Cigati Email Migrator vs Shoviv Email Migration Tools

Cigati Email Migrator transfers PST and OST files and IMAP mailboxes to file formats and email platforms. It supports single and bulk migrations, including importing IMAP accounts in batches from a CSV file. Destinations include PST, PDF, Office 365, IMAP, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365/Outlook; IMAP migrations also support additional export formats. The product says it preserves folder structure, email properties, attachments, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Users can filter by date range and folders, and PST/OST jobs can also filter by item type. Duplicate detection compares subject, sender, recipient, CC, and body, while an option skips items transferred earlier. Migration reports list successful, skipped, and failed items. PST/OST migrations can export contacts as VCF and calendars as ICS, and split output PST files by a user-defined size. Preview is available for a single selected PST/OST file and for IMAP mailboxes after a successful connection. The free demo transfers only the first 100 emails per folder; the page does not state a time limit. For Microsoft 365 IMAP migration using modern authentication, administrator consent is generally required, though user-level credentials may work where supported. Cigati says its products process data locally.

Shoviv Email Migration Tools is Windows software for moving Exchange mailboxes between on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365. It supports all versions of on-premises Exchange and Microsoft 365 as sources and targets, including Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration. Multiple mailboxes can be processed, with no stated restriction on mailbox size or mailbox count. The tool migrates shared, public-folder, and archive mailboxes. Incremental export can resume an interrupted job and carry new or changed items on a later run. Filters can target dates, folders, or item types, and jobs can run daily, weekly, or monthly. Shoviv describes standalone installation in the customer environment, with no third-party tools or cloud services used for migration and no source-data modification. Windows and Windows Server are supported, with Windows 10 or 11 recommended and 32-bit and 64-bit architectures listed. A free trial processes or saves the first 50 items per folder. Paid pricing starts at $39; listed lifetime mailbox plans include $494.90, paid once for 10–150 mailboxes, $8,984.49, paid once for 200, $13,963.49, paid once for 400, and $14,952.99, paid once for 500.