Envora · Bulk email from your iPhone
Envora: dispatch bulk emails without the markup
Cost-efficient bulk email for small businesses, freelancers and marketers, with no per-subscriber traps and no inflated tiers.
App Store · Free to download · iPhone
Which situation are you in?
- Under about fifty contacts: your own mailbox.
- A stable list of a few hundred, sent monthly: a free tier you won’t outgrow.
- You send from iPhone through Gmail: a free-to-download app.
How we checked
We sorted “free” offers by what is actually free, using the original guide’s analysis and the Envora US App Store listing (read 29 Oct 2026, 03:26 IST). We didn’t test individual providers’ caps, so no provider is named with a number.
1. Your existing mailbox
- What’s free: Sending, within your account’s limit
- Catch: Daily limits; a personal Gmail account allows 500 a day (Gmail Help)
- Best for: Tiny volume
2. A capped free tier
- What’s free: Up to a contact or send cap
- Catch: The cap bites when the list grows
- Best for: Stable small lists
3. A free trial
- What’s free: A few weeks
- Catch: Then a bill; it’s deferred, not free
- Best for: Evaluation only
4. A free-to-download app
- What’s free: The download
- Catch: Check what is paid; Envora: Free to download; one-time $39.99 Lifetime Unlock (US App Store, read 29 Oct 2026)
- Best for: Sending through an account you already have
Comparison at a glance
| Kind of free | What is free | What the catch bites on | Fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Own mailbox | Sending | Daily limit | Tiny lists |
| Capped free tier | Up to a cap | Contacts or sends | Stable lists |
| Free trial | A few weeks | Time | Testing |
| Free with branding | Sending | Your brand in every footer | Hobby projects |
| Free-to-download app | Download | Paid unlocks | Own-account senders |
Categories from the original guide; no provider-specific caps quoted.
The four kinds of free
- Free tier with a contact cap. Free up to a few hundred or a few thousand contacts, then priced. Fine until you grow, at which point you are migrating or paying.
- Free trial. Not free — deferred. Fourteen or thirty days, then a bill. Useful for evaluation, not for running on.
- Free with provider branding. Your emails carry the provider's logo and footer. Free forever, but every message advertises someone else's product to your customers.
- Genuinely free to download. No recurring fee for the software itself. You may still pay whatever your sending route costs.
What the caps actually bite on
Free tiers restrict different things, and which restriction matters depends entirely on your pattern.
Contact caps hurt if your list grows steadily. You will hit the ceiling at an unpredictable moment — often right after a successful campaign brings in signups.
Daily or monthly send caps hurt if you send in bursts. A 2,000-message monthly allowance is useless if you need to send 2,000 in one afternoon.
Feature gating is the subtlest. The free tier often excludes exactly the thing that makes email work — automated welcome emails, scheduling, or removing provider branding. You discover this after importing your list.
The real cost of provider branding
Worth thinking about properly rather than dismissing. Every email you send carries "Sent with [Provider]" and their logo.
For a hobby project, irrelevant. For a business emailing customers, it undercuts you in a specific way: it signals that you are operating at the smallest possible scale. A customer deciding whether to trust you with a significant order reads that footer. Whether that matters depends on what you sell and to whom.
Free options that are actually viable
Your existing mailbox, for tiny volume. Google Workspace permits a limited number of recipients per day. For under about fifty contacts, this genuinely works and costs nothing extra. Use BCC properly, or better, send individually. Do not attempt hundreds — you will hit the cap and risk your account.
A free tier you will not outgrow. If your list is genuinely stable at a few hundred and you send monthly, a capped free tier may serve you indefinitely. Check the cap against your realistic two-year list size, not today's.
Pay-as-you-go sending. Not free, but so cheap at low volume it approximates free — often a small fraction of a cent per message with no monthly floor. For a few thousand messages a year this can cost less than a coffee.
What no free option gives you
Deliverability is your responsibility regardless of price. No free tier will fix an unauthenticated domain. Publish SPF, DKIM, and DMARC before your first send — Google and Yahoo require authentication from bulk senders now, and unauthenticated mail is increasingly rejected rather than filtered. Our deliverability guide lists exactly what to publish.
Compliance is also yours. Business name, postal address, and a working one-click unsubscribe in every commercial email, on any plan.
How to choose without regretting it
Write down your realistic list size in two years, your sending frequency, and whether provider branding is acceptable in your market. Then check the free tier against those three answers rather than against today's numbers. Most bad choices here come from evaluating against a list of 200 and being surprised at 2,000.
And export your contacts on day one. Whatever you pick, the list is the asset — keep a copy somewhere you control.
Where Envora fits
Envora is our bulk email dispatch app for iPhone and it is free to download on the App Store. It is built for small businesses and freelancers who want to send periodically without per-subscriber pricing. Check the App Store listing for current details.
If you want X, take Y
- If you want truly free for a tiny list, take your own mailbox.
- If you want a dashboard and stay small, take a free tier you won’t outgrow.
- If you want to send from iPhone through Gmail, take Envora (free download, $39.99 one-time unlock).
Sources are linked inline. Google can change its limits, so check the linked pages before a large send.