mailtrim vs Paperweight

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.

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.