Comparison

Email vs HushScan

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

Head to head
About

Email

This email client offers a fast, secure, and organized inbox experience. It allows management of unlimited accounts, one-tap unsubscribes, and advanced features like package tracking. Prioritizes user privacy with data stored directly on the device.

Highlights
  • Unified inbox for unlimited accounts
  • One-tap unsubscribe from senders
  • Sender blocking
  • Touch and Face ID protection
  • Customizable swipe actions and templates
  • Focused Inbox option
  • Package, bill, and travel alerts
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

HushScan

Features
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HushScan is a document scanner with one unusual property: it has no networking code at all. Not networking that is switched off, or behind a setting. None. There is no path from your documents to the internet, so there is nothing to leak. No account. No server. No upload. Nothing to sign up for. EVERYTHING RUNS ON YOUR IPHONE Scan a page and HushScan finds the edges, corrects the angle and flattens creases and shadows. Text is recognised on-device as the page lands, so your whole library is searchable in seconds, handwriting included where it can be read. Apple Intelligence summarises a long contract, translates a foreign form, or answers a question about a document with the answer cited back to the line it came from. All of it on your own Neural Engine. Your text is never sent to us, to Apple, or to anyone else. Put the phone in Airplane Mode and use every feature. Nothing degrades, because nothing was being fetched. REDACTION THAT ACTUALLY HOLDS Card numbers, passport numbers, names and addresses are found for you. One tap covers them, and the pixels are destroyed in the image data itself while the recognised text layer is discarded. Hidden content cannot be recovered by selecting, copying or searching the exported file. It also cannot be undone, so keep the original if you might need it. Automatic detection finds most personal information but is not guaranteed to find all of it. Always review a document before sharing it. A VAULT, NOT A FOLDER Lock HushScan behind Face ID on launch and whenever it goes to the background. Files are stored with iOS file protection, encrypted at rest with your passcode. Delete a document and it is gone from the device. There is no cloud copy to outlive it and no backup of ours to purge. ALSO IN THE BOX - Six scan tones, plus crop, rotate and straighten - Full-text search across every document - Draw a signature once, reuse it anywhere - Export as PDF or images to the standard share sheet - Encrypted library export and import, for a new iPhone or your own backup - Automatic filing into matching folders as each scan processes - Import from Photos or Files - Dark Mode PRICING, PLAINLY Every feature is free. Redaction, on-device AI, document chat, signing, export, Face ID and search all work on the free plan, which includes 30 scans a month permanently and needs no card. Pro lifts the scan cap and changes nothing else: - Annual, $29.99 a year, starting with a 7-day free trial - Monthly, $3.99 a month - Founding Lifetime, $39.99 once, for the first 500 members Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in Settings, then your name, then Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://www.hushscan.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.hushscan.com/terms REQUIREMENTS iOS 26.5 or later. Summaries, translation and document chat use Apple's on-device Foundation Models and need an iPhone 15 Pro or later; on other devices those three features are unavailable, because there is no server to fall back to. HushScan is made by ONexceed Ltd.

Screenshots

Email4 screens
HushScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Email at 3 against HushScan's 1. Email also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.5). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Email sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and HushScan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Email versus HushScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmailHushScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (79K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings79K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdison Software Inc.ONExceed Ltd.

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

HushScan

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
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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
3 purchases

HushScan

Subscriptions2
  • HushScan Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • HushScan Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$39.99

Questions

Is Email free?
Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HushScan free?
HushScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Email or HushScan have ads?
Neither Email nor HushScan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Email or HushScan?
Email ships an update every 2 weeks, and HushScan every 2 weeks. Most recently, Email was updated on October 31, 2026 and HushScan on October 25, 2026.

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