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Hobb vs Spark.

Beautiful email from Readdle. Beautiful email that still won’t turn an action item into a task.

THE HONEST VERDICT

Spark makes reading mail pleasant. Hobb makes the work leave your head: calls become notes, promises become to-dos, and the list is ranked by who actually matters to your business.

WHERE SPARK SHINES

Genuinely lovely mail app across Mac, iOS and Windows

Smart Inbox, Set Aside and Mark as Done for lightweight triage

~4.6★ across thousands of App Store ratings

WHERE REVIEWERS SAY IT BREAKS

No native email-to-task, action items only leave via Todoist, Things or Notion

Spark 3 is widely called slow, unreliable and crash-prone

Weak search, and nothing outside the inbox

Side by side.

WHAT YOU GET

Spark

HOBB

Price

Free · Plus $10/mo · Pro $20/mo

$34/mo yearly · $43 monthly, flat

A real, dialable business number

Included

Channels covered

Calls, texts, WhatsApp & email

Notes written from your calls

Automatic, audio then discarded

One ranked to-do list

Set Aside / Mark as Done, no native tasks

Every channel, ranked by who matters

Billing model

Per user

Month to month · visible meter · no contract

Spark is a trademark of its owner; Hobb is not affiliated with or endorsed by it. Pricing and review themes reflect published information as of June 2026 and may change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

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