PenviaUpdated 8 November 2026
Quiet by default
Only Chats notify. Updates (newsletters, receipts, alerts) stay quiet unless you choose otherwise per account.
Priority People and Quiet hours (Pro)
Mark the people who matter: their email can break through Focus as a Time Sensitive alert. Quiet hours hold everything else overnight.
Per-account control
Choose All, People or None for each account in Settings › Notifications.
Questions
Can one person break through Focus?
Yes. Priority People (Pro) alerts as Time Sensitive, which Focus can allow.
More about Penvia
- An email app for iPhone that looks like chat
- Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and iCloud in one inbox on iPhone
- Email follow-up reminders with Orbit
- Unsubscribe and clean up newsletters on iPhone
- A private email app with no tracking
- Penvia vs Apple Mail, Gmail, Outlook, Spark, Spike and Superhuman
- Chat-style email apps for iPhone, compared
- Search email by sender, subject and date
- Smart email cards
- Penvia questions and answers
- An email app for people who run a business
- Penvia for Mac and iPad
- How Penvia is different from a classic inbox
- Gmail on iPhone, iPad and Mac — the calm way
- Outlook, Hotmail and Microsoft 365 in Penvia
- Yahoo Mail and AOL in Penvia
- iCloud Mail in Penvia
- An Apple Mail alternative that feels like messaging
- All features
- Pricing
