Clean Email vs Buzzkill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clean Email
This app helps you declutter your inbox by unsubscribing from unwanted senders, bulk deleting emails, and automating cleanup. It offers features to block senders, get data breach alerts, and organize your mail efficiently. Take control of your inbox and save time daily.
- Bulk delete emails
- Unsubscribe from senders
- Block and screen senders
- Automate email cleanup
- Data breach alerts
- Organize inbox
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Overwhelmed by emails? Clean Email helps you clean up your inbox in minutes. Join almost 2 million people who've deleted billions of unwanted emails. "Of the handful I tested, I liked Clean Email best. Before using Clean Email, I had 17,677 unread emails. Now, it’s a fraction of that." – Nicole Nguyen, Wall Street Journal. - - - - - - - - - - - Easily unsubscribe from annoying senders, organize emails, and bulk delete stuff you want to get rid of. Tap Get and try for yourself! Clean Email was created because email providers don’t offer the tools to manage and keep mailboxes clean and efficient. Over the past 10 years in business, we’ve grown to almost 2 million users, who we help clean billions of emails each year. WHAT CHANGES WITH CLEAN EMAIL • Find what matters, fast. Important emails stop getting lost under promotions and newsletters. • Get your time back. No more deleting the same junk by hand every morning. • An inbox that stays clean. Set it up once, and new clutter is handled automatically. • Free up storage. Clear years of old emails instead of paying for more space. • Less stress, more focus. Open your inbox without the dread. OUR FAVORITE FEATURES • Unsubscriber shows you all your subscriptions so you can get rid of senders and unsubscribe from emails you don’t want with a single tap. • Cleaning Suggestions show you types of emails people usually delete or archive, so you always know where to start your journey to a cleaner inbox. • Smart Folders automatically organize your inbox by categories like ride-share receipts, job search emails, and seasonal sales, so you can easily find emails and delete whole categories at once. • Keep Newest keeps only the latest emails from senders you like, but don’t want them clogging up your storage. • Auto Clean is for the power email users who need to automate their inbox with very advanced rules. • Screener allows you to block all mail from unknown senders. Review screened senders and decide who you want to keep and who to remove, thereby reducing the amount of spam and junk mail incoming. • Select All and Delete lets you delete your entire inbox or delete thousands of emails at once. • Privacy Monitor keeps your email safe by alerting you when your email has been linked to a data breach. WORKS WITH THE EMAIL YOU ALREADY USE Clean Email works with your existing email and favorite email apps – no need to change anything to get a cleaner inbox: Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook, Office 365, AOL, Zoho, Fastmail, GMX Mail, and all IMAP accounts. TRY IT FREE We won’t charge you a penny to clean your first 1,000 emails. Clean Email will also unsubscribe you from 25 newsletters and run Screener and Auto Clean rules for 14 days, so you can see how they help keep you on track at no cost. Choose an auto-renewing subscription to unlock all our powerful email cleaning, unsubscribing, blocking, and automation features. Prices start at just $9.99/month for one email account, or take advantage of our yearly plans, saving you 75% off the monthly rate. YOUR PRIVACY We’re in the business of cleaning emails, not selling, storing, reading, or analyzing your data. We are Google-verified and certified secure, so you never need to give us your email login info. You can find our EULA and Terms of Service here: https://clean.email/privacy
Buzzkill
This app helps you break free from excessive app usage by sending timely, customizable notifications. Set specific apps to monitor and adjust the frequency and tone of alerts to match your habits and encourage mindful usage.
- Customizable app monitoring
- Adjustable notification frequency
- Variable notification tone (friendly to angry)
- Gradually increasing urgency
- Daily buzz-free time settings
- Daily usage limits with advance warnings
- Privacy-focused, on-device data storage
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Buzzkill helps you break out of doomscrolling by sending frequent notifications when you spend too much time in selected apps. Choose which apps you want to monitor and set a custom buzz frequency per app, so notifications match your habits instead of fighting them. Choose your preferred language and the tone you like. You can go from sweet and friendly all the way up to full-on ANGRY CAPSLOCKS when you really want a strong notification. As your usage goes up, notifications gradually become more urgent instead of repeating the same message over and over. Buzzkill uses a large set of around 3,000 notifications in English, Dutch, German and French. Other languages are supported as well, but currently use smaller message sets. You can set a daily buzz-free time so notifications only start after you have used that amount of time. You can also add a daily limit that is easy to change, with optional notifications sent in advance so you can slow down before you reach your cap. Buzzkill keeps your data on your device. Usage history is automatically deleted after seven days. Nothing is sent to a server, and no long-term profiles are built from your behaviour. It’s a privacy-first way to reduce your screen time without blocking your apps, and it’s not another data-hungry tracker.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clean Email at 4.5 against Buzzkill's 3.0. Clean Email also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and ratings volume (3.8K vs 2). Buzzkill's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 20) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Clean Email sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Buzzkill asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clean Email holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Email has 3.8K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Clean Email's written reviews are positive against 0% of Buzzkill's.
Clean Email ships an update every 2 months, Buzzkill every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Email | Buzzkill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.8K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clean Email, LLC | Jens Somers |
Customer experience
Clean Email
Buzzkill
Bugs and requests
Clean Email
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues, app won't open
- Deletes important emails by mistake
- Syncing problems across devices
- Unreliable unsubscribe functionality
Requested features
5 requests- Bulk unsubscribe option
- Ability to exclude specific emails from cleaning
- Improved email organization tools
- Support for more email providers
- Easier subscription management
Buzzkill
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clean Email
- Clean 1 Account4 variants$9.991 Month
- Clean 1 Account$14.991 Month
- Clean 5 Accounts$19.991 Month
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- Clean 1 Account$19.996 Months
- Clean 5 Accounts2 variants$29.991 Month
- Clean 10 Accounts$29.991 Month
- Clean 1 Account$29.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$39.996 Months
- Clean 1 Account$39.991 Year
- Clean 1 Account$49.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$49.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$59.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$69.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$79.991 Year
- Clean 5 Accounts$99.991 Year
- Clean 10 Accounts$99.991 Year
Buzzkill
No in-app purchases









