About ClearInbox

Inbox cleanup tools ask for one of the most sensitive permissions you can grant: access to your email. Some free tools have paid for themselves with that access. In 2019 the US Federal Trade Commission settled with the operator of Unroll.me over allegations that it misled users about how it accessed and used their email.

ClearInbox is built on the opposite deal. The cleanup workflow is free, and it is not funded by your data: no ads, no trackers, no data sales, no AI training on your mail.

You connect a mailbox: Gmail and Outlook through their official OAuth sign-in, and Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail, Exchange or any IMAP server with an app password. ClearInbox syncs message metadata (sender, subject, date, size, labels and mailing-list headers) and sorts it into smart categories using deterministic rules: sender domains, list headers, automated-sender signals, age and size. No language model reads your mail.

From there you clean in bulk, unsubscribe through the RFC 8058 one-click standard, screen first-time senders, and set Auto Clean rules that keep the inbox tidy. Deleted mail goes to your provider’s Trash, and every action is logged.

• Metadata only: full message bodies are never stored.
• Encrypted credentials: mailbox credentials are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM.
• No trackers: no third-party analytics, ad pixels or tracking scripts.
• No AI training on your mail, and your data is never sold.
• Reversible by default: deletes go to Trash, and every action is in the activity log.
• Self-hostable: ClearInbox runs in Docker if you want your mail pipeline on your own server.

The details are in the privacy policy.

ClearInbox is built and run by the ClearInbox team, who also write the email cleanup guides on this site. The guides cover the manual, built-in way to do each task in Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and iCloud first, and cite the providers’ own documentation.

Email [email protected] for support, privacy requests or security reports, or see the contact page.