nowfound

Work · alternatives · 2026

UF

24 alternatives to Unattach – free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments

Hello HackerNews! I have a full-time job, but love building productivity tools in my spare time. Some time ago, my dad told me that his Gmail account was full and asked whether I could help. I built a simple app for him, and later decided to make it into a product. With the recent news that Google is discontinuing free storage for photos, more and more people are facing a similar problem. Unattach (https://unattach.app) is a desktop app for downloading and/or removing Gmail attachments from many emails at once. You can use it to free up your Google storage, which is shared…

Unattach is a desktop application that helps users free up Google storage by downloading and removing Gmail attachments in bulk. It addresses the problem of full Gmail accounts, particularly relevant as Google phases… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Unattach – free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1
    Unattach▲106

    Free up your Google storage by removing Gmail attachments

    2021 · unattach.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Unsubscribe Gmail emails in a single click. 100% private

    2020 · helpninja.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Open source alternative to Unroll.me for Gmail

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    Dittach▲70

    Find attachments fast

    2017 · yvonnetorresstudio.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Your Gmail Contacts. On steroids.

    2014 · fullcontact.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6
    Drag Free▲207

    Transform your Gmail into organized task lists

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Track, unsend & self-destruct your Gmail attachments.

    2016 · digify.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Unsubscribe, delete hundreds of emails and exercise your right to be forgotten with one-click.

    2024 · againstdata.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    Make Gmail work like Superhuman

    2025 · cmdk.email · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Free up Storage Space by Extracting Attachments from Gmail

    2024 · attachments-extractor.ybouane.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    The fastest way to a cleaner Gmail inbox

    2023 · inboxpurge.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Unsubscribe from newsletters in one swipe on iOS

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Free storage & automatic organization for all your memories

    2016 · google.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    The best email tracking solution I've found. Free

    2014 · mailsuite.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Split inbox tabs for Gmail. 100% private. 100% free

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16

    it will contain different utilities for GMail API over OAuth2 - abhishekkr/gmail-helper

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    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…

    Jul 2026 · mailmemories.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    The ultimate toolbox to control sending/receiving emails

    2014 · boomeranggmail.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Hi everyone, My motivation for building this was to address the trouble of mass unsubscribing from unwanted emails and deleting bulk emails while ensuring privacy and control over the process. With this Chrome extension, emails are not sent to any external servers. All calls to the Gmail API happen locally on your device. Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

    2024 · inboxpurge.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20MF

    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 →

  21. 21

    Free and open-source alternative to Unroll.me for Gmail

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    One simple way to get more out of Google

    2018 · blog.google · its alternatives →

  23. 23OS

    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 →

  24. 24

    A privacy-oriented Gmail add on against marketing email

    2024 · cleaninboxforgmail.com · its alternatives →

Also compare

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →