AnonAddy
Open-source anonymous email forwarding, create unlimited email aliases for free.
- Freemium • Open Source
- Disposable Email Service
- Privacy Tool
- Self-Hosted
- Google Chrome
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Firefox
What is AnonAddy?
AnonAddy is an open-source anonymous email forwarding service. The name AnonAddy is short for "anonymous email address".
Why should I use AnonAddy?
- Protect your real email address from spam by simply deactivating/deleting aliases that receive unsolicited emails
- Identify who has sold your data by using a different email address for every site
- Protect your identity in the event of a data breach by making it difficult for hackers to cross-reference your accounts
- Prevent inbox snooping by encrypting all inbound emails using GPG/OpenPGP encryption
- Update where emails are forwarded without having to go through and change your email address for each site individually
- Reply to forwarded emails anonymously without revealing your true email address
How does it work?
- Register your username
Let's say your username is johndoe. You can now use *@johndoe.anonaddy.com (or .me) as your email. Where * denotes any valid local part for an email address.
If you would like to remain anonymous choose a username that is not linked to your real name or identify and that you haven't used anywhere else.
- Create Aliases On The Fly (or generate UUID aliases)
Next time you are signing up to a website or newsletter, simply make up a new alias and enter that instead of your real email address.
For example, if you are on vuejs.org and you want to sign up to their newsletter you could simply enter vuejs@johndoe.anonaddy.com (or .me).
We'll automatically create the alias in your dashboard as soon as it receives its first email. You can reply to emails anonymously too!
- Manage Aliases
Let's say a spammer gets hold of one of your aliases and starts sending unsolicited email to it. You can simply toggle a switch in your dashboard and deactivate that alias.
Our system will then silently discard any further emails and you won't be forwarded anything else for that alias.
You can also delete the alias. Then our system will reject any emails and respond with an error.
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AnonAddy Features
AnonAddy information
- Developed byWill Browning
- LicensingOpen Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.
- PricingSubscription that costs between $1 and $4.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 5
- Alternatives82 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 2,270 Stars
- 133 Forks
- 33 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
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- Privacy Tool
- Unlimited Aliases
- Firefox Extension
- Privacy Protection
- inbox-management
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adamaru Upvoted a comment on MailDrop as an alternative to AnonAddyNot an alternative to AnonAddy: only provides (public) disposable addresses where AnonAddy forwards emails received on (personal) aliases to your real address.
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Best alternative to burner mails.
Great tool to hide your email. Servers are in the Netherlands (not too bad), the web-UI is excellent (sleek, self-explaining and simple), chrome, brave, opera extensions work well. This is a must have tool for all privacy conscious people on the web.
Thanks so much!
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Great service. Very useful and mandatory to keep your online personal life safe
It is great email alias solution and more. I recommend this and SimpleLogin. AnonAddy is cheaper and easier to use but not as feature rich. SimpleLogin is much more powerful but that also adds complexity for those looking for the easiest email aliasing solution that works, secure, privacy focused, and more. I recommend paying the Lite plan for $12 for the entire year to support a great project and not put all your eggs in one product.
For the price
Even though some others offer a similar service, AnonAddy offers a lot of disposable emails for free, much more than any other service and without sacrificing privacy or security nor features. Made by a user for users
Pleased! Temporary emails that last as long as you want. They can be changed at will and will forward to your choice of email address. The free part is generous.
Offer Unlimited aliases for subdomain alias!
Great solution. I recommend SimpleLogin if you can spend a little more but AnonAddy is a fine solution as well and I give it 5 stars. I do not recommend any other email alias software than these two for various reasons.
If able to, having both will not hurt and AnonAddy is largely community driven, the current pricing around $12 per year is well spent to make sure developers continue to make this amazing products and offer them for an amazing value.