higher. Email averages 4.5 out of 5 from 79K ratings, while Give A Chit averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Email or Give A Chit have ads?
Neither Email nor Give A Chit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Email or Give A Chit?
Email ships an update every 2 weeks, and Give A Chit every 4 weeks. Most recently, Email was updated on October 24, 2026 and Give A Chit on October 24, 2026.

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