Cleanfox: clean your inbox, keep the deals that matter

Cleanfox is available on iOS and Android, plus a web version at cleanfox.io. Installation takes under 2 minutes: download the app, connect your email address (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Apple Mail) via a secure OAuth process, and Cleanfox immediately starts analysing your inbox.

No email password is requested: the connection uses each mail provider's official authentication protocols. Cleanfox analyses your emails securely, without storing the content of your messages.

The app then shows the list of all your promotional-email sources, sorted by send frequency — you immediately see who sends you the most unwanted emails.

With more than 3.5 million users worldwide, Cleanfox has become the go-to tool for cleaning cluttered inboxes. Its principle: a left swipe to unsubscribe + delete all of a sender's old emails, a right swipe to keep the subscription.

For each sender, Cleanfox shows three key pieces of information: the number of emails received, your open rate for that sender, and the number of emails never opened. This data lets you decide in 2 seconds whether a sender deserves to stay in your inbox.

Cleanfox also offers a carbon-footprint estimate for your emails — an original feature that measures your inbox's environmental impact and helped build the app's reputation.

Here's the essential information about Cleanfox:

Cleanfox's first analysis of your inbox generally takes a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the volume of emails to process. For an inbox with several thousand emails, the analysis may need a bit longer on the first connection.

Once the analysis is done, the actual cleaning is near-instant: as soon as you swipe to unsubscribe from a sender, Cleanfox immediately sends the unsubscribe request and deletes the old emails. Unsubscribes on the sender's side can take up to 10 working days to take effect.

For new emails received after cleaning, Cleanfox doesn't process them automatically in the free version — you'll need to rerun a periodic analysis to manage new subscription sources.

Cleanfox offers a free version covering the essentials (inbox analysis, unsubscribe, bulk deletion) and a premium version unlocking advanced functions: scheduled auto-cleaning, detailed statistics, priority support.

To activate a Cleanfox promo code on the premium version, go to the app > Settings > Premium and enter the code in the dedicated field. Cleanfox discounts on the premium subscription are offered occasionally during partner campaigns or seasonal offers.

Good news: if you only want to unsubscribe from newsletters to better receive important promo-code alerts, the free version is amply sufficient for a complete inbox clean.

Cleanfox is designed to identify promotional emails, newsletters and marketing communications — not personal or transactional emails (order confirmations, bank alerts, invoices). The detection algorithm distinguishes these categories with high accuracy.

The email types processed include: e-commerce brand newsletters, shopping-site promotional alerts, loyalty-program communications, cashback and deal offers, media and blog newsletters.

Important tip: before deleting a sender, check it isn't a promo-code newsletter you actually read. Alerts from iGraal or Joko, for example, can save you far more than they clutter your inbox — they deserve to be kept.

Among alternatives to Cleanfox are Unroll.me (American, controversial over data resale), SaneBox (paid from the start) and the built-in sorting features of Gmail or Outlook. Cleanfox stands out for being free, its French origin and strict GDPR compliance.

The fundamental difference: Cleanfox actually deletes emails and unsubscribes from the source — unlike a sorting filter that files emails in a folder but leaves them cluttering your storage. It's a deep-cleaning solution, not just organisation.

For users who also want to optimise their e-commerce savings, Cleanfox complements Joko: you delete useless emails and keep those that bring you real discounts.

Strengths: ultra-simple interface (left/right swipe), fast effectiveness for cleaning a cluttered inbox, reassuring GDPR compliance, French company (Foxintelligence), original carbon-footprint estimates, a complete free version for standard use.

Limits to know: new emails received after the first analysis aren't automatically processed without the premium version. The unsubscribe function can sometimes only block the sender rather than send a true unsubscribe request, depending on the mail provider. The app doesn't offer a preview of emails before deletion.

Our verdict: Cleanfox is ideal for a one-off deep clean of a cluttered inbox. It's less suited to automated daily management without upgrading to premium.

Cleanfox is developed by Foxintelligence, a French company subject to GDPR. The app doesn't read the content of your personal emails — it only identifies commercial senders via message headers and metadata.

The connection to your mailbox uses OAuth (the same protocol as "Sign in with Google"), without your password being transmitted to Cleanfox. You can revoke the app's access at any time from your Google/Outlook account settings.

Foxintelligence uses aggregated and anonymised data from inbox analysis to produce market research on online shopping habits — its main business model, presented transparently in its terms.

Cleanfox was launched by Foxintelligence, a French startup specialising in e-commerce purchase-data analysis. The app was created as a consumer product to clean inboxes, while feeding Foxintelligence's core business: producing market data on online purchasing behaviour.

With more than 3.5 million users, Cleanfox has become one of the most downloaded apps in its category. The app has regularly evolved: adding the premium version, improving multi-mailbox compatibility, introducing carbon-footprint statistics, and strengthening unsubscribe mechanisms.

We update this page with each notable change to the features or premium conditions. For cashback while you shop, also see TopCashback and iGraal.