Alrighty vs Clean Email

Clean Email is for people who want to clean their mailbox from any device, on almost any provider, and keep the mail app they already use. Alrighty is for people who read mail on a computer with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook and want the cleanup inside the mail app itself. If you clean up from your phone or the web, or have a Yahoo, AOL or Fastmail address, pick Clean Email.

Both tools stop mail you don't want, but they start from different places. Clean Email is a service that connects to your mailbox and works on it from its own servers. Alrighty is a mail app on your computer, and you stop senders from the list you read. The facts below come from each company's own pages as of November 2026. Alrighty is our app.

What is the difference between Alrighty and Clean Email?

Clean Email is a mailbox cleaner. Alrighty is a mail app with a cleaner built in.

Clean Email tells you to "Use it along with any email app such as Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail App, and more" (Clean Email). You open it when you want to clean: it groups your mail by sender and lets you act on thousands of messages at once. Its Auto Clean rules then "apply selected rules and actions to emails arriving to your mailbox without any manual work." It changes the mailbox on the provider's server, so the result shows in every mail app you use.

Alrighty replaces your mail app on your computer. It puts iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts in one inbox, and the cleanup happens where you read. 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 ends one sender from any message they sent.

So the real question is where you want to do the work: in a separate tool you visit now and then, or in the inbox you open every day.

Alrighty vs Clean Email at a glance

	Alrighty	Clean Email
What it is	A mail app you read and write in	A cleaner you use beside your mail app
Runs on	Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux	iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, web
Accounts	iCloud, Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft 365	Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail, any IMAP
Price	14-day trial with no card, then Free or Pro	Free up to 1,000 messages; paid from $9.99 a month
Where mail is indexed	Copy and search index on your computer	Index of senders, subjects and dates on Clean Email's servers
Clearing out junk	Clean up, Stop mail, Filters	Unsubscriber, Auto Clean, Screener, bulk actions
Mail from new senders	Lands in the Inbox; Filters move a kind of mail you describe	Screener holds mail from unknown senders
AI	Signed in, reply drafts and Clean up run by themselves; your own AI is off until you turn it on	Cleaning Suggestions; shares data with an AI assistant only if you connect one

Is Clean Email or Alrighty cheaper?

Both start free. Clean Email publishes its paid prices. Alrighty has not set a price for Pro.

Clean Email. The free account "lets you clean up to 1,000 email messages at no cost to you," and the trial gives "14 days of free access to all of our Premium features, plus 25 unsubscribe actions," "with no credit card" (help). Its own comparison page lists paid plans "From $9.99/month per 1 account to $99.99/year for 10 accounts, all features included on every paid plan" (Clean Email). The plans page offers 1, 5 or 10 accounts, billed monthly or yearly, and says yearly billing can "SAVE UP TO 70%." The amounts on that page load after the page opens, so check it on the day you buy.

Alrighty. A 14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan or Pro. Free has a small monthly AI allowance and no sorting into groups. There are no ads on any plan.

If you clean up a few times a year, Clean Email's free 1,000 messages may be all you need. For a household, Clean Email's 5- and 10-account plans spread one price across several mailboxes.

Does Clean Email read your emails?

Clean Email reads the details around each email on its servers, and the body only when you open a full preview. Alrighty keeps your mail on your computer, but its Clean up sends a few emails per sender to its server.

Clean Email. Its privacy policy says it "accesses email metadata, including sender and recipient details, subjects, dates, folders, labels." When you ask for a full preview, "we also retrieve and process the selected message body so it can be displayed." Its home page says "Clean Email never downloads full emails" and "All access tokens are encrypted." Indexed data "is automatically deleted from our servers 45 days after your last login," but only "as long as there is no active subscription running." It says "We will never sell or rent your email address."

Alrighty. Your mail stays with iCloud, Google or Microsoft, and Alrighty keeps its copy and its search index on your computer. Your passwords and tokens stay on your computer, encrypted with a key from your system's keychain. No Alrighty server holds them. To sort senders, Clean up sends each sender's address, three facts the receiving server found, and up to 3 of their newest emails (up to 2,000 characters each) to Alrighty's server. The server asks an AI model, Jev from TypeSafe AI, to sort them. While you're signed in, Clean up runs in the background, and opening a reply starts a suggested draft, which goes through OpenAI. Signed out, nothing goes to Alrighty's server.

The trade is clear. Clean Email's servers hold an index of your whole mailbox, but mostly headers. Alrighty's server sees no index, but it reads the full text of a few emails from each sender it sorts.

Does Clean Email actually unsubscribe you?

Yes. "Clean Email will send unsubscribe requests on your behalf," and it can block "mailing lists and senders who do not respect such requests" (Clean Email). Its Unsubscriber can also "unsubscribe, pause, redirect, or auto-delete email subscriptions" (Clean Email). On the trial, unsubscribing is capped at 25 actions.

Alrighty's Stop mail does it in one action. It unsubscribes in every way the message offers: one-click, an email to the list, or the list's web page. It archives the mail you already have from that sender, and it moves their new mail out as it arrives. When the only way out is the list's web page, Alrighty finishes the unsubscribe in a browser on its server, so the sender sees neither your computer nor its address. It only contacts senders whose mail passed DMARC and wasn't marked as spam, so a scammer never learns that your address is live. Stopped mail goes to Archive, not Junk.

Clean Email gives you more choices per list: Read Later and Pause suit a newsletter you want to keep but not see every day. Alrighty has no pause. Stop mail is its one answer.

What about cold emails from people you've never heard from?

Clean Email has a Screener, which it describes as "quarantine for unknown senders" (Clean Email). Alrighty does not screen first-time senders. A new sender's mail lands in your Inbox.

What Alrighty has instead is Filters, for a kind of mail that comes from a new sender each time, like cold sales. You describe the kind in your own words, or set rules, and new Inbox mail that fits moves to Archive before your list shows it. Rules match on your computer. A filter you describe asks Jev through Alrighty's server, and only when you're signed in. Mail from people you wrote to, or in a conversation you wrote in, is never moved. If the AI doesn't answer within 5 seconds, the mail stays in your Inbox.

If you want every unknown sender held back until you approve them, Clean Email's Screener does that and Alrighty does not.

Does Clean Email work on iPhone, the web or Yahoo?

Clean Email does. Alrighty does not.

Clean Email "works across iPhone and iPad, Android, Mac, and the web," and supports "Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Fastmail, all IMAP-based email providers" (Clean Email). For iCloud, its home page says to use Apple's app-specific passwords.

Alrighty runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. There's no iPhone, Android or web app. It takes iCloud (with an app-specific password), Gmail and Outlook accounts, including Hotmail, Live and Microsoft 365. It cannot add Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or other IMAP accounts.

What does Clean Email do better?

Clean Email is the better tool in these cases:

• Cleaning from your phone. It has iPhone, iPad and Android apps. Alrighty has none.
• More kinds of accounts. Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail and any IMAP account work in Clean Email.
• Keeping your mail app. You don't switch apps. Whatever you clean shows up in Apple Mail, Outlook or Gmail.
• Years of old mail at once. Its groups and bulk actions are built for a mailbox with tens of thousands of messages. In Alrighty you can check rows, Shift-click a range, or check all, then Delete, but its tools are aimed at stopping senders, not sorting years of history.
• A whole household. The 5- and 10-account plans cover more than one person.
• Holding back unknown senders. Its Screener does this. Alrighty doesn't.

Alrighty is also new, with no long track record.

What does Alrighty do that Clean Email doesn't?

Alrighty is the place you read and write mail, so the rest of the job happens there too.

• Search that finds things. Search matches meaning as well as words, on your computer, so "when is my flight" finds the airline's confirmation. You can also ask a question and get the answer with the emails it came from. That answer goes through Alrighty's server to OpenAI.
• Replies in your voice. Signed in, opening a reply starts a draft written from the conversation and from up to 12 emails you sent before. You always send it yourself.
• Your own AI. A local MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT's desktop app, Codex, Cursor or a local model read and search your mail, once you turn it on with Connect AI. The setup guide covers each app.
• Phishing checks. A sure phishing message goes to Junk. A likely one stays, with a warning.
• Logins on your computer. Your passwords and tokens never sit on a vendor's server.

Which should you pick?

• You read mail on a computer with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook, and want junk stopped in the app you read in: Alrighty.
• You want search, reply drafts and your own AI in the same app as the cleanup: Alrighty.
• You clean up from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone: Clean Email.
• You have a Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or other IMAP address: Clean Email.
• You want to keep Apple Mail, Outlook or Gmail and clean beside it: Clean Email.
• You want every unknown sender held until you approve them: Clean Email's Screener.
• You clean a few times a year and want it free: Clean Email's free 1,000 messages.

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Questions

Is Clean Email safe?

Clean Email states clearly what it reads. Its policy says it indexes metadata on its servers and opens a message body only when you ask for a full preview. It says it never sells or rents your email address. Its index stays on its servers until 45 days after your last login, and only once no subscription is active.

Is Clean Email free?

Partly. A free account cleans up to 1,000 messages, and the 14-day Premium trial needs no card and includes 25 unsubscribe actions. After that, paid plans run from $9.99 a month for one account to $99.99 a year for ten, by Clean Email's own figures.

Can I use Clean Email and Alrighty together?

Yes. Clean Email works on your mailbox at Google, Microsoft or Apple, so what it moves or deletes shows up in Alrighty as it does in any mail app. Each tool would then connect to your account on its own, and you'd have two places that unsubscribe for you.

Does Alrighty have an iPhone app?

No. Alrighty runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with no phone app. If you need to clean up from your phone, Clean Email has iPhone and Android apps.