Leave Me Alone is an indie product made by a small company, Squarecat, and it has been around for years. It's a paid service on purpose, and its FAQ says that's so it never has to sell your data. I respect that. If you're looking for an alternative, it's usually for one of three reasons: you only use Gmail and don't want a separate web app, you want a free plan that lasts past a trial, or you want to know exactly what happened to each unsubscribe.
The short version
| Leave Me Alone | Gmail Unsubscribe | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A separate web app you connect your mailboxes to | A Chrome extension that works inside Gmail |
| Providers | Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook and other Microsoft accounts, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail, AOL, other IMAP | Gmail only |
| Free use | Unsubscribe from 10 emails, no card | 5 unsubscribes every month, plus unlimited scanning and bulk archive, with no time limit |
| Paid | $19 Seven Day Pass (2 accounts). $9 a month or $54 a year (4 accounts). $16 a month or $64 a year (unlimited accounts). | Pro: $35.88 a year, unlimited unsubscribes |
| No unsubscribe link | Sends an email for you from a unique Leave Me Alone address | Sends the request from your own Gmail account |
| When it can't unsubscribe | Creates a Gmail filter to move that sender out of your inbox | Shows the failure next to the sender, so you decide what to do |
| Extras | Rollups (digests), Screener, Spam Blocker, Do-not-disturb, breach detection | One job: unsubscribe in bulk and clear out what's left |
Sources: leavemealone.com pricing, FAQ and security pages, checked October 2026. Prices are in US dollars. If anything here goes stale, email me and I'll fix it.
Where Leave Me Alone is genuinely better
- You have mail outside Gmail. Leave Me Alone connects Microsoft, Yahoo, iCloud, Fastmail and other IMAP mailboxes, and its higher plan covers unlimited accounts. We're Gmail-only, on purpose.
- You want more than unsubscribing. Rollups bundle newsletters you want to keep into a scheduled digest, and the Screener holds mail from new senders for your review. We don't do either.
- You want a one-off cleanup without a subscription. The Seven Day Pass is a single $19 payment for a week of unlimited unsubscribes on 2 accounts.
If that sounds like you, Leave Me Alone is a fair choice. For other multi-provider options, see Mailstrom and Clean Email.
Where Gmail Unsubscribe is better
- A free plan that doesn't run out. Leave Me Alone's free use is 10 unsubscribes. Ours is 5 unsubscribes every month, plus unlimited scanning, archiving and bulk deleting, with no end date. Plenty of people never pay us.
- Price, if you do pay. Pro is $35.88 a year. Leave Me Alone's yearly plans are $54 and $64.
- No separate app. The scan, the unsubscribes and the cleanup happen inside Gmail, where your mail already is.
- You see every result, failures included. Our data shows roughly a third of unsubscribe attempts hit senders with no working unsubscribe mechanism at all. We fire the sender's official mechanism first (one-click RFC 8058), then an email request from your own account, then the link. Whatever happens, we show you the result for each sender, so you know which ones to block or report as spam.
See what's actually in your inbox. The first scan takes about a minute and finds 15 subscription senders on average.
Add to Chrome, freeThe filter question
This is the part worth understanding before you pick any email cleaner, including ours.
When Leave Me Alone can't unsubscribe you from a sender, its security page says it uses Gmail's settings permission to create a filter that moves that sender's mail out of your inbox automatically. That's a reasonable fallback, and they're open about it. It does mean a clean inbox afterwards doesn't tell you which senders you actually left and which ones are still mailing you behind a filter.
You can check after using any tool. Open Gmail's Settings, then Filters and Blocked Addresses, and look for filters you didn't write yourself. Each one is a sender you're still on the list for. Our guide to cleaning your Gmail inbox covers how to read that list.
We take the other approach: we report the failure and leave the choice to you. Some people want a filter for those senders, some want to report them as spam, and some want to give the sender another week. It's your inbox, so we'd rather you know.
What each one stores
Leave Me Alone's security page is unusually detailed, which is to its credit. By its own account:
- It stores the metadata (sender, subject, date) of your subscription emails, and of the ones you unsubscribe from.
- If you use Rollups, it fetches, encrypts and stores the content of those emails to build your digest.
- If you turn on the Spam Blocker, it reads incoming email to classify it, and keeps some of that content to train its own classifiers.
- Its FAQ says deactivating your account deletes all of your data.
Gmail Unsubscribe works inside Gmail in your browser and doesn't store your message bodies. Our servers keep your account email, the senders you chose to unsubscribe from, and the result of each attempt, and we never sell or share your data. Our privacy policy has the details.
Sources: leavemealone.com/security and leavemealone.com/faq, checked October 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Is Leave Me Alone free?
No. You can unsubscribe from 10 emails for free with no card. After that it's a $19 Seven Day Pass, or a subscription from $9 a month ($54 a year) for 4 accounts up to $16 a month ($64 a year) for unlimited accounts.
How does Leave Me Alone unsubscribe you?
It follows the sender's unsubscribe link when there is one. When there isn't, it sends an unsubscribe email from a unique Leave Me Alone address that identifies your subscription. For senders it can't unsubscribe you from, it creates a Gmail filter that moves their mail out of your inbox.
What data does Leave Me Alone store?
The metadata of your subscription emails, plus email content if you use Rollups or the Spam Blocker. Deactivating your account deletes it, according to its FAQ.
Is there a free alternative to Leave Me Alone for Gmail?
Gmail Unsubscribe's free plan has no time limit: unlimited scanning, unlimited bulk archive and delete, and 5 unsubscribes every month. Pro is $35.88 a year for unlimited unsubscribes. If you want to compare every option first, start with our roundup of email cleanup apps.