# Maildrop review (2026): is it any good? > Free public disposable inboxes with a GraphQL API Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Maildrop is a free throwaway email service: pick any name at maildrop.cc and read that inbox, with no sign-up or password. Inboxes are public by design and are cleared after 24 hours without new mail. A GraphQL API lets developers read test messages in code. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** Heluna - **Website:** https://maildrop.cc - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need privacy, as anyone can read any inbox. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Maildrop is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Entire service is free: no sign-up, up to 10 messages per inbox, API access with rate limits. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Any address at maildrop.cc, no account, 10 messages per inbox, inboxes cleared after 24 hours without mail. | Read from https://maildrop.cc/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Maildrop before buying. ## Key features - **No sign-up:** Make up an address at maildrop.cc, give it out, then type it into the site to read the inbox. - **Spam filtering:** Filters from Heluna, plus greylisting, sender checks and subject checks, block most spam before it reaches an inbox. - **GraphQL API:** Developers can list a mailbox, read or delete a message and fetch statistics over a GraphQL endpoint. - **Strict message handling:** Messages must be under 500k and all attachments are removed and discarded. ## Good for - Throwaway sign-ups where you only need to receive a single confirmation - Developers testing the emails their own app sends ## Worth knowing - Every inbox is public: the privacy policy says anyone can read any message and to send nothing sensitive. - Maildrop cannot send email, and attachments are discarded. - An inbox holds at most 10 messages and is cleared after 24 hours without new mail, sooner when space runs short. - Connections are logged, and the vendor cannot say what happened to a missing email. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Maildrop is a free throwaway inbox service with a GraphQL API and no sign-up. Every inbox is public, it can't send mail, attachments are dropped, and an inbox holds 10 messages. - **Value for money: A.** Free outright, with no sign-up and no account to pay for. - **Free plan and trial: A.** The whole service is free, including API access with rate limits. - **Features: C.** Receiving mail at any address on its domain, spam filtering and an API. It does the throwaway job fully, which is a smaller job, and it can't send. - **Ease of use: B.** No account and nothing to set up: pick an address and read it. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with a GraphQL API. No apps listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Heluna's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email apps - Maildrop's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 100 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 15. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 97 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Maildrop has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Maildrop is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 100 of the 122 other email apps we grade. - You could not: Filters that read every message as it arrives. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Public API, Inbox filtering ## Alternatives - [Guerrilla Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/guerrilla-mail): Disposable email inbox that needs no sign-up. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/guerrilla-mail-vs-maildrop) - [Mailinator](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mailinator): Public disposable inboxes and private email testing domains. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maildrop-vs-mailinator) - [Temp Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/temp-mail): Disposable email addresses for sign-ups, with a Premium upgrade. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/maildrop-vs-temp-mail) - [Burner Mail](https://toolgpa.com/tools/burner-mail): Burner email addresses that forward to your real inbox. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/burner-mail-vs-maildrop) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://maildrop.cc/ - https://maildrop.cc/how-it-works/ - https://maildrop.cc/privacy/ - https://docs.maildrop.cc/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/maildrop Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).