A Clean Email alternative you pay for once.
Clean Email is a subscription inbox cleaner with bulk actions, an unsubscriber, automatic rules and a screener for new senders. It says its income comes from subscriptions, not data. Here are the facts from its own pages, and how Mail Housekeeper differs.
What Clean Email is
Checked November 2026. Numbers in brackets link to the sources at the bottom of the page.
What it costs
As its plans page displayed on November 8, 2026: one account $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year; five accounts $19.99 a month or $49.99 a year; ten accounts $29.99 a month or $99.99 a year.[1] A free account cleans up to 1,000 messages, and a 14-day trial includes the premium features and 25 unsubscribe actions.[2]
How it connects
For Gmail and Google Workspace, Yahoo, Hotmail, Office 365, Outlook and AOL it signs in through the provider, and you can revoke its access. iCloud and Fastmail need an app-specific password. Other IMAP providers take your email login and password, which it says it stores securely.[3]
What it does
Bulk actions to remove, archive, move or label groups of email; unsubscribe requests sent on your behalf, with blocking for senders who ignore them; Auto Clean rules for new mail; and a Screener that holds mail from addresses that have never written to you.[4][2]
What it reads
Its help page says it "ignores email contents" and attachments. Its privacy policy, last updated October 30, 2026, says it uses "metadata (including information about attachments), headers, and message content where needed" for organization, cleanup and preview features, and retrieves the message body when you request a full preview.[3][5]
How Mail Housekeeper differs
Both tools are paid by their users and both say they do not sell data. The differences are in the price model, how they connect and what happens to the mail you clear.
Either can be the right choice. If you want an ongoing toolbox for several accounts, with rules, a screener and Outlook support, Clean Email covers more ground. If you want one thorough cleanup for a one-time price, with nothing deleted and unsubscribes only to verified senders, Mail Housekeeper is built for that.
Questions
How much does Clean Email cost?
As its plans page displayed on November 8, 2026: $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year for one account, with five and ten account plans above that. A free account cleans up to 1,000 messages.
Does Clean Email sell data?
Its privacy policy says it will never sell or rent your email address or any personally identifiable or aggregated information, and its plans page says all of its income comes from subscription fees.
How is Mail Housekeeper different from Clean Email?
Mail Housekeeper is paid once per mailbox ($8, free during the launch trial) instead of by subscription, connects only with an app password, stores headers only, never deletes anything itself, and unsubscribes only from senders its checker verifies.
Sources
- Clean Email plans
- Clean Email help: free trial and subscriptions
- Clean Email help: connecting your email account
- Clean Email home page
- Clean Email Privacy Policy (last updated Oct 30, 2026)
Checked November 2026.
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