The Leave Me Alone alternative that runs on your device and requires no subscription plan
Email Unsubscriber is the Leave Me Alone alternative that runs the scan on your own device, doesn't need write access, sends real unsubscribes, and charges once.
- Scanning runs on your device and your emails never leave it.
- We unsubscribe you for real and never act without your consent.
- Transparent pricing without confusing tiers - a single payment gives you 30d of full access, with no ongoing obligations.
No monthly or annual plans. A one-off payment grants you 30d of unlimited access.
Email Unsubscriber is the Leave Me Alone alternative for people who want the scan on their own device. Both tools send real unsubscribes and both serve the EU. Leave Me Alone processes mail on its servers with modify access and charges by pass or subscription. Email Unsubscriber runs in your browser, read-only, with no refresh token, for one payment covering 30 days.
Email Unsubscriber vs Leave Me Alone
Both companies publish what they access and what they charge. The rows below come from those pages, and the differences are where the scan runs, what access is kept, and how you pay.
Price
Email Unsubscriber
€2.99 / 30 days, one payment. Nothing renews.
SourceLeave Me Alone
€17 / 7 days unlimited
Or limited features for €8 / month
Free tier: 10 unsubscribes
EU prices; the page is geo-localized. A 14-day money-back guarantee applies to paid plans.
SourceWhere the scan runs
Email Unsubscriber
In your browser, on your device.
Leave Me Alone
On its servers. Metadata of your subscription emails is stored in its database.
SourceMailbox access requested
Email Unsubscriber
Read-only. The app cannot send, move, or delete mail.
Leave Me Alone
Gmail: “View and modify but not delete your email” plus mail settings. Microsoft: Mail.ReadWrite plus MailboxSettings.ReadWrite.
SourceAccess after you close the tab
Email Unsubscriber
None. There is no refresh token and the session ends in about 1 hour.
Leave Me Alone
Standing connection, so Rollups, Screener, and Spam Blocker can keep working.
What happens to your data
Email Unsubscriber
Email content is never read, analyzed, or monetized.
Leave Me Alone
States it never sells your data. Rollups “fetch, encrypt, and store the content” of selected emails.
SourceTime to a clean inbox
Email Unsubscriber
One scan, then bulk one-click unsubscribes in the same sitting.
Leave Me Alone
One scan, then one-click unsubscribes. The first 10 are free.
What "unsubscribe" does
Email Unsubscriber
Sends the sender’s own RFC 8058 one-click request where it exists, or opens the sender’s unsubscribe link.
Leave Me Alone
Sends a real unsubscribe request on your behalf.
Senders who keep mailing you
Email Unsubscriber
“Still Emailing” filter flags them. Every unsubscribe is in your audit log.
Leave Me Alone
Block the sender; Spam Blocker filters non-compliant mail.
Automation
Email Unsubscriber
Bulk one-click unsubscribes with an undo window. No background features by design.
Leave Me Alone
Rollups, Screener, Spam Blocker, Do-not-disturb. Each needs the standing access above.
EU pricing, checked against each provider's own page on . These pages are geo-localized, so figures differ outside the EU. Follow each source link to see what you would pay.
What Leave Me Alone does well
Leave Me Alone earns its reputation. It sends real unsubscribe requests instead of hiding senders, gives you 10 unsubscribes free with no card, backs paid plans with a 14-day money-back guarantee, states that it never sells your data, and encrypts what it stores. It connects to Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, and IMAP mailboxes, serves EU users, and its two founders answer support themselves. If you want rollup digests and a screener and accept cloud processing, it is a strong pick.
Why people look for a Leave Me Alone alternative
Nobody leaves Leave Me Alone over a scandal. They leave over where the scan happens, what access stays open, and a pricing shape built for repeat use.
1. The scan happens on their servers
Leave Me Alone’s security page says: “When you connect your email account we search and fetch the subscription emails from that account, and store the metadata of these emails in our database.” For Rollups it goes further and stores encrypted email content. The company limits and encrypts what it keeps, which is more than most. The mail is still read somewhere other than your own machine.
Source: Leave Me Alone security page2. Modify access, kept open
To move mail into Rollups and create filters, the app asks Google for the gmail.modify scope (“View and modify but not delete your email”) plus mail settings, and asks Microsoft for Mail.ReadWrite plus MailboxSettings.ReadWrite. Those features run when you are not there, so the connection stays open until you revoke it.
Source: Leave Me Alone security page3. A pass or a subscription, after the first 10
The free tier stops at 10 unsubscribes. After that you buy a seven-day pass for unlimited unsubscribes, or a monthly or yearly subscription. A pass expires after one burst of cleanup. A subscription fits ongoing use and renews until you stop it. Neither is one payment for a month of full access with nothing to renew.
Source: Leave Me Alone pricing page
How Email Unsubscriber fixes each of these
We kept what people like about Leave Me Alone, the real unsubscribes and the EU availability, and removed the server, the modify scope, and the renewal. Each point below is a design decision you can inspect.
1. The scan runs in your browser
Your tab calls the Gmail or Microsoft Graph API directly. Our backend serves the scanning code and never receives a message, a subject line, or the access token. No subscription metadata is stored on our side, because none reaches it.
See the architecture2. Read-only scopes and no refresh token
The app asks for read-only access, so it cannot modify, move, or send mail. It never requests a refresh token, so the session ends on its own in about an hour. It has no Rollup or Screener, because both would need a standing key.
How access works3. One payment for the whole month
You pay once and get every feature for 30 days with no unsubscribe cap. There is no 10-unsubscribe free tier that turns into a pass, and no plan that renews. When the 30 days end, you are not charged again.
See the price4. Real unsubscribes, logged, with a violation flag
The app sends the sender’s own RFC 8058 one-click request where it exists and opens the sender’s link or mailto address otherwise. Every action lands in your audit log, and the “Still Emailing” filter flags senders who keep mailing after you opted out.
How the scan and unsubscribe work
Leave Me Alone alternative questions
Do I need to migrate anything from Leave Me Alone?
No. Deactivate your Leave Me Alone account, revoke its access on your Google or Microsoft account permissions page, then sign in to Email Unsubscriber and run a scan. Unsubscribes you completed there stay completed. Rollups stop with Leave Me Alone, so senders you rolled up show up as active subscriptions if they still mail you.
Leave Me Alone is already privacy-focused. What is different?
Where the work happens. Leave Me Alone fetches your subscription emails to its servers, stores their metadata, and holds modify access with a standing connection. Email Unsubscriber runs the scan inside your browser, requests read-only access, never sends your email content or access token to our servers, and uses no refresh token. The authentication service is open source and the app passed Google’s CASA Tier 2 security assessment.
Is there a free tier like Leave Me Alone’s 10 free unsubscribes?
No free tier. You can connect a mailbox and run the scan before the payment step, and the homepage has a live preview that connects to nothing. A single payment then unlocks full access for 30 days with no unsubscribe cap.
Does Email Unsubscriber work in the EU?
Yes. Both tools serve EU and EEA users. Email Unsubscriber is aligned with GDPR and CCPA, and you can erase your account and its records from the profile screen at any time.
Which email accounts does it support?
Personal Gmail accounts and personal Microsoft accounts such as Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Live. Work or school Microsoft accounts, Yahoo, iCloud, and IMAP mailboxes are not supported. Leave Me Alone covers those.
The Leave Me Alone alternative that keeps the scan on your machine
Connect a personal Gmail or Microsoft account, run one scan in your browser, and clear the senders you never wanted. One payment and read-only access, with nothing left open on your mailbox.
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