Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about in-boxed.
How do I unsubscribe from all newsletters at once?
Connect your Gmail or Outlook account to in-boxed. We scan your inbox for List-Unsubscribe headers, a technical standard present in every marketing email, and send opt-out requests to all senders at once, requests they are legally required to act on. The scan takes about a minute; how long the rest takes depends on how many senders have no automatic opt-out.
Is in-boxed safe? Do you read my emails?
No. in-boxed uses read-only access to your Gmail or Outlook account and only reads email metadata (headers), never the content of your messages. We never see your subject lines, attachments, or the body of any email. Nothing is stored on our servers after your session ends.
How much does in-boxed cost?
Scanning your inbox is completely free. You pay a one-time fee of €4.99 to send opt-out requests to all senders. There is no subscription and no recurring charge.
Does unsubscribing actually work?
Yes. Under GDPR (Europe), senders must act on your opt-out without undue delay, within one month at the latest. Under CAN-SPAM (US), senders have up to 10 business days. The opt-out signal we send is identical to clicking "unsubscribe" yourself, but sent to all senders at once.
Will my important emails be affected?
in-boxed is designed to detect mailing lists, not personal email: it looks for the List-Unsubscribe header, a bulk-sending standard added by newsletter platforms and marketing tools that colleagues, friends or family never use. One honest exception: many webshops send their order confirmations through the same marketing platform, which adds the header automatically, so those senders can show up in your list too. That is why nothing happens until you have seen every sender: tick Keep next to the ones you want to hold on to.
What happens to my data after the session?
Everything is gone. The scan runs entirely in your browser, so our servers never receive your inbox data in the first place. The short-lived Gmail or Microsoft token lives only in your browser tab and is discarded when you close it. We have no database, so there is nothing to breach, sell or lose.
Why am I still receiving emails after unsubscribing?
Under CAN-SPAM, senders have up to 10 business days; under GDPR, senders must act without undue delay and within one month at the latest. If you still receive emails after that, the sender may be in violation of GDPR or CAN-SPAM law. Your audit report serves as documentation of when the opt-out was sent.
Do I need to create an account to use in-boxed?
No. in-boxed has no accounts, no sign-up, and no passwords. You authorise read-only access to your Gmail or Outlook account, clean your inbox, and leave. We have no user database, so your visit leaves no trace on our side. This is different from virtually every other unsubscribe service, which requires you to register before you can use it.
Is in-boxed a subscription?
No. in-boxed is a one-time payment of €4.99. You pay once, clean your inbox, and that's it. Most other unsubscribe tools charge a monthly or yearly subscription, which means you keep paying (and they keep access to your mailbox) long after the job is done.
How is in-boxed different from other unsubscribe apps?
Three things. First: no account. Other tools require sign-up; in-boxed doesn't even ask for your email address. Second: no subscription. Others charge monthly; in-boxed is €4.99 once. Third: no data. Others store your subscription list and keep ongoing mailbox access (in 2017 a popular free service was even found selling user inbox data); in-boxed reads only headers, never content, and deletes everything the moment your session ends.
Does in-boxed work with Outlook or other email providers?
Yes. in-boxed supports Gmail and Outlook, Hotmail and Live, with the same privacy-first scan on both: read-only access, headers only, nothing stored.
What is the List-Unsubscribe header?
List-Unsubscribe is a technical standard (RFC 2369, RFC 8058) that every legitimate marketing email must include. It tells email clients where and how to send opt-out requests. Gmail uses it for its built-in unsubscribe button. in-boxed reads these headers to find and contact every sender automatically.
How is in-boxed different from manually unsubscribing?
When you click Unsubscribe in an email, you visit a page the sender controls, and many senders deliberately make this difficult: preference centers with 20 checkboxes, "are you sure?" screens, re-entering your email address, multi-step confirmation flows. in-boxed sends the opt-out directly to the technical List-Unsubscribe endpoint that every sender is legally required to maintain. That endpoint has no preference center, no friction, no dark patterns. The senders that are hardest to leave manually are exactly the ones where in-boxed makes the biggest difference.