Clean Email vs mailtrim

Clean Email helps people manage busy inboxes by grouping messages for bulk organization, archiving or removal. Its Unsubscriber lists subscriptions and newsletters for bulk unsubscribing, while Auto Clean rules can move, star, mark, delete or archive messages according to criteria such as sender, domain, status and age. Screener holds messages from unknown senders for review, where users can allow or block them. The service connects directly to mailboxes from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, iCloud, Outlook and other IMAP providers, so it can work alongside an existing email app. Apps are listed for Android, iOS, macOS and the web. Clean Email says its index stores message metadata, not message bodies or attachments by default; it deletes the index after 45 days without a login or when an account is removed. A free account cleans up to 1,000 messages, but excludes Screener, Sender and Mailing List Settings, and Auto Clean. The pricing note lists paid plans from $9.99/mo and a 14-day trial; premium plan prices are not itemized here.

mailtrim is a free, MIT-licensed Linux command-line tool for finding and clearing inbox clutter. It ranks senders by storage impact, then lets users bulk-delete selected senders or an entire domain; one command can remove more than 300 messages from one sender. A dry-run preview shows the proposed deletion first, and deleted mail remains restorable from Trash for up to 30 days. It works with Gmail and IMAP services such as Outlook, Fastmail, iCloud, and self-hosted servers. Gmail uses OAuth, while IMAP credentials do not retain the password locally. Optional AI tools provide triage, natural-language bulk operations, and weekly digests, but are disabled by default. When Anthropic handles AI requests, subjects, sender details, and snippets are sent, not full bodies or attachments. Metadata, tokens, rules, and undo logs stay under ~/.mailtrim/, with no analytics or usage tracking.