Alrighty vs Unroll.me
Alrighty vs Unroll.me, checked November 2026. What each costs, what it does with your mail, which accounts it takes, and which one to pick.
By Emmett Miller
Unroll.me is for people who want a free way to block and bundle subscription mail from the web or a phone, and who accept that data from their shopping and marketing emails feeds NielsenIQ's consumer panel. Alrighty is for people with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook who want unwanted senders stopped inside their mail app. If you want it free, want a daily digest of newsletters, or clean up from an iPhone or Android phone, pick Unroll.me.
The two tools pay for themselves in different ways, and that shapes everything else. Unroll.me costs nothing because the data is part of the business. Alrighty is a mail app with a Free plan and Pro. 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 Unroll.me?
Unroll.me is a subscription manager. Alrighty is a mail app with a way to stop senders built in.
Unroll.me lists the subscription emails in your mailbox and gives you three choices for each: "block unwanted emails, keep the ones you want, and rollup the rest into a single daily digest" (Unroll.me). Its App Store listing says you can do it "either in bulk or individually." You visit Unroll.me to make those choices, then read mail wherever you did before.
Alrighty is a desktop app that puts iCloud, Gmail and Outlook accounts in one inbox. 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. You stop mail in the same place you read it.
Alrighty vs Unroll.me at a glance
| Alrighty | Unroll.me | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A desktop mail app | A subscription manager for the mailbox you have |
| Runs on | Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux | Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple Vision |
| Accounts | iCloud, Gmail, Outlook and Microsoft 365 | Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, Google Apps |
| Price | 14-day trial with no card, then Free or Pro | Free |
| How it's paid for | Plans; no ads on any plan | A consumer panel that provides data from your commercial email to customers |
| Where mail is kept | With your provider; Alrighty's copy and search index on your computer | With your provider; Unroll.me collects copies of commercial emails |
| Unwanted mail | Clean up, Stop mail, Filters | Block, Keep, Rollup |
| Daily digest | No | Yes, Rollup |
| AI | Signed in, reply drafts and Clean up run by themselves; your own AI is off until you turn it on | None described on its pages |
Is Unroll.me safe, and does it sell your data?
Unroll.me tells you up front that data from your commercial email is part of what it sells. Whether that is safe for you depends on how you feel about that trade.
Its privacy notice says that when you connect an inbox, "we will collect copies of and information from the commercial email messages you receive," such as receipts and marketing mail. It provides that data to "customers such as e-commerce businesses, investment companies, consumer brands, media companies, and data brokers," as part of what it calls its "consumer panel." Unrollme LLC is "a NielsenIQ company." Its data page says "Your identifiable personal information will never be sold or shared to directly target you." For Gmail, the notice says the app can access "Gmail message bodies (including attachments), metadata, headers, and settings," and that "Unroll.Me will not use this Gmail data for serving advertisements."
There is also a history. In 2019 the US Federal Trade Commission finalized a settlement over claims that Unrollme told people it would not "touch" their personal emails while it shared e-receipts with its then parent company. Our Unroll.me alternatives page covers that history in full.
Alrighty works differently, and it does send some mail out. Your mail stays with iCloud, Google or Microsoft, and Alrighty keeps its copy and search index on your computer. Your passwords and tokens stay on your computer, encrypted with a key from your system's keychain. 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, which asks an AI model to sort them. Signed in, Clean up runs in the background, and opening a reply starts a suggested draft. Those emails go through Alrighty's server to OpenAI and other model companies, and its privacy page names OpenAI, Together AI and TypeSafe AI. Signed out, nothing goes to Alrighty's server.
Does Unroll.me unsubscribe you, or just hide the mail?
Unroll.me's own pages talk about blocking. Its home page never uses the word "unsubscribe," and its App Store listing says "Block, keep, and rollup your subscription emails." The pages we could read don't say whether Block contacts the sender, and its help center pages wouldn't load for us, so we can't tell you.
Alrighty's Stop mail does both jobs 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. So a sender who ignores the unsubscribe still doesn't reach your Inbox. 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.
Alrighty also refuses to unsubscribe from some senders. It only contacts senders whose mail passed DMARC and wasn't marked as spam. Unsubscribing from a scammer tells them your address is live, so Alrighty stops their mail without writing back.
Is there anything like Rollup in Alrighty?
No. Rollup gathers the newsletters you don't want to block into "a single daily digest," and the app "will notify you whenever you have new emails in your rollup" (Unroll.me). Alrighty has no digest.
Alrighty's answer to a newsletter is to keep it or stop it. On Pro and during the trial, Alrighty can also sort new mail into groups you set up, so the newsletters you keep wait in one place instead of the Inbox. If you like reading your newsletters as one daily email, Unroll.me does that and Alrighty doesn't. Our best email app for newsletters covers other ways to read them.
Is Unroll.me free, and what does Alrighty cost?
Unroll.me is free. Its home page offers "Sign Up For Free," its App Store listing shows the app as free, and we found no paid plan. The consumer panel is how the service is paid for.
Alrighty has 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. Pro's price is not set yet. There are no ads on any plan.
Does Unroll.me work on a Mac?
Only in a browser. Unroll.me's App Store listing covers iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision, not the Mac, and you can sign up on the web.
Alrighty is the opposite. It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and has no iPhone, Android or web app. If you manage your subscriptions from your phone on the bus, Unroll.me fits that and Alrighty doesn't.
Which accounts does each one take?
Unroll.me's App Store listing names "Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo!, AOL, Outlook and Google Apps." Alrighty takes iCloud (with an app-specific password), Gmail, and Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live and Microsoft 365. It cannot add Yahoo or AOL. If your subscriptions land in a Yahoo or AOL mailbox, Unroll.me covers it and Alrighty doesn't.
What does Unroll.me do better?
- Price. It's free. Alrighty's Free plan has limits, and Pro is paid.
- Phones. It has iPhone, iPad and Android apps.
- Yahoo and AOL. It takes both.
- The digest. Rollup puts the newsletters you keep into one daily email.
- No new mail app. You keep reading mail where you do now.
Alrighty is also new, with no long track record.
Which should you pick?
- You read mail on a computer with iCloud, Gmail or Outlook and want unwanted senders unsubscribed and kept out: Alrighty.
- You don't want data from your commercial email in a consumer panel: Alrighty, or another tool from our Unroll.me alternatives.
- You want search, reply drafts and your own AI in the same app: Alrighty.
- You want it free and accept the data model: Unroll.me.
- You want newsletters rolled into one daily email: Unroll.me.
- You manage subscriptions from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Yahoo or AOL: Unroll.me.
For every cleanup tool side by side, see the best app to unsubscribe from emails. Comparing paid cleaners too? See Alrighty vs Clean Email. To see all of Alrighty, read its features.
Questions
Who owns Unroll.me?
NielsenIQ. Unroll.me's privacy notice calls Unrollme LLC "a NielsenIQ company," and its data page describes NielsenIQ as "an e-commerce measurement and consumer data company." Data from users' commercial email is pooled with that of other panelists to find market trends.
How do I delete my Unroll.me data?
Delete your account. Its privacy notice says "We are unable to delete your information without also deleting your account." Deleting the account doesn't remove the access you gave it, so also remove Unroll.me from your Google Account's linked apps, or your other provider's connected apps.
Does Alrighty move stopped mail to Junk?
No. Stop mail moves a sender's mail to Archive, not Junk, so you can still find it if you need it. Only a message Alrighty is sure is phishing goes to Junk. A likely one stays in the Inbox with a warning.
Can I use Alrighty on my iPhone after leaving Unroll.me?
No. Alrighty has no iPhone app. If your mail is Gmail, Gmail's own Manage subscriptions is free and adds no new company to your mail. Our Unroll.me alternatives page has the steps.