Email cleaner apps

Most of us have a digital swamp known as a personal email inbox. This is full of spam, unread newsletters, petitions and unmissable offers from companies you've never heard of.

But among the digital litter, some critically important information is hidden away. To find it means (metaphorically speaking) wading through in your wellies, probably cursing as you go.

You already know that the whole inbox needs a clean out, but as soon as you've done it, it’ll be full again. And anyway, who has time for that?

Step forward: email cleaner apps.

There are lots of them, some are free, some paid for. No prizes for guessing which are the better ones. There are too many to review, so here are a few to have a look at:

1.) Trimbox: https://www.trimbox.io/

A Gmail plugin, Trimbox lives in your inbox and tags each mailing list email with an unsubscribe button. Click once and it will automatically unsubscribe you. Click twice and Trimbox will delete all of the emails from the same mailing list. (Free trial then paid subscription.)

2.) Clean email https://clean.email/

Clean email goes further. It organises, unsubscribes and sets up auto-clean rules for the future. (Free trial then paid subscription.)

3.) Mailstrom https://mailstrom.co/ works with all the leading email providers (gmail, yahoo, outlook..), has one-click block, unsubscribe, and delete functions. They pride themselves on security.

(Free trial then paid subscription - Mailstrom doesn’t take your card details for the trial phase.)

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