Trimbox alternatives, and where each one reads your mail

The best Trimbox alternative is Alrighty if you use a Mac with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook and want unwanted senders unsubscribed and kept out, from inside the mail app you read in. If you only use Gmail, Gmail's own Manage subscriptions does Trimbox's main job for free. Leave Me Alone suits bulk unsubscribing on Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail and iCloud. Clean Email suits cleaning from a phone, on almost any provider. SaneBox files low-priority mail as it arrives, with a policy limited to headers. Unroll.me is free, but it collects copies of your commercial email.

People pick Trimbox for two reasons: one click per sender, and its promise that "None of your email data ever leaves your device." So the question for a Trimbox alternative is what each one reads, and where. Most lists that rank for this search skip that. They also skip the reason many people leave: Trimbox's extension and web app work with Gmail only. This page answers both, and quotes what Trimbox's own privacy policy says about the rest of your data.

How we checked

We read Trimbox's home page, download page, privacy policy, App Store listing and Chrome Web Store listing on November 4, 2026, along with each alternative's own pricing, help and privacy pages. Every fact about another company links to its source. Trimbox's help center blocked our reader, so we used its other pages. Where a vendor's page didn't state something, we say so. We did not test the tools. Alrighty is our app, and it is listed first. For a side-by-side of every unsubscribe tool, see the best app to unsubscribe from emails.

What Trimbox does, and where it works

Trimbox finds mailing lists so you can unsubscribe "with just 1 click," and "lets you delete all of the past emails from a sender with just 1 click" (Trimbox). Its App Store listing says that when you click Unsubscribe, "Trimbox will remove that sender from your inbox."

Where it works. It comes in three forms, and they don't take the same accounts.

• Chrome extension. Its download page says "Use in your inbox (for Gmail only)." The Chrome Web Store listing names it "Gmail Unsubscribe Tool by Trimbox" and offers "Connect Unlimited Gmail Accounts." It also lists an "AI Email Writing Assistant" that drafts emails inside Gmail.
• Web app. "Use in your browser (for Gmail only)" at web.trimbox.io.
• iPhone and iPad app. The App Store listing says "Connect unlimited email accounts" but doesn't name the providers. It lists the iPad app for Macs with an M1 chip or later, marked "Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS."

So on a computer, Trimbox is a Gmail tool. If you also have an iCloud or Outlook address, the phone app is the only form that might take it, and its listing doesn't say.

Price. Its site shows no price. The App Store listing says unsubscribes are "free for your first 10; unlimited with subscription," through "Trimbox Premium - an auto-renewable subscription." Its in-app purchases run from $4.19 to $89.99, with no billing period shown.

What does Trimbox's privacy policy say?

Trimbox makes two separate promises, and its policy covers one of them.

Your email data. The home page says "None of your email data ever leaves your device," "Never share or sell your email data," and "Trimbox is certified by Google's privacy team." The App Store listing says "Personal data is securely stored on your device only." Its privacy policy, last updated April 15, 2026, does not discuss email content at all, so we can't check the claim against it.

Everything else. The policy covers your account, payments, device and usage data, and it allows more than the home page suggests.

• Advertising. "We and our advertising partners may use your Personal Information, including your location and your activities on the Service to facilitate the delivery of advertisements." Advertisers "may use cookies to track your online activities across websites over time to provide interest-based advertising."
• Sale of de-identified data. "We may sell or share information, including personal information that may be in anonymized, aggregated, or de-identified form, to third parties, who may share that information with entities including analytics companies, investment advisors, asset managers, or others." The same policy also says "We do not sell your Personal Information." Both lines are in the policy.
• The App Store label. It lists "Identifiers" under "Data Used to Track You."

None of this says Trimbox sends your emails anywhere. It does mean "on your device" covers your mail, not you. If that distinction matters, compare each alternative's policy below.

Trimbox alternatives at a glance

App	Price	Accounts	Runs on	Where your mail is read	AI on by default
Alrighty	14-day trial with no card, then Free or Pro	iCloud, Gmail, Outlook	Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux	Your computer; Clean up sends up to 3 emails per sender to its server	Clean up and reply drafts when signed in; your own AI off until you connect it
Gmail Manage subscriptions	Free	Gmail only	Web, Android, iPhone	Inside Gmail; no new company	No
Leave Me Alone	10 free unsubscribes; from $48/yr	Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail, iCloud	Web	Its servers: your subscription emails	Opt-in features
Clean Email	Free up to 1,000 messages; paid plans for 1, 5 or 10 accounts	Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail, IMAP	iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, web	Its servers: metadata, and bodies when you preview	Only if you connect an AI assistant
SaneBox	From $7 a month	Gmail, Microsoft 365, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, IMAP	Any mail app	Its servers: headers only, unless you turn on AI	Opt-in
Unroll.me	Free	Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook	Web, iPhone, Android	Its servers: copies of your commercial email, provided to customers	None seen
Trimbox	10 free unsubscribes; in-app purchases	Gmail on the extension and web	Chrome extension, web, iPhone, iPad	On your device, it says	AI writing assistant in the extension

Alrighty: best Trimbox alternative for desktop

Alrighty is a mail app for Mac, Windows and Linux that puts iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts in one inbox. Trimbox sits on top of Gmail in your browser. Alrighty is the mail app itself, so the same one click works on all three kinds of account.

• Stop mail. One click on a sender unsubscribes you in every way the message offers: one-click, an email to the list, or the list's web page. It archives their mail and moves new mail from them out as it arrives. So a sender who ignores the unsubscribe still doesn't reach your inbox.
• Clean up. It 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.
• Safe unsubscribing. It only contacts senders whose mail passed DMARC and wasn't marked as spam, so a scammer doesn't learn your address is live. When the only way out is the list's web page, it finishes the unsubscribe in a browser on its server, so the sender sees neither your computer nor its address.
• Delete. In any list, check messages, Shift-click a range, or check all, then click Delete. Mail goes to Trash.

Price. A 14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan or Pro. There are no ads on any plan.

Where your mail goes, compared with Trimbox. Most of it stays on your computer. Your mail stays with iCloud, Google or Microsoft, and Alrighty keeps its copy and its search index on the computer. Your passwords and tokens stay there too, encrypted with a key from your system's keychain, and no Alrighty server holds them. But Alrighty does not make Trimbox's promise. Clean up sends each sender's address, three facts the receiving mail server found, and up to 3 of their newest emails (2,000 characters each) to Alrighty's server, which asks an AI model to sort them. Opening a reply starts a suggested draft, which sends messages from the conversation and some of your sent mail to the same server to write it. Its privacy page names OpenAI, Together AI and TypeSafe AI as the model companies it uses. Both happen only while you're signed in. Signed out, nothing goes to Alrighty's server.

What it can't do. There is no iPhone, Android or web app, and no Chrome extension, so it can't live in Gmail in your browser. It takes iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts only, not Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or other IMAP. It's a full mail app, so you switch apps to use it. It's new, with no long track record.

Pick it if you use more than Gmail on your computer, and you want one click to end a sender's mail on every account.

Gmail Manage subscriptions: best free replacement for Gmail only

If every account you clean is Gmail, Gmail now does Trimbox's unsubscribe job without a third party. On a computer, expand More in the left sidebar and select Manage subscriptions. Next to each sender, click Unsubscribe (Google).

Where your mail is read. Inside Gmail. No new company gets access, which goes further than any "on your device" claim.

What it does. "Gmail unsubscribes you from all active mailing lists related to the sender." Senders may take a few days to process it, so Gmail sends their new mail to Spam in the meantime.

What it can't do. Gmail only. Google says the feature "is gradually rolling out and may not be available to you yet." It doesn't delete a sender's old mail in the same click; for that, search from: the address, select all and delete. The bulk delete guide has the steps.

Pick it if you only use Gmail and chose Trimbox to keep other companies out of your mail.

Leave Me Alone: best for bulk unsubscribing beyond Gmail

Leave Me Alone puts your subscriptions "in one list" to opt out of, rolls the ones you keep into a digest, and has a Screener for cold mail (Leave Me Alone). It "works with Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail, iCloud, and many more!"

Where your mail is read. On its servers, and it says which parts. Its security page says it stores the metadata of your subscription emails, and asks Gmail to "View and modify but not delete your email." Rollups store the content of the emails they collect, removed three months after the Rollup is sent. Spam Blocker, when you turn it on, reads body text and may keep samples to train its classifiers (privacy). It says "We don't sell user data," and that its AI runs on open-weight models on machines it rents, with no AI company on the other end.

Price. "Unsubscribe from 10 emails for free - no credit card required," the same free start as Trimbox. Paid yearly, it's $48 a year for 1 inbox, $72 for 3 and $99 for unlimited inboxes (pricing).

What it can't do. It reads on a server, not on your device. It isn't a mail app.

Pick it if you need Trimbox's job on Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or iCloud, and a one-time pass suits you better than a subscription.

Clean Email: best for cleaning from your phone on any provider

Clean Email covers what Trimbox's phone app does, on more providers. It "works across iPhone and iPad, Android, Mac, and the web" (Clean Email) and takes "Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail, all IMAP-based email providers" (Clean Email). It sends unsubscribe requests for you, blocks lists that ignore them, and deletes in bulk by sender, size or age.

Where your mail is read. On its servers. Its privacy policy says it "accesses email metadata, including sender and recipient details, subjects, dates, folders, labels," and retrieves a message body when you open a full preview. It says "We will never sell or rent your email address."

Price. A free account lets you "clean up to 1,000 email messages at no cost to you," and a 14-day Premium trial needs no card (help). The Unsubscriber is a Premium feature. Our Clean Email alternatives page lists the plan prices.

What it can't do. It's the opposite of Trimbox's model: a server index of your mailbox. It doesn't replace your mail app.

Pick it if you want more than Gmail cleaned from your phone, and a server index is fine with you.

SaneBox: best for keeping junk out without a new app

SaneBox works on your mailbox from the outside, so you keep Gmail, Apple Mail or any other app. It sorts low-priority mail into folders as it arrives. It "Unsubscribes you from unwanted senders in one click," and BlackHole removes a sender "from your inbox for good" (SaneBox). It "works with every major email service such as Gmail, Microsoft 365, Apple iCloud, Yahoo! Mail and Fastmail."

Where your mail is read. On its servers, headers only. "We only access the envelope and header data associated with your emails," and "All email resides on the customer's email server and is never held on SaneBox servers" (privacy). Its AI features are opt-in; with them on, it "may now process the body content of your emails." It says "We never share your data with third-party AI providers or advertisers."

Price. "Our plans start at just $7 per month" (SaneBox). No free plan.

What it can't do. It doesn't delete a sender's old mail in one click like Trimbox. It's a subscription from the first month.

Pick it if you want new junk kept out on any provider, in the app you already use, from a service whose policy stops at headers.

Unroll.me: free, but the opposite of on-device

Unroll.me lets you "block unwanted emails, keep the ones you want, and rollup the rest into a single daily digest" (Unroll.me). It's free.

Where your mail is read. On its servers, and not only for you. Its privacy notice says "we will collect copies of and information from the commercial email messages you receive," and "We provide data about and derived from the Commercial Emails that you receive to some of our customers." Unrollme LLC is "a NielsenIQ company."

What it can't do. No one-click delete of a sender's old mail.

Pick it if you want a free daily digest and accept that model. If you chose Trimbox for privacy, it's the wrong swap. Our Unroll.me alternatives page has the details, and Cleanfox alternatives covers the other NielsenIQ cleaner.

How to leave Trimbox

Removing the extension doesn't cancel a subscription or end its access to Gmail.

1. Cancel Premium. If you bought it in the iPhone app, cancel in your Apple Account's subscriptions. If you bought it on the web, use Manage subscription on trimbox.io. Its support page says App Store refunds go through Apple.
2. Remove its access to Gmail. Open your Google Account's linked apps page, choose Trimbox, then Remove access. Do this for each Gmail account you connected.
3. Remove the extension from Chrome, and delete the app from your phone.
4. Ask for your data to be deleted. Its privacy policy says to contact privacy@modemobile.com to access or delete your information.

For senders who ignore every unsubscribe, block them: how to block a sender in Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail.

How to choose

• On a computer, with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook, one click for every account: Alrighty.
• Gmail only, free, no third party at all: Gmail's Manage subscriptions.
• Bulk unsubscribing on Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or iCloud, pay once: Leave Me Alone.
• Cleaning from your phone on almost any provider: Clean Email.
• New junk kept out in the app you already use, headers-only policy: SaneBox.
• A free daily digest, and the data model is fine with you: Unroll.me.
• Gmail in Chrome, nothing on a server, one click per sender: Trimbox still fits that job best.

For stores that keep emailing after you leave, see how to stop marketing emails. See what Alrighty does about unwanted mail on its features page.

Questions

Is Trimbox safe?

Trimbox says none of your email data leaves your device and that it never shares or sells your email data. Its privacy policy covers your account and usage data, and allows advertising partners and the sale of de-identified data to third parties such as analytics companies and investment advisors. The policy doesn't discuss email content.

Does Trimbox work with Outlook or iCloud?

Not on a computer. Its download page marks the Chrome extension and the web app "for Gmail only." The iPhone and iPad app says it connects unlimited email accounts but doesn't name the providers. Alrighty, Leave Me Alone, Clean Email and SaneBox all take Outlook and iCloud.

How much does Trimbox cost?

The first 10 unsubscribes are free. Unlimited unsubscribes need Trimbox Premium, an auto-renewing subscription. Its App Store listing shows in-app purchases from $4.19 to $89.99; its own site shows no price.

Is there a free alternative to Trimbox?

Gmail's Manage subscriptions is free and built into Gmail. Apple Mail's unsubscribe banner is free on a Mac, one message at a time. Leave Me Alone gives 10 free unsubscribes, and Alrighty has a Free plan after its 14-day trial.

Is there a Trimbox alternative that runs on your device?

Apple Mail's unsubscribe banner and Block Sender run in Mail on your Mac. Alrighty keeps your mail and its search index on your computer, but its Clean up and reply drafts send some emails to its server while you're signed in. Gmail's own tool runs inside Google, so it adds no new company.