Comparison

mail.ee vs Bee

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

Head to head
About

mail.ee

A stable and advanced free email application with over 15 years of experience, offering a user-friendly interface, lightning-fast notifications, and robust security features. Manage multiple accounts, send attachments easily, and benefit from high spam protection. Available on iPhone and iPad for convenient mobile access.

Highlights
  • User-friendly interface
  • Lightning notifications
  • Multiple account support
  • Send multiple attachments
  • Undo Delete feature
  • Instant search
  • High spam protection
Features
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Mail.ee is stable, advanced and powerful free email with more than 15 years of experience and millions of satisfied users. Hosted on own servers in Europe. Now available also on iPhone and iPad to make work even more convenient and mobile. Key Features: • Ergonomic and user-friendly interface - convenient email preview and work with attachments. • Lightning notifications - push notifications so you no longer have to check your mail manually. • Swipe actions - instantly delete emails or mark as unread/read. • Multiple account support - use different email accounts right from the app! • Send multiple attachments - easily add photos and documents to an email, all at once. • Undo Delete - to prevent mistakes. • Search - find your messages faster with instant results. • Save your uncompleted messages to Draft folder and continue later. • Auto-complete contact names - as you type from your Mail.ee contacts or your phone. • On / Off remote images in messages. • High spam protection. • Contacts synchronization. • Secure data storage and sending via SSL. Contact Us: Whether you are experiencing any issues, questions or ideas, please contact us via the "Feedback" form in the app or email feedback@mail.ee. We will do all we can to solve the problem as soon as possible. Rate Us: Special thanks to everyone who rates us 5 stars and provides a warm feedback. It's makes our developers team happier!

About

Bee

Streamline your email communication with quick access to contacts and group messaging. Easily send emails to individuals or pre-defined groups from within the app or other applications.

Highlights
  • Quick contact access
  • Group emailing
  • Email from any app
  • Add unlimited contacts (premium)
  • Create custom groups (premium)
Features
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Easily and speedily email colleagues, friends and family using your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Apart from being fun and friendly, Bee is super easy to setup. Just install the app and add people from your contacts or enter email addresses not in your contacts. Later compose emails by simply tapping on contacts from the Bee app or from other apps. Premium features -- Add unlimited contacts -- Create groups like friends, family, work to email many people at once Here’s just some of the nice things that the press have written about Bee: "Bee offers an alternative front end to Apple Mail where users can add favorite contacts, create one-tap groups, and easily attach photos or videos to new emails, all in a single step.” — J.R. Bookwalter, MacWorld "One of the fastest ways to send an email you'll find on iOS.” — Luke Dormehl, Cult of Mac "Bee Quickly Sends Emails from Any iOS App.” — Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker "Thanks to Bee, you can not only email individual contacts, but also a group of contacts that you have created in the app.” — Preshit Deorukhkar, Beautiful Pixels Bee is brought to you by Americos, the makers of popular apps like Transbot, Convoto, GIFO, Selfshot, Piku Piku and more. To know more about us, visit http://www.americostech.com We’d love to hear from you about Bee. If you have any concerns, feedback, or questions email us at support@americostech.com or connect with us on Twitter: @beeemail

Screenshots

mail.ee4 screens
Bee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: mail.ee at 4.8 against Bee's 4.0. mail.ee also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). Bee's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. mail.ee sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and Bee sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

mail.ee holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: mail.ee has 101 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of mail.ee's written reviews are positive against 72% of Bee's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

mail.ee ships an update every 9 days, Bee every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
mail.ee versus Bee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametermail.eeBee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (101 ratings) — better4.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better72.2% of reviews
Number of ratings101 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerinbox.lvAmericos Technologies

Customer experience

mail.ee

All ratings102 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bee

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

mail.ee

Subscriptions1
  • mail.ee Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
1 purchases

Bee

One-time1
  • Add Unlimited Contacts$0.99

Questions

Is mail.ee free?
mail.ee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bee free?
Bee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, mail.ee or Bee?
mail.ee is rated higher. mail.ee averages 4.8 out of 5 from 101 ratings, while Bee averages 4.0 from 10 ratings.
Do mail.ee or Bee have ads?
Neither mail.ee nor Bee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, mail.ee or Bee?
mail.ee ships an update every 9 days, and Bee every 3 months. Most recently, mail.ee was updated on November 1, 2026 and Bee on October 26, 2026.

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