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Life & fun · July 24, 2026

Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts

Hey HN, Did you know you can download all your emails (and attachments) from GMail into a .mbox format using Google Takeout (https://takeout.google.com)? I did this and for the longest time my .mbox backup just sat around. I built a web app that can take an .mbox file and load it into a UI that looks like GMail: threaded conversations, original labels and categories, contacts, attachments, and full-text search. The mail never leaves your machine: the upload and parsing happens in a Web Worker in your own browser, and the archive is stored in browser storage on your device. Close…

Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts launched on July 24, 2026 with 7 votes, #2,664 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Browse a Gmail (mbox) backup locally in your browser.

Google Takeout gives you one unreadable .mbox . mboxreader turns it into search, threads, and attachments — all inside thisfrom mboxreader.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, Did you know you can download all your emails (and attachments) from GMail into a .mbox format using Google Takeout (https://takeout.google.com)? I did this and for the longest time my .mbox backup just sat around. I built a web app that can take an .mbox file and load it into a UI that looks like…

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