Temp and Throwaway Email Services

There are several reasons why you might need a temporary email address that you can “throw away” once you’re done with it. Perhaps you want to sign up at a website but are afraid to get spammed for all eternity if you would leave your regular mail. For this purpose, you need a disposable email address. These can often forward the mails to your normal account, but – and this is important – stop doing it when you tell it to.

Below, you’ll find a list of the most popular temp email services you can use to keep your regular inbox clean and tidy. Read the product description and our user reviews to find the best solution for you.

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  1. addy.io icon
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    Open-source anonymous email forwarding, create unlimited email aliases for free.

    • Disposable Email Service
    • FreemiumOpen Source
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • F-Droid
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Manage aliases from the dashboard
    Best alternatives are Firefox Relay iconFirefox RelayandSimpleLogin iconSimpleLogin96 alternatives
  2. MailDrop icon
     112 likes

    MailDrop is a free throwaway e-mail address. It's temporary. It's transient. It's disposable. It's meant for those times when you don't want to give out your real address. Just give someone any e-mail address in the maildrop.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandTemporaryMail iconTemporaryMail133 alternatives
  3. TemporaryMail icon
     18 likes

    Tired of spam filling your inbox? This tool offers a quick solution by generating temporary, disposable email addresses (temp mail). Just copy your assigned address or create a new one, and you'll immediately start receiving emails in your disposable inbox that is shown...

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop64 alternatives
  4. Firefox Relay icon
     36 likes

    We all make many online accounts, but most of them are linked to 1 or 2 of our email addresses. This means if just one account is hacked or tracked, every other account and its associated data is now also at risk.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandAliasVault iconAliasVault124 alternatives
  5. Guerrilla Mail icon
     44 likes

    Guerrilla Mail gives you a disposable email address. You can give your email address to whomever you don't trust. You can read the email using Guerrilla Mail, click on any confirmation link, and even reply.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop131 alternatives
  6. Mailinator icon
     59 likes

    Mailinator is a throwaway email service that lets you use the @mailinator.com email domain to receive email at no cost. The email is publicly accessible by anyone but it's also easily disposable. With this, you can signup for services to try them out and not have to worry...

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop125 alternatives
  7. YOPmail icon
     37 likes

    YOPmail’s free, quick and feature rich service guards you against spam, phishing and other online abuses. Protect your actual email, instead use YOPmail’s disposable one to sign-up wherever you want. YOPmail creates temporary inboxes of your choice instantaneously.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop118 alternatives
  8. Chatmail icon
     5 likes

    Create a new email account in seconds.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop58 alternatives
  9. Cloaked icon
     3 likes

    Cloaked is a subscription service providing privacy features such as instant identity generation, encrypted communications, an integrated authenticator app, and zero-access to your messages to protect your personal information.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop58 alternatives
  10. InstAddr icon
     12 likes

    Disposable email address application.

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    Best alternatives are Proton Mail iconProton MailandGmail iconGmail101 alternatives
  11. Inboxes.com icon
     12 likes

    Get all the spam, junk, advertising material delivered directly to your inboxes email address. Keep your private email for what's important, and use inboxes for anything else.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop63 alternatives
  12. Dispostable icon
     36 likes

    Just pick a random email address! You only have to make sure it ends with @dispostable.com.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop118 alternatives
  13. lockrMail icon
     13 likes

    lockrMail is a free productivity tool that acts as a pre-filter for your inbox, providing you with a unique and secure email address to use online. Custom filters enable you to decide which brand emails come to your inbox and which are blocked.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop54 alternatives
  14. Spamgourmet icon
     41 likes

    Spamgourmet provides disposable, optionally self destructing, email addresses that get created automatically the first time they are used, forward messages, and then automatically expire after number of specified messages received.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandFirefox Relay iconFirefox Relay118 alternatives
  15. Erine.email icon
     15 likes

    Create unlimited disposable email adresses on the go and forward them to your main email adress, with this free and open-source solution.

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    Best alternatives are addy.io iconaddy.ioandMailDrop iconMailDrop120 alternatives