InboxSweeper vs Leave Me Alone

InboxSweeper is a free, open-source tool for clearing old promotional mail and newsletters and unsubscribing from mailing lists. It supports Gmail fully; Yahoo and other IMAP inboxes are experimental. Choose among three sweep modes: Sloth targets mail older than two years, Normal mail older than one year, and MadMax includes recent promotional mail. Their respective run caps are 25, 50, and 100 senders. Before moving messages, sweeps show counts; financial, security, payment, receipt, and government mail is protected. You can unsubscribe, move selected messages to Trash, or report senders as spam. Trash messages are described as recoverable for about 30 days. One-click and mailto unsubscribe options are supported; web-link-only options are flagged for manual handling. The tool runs on your computer and says it does not upload mail, credentials, or tokens. It offers a local browser interface, Windows executable, terminal CLI, and AI-agent instructions. It uses a scoped app password rather than Google OAuth, with credentials stored in macOS Keychain or a locked file.

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.