The Unroll.me alternative that never reads your mail
Email Unsubscriber is the Unroll.me alternative that scans your inbox in your browser, works in the EU, and charges once.
- Our servers never see your email content, let alone selling it.
- Read-only access that expires in 1hr and needs no revoking.
- One payment for 30d of full access and no ongoing subscriptions.
No monthly or annual plans. A one-off payment grants you 30d of unlimited access.
Email Unsubscriber is the Unroll.me alternative for people who want the cleanup without the data trade. The scan runs in your browser, the app asks for read-only access, and the session expires on its own in about an hour. You pay once for 30 days of full access, and it works in the EU.
Email Unsubscriber vs Unroll.me
The rows below are the ones that change your exposure: who reads your mail, what access the tool keeps, what you pay with, and whether you can use it at all where you live.
What happens to your email content
Email Unsubscriber
Never read, analyzed, or monetized. It stays in your browser.
Unroll.me
Shared users’ e-receipts with its parent company for market-research products.
FTC settlement, finalized December 2019.
SourceWhere the scan runs
Email Unsubscriber
In your browser, on your device.
Unroll.me
On its cloud servers.
Mailbox access requested
Email Unsubscriber
Read-only. The app cannot send, move, or delete mail.
Unroll.me
Full read/write access.
Access after you close the tab
Email Unsubscriber
None. There is no refresh token and the session ends in about 1 hour.
Unroll.me
Persistent connection until you revoke it.
Price
Email Unsubscriber
€2.99 / 30 days, one payment. Nothing renews.
SourceUnroll.me
Free.
The FTC alleged it told users it would not "touch" their personal emails while sharing e-receipts with parent company Slice Technologies, which used the purchase data in market-research products it sells. Settlement finalized December 2019.
SourceEU and EEA availability
Email Unsubscriber
Available. GDPR-aligned, with account erasure from the profile screen.
Unroll.me
Not available to EU or EEA customers since May 2018.
SourceTime to a clean inbox
Email Unsubscriber
One scan, then bulk one-click unsubscribes in the same sitting.
Unroll.me
One scan, then a daily Rollup digest that keeps arriving.
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.
Unroll.me
Rollup moves chosen senders out of your inbox into a digest. The sender keeps your address.
Senders who keep mailing you
Email Unsubscriber
“Still Emailing” filter flags them. Every unsubscribe is in your audit log.
Unroll.me
Not offered.
Proof you can check
Email Unsubscriber
Open-source auth service. Google CASA Tier 2 validated.
SourceUnroll.me
Closed source.
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 Unroll.me does well
Unroll.me costs nothing, sets up in a minute, and its Rollup digest is a tidy idea for newsletters you want to keep but not in your inbox. It has run since 2011 and connects to the major webmail providers. If you live outside the EU, do not mind full mailbox access, and accept the data model, it still does the basic job.
Why people look for an Unroll.me alternative
Three things push people off Unroll.me. Two are matters of public record, and one is how the product works.
1. It paid for “free” with your inbox
In April 2017 the New York Times reported that Unroll.me’s parent company pulled Lyft receipts out of users’ mailboxes and sold the anonymized data to Uber. In December 2019 the FTC finalized a settlement alleging that Unrollme “falsely told consumers that it would not ‘touch’ their personal emails” while collecting e-receipts for market-research products. A free inbox tool has to earn its keep somewhere. This one earned it from the mail.
Source: FTC press release, December 20192. It left the EU in 2018 and never came back
Unroll.me deleted EU accounts on May 24, 2018, one day before GDPR took effect, saying the service “was not designed to comply with all GDPR requirements.” Open unroll.me from a European connection today and you land on a page that reads: “Currently the Unroll.Me service is not available for customers in the EU and the European Economic Area.”
Source: Unroll.me EU notice3. Rollup hides mail. It does not stop the sender
The Rollup bundles chosen senders into one daily digest and moves their messages out of your inbox. Your address stays on every one of those lists, the sender keeps mailing, and the digest keeps growing. If you stop using Unroll.me, the flood comes straight back.
How Email Unsubscriber fixes each of these
The privacy here is a property of the architecture, not a paragraph in a policy. Each fix below is something 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. There is no server-side copy of your inbox to share, sell, or leak, because one never exists.
See the architecture2. Read-only scopes and no refresh token
The app asks for read-only access and nothing more, so it cannot send, move, or delete mail. It never requests a refresh token, so the session ends on its own in about an hour. There is no standing key to revoke later.
How access works3. Real unsubscribes, with a log
For senders that support RFC 8058, the app sends the one-click unsubscribe request the sender itself published. For the rest it opens the sender’s own link or mailto address. Every action lands in your audit log, and the “Still Emailing” filter flags any sender that keeps mailing after you opted out.
How the scan and unsubscribe work4. You pay once, and you can check the claims
The authentication service is open source, and Google’s CASA Tier 2 assessment validated the app. One payment covers 30 days of full access, so there is no subscription to cancel and no data-funded free tier behind the product.
See the price
Unroll.me alternative questions
Do I need to migrate anything from Unroll.me?
No. Revoke Unroll.me’s access on your Google or Microsoft account permissions page, then sign in to Email Unsubscriber and run a scan. The scan reads what is in your inbox today, so senders you rolled up still appear as active subscriptions if they keep mailing you.
Is it safe to connect Email Unsubscriber to my inbox?
The app requests read-only access, runs the scan inside your browser, and never sends your email content or your access token to our servers. It uses no refresh token, so access expires with your session in about an hour. The authentication service is open source and the app passed Google’s CASA Tier 2 security assessment, so you can verify the claim rather than take our word for it.
Can I try it before I pay?
Yes. You can connect a mailbox and run the scan before the payment step, and the homepage has a live preview that connects to nothing at all. A single payment then unlocks full access for 30 days. There is no subscription and nothing to cancel.
Does Email Unsubscriber work in the EU?
Yes. Unlike Unroll.me, it serves EU and EEA users. It 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 are not supported.
The Unroll.me alternative you can check, not just trust
Connect a personal Gmail or Microsoft account, run one scan in your browser, and clear the senders you never wanted. Nothing renews or leaves your device.
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