Msg Viewer Pro
reviews and complaints

This is perfect for viewing Outlook .msg files.I have a few messages I needed to review for an project.I could not open these messages.This program worked great and was reasonably priced for what I needed it to do.Keep up the good work.

This works well. When I get an attachment in Outlook or mail with one of the supported formats, I just use the share sheet to send it to msg viewer and I’m good to go.

Nice that the one purchase makes it available on macOS, iPadOS and iOS.

I love this app and use it for all my outlook account,tried many other apps but nothing beats this in overall functionality.I've welcomed this app which allows me to view Microsoft Outlook .msg files. works great,I would recommend this to everyone.

Read the reviews before I purchased and was a little bit skeptical after reading the post from element26. Not sure what element26 is doing, as this software is easy to use and I did not experience the issues he/she is talking about. Works perfectly for me.

This app actually works perfectly.I don't even need to worry about it,it always work correctly.I like to use it to view my outlook .msg files,it's reliable and don't have any problem.Really impressed with this app,thanks for investing the time,money and resources to do it right.

I wanted to open some msg files without using Outlook. I saw this application. $4.99, not much. If somebody thinks so, they are out of touch. :). Worked great. Did the job. I saw the “negative review”. Please. Got to deal with that. So, very happy with this. :)

This application just flat-out works. I'm amazed. It handles attachments, etc, just like a native email client. I can save-as and print and reply. All envelope information is retained, including To, Cc, etc. It's worth 10x the $5 pricetag. If you need it, get it. This is the one.

I could not get by without MVP. I work on a Mac using the Spark email client while our clients use Exchange and insist on attaching emails. MVP works seamlessly and flawlessly to reveal the otherwise unreadable contents of the attached messages. Excellent tool in my box, keep it up!

I bought this app because I needed to open my Microsoft Outlook .msg files. A few files could be opened (though they are missing parts compared to the originals), and others were complete gibberish! Buyer beware — I found many of the below reviews copied and pasted from OTHER products reviews.

I had great hopes for this app. After installation, I opened a couple of messages and found that style information was mixed with the message text making it useless. If I wanted to see that, I could just open the .msg file in a text editor. I am not clear what value this app is providing. I recommend finding another solution.

This application enables me to view .msg files, ostensibly as forwarded by Outlook users. Surprisingly, it does not render .png inclusions inline where they are supposed to be - they appear along the bottom of the window. That capability, alone, would allow me to give this application 5 stars. I will make a suggestion to the developer.

This app literally saved me tons of time recovering old messages. I found some .msg files from my old computer and I did not know what app to open those files to recover messages. Until one of my friends showed me this app. I tried it and it indeed read all the msg files and recovered all the messages. That feels like recovering old memories. Amazing app.

It is really a powerful Msg viewer. It can help me to open Microsoft Outlook .msg files. and msg files quickly easily on my Mac. I have many msg files. it opened them perfectly. Beautiful interface. More importantly. it retain the layouts well. It is a good deal.I just purchased this app and so far very pleased with the results. Very simple and straight forward to use.

We previously stored 10s of thousands of individual .msg files in our document management system. Once we switched to Macs, they became inaccessable. We have tried several solutions, and this by far is the best. Have not run into the problems that other reviewers have. Just clean, faithful reproduction of the original email.

As an aside, I would discourage others from storing individual .msg files because of their proprietary nature. Fortunately this app saved us from ourselves.

I selected this App after reading the good reviews and clicked on install. As with some apps, a dialog box appeared, which contained app usage statements that I must agree to. I read the entire list and the very last one stated that I must first agree to allow the App, "Msg Viewer Pro" to gather any material on my computer in any manner they saw fit, and that this data may be used to market or advertise other items to me. I found the unlimited data access “in any manner they saw fit” (my quote, as I don’t recall the exact phrase) to be unworthy of an App that Apple would present for purchase. I declined. The App was still installed and I had to delete it.

I have an MSG attachment in a Jira ticket from a Windows user. I need to view the screenshot that was included in the MSG attachment. I can't open it in Outlook or Mail, and head in Terminal simply outputs garbled data I can't make sense of. I run this app and presto! I can see the contents. The screenshot isn't inline with the email content, but couldn't care less—I need the content. The screenshot image file is included at the bottom of the converted email's window as an attachment. I double-click it, view the screenshot and now I can understand the user's problem. I fix the problem, update and close my Jira ticket.

Only $5 and still in active development. Thank you!

As a mac user in a company that runs primarily windows, after searching for .msg viewers, trying a few online converters, downloading a few of the “dat viewers” here in the store that didn’t show me any msg content, I went ahead and pulled the trigger on this paid app (knowing it's possible to request a refund from Apple if it didn’t work effectively). Worked instantly showing exact content of msg files and all marketed features work for me. It will support my particular needs and am grateful there’s a reasonably priced option here to mitigate the steps of seeing the file content.

Only recommendation I’d have for the developer is to replace the toolbar button icons with something more modern, reflective of Apple’s evolving aethetic. The present icons (in version 1.9.6) look like clipart and it lessens the perceived quality of the app itself.

My employer only distibutes and supports Windows-based computers but allows employees to BYO computers and devices, so long as the Microsoft MDM/Company Portal software is installed. As a avid Mac user, I've struggled when provided with customer-facing email templates from Marketing in the windows .oft format.

Using Msg View Pro, I can now open those .oft files (Outlook for Windows email template files), save them to .eml format (Outlook for Mac message file), then open that message in Outlook for Mac and "Save As Template" from the file menu. And it works perfectly without any formatting disruption to the original template, including any embedded HTML graphic links.

Maybe one day the developer of this app will include a direct export from .oft (Outlook for Windows email template) to .emltpl (Outlook for Mac email template) but I'm satisfied with the present solution even with having to take the extra step and do that myself. It's a very minor inconvenience.

I'm thrilled I no longer need to ask a Windows user colleague to open the template, address the email to me and send back, and then clean up the file and save as a Mac-friendly template. Saves me from the delay, all the clean up, and of course prevents me from having to inconvenience others.

One would think Microsoft would have gotten past this incompatibility by now like they have with most other office files that open seamlessly across the two OS platforms.

It doesn’t work, downlooaded this and its not even opening guys. Save your self the stress>>

Paid for it, download it and nothing… tried from different local and cloud services without any success.

Sure, it opens the body of the message, but all attachments are completely mangled, can’t even work out the original attachment names. Had a few .msg messages with .eml messages attached inside, every single one of them was corrupt.

It did not open any of the msg files.

This tool failed to open the .msg file I received. While it’s 2.8 mb big, this app claimes there is nothing in it.
On Windows, the file opens perfectly!