Cleanfox vs Leave Me Alone

Cleanfox is a free service for removing unwanted email and unsubscribing from newsletters. It identifies recurring senders and lets users decide what to keep before cleaning. For a newsletter, users can remove all its messages, delete received emails while staying subscribed, or keep it. Mail support includes Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, and most other providers. Card and list views help sort newsletters, with bulk actions in list view; users can add multiple mailboxes and sort them together. Automatic cleanup rules are available. An initial mailbox scan takes an average of 30 minutes to 3 hours. Deleted messages move to the mailbox trash and remain recoverable until the email provider empties it, typically after 5 to 30 days. Cleanfox says it uses end-to-end encryption, does not read or sell emails, and anonymizes newsletter and commercial-transaction data for market statistics. It says users are not targeted by advertising. Attachment downloading and deletion is marked “Soon.” Cleanfox is available on Android, iOS, and the web.

Leave Me Alone brings subscription emails from connected accounts together and lets users unsubscribe from unwanted mailing lists. It follows unsubscribe links to complete requests, rather than merely filtering messages. Rollups gather selected newsletters into scheduled email digests; Screener holds messages from new senders until approval in a browser or by daily digest; Spam Blocker learns from unwanted inbox messages and blocks similar senders. Supported providers include Google and Microsoft accounts, Fastmail, Yahoo Mail, iCloud, AOL, Mail.com and other IMAP mailboxes. The Android app can show mailing lists, unsubscribe and connect accounts. The homepage offers unsubscribing from 10 emails free without a credit card. The Casual Emailer and Inbox Zero Hero plans are each free; the Seven Day Pass is $19, paid once for seven days. The maker says it stores subscription-email metadata; Rollups fetch, encrypt and store selected email content, while Spam Blocker reads some content for classification and training. Paid plans recheck connected addresses against Have I Been Pwned weekly.