AnonAddy
Open-source anonymous email forwarding, create unlimited email aliases for free.
- Freemium • Open Source
- Disposable Email
- Privacy Tool
- Self-Hosted
- Google Chrome
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Firefox
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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?
1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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.
# 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?
1. 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.
2. 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!
3. 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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- Email Forwarding
- Privacy focused
- Disposable Email
- PGP Encryption
- Unique email addresses
- Firefox Extension
- Unlimited aliases
- Privacy Protection
Supported Languages
- English
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Summary
Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about AnonAddy, and it has gotten 29 likes
- Developed by Will Browning
- Open Source (MIT) and Freemium product.
- Subscription that costs between $1 and $4.
- Written in
- Average rating of 5
- 75 alternatives listed
GitHub repository
- 1,716 Stars
- 102 Forks
- 37 Open Issues
- Updated May 17, 2022
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AnonAddy was added to AlternativeTo by AnonAddy on Oct 31, 2019 and this page was last updated Jul 26, 2021.
Recent user activities on AnonAddy
- imsebi added AnonAddy as alternative(s) to txen.de16 days ago
- imsebi added AnonAddy as alternative(s) to Gmailnator (Smartnator)16 days ago
- OriginalFlavor added AnonAddy as alternative(s) to SharkLasers24 days ago
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!
Reply written over 2 years ago
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.
You have your own subdomain, it supports custom domains and you can also have emails on the main domain for more privacy. Very good
Services is nice. Works well. Recommend.
Open source, convenient, secure.
Great alternative - dont want to miss it anymore. I would even go so far and say that this is the best alternative to burnermail.