Nowadays, you have to provide an email address for practically every service, whether it’s finance, an app registration, to get a discount at the mall, for warranty registrations, et al. And many times, this email address of ours is shared indiscriminately between vendors and online marketers. Before we know it, our inbox is filled with spam.
To ensure that important actionable emails are not lost in the host of unwanted emails, we need to to clean our inbox and manage our online subscriptions.
CLEANFOX
This free service scans your email inbox— from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple, among others—to help you unsubscribe and delete newsletters and spam. The French startup implements the General Data Protection Regulation—under EU law—that guarantees data protection and user privacy.
After you give Cleanfox access to your account, it scans your email for newsletters and sorts them by criteria like opening rate which is the number of times you have opened a mail from that sender, as well as the number of emails originating from a particular address.
You can then manage your inbox with simple actions: Right swipe to do nothing, top swipe to remain subscribed, and left swipe to unsubscribe.
The service is also available as an app for Android and iOS. Besides, for every person that creates an account after using your invite code, Cleanfox plants a tree in collaboration with WeForest, a science-based international non-profit.
Cleanfox.io
CLEAN EMAIL
This service is verified as a trusted application by service providers such as Google and Yahoo. Clean Email, however, is not a free service like Cleanfox.
That said, a free cleanup session lets you clear up to 1,000 emails, but if you want all the bells and whistles, you’ll need to pay for a yearly subscription.
Clean Email scans your inbox and combines emails—using rules and filters—to display groupings of emails from addresses you know, emails from a long time ago, emails to yourself, shopping mailers, large emails, etc. Under each of these sections, you get quick actions: You can move bundles of emails to trash, unsubscribe from unwanted emails, and block senders.
You can configure Clean Email to apply rules to emails arriving in your mailbox. For example, you can archive and ‘mark as read’ all social network notifications and get a daily summary to go through what you skipped. The service even lets you define “important” emails in the ‘Protected’, the ‘Friends and Family’ lists and the ‘Coworkers’ sections.
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InstaClean – Email Cleaner
InstaClean is a free app that helps you unsubscribe from email lists; delete spam, and organize your inbox. It supports services such as Gmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, Yandex, Outlook, Zoho, and iCloud, among others.
After you give the app access to your account, it scans your inbox to give you a dashboard view of the total number of emails and the number of active newsletter subscriptions you have. You can then choose to bulk delete emails by sender, labels, or size.
Additionally, you can browse your inbox by month and year, and delete only bulk emails from within that period.
For every bulk deletion you carry out, you gain gold tokens. You also gain 80 such coins for inviting your friends to use the app, and all of these can be redeemed to plant a tree in the real world. Currently, VuMonic—the Bangalore-based company behind InstaClean—is planting trees in a village called Thevaram in Tamil Nadu.
instaclean.app
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- The Times of India (Mumbai edition)
- 8 Jun 2020
- Savio.DSouza@timesgroup.com