Paperweight vs Trimbox

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.

Trimbox helps Gmail users reduce unwanted mail by finding mailing lists and older messages, then offering tools to unsubscribe, delete, and block future messages. Users can unsubscribe from a list with one action; if the list requires a formal request, Trimbox can send one. To clear older mail, users can delete messages from a sender in one action. Those messages move to Trash and are permanently removed after 30 days. Trimbox can also create editable Gmail filters to block unwanted senders. The maker says email data stays on the user’s device and is never shared, and that Trimbox is verified by Google. The service needs access to a Gmail account to find mailing lists and delete old junk mail. Trimbox is available as an extension, in a browser for Gmail, and as a mobile app on Android and iOS. The App Store listing says users can connect unlimited email accounts, but the free plan covers the first 10 unsubscribes; a subscription unlocks unlimited unsubscribes. The listed free plan is free.