Comparison

Email vs Lumarii

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

Lumarii

Features
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Lumarii is a quiet place for slow reflection, gentle awareness and letting go. Created for people who find streaks, scores and rigid routines more demanding than helpful, Lumarii gives you room to notice what is happening without asking you to optimise it. There are no missed-day warnings, productivity targets or judgements about how often you return. Each day begins with a thoughtful question. You can follow it into a longer journal entry, capture a few passing words or simply record how you feel. Add photographs you have chosen, dictate using your voice or leave the page untouched. Nothing becomes incomplete and there is no daily writing limit. Lumarii’s softly illustrated tones offer a simple way to notice how you are feeling. As your journal grows, Patterns helps you look back across your reflections, moods and gentle habits. It is designed to reveal themes without reducing your life to a score. Alongside your journal is a to-do list that understands not everything needs to stay forever. Each item gradually fades over seven days. You can finish it, deliberately keep it for another week or allow it to quietly disappear. Letting something go is treated as a valid choice, never a failure. The app’s atmosphere changes naturally with the time of day. Soft, animated skies move from morning light into evening and night, helping Lumarii feel connected to the moment in which you open it. Members can also choose the sky that feels right for them. Habits are written as kind questions rather than demands. Record what happened when it feels useful, without streaks, penalties or reminders about days you missed. Meaningful pages can be remembered and revisited. Guided collections offer different questions for different kinds of days, while threads and volumes help bring related reflections together over time. Your writing can also be exported as a designed keepsake or kept in a portable archive of your own. Quick Entry, App Shortcuts and the Lumarii widget make it easier to begin without navigating through the app first. Lumarii is private by design. It does not require an account and does not use your writing for advertising. Your journal is stored on your device. Optional member continuity uses your private Apple iCloud container to keep eligible journal data available across your devices. You can protect Lumarii with Face ID, Touch ID or your device passcode. When adding photographs, Lumarii receives only the images you explicitly choose and never browses your photo library on its own. Lumarii is free to download and includes unlimited writing, tones, gentle habit tracking, the fading to-do list, recent Patterns and everyday reflection prompts. An optional Lumarii Membership opens complete pattern history, custom periods, guided prompt collections, voice transcription, photo attachments, remembered pages, threads and volumes, designed exports, additional skies, private iCloud continuity, privacy lock, member Quick Entry and widget features. Membership is available as a weekly, monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, with a one-time Lifetime purchase also available. Prices vary by country and are shown in your local currency before you confirm a purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account after confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. You can manage or cancel your subscription through your App Store account settings. A Lifetime purchase is charged once and does not renew. Your free writing, tones, habits and fading list remain available if you choose not to subscribe or if your subscription ends. Lumarii is not about keeping up. It is a place to pause, notice what is here and leave a little lighter than you arrived. Privacy Policy: https://www.thecozydev.co.uk/lumarii-privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Email4 screens
Lumarii4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Email at 15.1 against Lumarii's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Lumarii sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Email versus Lumarii: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmailLumarii
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (79K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings79K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEdison Software Inc.Emma Skinner

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

Lumarii

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
4 purchases

Lumarii

Subscriptions3
  • Lumarii Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Lumarii Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Lumarii Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Email free?
Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lumarii free?
Lumarii is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Email or Lumarii have ads?
Neither Email nor Lumarii shows ads.

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