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How much does Trimbox cost?

Trimbox is roughly $69 one-time for lifetime access. Their full pricing isn't posted on the website — you have to install the Chrome extension and progress through their onboarding to see what you'll pay. That opacity is one of the top complaints in their Chrome Web Store reviews.

Trimbox also offers a free tier, but the exact limits aren't publicly stated. Most users discover the cap mid-cleanup and either pay or stop.

For a transparent alternative, Gmailytics is free to start, then $7/quarter or $24/year — cancel anytime — with pricing published openly on /pricing. The free tier covers 2,000 cleanups a month, plus unlimited newsletter unsubscribes — published openly.

How Gmailytics works

The pitch against Trimbox is transparency and entry price. Pricing is published openly on /pricing — no install-then-discover flow — and the product works in any browser without an extension. Open the dashboard, see a ranked list of every sender by email volume, and bulk-trash, archive, or unsubscribe the worst offenders in one action. Cleanups of 10,000+ emails finish in under a minute.

Gmailytics is free for 2,000 cleanups a month, plus unlimited newsletter unsubscribes. If you need more, Pro is $7/quarter or $24/year — cancel anytime. That's a much lower commitment than $69 upfront for a tool you might use once for a backlog cleanup and then put down.

Beyond pricing, Gmailytics runs as a standalone web dashboard — no browser extension required — with a separate browser extension available if you want one. That flexibility (web vs extension) is the main interface difference vs Trimbox, which runs as a Chrome extension and mobile app with no standalone web dashboard.

Why people switch from Trimbox to Gmailytics

Lower entry price. Trimbox charges roughly $69 upfront for lifetime access. Gmailytics starts free, and Pro is just $7/quarter or $24/year — far less to commit up front, and you can cancel anytime if you only needed one big cleanup.

Transparent pricing. Trimbox doesn't publish their full pricing on their website — you have to install the extension and progress through their flow to find out what you'll pay. Gmailytics' price is on /pricing, plain text, no install required.

Free tier you can actually use. Gmailytics' free tier covers 2,000 cleanups a month — published openly. Trimbox's free-tier limits aren't publicly stated, so it's hard to know what you're comparing against.

Standalone dashboard. Trimbox is primarily a Chrome extension and mobile app. Gmailytics offers both — a web dashboard you can use without any extension installed, plus a browser extension for in-Gmail workflows. If you ever want to clean from a different machine without installing anything, Gmailytics works in any browser.

Storage analytics. Both tools delete emails. Gmailytics also shows you a ranked breakdown of who's actually using your storage — which sender accounts for the biggest share, what's quietly eating gigabytes. That “why is Gmail full?” answer happens before you even pick what to delete.

Privacy. Both tools take privacy seriously. Trimbox keeps emails on-device in their extension model. Gmailytics never sells your data and is CASA Tier 2 verified by Google. Neither is the wrong choice on privacy.

When Trimbox might be the better pick

Trimbox has been around longer and has a much bigger Chrome user base (70k+ vs Gmailytics' growing user base). If you specifically want a tool with a long track record and a polished mobile app, Trimbox has the edge there. Their lifetime pricing also amortizes lower if you plan to use a Gmail cleanup tool for many years.

But if you want a transparent price you can see before installing, a real free tier, and a low entry price ($7/quarter, cancel anytime) — Gmailytics is the lower-friction option.

Is Trimbox safe and legit in 2026?

Safe in the sense most people mean it — yes. Trimbox is a real product with 70,000+ Chrome users and a 4.4-star rating, it connects to Gmail through Google's standard OAuth flow (your password is never shared with it), and it won't install anything beyond the extension or delete mail you didn't select. If you searched “is Trimbox a scam” after hitting its paywall, that's not what this is.

The complaints in its reviews are pricing complaints, not safety ones: the cost isn't published until you're inside the flow, and the free tier walls hard. That's a business-model gripe — covered above — not a trust issue.

The one thing worth reading before you connect is the privacy policy. It says Trimbox collects “the bare minimum of your personal data,” but its state-privacy disclosure also says it “may Sell or Share your PI and/or use your PI for Targeted Advertising” — that refers to identifiers and browsing data collected through cookies, not the contents of your inbox, and the policy doesn't spell out what it does with the Gmail data the extension reads. If you try it and want to cut access later, revoke it from Google Account → Security → Third-party apps & services.

Gmailytics draws a harder line: no data is sold or shared for any purpose, there's no ad targeting, and it only ever reads sender, date and size — never subject lines or message bodies. It's also CASA Tier 2 verified by Google, the independent security assessment required for apps with Gmail access. The details are on the privacy page.

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