Comparison

Speaking Email vs Clipperly

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

Head to head
About

Speaking Email

This app reads your emails aloud and allows you to manage them using voice commands. It's ideal for hands-free and eyes-free email access, benefiting drivers and individuals with visual impairments or motor difficulties.

Highlights
  • Reads emails aloud
  • Voice commands for replies and management
  • Hands-free and eyes-free operation
  • Smart content detection
  • Multilingual email support
  • Secure connection to various email servers
Features
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Reads your email out loud, lets you reply and manage mail by voice commands. Ideal for visually impaired users, driving, or anytime you'd like to check email hands free & eyes free. Premium Edition is free for 7 days. Then you are automatically switched to Basic Edition. (Note for CarPlay users: see our other app 'Speaking Email CP') — WHY DO I WANT IT? — FOR DRIVERS Get more time in your day when you check your email on the move. Most people spend 1-2 hours in their inbox. With the help of Speaking Email during your daily drive to work, you can easily cut this time in half. Get more done, stay on top and keep a clean inbox. Voice commands and simple gestures designed to be safe to use while driving give you the ability to archive, flag or even reply on the move. (Note for CarPlay users: see also our other app "Speaking Email CP") FOR ACCESSIBILITY Makes email easy to use for those with visual impairment, blindness, dyslexia, stroke, motor dysfunction. Designed to be used without needing to see or touch the screen, Speaking Email works as a fully voice operated email app. Note: a sighted assistant or VoiceOver is required to sign into your email account and configure the many preferences to your liking. The rest is all voice controlled! — HOW DOES IT WORK? — Speaking Email reads your latest emails out loud from your inbox, one by one. Swipe left and right to play your inbox like a jukebox. Whip through your inbox, clear clutter, flag important items and make inbox zero a reality - all while on the go. You can interact with your email using full screen taps, swipes and voice commands. Voice recognition needs a trigger. You choose when to pause for a command - on full screen tap, every 30 seconds, at the start/end of emails. — FEATURES — - Smart content detection skips over disclaimers, reply headers, and email signatures to speak only the content without the clutter - Multilingual mode automatically detects the email language and switches voices to match, using Apple text-to-speech voices - Makes use of the latest Apple speech recognition technology lets you dictate your reply, which is read back to you before sending - Our simple Ignore Sender command puts you in control, allowing you to avoid hearing emails from the sender in future - Connects securely to all email servers, including Gmail (using Google Sign In), Microsoft 365 (aka Office 365 - using Microsoft Sign In supporting Intune, MFA and OAUTH), Exchange (via ActiveSync), IMAP, POP, iCloud (using app password), Outlook/Hotmail (using Microsoft Sign In), Yahoo (using Yahoo Sign In), AOL (using AOL Sign In) - Voice commands and buttons include: Next Back Archive/Done Flag Trash Reply Forward Ignore (thumbs down) Important (thumbs up) Block Sender Rewind Fast Forward Compose Search Voice Slower Faster People When - Many preferences to set up your experience how you like — QUESTIONS — Reach us at feedback@speaking.email See our FAQ: http://www.speaking.email/faq Feature tour: http://www.speaking.email — RECOGNITION — - Gizmodo - "Highly Recommended" by Marc Saltzman in USA Today - TV3 News (NZ), Sky News - The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph - NZ Herald, National Business Review - Featured by Apple in Best New Apps - Voted Most Fundable App by Context.IO - Finalist in NZ Hi Tech Awards — QUOTES — “This is a nifty app, and one that will make driving a little safer for inbox addicts”—NBR “My eyesight isn’t as it was years ago, and your Speaking Email makes it so much easier for me to keep in touch with folks” — Willis Hargrave “I absolutely love the app and being an outside sales rep in the car 4-6 hours a day find it incredibly helpful. It is literally freeing up and hour or 2 of time for me every day I am on the road by having a lot less time at the desk doing email. THANKS!!!” — Scott Middleton https://speaking.email/page/privacy https://speaking.email/page/terms-of-use

About

Clipperly

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You spent 20 minutes writing the perfect post. Then your social app crashed. Post gone. Not. any. more. Write your captions in Clipperly. stack on your saved hashtags all with one tap, and paste the whole post wherever you need it. So when you have multiple accounts you can make posts in different places without losing a thing. Even if Instagram crashes, you still have your post and your templates. Don't lose another perfect post. Stop re-finding the same things you need to use often Your booking link. Your email signature. Your bio. Your best responses. Your office WiFi, The things you copy ten times a week, you shouldn't have to go hunting for them. Save them to Clipperly once, and they're one tap away forever. Save hours of your time. The more you use a clip, it climbs to the top so you can find what you use the most fastest. Your most needed things are always at the top, automatically. Those things you only use once in a while, you can do one quick search and copy it again. Stack clips to build something bigger. Post body. Hashtags. Link. Save each piece once, then stack them together in any order before you copy. One tap sends everything to your device clipboard - ready to paste as one. Perfect for creators building posts, developers combining code, anyone who assembles the same pieces differently each time. Clipperly is for people who create. — Creators: draft posts, save hashtags, never lose a caption again — Founders: keep your pitch, bio, and links in arm's reach — Freelancers: store your rates, proposals, and standard replies — Developers: save snippets, tokens, and commands you use daily — Anyone who types the same things over and over — and is done with it Everything you need in a single tap

Screenshots

Speaking Email4 screens
Clipperly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Speaking Email at Free against Clipperly's $4.99. Speaking Email also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). Clipperly's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ads 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

Speaking Email is free to download; Clipperly costs $4.99 up front. Speaking Email sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Clipperly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speaking Email ships an update every 3 weeks, Clipperly every 8 months. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Speaking Email versus Clipperly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeaking EmailClipperly
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (206 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings206 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBEWEB LTDAndrew Sorensen

Bugs and requests

Speaking Email

Reported bugs

18 issues
  • Keeps crashing
  • Doesn't work reliably
  • Granting Gmail access is buggy
  • App crashes after an update
  • Doesn't save place in emails
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  • Cannot skip forward in emails
  • Cannot connect to emails
  • Times out from mail setup screen
  • Frozen in settings page
  • Emails disappear after reading
  • Unstable with Exchange
  • Archived emails disappear
  • Doesn't recognize passwords
  • Cannot delete the app
  • Hidden icon floating around screen
  • Browser cookies disabled error for Gmail
  • Too loud with AirPods
  • Emails don't load properly

Requested features

13 requests
  • Ability to search using voice command
  • CarPlay support
  • Apple Watch App for interaction
  • Support for Exchange using Active Sync or Outlook Web Access
  • Dark mode option
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  • Better voice quality
  • Option to turn off voice command prompts
  • Ability to set to only pull 'primary' for Gmail
  • Improve editing of responses
  • Better battery optimization
  • Clearer understanding of settings
  • Ability to save place in emails
  • Search functionality

Clipperly

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Speaking Email

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription Annual$34.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium Plan$4.99
  • Premium Plan 3 Months$14.99
  • Premium Plan 12 Months$49.99
None

Clipperly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speaking Email free?
Speaking Email is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clipperly free?
Clipperly costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Speaking Email or Clipperly have ads?
Neither Speaking Email nor Clipperly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speaking Email or Clipperly?
Speaking Email ships an update every 3 weeks, and Clipperly every 8 months. Most recently, Speaking Email was updated on October 14, 2026 and Clipperly on October 14, 2026.

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