GridInbox vs MailPal

GridInbox is a shared email workspace for handling customer conversations sent to business addresses such as support@, sales@, and billing@. Team members can assign conversations, see who is handling them, and send or reply from the address where a message arrived. Its REST API can create and delete aliases, read messages, and send email programmatically. GridInbox also extracts one-time passwords and verification codes from incoming email for access through its dashboard or API. The Free plan costs nothing and includes five aliases, 10 outbound and 50 inbound messages per month, 512MB of storage, a 5 MiB attachment limit, and REST API access. Pro costs $19 a month and includes unlimited aliases, OTP extraction, 5GB storage, and up to three custom domains. Team costs $99 a month and includes five seats with role-based access control and up to 10 custom domains. GridInbox is designed for transactional and operational email; bulk marketing email is prohibited. It runs on the web and offers API access.

MailPal creates unique email aliases for sign-ups and forwards their messages to a real inbox. Aliases can be disabled manually or set to stop after an expiry date or a maximum number of forwards. Wildcard mode can create aliases automatically for new incoming addresses. One dashboard manages multiple domains, each with its own settings and default forwarding address; alias activity includes forwarded and blocked counts and a log. Notes, color tags, full-text search, and bulk actions help organize aliases. The app provides a REST API for alias, domain, tag, and destination operations, and its code is linked from a public GitHub repository. MailPal deploys its dashboard and email worker to Cloudflare using Pages, Workers, KV, and Email Routing. Setup requires a Cloudflare account, a domain added to Cloudflare, and Node.js 18+ or Bun with Wrangler CLI. The maker says email content is not stored, third parties do not access aliases or traffic, and the service uses no analytics or tracking. It is free forever with no monthly fees, running on the Cloudflare account’s free tier.