Inbox Zero vs Leave Me Alone

Inbox Zero

• Gmail and Outlook users who want mail sorted and replies drafted for them
• Teams that prefer open source software they can inspect or self-host
• Clearing newsletters and cold outreach out of a crowded inbox

Leave Me Alone

• Unsubscribing from many mailing lists across several email accounts
• People who want the newsletters they keep batched into one digest
• Keeping cold outreach and unknown senders out of the inbox

Inbox Zero

• There is no free plan for the hosted service: every plan starts with a 7-day trial that needs a credit card.
• It supports Gmail, Google Workspace and Microsoft Outlook accounts only.
• The AI meeting notetaker, Slack and app integrations, email digests and auto-filed attachments start at Plus.
• The free Inbox Zero Tabs browser extension works with Gmail only, and the mobile apps leave some settings to the web app.

Leave Me Alone

• Plan names and prices could not be confirmed: the vendor's pricing page did not load when checked, so only its help center was read.
• Only 10 unsubscribes are free; the help center says it is a paid service after that.
• Proton Mail accounts cannot be connected.
• It is not an email client: it works on your existing mailbox through a web app, and held or blocked mail stays in folders there.

Inbox Zero

AI labels and plain-English rules

Incoming mail is sorted into categories such as To Reply, Newsletter, Marketing and Cold Email. You can add categories of your own and describe in plain English how the assistant should handle mail.

Pre-drafted replies

Emails that need a response get a draft written in your tone, based on your email history and calendar, waiting in the inbox for you to review and send.

Bulk unsubscribe and archive

Shows which senders you never read so you can unsubscribe from and archive them in one click. A cold email blocker and email analytics are part of every plan.

Optional email client

A keyboard-first client for Gmail and Outlook on web, desktop and iPhone, with a split inbox, a command palette, several accounts in one inbox and team comments that are never sent as email.

Chat from Slack and Telegram

The assistant can be reached from Slack or Telegram to read mail, draft replies and manage the inbox. The pricing page lists the Slack integration from the Plus plan.

Open source and self-hosting

The code is public on GitHub, with the web and desktop email client under the AGPL license. The docs cover self-hosting with Docker, on Vercel, AWS or Kubernetes.

Leave Me Alone

Unsubscriber

Lists the subscription emails in connected accounts and unsubscribes for you: it sends an unsubscribe request, follows the link's steps automatically or emails the sender to ask for removal.

Rollups

Senders you choose are moved out of the inbox and delivered together as one digest email, daily or weekly at a time you set. The originals stay in a folder in your mailbox.

Screener

Holds back mail from first-time senders until you allow or block them, and sends a Daily Digest of everything screened in the previous 24 hours.

Spam Blocker

Moves spam, cold sales emails and lists you have already unsubscribed from into a folder, using your custom blocklist and a spam check whose strictness you can set. Nothing is deleted.

Shielded Emails

Private addresses to hand out instead of your own. Mail sent to them is rolled up, forwarded or unsubscribed, and custom addresses are currently limited to 3.

Do Not Disturb and Priority Senders

Schedules hold incoming mail and release it when they end, while Priority Senders always reach the inbox regardless of blocklists, Rollups or schedules.

Inbox Zero

• Starter$18

  per user / month, billed annually; $20 billed monthly

  Sorts and labels every email, drafts replies in your voice, blocks cold emails, bulk unsubscribe and archive, email analytics and pre-meeting briefings.

• Plus$28

  per user / month, billed annually; $35 billed monthly

  Adds 2 email accounts per user, the AI meeting notetaker, Slack and app integrations, email digests, auto-filed attachments and an unlimited knowledge base.

• Professional$42

  per user / month, billed annually; $50 billed monthly

  Everything in Plus, plus team-wide analytics, priority support and a dedicated onboarding manager.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SSO, SCIM, on-premise deployment and a dedicated account manager, arranged with the sales team.

Leave Me Alone

Pricing could not be confirmed. See leavemealone.com.

Inbox Zero

• Annual discount

  Save up to 20% with annual billing

  Annual billing lowers Starter from $20 to $18, Plus from $35 to $28 and Professional from $50 to $42 per user a month. The pricing FAQ puts the saving at up to 20%.

• Education

  Student discount on request

  The pricing FAQ says students can email the company to have a discounted plan set up. The size of the discount is not published.

• Nonprofit

  Nonprofit and open-source project discounts

  The same FAQ answer covers nonprofits and open-source projects, which can email for a discounted plan. No rate is published.

Leave Me Alone

• Other savings

  Included with a Setapp subscription

  The help center says a Setapp subscription includes access to Leave Me Alone as standard, and existing accounts can be switched over to Setapp.