Notion’s new email client finally landed on iPhones this week, roughly four months after the company first unfurled Mail on the web and Mac. The app brings the same pared-back, block-based aesthetic you already know from Notion’s notes app, plus a set of AI tricks that are meant to turn email into something more like a productivity workspace and less like an endless to-do list.

At launch, Notion Mail on iOS is tightly focused: it supports Gmail accounts only, it lets you create custom “views” for different kinds of messages, includes swipe gestures and offline reading, and surfaces Notion AI features for composing and summarizing emails. The app is available on the App Store now and — like the Mac and web clients — leans heavily on Notion’s editor so you can draft with headings, callouts and other block elements.

Notion says the iOS release ships in more than 18 languages (Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese are listed among them), which makes the rollout reasonably global from day one.

Notion’s big pitch for Mail is automation: tell Notion AI what matters to you and it will “auto-label” incoming messages, surface the important threads, draft replies with the Notion editor, and help schedule meetings without the usual back-and-forth. The built-in writer can even pull context from Notion pages in your workspace, so your emails can reference notes and templates seamlessly. Those features are central to how Notion explains Mail on its product pages.

That said, there are limitations to the current implementation. Notion’s auto-labeling and the deeper AI setup workflows appear to be more mature on desktop: some outlets and early testers note that certain AI-sorting configurations are easiest to set up in the Mac client (and some first-time configuration options live in desktop settings). In short, the AI is powerful, but the most convenient place to craft the rules is still the Mac or web experience for now.

Notion Mail is intentionally narrow in scope right now. The app only works with Gmail/Google accounts; there’s no unified inbox that shows messages from all of your connected addresses in one feed; and each Notion Mail account ties to a single email address (you can add more addresses, but they live in separate Notion Mail accounts/views rather than as a single combined inbox). For many people, this will feel like a purposeful design choice: Notion wants to replace the inbox workflow, not be a chaotic aggregator of every address you own. For others, especially multi-account power users, those omissions will be stopping points.

Security-wise, Notion emphasizes enterprise standards — SOC 2 and HIPAA are called out on the product pages for users worried about compliance and data handling. That’s relevant if you’re considering moving work email workflows into Notion’s ecosystem.

Notion’s roadmap is explicit about broadening the footprint: the company told press and added notes in its FAQ that Notion Mail will arrive on Android before the end of the year. The company hasn’t given a firm public timeline for supporting non-Gmail providers (Outlook, IMAP accounts, custom domains), so if you don’t live in Google’s ecosystem you’ll want to wait.

If you live in Gmail and you already use Notion regularly, Notion Mail on iOS is worth trying — especially for the convenience of AI-assisted drafting and the ability to reuse Notion content in messages. If you bounce between multiple providers, need a single unified inbox on mobile, or rely on non-Gmail accounts, Notion Mail is interesting but incomplete. It’s a clear first act rather than a finished reinvention: a beautiful, thoughtful inbox that still has some of the rough edges you’d expect in an ambitious new app trying to reshape how we handle email.