FrontApp vs Missive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FrontApp
This platform streamlines customer communication for support, sales, and account management teams. It combines help desk efficiency with email familiarity, using automated workflows and real-time collaboration to deliver exceptional service at scale.
- Unified customer communication
- Automated workflows
- Real-time collaboration
- Centralized message routing
- Customer operations visibility
- Team efficiency tools
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Front is a customer operations platform that enables support, sales, and account management teams to deliver exceptional service at scale. Front streamlines customer communication by combining the efficiency of a help desk and the familiarity of email, with automated workflows and real-time collaboration behind the scenes. With Front, teams can centralize messages across channels, route them to the right person, and unlock visibility and insights across all of their customer operations. More than 8,000 businesses use Front to drive operational efficiency that prevents churn, improves retention, and propels customer growth.
Missive
This app helps teams manage shared inboxes, collaborate on emails, and organize conversations. It offers features like canned responses, collaborative writing, and task assignment directly within the inbox, streamlining team communication and workflow.
- Shared inboxes
- Email and chat collaboration
- Task assignment
- Canned responses
- Collaborative writing
- Unified inbox
- Integrations
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Missive lets teams manage shared inboxes and collaborate around emails. Chat, share attachments and assign tasks right from your inbox. Use shared labels to organize conversations by project or department. • Canned Responses - Create reusable templates to save time on repetitive emails. • Collaborative Writing - Compose emails together and get reviewed in real time. • Snooze - Set reminders on emails and chats to clean up your inbox. • Send Later - Draft an email and schedule it to be sent at just the right time. • Pinned Conversations - Drag important conversations to the sidebar for quick access. • Rules - Apply filters to automatically archive or assign conversations to anyone in your organization. • Integrations - Asana, Pipedrive, FullContact, Todoist, Trello, and possibility to develop your own. And much more… • Auto CC / BCC • Snooze only if nobody replies • Push notifications • Rich text and HTML signatures • Connect with Google • Gmail search syntax • Sharable conversation links • Unified inbox
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Missive at 4.5 against FrontApp's 3.3. Missive also leads on review sentiment (74% vs 34%). FrontApp's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Missive holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 201 and 97 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of FrontApp's written reviews are positive against 74% of Missive's.
FrontApp ships an update every 3 weeks, Missive every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FrontApp | Missive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (201 ratings) | 4.5 (97 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.5% of reviews | 74.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 201 — better | 97 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 79 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FrontApp, Inc. | Heliom Inc. |
Customer experience
FrontApp
Missive
Bugs and requests
FrontApp
Reported bugs
17 issues- App crashes frequently on launch and during use
- Emails fail to send or send blank messages
- Login redirects don't complete (Google auth)
- App freezes requiring phone restart
- Unable to mark emails as read
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- Cannot attach images to emails
- Cannot delete or close draft emails
- Inbox fails to load or refresh automatically
- Email body content doesn't load
- Keyboard jumps and disappears when typing comments
- Comment box loses focus with physical keyboard
- App closes when switching to other apps
- Swipe gestures display blank white screens
- Send button requires multiple taps to work
- Tags cannot be removed from emails
- App logs out users unexpectedly
- Performance degradation after updates
Requested features
15 requests- Dark mode for mobile app
- Ability to manage other users' status on mobile
- Calendar integration on mobile
- Push notifications for untagged emails
- Language filtering on mobile
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- Draft generation/AI features on mobile
- Knowledge base access on mobile
- Scheduling links option
- Multi-email selection with swipe gestures
- Tag and template creation/editing on mobile
- Better email truncation handling
- Session persistence when switching apps
- Apple Watch compatibility
- App widgets for mobile
- Advanced search functionality
Missive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FrontApp
No in-app purchases
Missive
No in-app purchases





