Clean Email vs Kindred Memory
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
Kindred Memory
This app helps you manage and nurture your personal relationships by remembering important details and prompting timely follow-ups. It uses AI to transcribe voice notes, suggest updates, and maintain connection momentum.
- Capture new connections quickly
- Gentle nudges to reconnect
- Keep relationship momentum
- Connect preferred AI agents
- Voice notes transcription and suggestions
- Private by design with encryption
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Relationships rarely disappear all at once. More often, time passes, details fade, and good intentions to follow up slip away. Kindred Memory is a private personal relationship management agent that helps you stay close to the people who matter while maintaining momentum across your wider network. Whether someone is a close friend, a former colleague, a new client, or a person you just met, Kindred gives you a simple place to remember the context and continue the relationship. Use Kindred’s built-in AI coach, or securely connect a compatible AI agent you already use. CAPTURE NEW CONNECTIONS QUICKLY Add a contact after a brief introduction and capture the details while they are still fresh. Type a quick note or record a voice memo so you remember who they are, what you discussed, and why you wanted to stay in touch. GET GENTLE NUDGES TO RECONNECT See who may be due for a check-in before too much time passes. Kindred helps you follow through on good intentions without turning relationships into a rigid task list. KEEP RELATIONSHIP MOMENTUM Record meetings, conversations, introductions, and follow-up ideas in one organized history. Set reminders and keep track of the next step, even for people you do not see often. CONNECT YOUR PREFERRED AI AGENT Connect compatible AI tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI through Kindred’s guided MCP setup. Kindred provides a ready-to-use connection command for your selected agent. The connection runs directly over your local Wi-Fi while Kindred is open, without exposing your relationship data through a public gateway. You choose when the connection starts, control which tools the agent can use, and confirm sensitive changes inside Kindred. TURN VOICE NOTES INTO USEFUL CONTEXT After a conversation, record a short voice note. Kindred transcribes it and suggests contact updates, summaries, reminders, and follow-up tasks. You review and approve every suggestion before anything is saved. FIND THE DETAILS WHEN THEY MATTER Keep notes, interaction history, reminders, tags, important dates, and relationship context together so you can quickly remember where you left off. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Synced relationship records are encrypted on your device before they are uploaded. Agent connections are explicit and permission-controlled, and sensitive changes require your approval. Kindred helps you remember more, follow up with intention, and keep meaningful relationships moving forward.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kindred Memory at 5.0 against Clean Email's 4.5. Kindred Memory also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 20) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Clean Email's advantage is ratings volume (3.8K vs 2) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Kindred Memory asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kindred Memory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. 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.
Clean Email ships an update every 2 months, Kindred Memory every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Email | Kindred Memory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (3.8K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.8K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Clean Email, LLC | Russ Hopkinson |
Customer experience
Clean Email
Kindred Memory
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
Kindred Memory
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
Kindred Memory
No in-app purchases









