Mail Housekeeper
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A Leave Me Alone alternative you pay for once.

Leave Me Alone is an unsubscribe service made by Squarecat, with digests and a spam blocker. It says it does not sell user data. Here are the facts from its own pages, and how Mail Housekeeper differs.

The facts

What Leave Me Alone is

Checked November 2026. Numbers in brackets link to the sources at the bottom of the page.

What it costs

As its pricing page displayed on November 8, 2026: 1 inbox $15 a month, 3 inboxes $24, unlimited inboxes $36. Yearly billing was shown at $48, $72 and $99 a year next to an "Up to 72% off!" label. A Seven Day Pass is $19 once for one inbox. The first 10 unsubscribes are free, with a 14-day money back guarantee.[1]

How it connects

On Gmail it asks for the gmail.modify permission and says "we cannot delete your mail". Yahoo connects with your Yahoo login and the mail-r and mail-w permissions; it says it never sees your Yahoo password. iCloud, AOL, Fastmail and other IMAP mailboxes connect with an app password.[2]

What it stores

It stores the metadata of the subscription emails it finds. If you use its Rollups digest feature, it fetches, encrypts and stores the content of those emails.[2]

Its data promise

The privacy policy says: "We don't sell user data, and we don't share it publicly or with anyone except the companies listed below, or when required to by law." It also says that with Spam Blocker turned on it uses real email content to train its own spam and cold email classifiers, and does not sell or share it.[3]

Side by side

How Mail Housekeeper differs

Leave Me Alone focuses on unsubscribing and digests, billed by subscription or pass. Mail Housekeeper cleans the whole mailbox for a one-time price. Line by line:

WhatMail HousekeeperLeave Me Alone
Price
Free scan. $8 once per mailbox for the full cleanup. Optional upkeep $19 a year or $2.49 a month. Free during the launch trial.
Subscription from $15 a month for one inbox, or a $19 Seven Day Pass, as displayed November 8, 2026. 10 free unsubscribes.[1]
How it connects
An app password you make and can revoke any time. Never your real password.
Gmail and Yahoo through the provider's permissions; app password for iCloud, AOL and other IMAP.[2]
What it keeps
Headers only: sender, subject up to 160 characters, date, opened or not, unsubscribe header. Message bodies are never stored.
Metadata of subscription emails; encrypted content for its Rollups feature.[2]
Your data
Never sold or shared, raw or anonymized. Paid by the people who use it.
Not sold; shared only with the companies its policy lists or when the law requires. Email content trains its spam classifiers when Spam Blocker is on.[3]
Deleting
Nothing is deleted by the software. Cleared mail waits in a folder in your own mailbox; emptying it is a button you confirm.
Says it cannot delete your mail on Gmail.[2]
Unsubscribes
Only to senders a checker verifies as a real business, only through the mail header, never twice. Spam and phishing are moved only.
Its core feature. How it treats suspected spam senders is not stated in the sources we checked.
Big Yahoo and AOL inboxes
Works through the 10,000-message view in waves and parks kept mail to reach the oldest layer, then brings it back.
Not stated in the sources we checked.

Either can be the right choice. If you mostly want to unsubscribe and like a daily digest, Leave Me Alone is focused on exactly that. If you want the old mail cleared as well, decided once per company, for one price, that is Mail Housekeeper.

Questions

How much does Leave Me Alone cost?

As its pricing page displayed on November 8, 2026: $15 a month for one inbox, $24 for three and $36 for unlimited, with yearly prices shown on sale, or a one-time $19 Seven Day Pass. The first 10 unsubscribes are free.

Does Leave Me Alone sell data?

Its privacy policy says it does not sell user data and shares it only with the companies it lists or when required by law.

How is Mail Housekeeper different from Leave Me Alone?

Mail Housekeeper clears old mail as well as unsubscribing, decides once per company, is paid once per mailbox ($8, free during the launch trial), stores headers only, and unsubscribes only from senders its checker verifies.

Sources

  1. Leave Me Alone pricing
  2. Leave Me Alone security
  3. Leave Me Alone privacy policy (last updated Aug 8, 2026)

Checked November 2026.

Other alternatives

Unroll.me alternative

A free unsubscribe service, now part of NielsenIQ. The FTC settled with it in 2019 over how it described its use of e-receipts.

Clean Email alternative

A subscription inbox cleaner from $9.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with a free tier for up to 1,000 messages.

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