LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Recent company posts promote MailTime AI for chat-style email, drafts, summaries, and inbox cleanup.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
MailTime is a mobile email messenger that turns email threads into chat-style bubbles, aiming to make email feel as quick and conversational as texting. It supports multiple major email providers and offers an AI-assisted inbox experience under MailTime AI.
Primary product
Email messenger / chat-style mobile email inbox with MailTime AI
Founded
2013
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Email client / messaging / productivity software
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Business model
freemium
one-time premium app purchase
in-app purchases
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.2M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2016
Latest amount
$120K
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder & CMO
旭张
General Manager, Asian-Pacific
Bryan Tsui
CRO
Chen Xu
VP of Engineering
Rept Lo
Senior Software Engineer
Work & culture
Hiring and product messaging emphasize fast, conversational communication, privacy, and a mobile-first approach. Career copy also suggests a playful startup culture with equity, meals, trips, and skateboard parties.
Compensation
Career page mentions generous equity and competitive pay; no public salary bands or visa policy were found.
Benefits
equity
competitive pay
free meals
holidays in Hawaii
company skateboard parties
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium with a free tier and a premium paid version; premium is a one-time upfront payment and the free tier supports a limited number of connected accounts, with additional accounts available via in-app purchase.
Differentiators
- —chat-style bubbles for email threads
- —supports Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, and corporate mail
- —receiver does not need the app
- —GDPR/privacy controls with opt-in/out data sharing
- —AI drafting and proofreading via MailTime AI
Technology
Objective-C
Swift
Java
C/C++
Python
SQL
PHP
JavaScript
MongoDB
Golang
generative AI
Customers
individual email users
people managing multiple email accounts
mobile-first professionals
teams using email for conversational communication
Competitors
Apple Mail
Gmail
Outlook
Superhuman
Spark
BlueMail
Slack
Zoom
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
8.8K
Traffic estimate as of Apr 2026
Latest news
MailTime · Jul 2023
MailTime AI pages describe a generative-AI email drafting and proofreading assistant branded as MailTime AI.
PR Newswire · Jul 2018
PR Newswire lists a MailTime announcement about preloading on U.S. carriers and over 7 million downloads; evidence supports growth and distribution, though it is older than the requested recent window.
PR Newswire · Oct 2017
MailTime announced a crypto-token initiative and cited funding from Mark Pincus, ZhenFund, Gary Rieschel, Crystal Stream, Y Combinator, and DHVC.
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