Comparison
Alternative to AgainstData
Find online accounts, clean up unwanted email, and manage your digital footprint. Paperweight is an open-source alternative to AgainstData that keeps your email and analysis on your computer.
| Comparison criteria | PaperweightAn open-source desktop app for account discovery, email cleanup, and managing your digital footprint. | AgainstDataA hosted web app for inbox cleanup, company discovery, and personal-data deletion requests. |
|---|---|---|
| Processing and storage | Locally on your computer | Hosted service |
| Account discovery | Account evidence, purchases, mailing lists, and company relationships | Company and sender discovery from mailbox metadata |
| Email cleanup | Bulk unsubscribe, move to trash, and report spam after review | Unsubscribe, bulk deletion, and automated cleanup |
| Personal data | Detect personal details in messages and generate access or deletion requests | Send personal-data deletion requests and track responses |
| Email providers | Gmail, Outlook, Proton Mail through Bridge, and standard IMAP accounts | Google and Microsoft accounts |
| Pricing | Free discovery, a $25 Cleanup Pass, or $60 per year | Limited free trial or $79/year |
Which should you choose?
Choose AgainstData if you want a hosted inbox workflow with a dashboard for tracking deletion requests.
Choose Paperweight if you prefer local account discovery and email cleanup across Gmail, Outlook, Proton Mail through Bridge, or standard IMAP.
What Paperweight does differently
A privacy tool that reads your data in the cloud is not a privacy tool. Paperweight connects directly to your provider and stays on your computer.
100% local processing
All analysis runs on your device. There are no Paperweight servers and your emails are never shared with anyone.
Open source and auditable
Publicly available under the permissive MIT license. Inspect the code, verify our claims, or build it yourself.
Review before action
You stay in complete control. Review sender evidence and request templates before anything is sent.
The walk-away test
Even if we disappear, you keep the app, source code, and your data. Fully local, with no Paperweight servers to depend on.
Alternatives
Compare Paperweight with other email cleanup and privacy tools.
Alternative to AgainstData
Find online accounts, clean up unwanted email, and manage your digital footprint. Paperweight is an open-source alternative to AgainstData that keeps your email and analysis on your computer.
Alternative to Clean Email
Go beyond a cleaner inbox. Paperweight helps you discover online accounts, detect personal data, and send deletion requests alongside bulk email cleanup. Your email and analysis stay on your computer.
Alternative to Leave Me Alone
Clean up unwanted email and see the accounts behind it. Paperweight combines bulk unsubscribe with account discovery, personal-data detection, and deletion requests in an open-source desktop app.
Alternative to Unroll.Me
Paperweight helps you clean up your inbox and manage email subscriptions without selling your data. Discover forgotten accounts, find personal data, and reduce your digital footprint from your own computer.
Manage your digital footprint
Find your accounts, clean up unwanted email, and take control of your personal data.