Clean Email pricing, free limits and refunds

Clean Email costs $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year for one account, $19.99 a month or $49.99 a year for five, and $29.99 a month or $99.99 a year for ten. The free account cleans up to 1,000 emails, and a 14-day trial of every paid feature needs no credit card (Clean Email).

Prices as of November 2026. Clean Email's plans page loads its amounts from its payment provider after the page opens, so a copy of the page without scripts shows no numbers. The one-account prices also appear in its App Store listing, which says "Prices start at just $9.99/month for one email account." Its help center says "the prices are the same everywhere," on the web, Mac, iPhone and Android.

What each Clean Email plan costs

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Yearly, per month	What you get
Free	$0	$0	$0	Up to 1,000 emails cleaned
1 account	$9.99	$29.99	About $2.50	Every feature, unlimited emails, one mailbox
5 accounts	$19.99	$49.99	About $4.17	Same, for five mailboxes you can share
10 accounts	$29.99	$99.99	About $8.33	Same, for ten mailboxes you can share

The paid plans differ only in how many mailboxes they cover. The plans page says "All features are included," with free updates, and that you can use Clean Email "on your desktop or laptop computers, your phone or tablet without paying extra." The 5 and 10 account plans can be shared "with friends and family."

The yearly price is the one to compare. One account paid monthly for a year costs $119.88, four times the $29.99 yearly plan.

What does the Clean Email free account include?

The free account lets you "clean up to 1,000 email messages at no cost." Turning on Cleanup Reminders adds "an additional 100 messages per week for free" (Clean Email). That's enough to try the bulk tools on one big sender or a few hundred newsletters.

The paid features are the ones that keep working after the first cleanup: the Unsubscriber, Auto Clean rules that run on new mail, and the Screener for new senders.

The trial. "14 days of free access to all of our Premium features, plus 25 unsubscribe actions," with no credit card. When it ends, "your account reverts to a free account," and the Screener and Auto Clean stop. If you upgrade during the trial, the trial ends and you're charged at once.

Does Clean Email have a student or nonprofit discount?

Yes, by request. The plans page says "We offer discounts for education and non-profits and special bulk pricing for organizations," and asks you to email for a quote. It doesn't publish the discount amount. For a family, the shared 5-account plan at $49.99 a year works out to about $10 per mailbox, a third of the one-account price.

How do I cancel Clean Email?

Open the account menu at the top left, click Subscription, then Cancel your subscription. Pick a reason from Choose, click Send, then Continue to reach the cancel step for wherever you paid: the web, Apple or Google (Clean Email). You can also write to support@clean.email with the name and email you bought with.

Cancel at least two business days before the renewal date. Clean Email's terms say plans renew on their own and a rebill without a cancel request in time isn't refunded. A cancelled plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for.

Delete your data after you cancel. Clean Email keeps an index of your mailbox on its servers. Indexed data is deleted 45 days after your last login, but only when no subscription is active. To delete it sooner, go to Preferences, then Data Removal. Our Clean Email alternatives page walks through removing its access to Gmail as well.

Can I get a refund from Clean Email?

Only in narrow cases. Read these before you buy a yearly plan. Its terms allow a refund within 30 days of purchase when:

• Clean Email can't connect because your email provider isn't supported, or
• you ask within 7 days and haven't used the service.

Otherwise, "Clean Email does not offer prorated refunds for canceled subscription plans." The terms call a yearly plan "a one-year subscription contract," say that if you cancel early "you will still be billed for the remaining months," and say yearly plans get no refund for compatibility problems. Someone who bought once, cancelled, and bought again gets no refund the second time.

Is Clean Email worth it?

For one large cleanup, the yearly plan at $29.99 is a fair price, and the free 1,000 emails may be enough to finish a small one. Clean Email works with Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail and IMAP providers (Clean Email), from a phone or a computer.

It's less clear value in two cases:

• You only want to unsubscribe. Gmail and Apple Mail now have free unsubscribe tools. You'd be paying for bulk actions you may not need.
• You don't want a company indexing your mailbox. Clean Email reads your mail's metadata on its servers to sort it. That's how the service works, and its privacy policy says it doesn't sell your address or share data for advertising.

Why does Clean Email charge a subscription?

Because the work doesn't stop after the first cleanup. Auto Clean and the Screener run on every new email, on Clean Email's servers, for as long as you subscribe. The plans page says all of Clean Email's income comes from subscription fees, not from selling your data, and that it cleans "5 million emails every day."

What's cheaper than Clean Email? Alrighty and free tools

Alrighty is a desktop mail app for Mac, Windows and Linux with cleanup built in, for iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts. Its price is a 14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan or Pro. It does Clean Email's main jobs in the app you read mail in:

• Clean up lists the senders you probably don't want, such as scams, cold outreach and newsletters you never open, so you can stop them all at once.
• Stop mail unsubscribes you every way the message offers, archives the sender's mail, and moves their new mail out as it arrives. It contacts only senders whose mail passed DMARC and wasn't marked as spam, so a scammer doesn't learn your address is live.
• Delete in bulk: check rows, Shift-click a range or check all, then Delete. Mail goes to Trash.

Where your mail goes is different, not zero. Your mail and Alrighty's search index stay on your computer, and no Alrighty server holds your passwords. But Clean up sends each sender's address and up to 3 of their newest emails to Alrighty's server, which asks an AI model to sort them, and it runs in the background while you're signed in.

What it can't do: there's no iPhone or Android app, so you can't clean up from your phone. It takes iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts only, not Yahoo, AOL or Fastmail. It's new, with no long track record. Compare them in Alrighty vs Clean Email, or see the features.

Free tools:

• Gmail's Manage subscriptions lists senders and unsubscribes in one click (Google). Google says it's still rolling out.
• Apple Mail shows an Unsubscribe banner on mailing list mail, and Block Sender takes up to 3,000 senders (Apple).

For more cleaners side by side, see the best email cleaner apps and the best apps to bulk delete emails.

Questions

Is Clean Email a one-time payment?

No. Every paid plan is a subscription that renews on its own, monthly or yearly. To stop it, cancel at least two business days before the renewal date.

Is Clean Email free?

Partly. The free account cleans up to 1,000 emails, plus 100 a week with Cleanup Reminders on. Unlimited cleaning, the Unsubscriber, Auto Clean and the Screener need a paid plan or the 14-day trial.

Does Clean Email charge after the free trial?

No. The trial needs no credit card, so nothing is charged when it ends. Your account goes back to the free limits.

Can I share a Clean Email plan with family?

Yes. The 5 and 10 account plans can be shared with friends and family. The 5-account plan is $49.99 a year, and the 10-account plan is $99.99 a year.