How exactly does GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner work?
GoodByEmail's AI engine does a lot of number crunching on your inbox and securely identifies email senders that are using up your inbox storage quota, so you can see who your top inbox offenders are, their email addresses, the amount of storage they consume, and the number of emails you've received from them.
Furthermore, you can also easily unsubscribe from unwanted mailing lists, further decluttering your inbox.
Equipped with all this knowledge, you can mass delete unwanted emails in a controlled manner and reclaim gigabytes of storage!
And it’s totally secure! All processing happens on your computer; not a single email is uploaded to GoodByEmail's servers. Plus, you can even use it offline! See our how to.I thought deleting large emails was the key to getting more inbox space. So, smaller emails matter too?
Absolutely! Starting by deleting the larger ones is great, but it doesn’t clear out as much as you’d think. This is where GoodByEmail jumps in! It uses smart technology to find the senders, many of whom you likely no longer care about, who have been filling your inbox for years and taking up a lot of your storage space.How does GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner ensure the privacy and security of my emails?
GoodByEmail prioritizes user privacy and security above all. Unlike all other email cleaning, unsubscribe and declutter solutions on the market, which require access to your emails using your login—even though they swear they are secure—GoodByEmail even operates offline.
All processing happens locally on your computer, and your data is never sent to GoodByEmail's servers! In this way, we have zero access to your data, allowing you to maintain full control and confidentiality of your information.
No, we don’t need your OAuth token or invasive permissions to operate. We steer clear of any approaches that would compromise the security of your data. Your privacy is our priority!.
Check this out for 5 essential considerations before using email cleaning tools.I really value convenience; is GoodByEmail Inbox cleaner a good fit for me?
Convenience often comes at the expense of privacy. If you prefer simplicity over engaging in hands-on tasks, GoodByEmail might not align with your preferences. However, if your priority is to avoid third-party access to your inbox, you've come to the right place!
The compromise here involves handling specific, yet simple steps—such as exporting your inbox and deleting emails—yourself when using GoodByEmail (for help with the export, see our guide). This is crucial to keep your emails between you and no one else.
By design, we don’t require any OAuth or invasive permissions, putting you in full control. Think of it as creating your own safety net—it’s some extra steps, but it guarantees security!I archive my emails once a month, how can GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner fit into my email archiving routine?
GoodByEmail empowers users to address email management both proactively, for mailboxes in use, and retrospectively, for email archives, streamlining both inbox organization and archive maintenance. A pre-archiving cleanup with GoodByEmail ensures a well-organized and efficient archive containing only relevant and necessary emails. Moreover, GoodByEmail’s privacy-first approach ensures the secure handling of sensitive emails, aligning well with privacy standards in archiving processes. With GoodByEmail you can maintain a cleaner, more manageable, and secure email archive.Is there a way for GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner to automatically scan for new clutter on a regular basis?
To maintain your privacy, GoodByEmail does not automatically scan your inbox. You can manually re-scan your inbox at any time with a valid license.
The manual steps are intentional and designed to keep your data truly yours. Any service promising to regularly scan your inbox will require your login credentials or OAuth tokens of some sort.
Those are permissions to read your email content. With those in place, your data is fetched by their backend, passing through their servers, introducing privacy risks.
Check out our manifesto for more on reclaiming your privacy.Do I have to do some manual work myself, or does GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner delete emails automatically?
Yes, there’s a manual element—but that’s by design. GoodByEmail doesn’t automatically scan or delete emails, ensuring your privacy remains intact. However, you're not alone in this. Think of us as a little guardian angel guiding you through the clutter, helping you make smart decisions about what stays and what goes.
On your own email client, guided by the insights provided by GoodByEmail, you can mass delete emails from your top inbox offenders.
The manual steps are intentional. Any service that offer full automation require ongoing access to your inbox, meaning your emails pass through their servers, having full access to your emails. Those services can read everything and even take actions on your behalf, such as deleting emails. We believe in a privacy-first approach, ensuring your information stays secure and under your control.
For more on our privacy-first approach, check out our manifesto.- Gmail: Use the Google Takeout tool to export your inbox to mbox format (guide)
- Microsoft 365, Exchange, Outlook.com and Hotmail: Export your mailbox to .pst format with our guide
- Other Email Providers: Follow our straightforward guide to export your inbox to mbox format easily (guide)
- For Outlook, check out our guide.
- For Zoho Mail, see our guides for Apple Mail and Thunderbird.
Is there an iOS / Android version?
GoodByEmail is only available for desktop, and by design. It is designed to be a powerful and comprehensive email cleaner, and mobile devices are not yet powerful enough to handle the task of cleaning an entire email history. Other mobile email cleaner solutions are more limited, only scanning recent messages or a small subset of your inbox (normally just few thousand emails, or up to 30 days of emails). For a deep clean of your inbox, analyzing your whole inbox history, GoodByEmail's privacy-first desktop app is the best option.Isn't simply clicking 'unsubscribe' enough to declutter my inbox?
Not alone. It's vital to address the 'Top Offenders' that dominate your inbox. For a detailed strategy on this, check out our article.Which email providers do you support?
GoodByEmail supports most email providers.
To use the app, your email inbox needs to be in either mbox or Outlook .pst format. Here's a straightforward guide on how you can export your inbox.
Or continue reading below for more detailed guides:
If you're using Outlook or Zoho Mail, additional instructions are provided for exporting your accounts as mbox files through Apple Mail or Thunderbird:Do you support Microsoft Exchange, Outlook.com, Office 365 mailboxes?
Yes, GoodByEmail has native support for Outlook Data Files (.pst format) of any size. Need help creating a .pst archive of your mailbox? Check out this guide.Do I have control over which emails are deleted?
Yes, you have full control over which emails are deleted. On your own email client, guided by the insights provided by GoodByEmail, you can mass delete emails from your top inbox offenders.
Having the user delete the emails themselves is a deliberate design choice: GoodByEmail is the only solution on the market that enables you to identify your top inbox offenders in a completely secure manner.
Unlike GoodByEmail, other email cleaning services have full access to your emails. They can read everything and even take actions on your behalf, such as deleting emails.
Technically speaking, we do not allow you to delete emails from the app, as this would require us to use your OAuth tokens and permissions to act on your behalf.
We have explained the risks and our approach here, should you wish to gain a deeper understanding: Why Privacy Matters.How many of my email inboxes can I analyze with an active user license?
Unlimited email inboxes per user. Rejoice!Can I use GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner without a license?
Without a license you will only get a taste of our capabilities: dive into a free version of your inbox analytics and get unordered results of everyone who has ever emailed you. However, a license is required to obtain actionable insights on how to clean up your email inbox and reveal the top email senders eating up your storage.Can I move my license from one device to another?
Yes, absolutely! You can transfer your license between devices as many times as you need. Simply visit your account page, where you’ll see your currently registered device(s). To free up a license for a new machine, just remove the old one—it’s that easy! Bonus for LTD buyers: The first 100 Lifetime Deal (LTD) buyers get an extra device installation at no additional cost.Does the sender list export keep a record of everyone who has ever emailed me?
Yes! The PDF/CSV export provides a complete history of all senders who have ever contacted you, along with stats like email count and storage usage by sender. Common use cases: * IT admins or family members helping clean up an inbox can first export a list of top senders, share it with the inbox owner, and decide which emails to delete. * Individuals preparing for a transition (e.g., leaving a job or university) can keep a record of all past contacts before losing access to their inbox.Is this really lifetime access and updates to the GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner app?
Yes, yours or ours, whichever comes first (kidding, it's actually lifetime access and updates to the GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner app).What are the terms governing this deal?
The terms of the lifetime deal are the same as those of our standard pricing plans. You can find them here.Do you offer refunds?
As outlined in our terms, refunds are available within 24 hours of purchase only if you haven’t logged into the app. We also provide a free limited version so you can confirm GoodByEmail works for your inbox before buying. Since value is delivered immediately after use, we don’t offer refunds beyond this. Please take your time to decide—no need to act in FOMO. 😊How does it compare with clean.email?
We are actually a very different product compared to Clean Email. GoodByEmail’s servers cannot read your emails, even if we tried.
The best system analogy for the design principle behind GoodByEmail is air-gapping, a security measure sometimes found in ultra-secure enterprise environments. For example, the algorithm engine sits on the client, and the user brings the data (emails). GoodByEmail's servers do not touch the emails, and GoodByEmail does not ask for user credentials for their email account. Users can even use GoodByEmail offline.
We are the only truly private email cleaner on the market. All other tools require you to grant them
gmail.modifypermissions, which means they have full permissions to read ALL your inbox contents and also to write to it. You can read more about these permissions here.At GoodByEmail, we do not request any OAuth tokens, logins, or passwords. We truly do not have access to your emails. If you want to be extra safe, you can even use the tool offline.
When using other products on the market, you are trusting their marketing. We couldn't trust them and needed to clean our mailboxes, so we built GoodByEmail.
Finally, GoodByEmail is not just an "unsubscribe tool." No other product on the market provides inbox analytics and insights on top offenders. We analyze your whole email history to bring insights into who the senders are that are using up your storage quota (many of whom are not mailing list senders, so you would not be able to "unsubscribe” from them).
This might be helpful: GoodByEmail Clean Email Privacy-First Guide, which goes through email privacy risks and recent scandals involving other products.
How does it compare to unroll.me?
Title of the article below: "Unroll.me head 'heartbroken' that users found out it sells their inbox data"https://www.theguardian.com/.../unrollme-mail...
The lack of respect for user data privacy is the exact reason we’ve created GoodByEmail. People need more truly privacy-first tools like GoodByEmail. We are tired of our data ending up in the hands of others while users aren’t ever aware. As of today, we are the only truly private email cleaner on the market.
How does it compare with Leave Me Alone?
We are actually a very different product compared to Leave Me Alone. GoodByEmail’s servers cannot read your emails, even if we tried.
The best system analogy for the design principle behind GoodByEmail is air-gapping, a security measure sometimes found in ultra-secure enterprise environments. For example, the algorithm engine sits on the client, and the user brings the data (emails). GoodByEmail's servers do not touch the emails, and GoodByEmail does not ask for user credentials for their email account. Users can even use GoodByEmail offline.
We are the only truly private email cleaner on the market. All other tools require you to grant them
gmail.modifypermissions, which means they have full permissions to read ALL your inbox contents and also to write to it. You can read more about these permissions here.At GoodByEmail, we do not request any OAuth tokens, logins, or passwords. We truly do not have access to your emails. If you want to be extra safe, you can even use the tool offline.
When using other products on the market, you are trusting their marketing. We couldn't trust them and needed to clean our mailboxes, so we built GoodByEmail.
Finally, GoodByEmail is not just an "unsubscribe tool." No other product on the market provides inbox analytics and insights on top offenders. We analyze your whole email history to bring insights into who the senders are that are using up your storage quota (many of whom are not mailing list senders, so you would not be able to "unsubscribe” from them).
This might be helpful: GoodByEmail Clean Email Privacy-First Guide, which goes through email privacy risks and recent scandals involving other products.
How does it compare with Inbox Zero?
We are actually a very different product compared to Inbox Zero. GoodByEmail’s servers cannot read your emails, even if we tried.
The best system analogy for the design principle behind GoodByEmail is air-gapping, a security measure sometimes found in ultra-secure enterprise environments. For example, the algorithm engine sits on the client, and the user brings the data (emails). GoodByEmail's servers do not touch the emails, and GoodByEmail does not ask for user credentials for their email account. Users can even use GoodByEmail offline.
We are the only truly private email cleaner on the market. All other tools require you to grant them
gmail.modifypermissions, which means they have full permissions to read ALL your inbox contents and also to write to it. You can read more about these permissions here.At GoodByEmail, we do not request any OAuth tokens, logins, or passwords. We truly do not have access to your emails. If you want to be extra safe, you can even use the tool offline.
When using other products on the market, you are trusting their marketing. We couldn't trust them and needed to clean our mailboxes, so we built GoodByEmail.
Finally, GoodByEmail is not just an "unsubscribe tool." No other product on the market provides inbox analytics and insights on top offenders. We analyze your whole email history to bring insights into who the senders are that are using up your storage quota (many of whom are not mailing list senders, so you would not be able to "unsubscribe” from them).
This might be helpful: GoodByEmail Clean Email Privacy-First Guide, which goes through email privacy risks and recent scandals involving other products.
How does it compare with Trimbox?
We are actually a very different product compared to Trimbox. GoodByEmail’s servers cannot read your emails, even if we tried.
The best system analogy for the design principle behind GoodByEmail is air-gapping, a security measure sometimes found in ultra-secure enterprise environments. For example, the algorithm engine sits on the client, and the user brings the data (emails). GoodByEmail's servers do not touch the emails, and GoodByEmail does not ask for user credentials for their email account. Users can even use GoodByEmail offline.
We are the only truly private email cleaner on the market. All other tools require you to grant them
gmail.modifypermissions, which means they have full permissions to read ALL your inbox contents and also to write to it. You can read more about these permissions here.At GoodByEmail, we do not request any OAuth tokens, logins, or passwords. We truly do not have access to your emails. If you want to be extra safe, you can even use the tool offline.
Finally, GoodByEmail is not just an "unsubscribe tool." No other product on the market provides inbox analytics and insights on top offenders. We analyze your whole email history to bring insights into who the senders are that are using up your storage quota (many of whom are not mailing list senders, so you would not be able to "unsubscribe” from them).
When using other products on the market, you are trusting their marketing. We couldn't trust them and needed to clean our mailboxes, so we built GoodByEmail.
In the case of Trimbox, you'd see, by reading the fine print, that they get 100% access to read and change the contents of your entire inbox:
"If you give Trimbox permissions to access your Gmail data through the Gmail API, Trimbox will use these permissions to read or control Gmail message metadata (including information about attachments), headers and message content to allows users to process (delete/move/archive/unsubscribe from) emails"
We prefer to not have to trust anyone’s goodness of heart of behaving and not reading my emails when they are actually in full control of my whole inbox.
That is why we’ve created GoodByEmail. At first to solve our own problem.
This might be helpful: GoodByEmail Clean Email Privacy-First Guide, which goes through email privacy risks and recent scandals involving other products.
Who are you?
We are Pat and Alex, two privacy-focused developers who were drowning in a sea of emails. Desperate to reclaim our inboxes, we searched for an app that could clean them up efficiently, but every solution seemed to compromise our email content privacy. Unwilling to sacrifice our data or login credentials, we decided to build our own. GoodByEmail was born – the email cleaning app designed with your privacy in mind.
Check out our manifesto on why email privacy matters.
GoodByEmail Inbox Cleaner Lifetime Deal
We've never sold a Lifetime Deal (LTD) before: This means you pay once and get lifetime access and updates to GoodByEmail, with no subscriptions.
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$74 one-off payment
You're overwhelmed by incoming emails and want to regain control of your inbox.
Privacy-first
Desktop app
Inbox analytics
Top Offenders
Unlimited unsubscribes
Unlimited email inboxes
Analyze entire email history
Unlimited inbox size
Lifetime updates
One device installation + One extra device installation for the first 100 LTD buyers
One-time purchase, no recurring charges
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Plus LTD
$171 one-off payment
You're serious about email and want to keep a record of those who have ever emailed you.
Privacy-first
Desktop app
Inbox analytics
Top Offenders
Unlimited unsubscribes
Unlimited email inboxes
Analyze entire email history
Unlimited inbox size
Lifetime updates
Export senders list & stats as PDF and CSV
Two device installations + One extra device installation for the first 100 LTD buyers
One-time purchase, no recurring charges
Charged in your local currency
Pro LTD
$183 one-off payment
You're a pro email user with lots of devices and want to get your email inbox under control.
Privacy-first
Desktop app
Inbox analytics
Top Offenders
Unlimited unsubscribes
Unlimited email inboxes
Analyze entire email history
Unlimited inbox size
Lifetime updates
Export senders list & stats as PDF and CSV with unsubscribe links
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Curious about your inbox stats? Download GoodByEmail for free - take advantage of our free version for a complimentary snapshot of your inbox analytics.
A license is required to obtain actionable insights on how to clean up your email inbox and reveal the top email senders eating up your storage. In the free version you will only get unordered results of everyone who has ever emailed you.
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