Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail
Hey HN, I’m the creator of Mail Memories. Like many of you, I've had my Gmail address for more than 20 years. A few years ago, I got curious and wanted to see what photos were buried deep in my account. I ended up finding lots of "lost" pictures of old friends, family members, and a ridiculous number of vintage memes. I originally built and launched this as a SaaS, but even with code and policies in place that kept users' photos private, I figured everyone would feel more comfortable with a desktop app. So, I threw out the server architecture and completely rewrote it as a 100% local desktop…
Mail Memories is a desktop application for Mac and Windows that extracts photos from Gmail accounts. Users connect their Gmail directly to the app, which processes all data locally on their computer and downloads… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin). Website: https://memories.gallery/ GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm) Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time! Some features to…
2024 · memories.gallery · its alternatives →
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MailChimp Snap▲271Send simple, photo-based email campaigns from your phone.
2014 · mailchimp.com · its alternatives →
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Free storage & automatic organization for all your memories
2016 · google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…
2025 · pimosa.app · its alternatives →
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Google Photos▲664Automatic backup and unlimited storage for all your photos
2015 · workspaceupdates.googleblog.com · its alternatives →
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Flash for Gmail▲153Turn your Gmail experience to a Superhuman experience
2020 · helpninja.com · its alternatives →
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Linux version of the LostPhotos application for Mac/Windows - caiobegotti/Lost-Photos-Found
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We’re Aleem, Chris, Borys, Meichen and Zach from Streak (YC S11) and today we’re open sourcing our InboxSDK https://www.inboxsdk.com, which makes it easy to build apps for Gmail. Over 1.8B users spend their days in Gmail! Having your app built into the Gmail workflow is a better user experience and gives you great user retention. InboxSDK gives you a high-level, declarative API to insert your UI into Gmail without having to directly manipulate the DOM yourself. End users install a browser extension to use your app. The SDK can add UI to multiple areas of Gmail. For example,…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Mailtrack.io▲282The best email tracking solution I've found. Free
2014 · mailsuite.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, so I've been building my own Gmail for the past few weeks and would like your feedback. Find a preview here: http://i.imgur.com/UDz2y.png (Mouse cursor is over the "REPLY" button, to show the hover-effect) The app you see in the screenshot is what I've been using in the past week and it starts to feel better than the gmail interface. Just a quick explanation: - It's conversation-based like Gmail. - Conversations with new emails are on the left. - Conversations may be labeled ... based on predefined filters or manually. - Every conversation stays in the left sidebar until marked…
2012 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →
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HappyMail▲201Eight years ago, I was job hunting and felt embarrassed by my Gmail address. I tried registering firstname.lastname — taken everywhere. So I thought: "I'm in IT, I'll set up my own domain with my own IMAP/SMTP. How hard could it be?" A lot went wrong. Forgotten renewals. rocky DNS mistakes. I ended migrating toward Google Workspace, but in the end it felt overkill, having a subscription there plus the whole registrar subscription, and the whole GAFAM sticker on it. Moreover, the final price was way too high for me at the time. Six months ago, someone approached me and related to that…
Jan 2026 · happymail.tech · its alternatives →
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The missing native desktop client for Gmail on Windows 10.
2018 · its alternatives →
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Bookmarks which you wanted to read, but simply forgot... It happened to me all the time. I bookmarked the articles to read later and simply forgot about them. Forever. I built Mailist to help with that. Already 2350 users enjoy their "weekly digests" composed from their bookmarks. It makes me super happy! So now, https://mailist.app Pro account allows you to send an email newsletter every day, built from your bookmarks. Does it sound interesting? The free version (weekly email) is available for everyone! Let me know what you think. PS. Unlike other tools, we care about your privacy…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Save emails as full-length screenshots or PDFs for free
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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LoveCapsule▲76Your child’s memories, stored in your Google Drive—forever.
Apr 2026 · lovecapsuleapp.com · its alternatives →
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I had an issue where I would journal stuff, and then never look at what I wrote. So I thought it'll be cool to schedule something that will get sent to you at a later time (like a time capsule). Also, was inspired by futureme, where you can send yourself letters that'll arrive in the future.
Dec 2025 · resurf.me · its alternatives →
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I always assumed Gmail bloat came from large attachments. Turns out 3 senders were responsible for 30% of my inbox — thousands of tiny emails I'd never thought to clean up. I built mailtrim to surface this pattern: - ranks senders by actual storage impact (not just count) - confidence scoring on what's safe to bulk-delete - 30-day undo on everything — nothing is permanent by default - runs entirely locally, no email data leaves your machine Free, open source (MIT). No subscription, no backend. One friction point upfront: Gmail API setup is one-time, ~15 min. After that it's just `mailtrim…
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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Maildrop provides free disposable e-mail addresses for use in web forms, app signups, or any other place you'd like to protect your privacy.
2013 · maildrop.cc · its alternatives →
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Unattach▲106Free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments
2021 · unattach.com · its alternatives →
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