Purelymail vs Digismak

Purelymail pricing, explained

Purelymail costs $10 a year per account, not per user. On its simple pricing there are no hard limits on users, custom domains or storage. The limits are soft instead. If an account uses a lot more than $10 a year in storage and mail traffic, Purelymail may ask you to switch to advanced pricing, which is pay as you go. Purelymail says most users won't run into the soft limits.

A few other rules shape how you can use it. External sending is capped at about 3,000 emails a day, or 300 at once, and support can raise that. Marketing and advertising email aren't allowed, and neither are mailing lists. There's no free plan: a trial gives you a small amount of credit, which Purelymail says might last a month or so.

Purelymail vs Digismak, side by side

Neither charges per person, and both cover more than one domain for one price. After that, they're built for different habits: Purelymail for reading mail in a mail app, Digismak for a browser inbox per project.

Where Purelymail is the better pick

Price, first. A whole Purelymail account costs $10 a year, however many people and domains you add, as long as you stay inside the soft limits. Digismak's sending runs on Cloudflare's Workers Paid plan at $5 a month, which is $60 a year. If your Cloudflare account already pays for Workers Paid for one of your projects, that same plan covers Digismak's sending. If it doesn't, Purelymail is cheaper, however many domains you have.

Then mail apps. Purelymail supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, so you can read your mail in Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or your phone's mail app. It also syncs calendars and contacts through CalDAV and CardDAV. Digismak has none of that. It's an inbox you open in a browser.

What running on your own account means

Your mail records live in your own Cloudflare DNS, where you can see every one. Setup uses an API token you create, limited to that one domain, and you can delete it any time to cut off access. Your existing Email Routing rules keep working, because Digismak only adds a catch-all for addresses nothing else covers. If you stop using Digismak, delete the token, the relay Worker and the catch-all rule, and new mail follows your own routing rules again. Read more about email hosting on Cloudflare.

Setup is done for you. Digismak turns on Email Routing, adds the MX and SPF records and turns on Email Sending with DKIM. It adds a DMARC record if your domain has none, then sends a real test email through the whole path. It usually takes a few minutes, mostly Cloudflare verifying the domain. Our SPF, DKIM and DMARC checker shows what your domain has today.

One login, an inbox for each project

Connect each domain and it gets its own inbox, with its own addresses, labels and sign-in page. You switch between projects from the top of the inbox, so mail for your SaaS doesn't mix with mail for your newsletter. Domains in the same Cloudflare account share one Workers Paid plan.

There's no mail app to set up. You open the inbox in a browser and sign in with a 6-digit code sent to the email you already use. Shared addresses like support@ and hello@ are free. If a cofounder or a contractor joins later, add them from the admin console and they can read and answer the shared addresses too. A reply from a shared address goes out as “Name (support@)”, so the person who wrote in can see who answered.

Mail is grouped into conversations, and you see a live preview of each reply before it goes. An admin can keep images from senders blocked until someone allows them. See how shared inboxes work.

What to know before choosing either

Purelymail

• It's run by a small team, in its own words: “as a small team, response times can vary”, and there's no 24/7 support staff. Help is mostly self-service docs and a Discord community, with paid priority support available.
• Scott Johnson built it and sold it to Add Rabbit LLC in March 2025. Purelymail says it has recently made efforts to hire new staff.
• Purelymail doesn't mention an app of its own. Its docs cover setting up other mail apps, and Roundcube works in the browser. Push doesn't work in the built-in iOS Mail app, and Purelymail explains why on its site.

Digismak

• It's in early access, and free while that lasts. The Cloudflare plan is paid to Cloudflare either way.
• It's browser only: no IMAP, POP or SMTP, and no calendar, contacts or file storage.
• Your domain's DNS must be on Cloudflare. Moving it there is free.
• It doesn't import old mail yet, so your old messages stay where they are.
• Outgoing attachments can be up to 3.5 MB per email, with up to 50 recipients per email.

Who should pick Purelymail, and who should pick Digismak

Pick Purelymail if the lowest price matters most and you don't already pay for Workers Paid, or if you read mail in Apple Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird or a phone mail app. It also suits you if you want calendars and contacts synced, or if your domains aren't on Cloudflare.

Pick Digismak if your projects are on Cloudflare and you want each one's mail in its own browser inbox, with shared addresses a cofounder or contractor can answer too. If you already pay for Workers Paid, it adds nothing to your bill. It also suits you if you'd rather not set up a mail app at all, and want sending and receiving to stay in your own Cloudflare account.