Leave Me Alone vs Paperweight

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.

Paperweight is a desktop app that scans email to map accounts, mailing lists, and personal data, then helps users clean up and prepare data access or deletion requests. It builds a company inventory from messages such as receipts, sign-up confirmations, password resets, and security alerts. The app identifies mailing lists for unsubscribe requests and detects personal details in past messages, including addresses, payment cards, IBANs, and national identifiers. It supports Gmail, Outlook, Apple/iCloud, standard IMAP accounts, and Proton Mail through Proton Bridge. Analysis and database storage happen locally; the maker says its servers do not receive email content or credentials. Published under the MIT license, the app lets users inspect or build its code. Free includes one email account with full-history sync and overview features. Pro costs $60 a year, billed yearly, and adds cleanup actions, multiple accounts, privacy requests, and MCP access. Requests are prepared for user review, not sent automatically. Paperweight focuses on relationships found in the inbox and does not remove data-broker records.