Unroll.Me - Email Cleanup Reviews

by SamiLynn26

So I downloaded this after reading some reviews first. Mostly good, a few not so good but decided to give it a try. Why not right? So at first it worked great. It was unsubscribing from emails I don’t read anymore and gave me a sense of organization when it came to my inbox. Now I’ve always been careful to not really give my email out too much so I don’t get a lot of spam. But I’ve realized that ever sense I downloaded UnrollMe, I have been getting NONSTOP SPAM emails from spamming accounts for stupid things and no matter how much I was “unsubscribing” it seemed to keep getting worse and worse to the point my phone would constantly be blowing up and I couldn’t keep track anymore. I did a little more digging and realized I’m not the only one experiencing this with UnrollMe and I did more research on UnrollMe itself and I found out it I cades your privacy by selling your information to other companies and possibly hackers. I have had two social media accounts hacked recently (could be unrelated as I can’t prove it is UnrollMe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is). I just deleted UnrollMe and I’ve been blocking those spam emails. I’ll update this when I notice a stop in these emails. I don’t know if it does this to make you feel like you are cleaning out your mailbox and you’ll use it longer (which almost worked on me) or what but please stay safe and keep your information safe.

by Keisala

Ive had unroll me for a few years and at first glance it’s a great idea! Clean up my inbox #winning!!
BUT- really all it’s doing is shoving those unwanted emails in to a folder titles “this app”.... so not really saving you any storage on your phone or device.

It also has a major flaw where if you choose to keep an email, but add it to your “stack”... it hides ALL emails from that 1 deliverer. So for example, you want to hide airline spam emails, it will ALSO hide the emails if you have emailed that airlines support department, or been issued a refund, etc.
Because of this- YOU HAVE TO READ YOUR UNROLL ME EMAIL EVERY DAY, to be sure you dont miss communications you WANT to receive, but without the junk emails.
(Ive missed a lot of gift cards from friends this way- since I unsubscribed from say barnes and noble, but they sent me an egoftcard from barnes and noble)

Finally their technology is ALWAYS going wonky. Recently the latest update does not allow for signing in to your gmail account via UnrollMe - because of ios and JavaScript.... and if you email support- it tells me that email is not longer valid! (YES- the one listed RIGHT HERE IN THE DESCRIPTION!! 😳)

Ive had a slew of technological problems with this service and ios accessibility- so if you are an iphone user- id try something else. It’s not mobile friendly AT ALL, and #letsbehonest... most of us check email from our phones.

by Joedubya

While UnrollMe may initially block some junk email, I was quickly overwhelmed by a new wave of junk mail I have never received before.

What tipped me off was I started receiving advertising about being approved for a loan... the approval amount just happened to be the exact amount I had recently taken out of a 401k loan, which was sent to the same account. UnrollMe reads your mail and delivers targeted advertising to you. Focused attention while you “unsubscribe” in their app is high dollar advertising space... and it even feels good because you think your blocking it. But it never stops. Always a fresh batch.

Again, not only does UnrollMe not do what it says, but it floods you with additional spam for you to block as it advertises to you. All while taking your data and reading your personal email for its database to sell you more advertising.

by Eld6176

I have been using this service for several years to put all of my retail emails into one place. Originally it was really helpful besides a glitch every now and then. However over the past year it’s continuously gotten worse, not to mention like other users have pointed out, the company sells your data. I could not figure out why my spam mail had gotten SO bad until reading the reviews on here. It’s not a coincidence this is happening to numerous users of this service. My junk mail has gotten to the point where I can’t even avoid it by blocking domains anymore and might have to change emails from the one I’ve been using for over a decade. To top it off, the user design of the daily roll-up has gradually declined over time and is now worse than ever. You can’t even view previews of the emails in your daily roll-up from your actual email anymore. When you click on your roll-up, it redirects you to UnrollMe , which would log itself out on my phone weekly and I’d end up having to log back in. I’ve finally deleted my account and wish I could have avoided ever using this service. So many regrets!

by Jilliantd

The new release is visually appealing, but it lost some major functionality that makes UnrollMe pretty useless to me. When I tap on an email in my daily roll up from my device inbox, it brings me to a daily roll up in UnrollMe . I therefor have to search within UnrollMe to view the email I wanted to read. The old version brought me right to that email. With all the pretty images, it makes the list even longer to find the one email I want to actual read. Once I find the email if I click on any links within the email, it keeps me within UnrollMe , it used to let me open in my native browser. Until these two things are fixed I won’t be able to use UnrollMe any further than just keeping my inbox clean. Super frustrating. Happy to chat with your product people if they want videos of what I’m struggling with!

by JS ._.

I downloaded UnrollMe and went through all the steps to sign up, and got to the point where they start going through the emails and finding subscriptions. UnrollMe claimed it should’ve only taken a few minutes, so I waited... and waited. I decided to use the notification option for when it finished, but noticed when I was clearing my open apps later it seemed to glitch. It took me back to the login screen, and I logged in, but it took me back to the login page again, and again, and again! I deleted UnrollMe after that. But THEN I decided to maybe give UnrollMe another shot (the next day) because I REALLY wanted it to work, and at first I thought it did. I logged in, and UnrollMe said it had 23 subscriptions found, then I put the notifications on again. I open UnrollMe again later, and another subscription was added to the list, but the next time I logged in, it did the exact same thing as before! I really don’t appreciate this, and if it is a bug and not something sketchy (that I have been seeing in the reviews) PLEASE fix it. If UnrollMe did work for me, it would be essential, but it doesn’t. Thank you for anyone who decided to take the time reading my review, I hope this helped

by Brainteez

Most of the time when an app updates their aesthetics, it takes a moment to get used to and things are back to feeling as they should. But holy cow did the 3.0 update fail on so many levels. (I’m on an iPhone 7) The view of the rollup is such a mess…distracting square photos with a button overlay that is easy to miss altogether as you scroll down. Once in a newsletter, you can’t hold down on a link to bring up share options. Once you let go, it just goes straight into the link as if you did a single tap/click. Once inside an article you can’t access the articles URL in any way, shape, or form. AND, you can’t navigate back to the newsletter! Instead, you have to back all the way out to that day’s roll-up. The basic functionalities that made UnrollMe so useful have all been wiped clean. Maybe it works better on desktop…

by Timothee91

Ugh, I downloaded UnrollMe months ago and initially it was wonderful, although I soon realized that all of my spam emails were multiplying because they were being unsubscribed to, so I stopped using it but left it on. Now, months later, I discover that it has been quietly moving thousands of emails that I didn’t know why I wasn’t getting anymore but needed over to a separate new folder and marking them read.

Now I’m drowning in so many missed important emails from the past months that I’m in tears. Just realize what you are signing up for & stay on top of it even though it takes up so much time to go through all of the emails it presents... and often unsubscribes me from things I need but didn’t recognize which is just as bad.

It can be good, just use caution. However, it does clean out my inbox... of everything I need...

by GingerHammer

I will google tonight if there’s another app that offers same services but with a ‘select all’ feature on grid format similar to an email inbox. Another possible suggestion to make UnrollMe more efficient, user friendly and increase overall appeal would be a filter option allowing user to unsubscribe by sender email address without the redundant action of swiping or touching for every individual email!!
The senders email being more prominent would be helpful compared to the placement of the small text in lower left.
this app becomes mundane, inefficient, time consuming and BORING - unfortunately, it’s easier to just keep deleting emails from my inbox. The fact that there is an UNSUBSCRIBE link at the end of every email or the beloved BLOCK option, I always know if it becomes to bad that two steps and BOOM - DONE >> you get a confirmation of no longer receiving emails <<

by Jessiemay0820

UnrollMe is pretty amazing. I’ve had it for over two years and have recommended it many times. One of the best features was a “roll up” email containing previews of emails from senders you designated. This is brilliant because you can have many emails rolled up in one. You could easily see from that one email if you needed to open any of these emails.

However, I do not like the recent update. They removed the email previews in the roll up and instead have just a subject and one line. Before, I could scan my roll up email with previews and quickly determine what emails to open. Now, I have to open a lot more emails. Also, only 4 emails appear in the roll up email and they only show the subject an part of one line. You have to go to UnrollMe to see the rest and even there, you only get a limited Info for each email. All of this results in more clicks and more time. UnrollMe used to save me tons of time not doesn’t seem to save much time. Finally, the IU updates make it look old. I don’t understand why they made these updates.
Product team: Please fix this.

by SchroederRock

The short response here is that Unroll Me does a decent job of finding emails that are likely junk and helps either unsubscribe you from them or just auto-trash them. I love that. My only reason for not giving a 5-star rating is I do still have some emails coming from spam sources that UnrollMe hasn’t caught that come from the same sender. So it caught quite a bit just not everything. This sort of service has incredible value to a lot of ppl and it’s free which is amazing. But if there were a premium version that had a deeper look at my inboxes for like $2-$3 a year I’d be willing to pay that if it means I have a reliable service that’s chucking garbage out so I’m not thinking I have 11 unread emails every 3 hours. Good app - definitely try it, I just think it has opportunity to be a little better.

by Rickyraab

I have tried many things to combat spam mail. I used the iPhone’s built in “mark as spam” and “unsubscribe” feature which didn’t help much (perhaps it’s less effective for yahoo accounts?), I marked emails as spam through Yahoo’s website directly, I would click the unsubscribe link (which I then read is not something one should do). I still battled spam emails every day so I decided to give UnrollMe a shot and after having to mark over 2000 emails as spam I’m happy to report that I now barely get any spam. Maybe one email every three days or so. It takes some work at first but it’s well worth it.
My only gripe (and the reason for one star short of perfect) is the effort it takes to mark this many emails as spam. You have to swipe every single one. I wish there was a feature to select all of many emails at once and just bulk-tag them. Once you’re at the point of being caught up, it’s super easy to stay on top of things.

Highly recommended!

by Missaren

UnrollMe is lifestyle altering...or at least it used to be.
It’s gotten very glitchy wherein all of a sudden have all of my emails that are supposed to be rolled up, now flooding my inbox, yet I will still receive a roll up email. Additionally, I have 3 accounts and the swapping between them doesn’t work. I will get an daily new subscription alert, but when I go to UnrollMe , I am only allowed to view the rollup on one account. When I try to select a different account, it says “this account already selected”, yet there is no roll up for that account.
Please Please fix!
I’ve uninstalled and re-installed UnrollMe more times than I can say. The annoyances of having so many emails in my inbox removed was a real dream. Now I spend more time trying to get UnrollMe to work.

by Clovpug

I like UnrollMe a lot. I am able to roll up the emails from stores, sites, catalogs in which I shop from. This way I keep them for when I really need them to search deals/discounts however they do not clog up my email. They come every morning in my daily roll up email (one email includes all I wanted to roll up).
UnrollMe allows me to unsubscribe from sites that I do not want emails from (spam/junk). They will go directly to my deleted box if they show up again. I did notice that these emails sometimes show up again in my inbox and am thinking they are now like robo calls in which they use a slightly different email to get through. I just go in and delete that one too.
My only issue is I had accidentally unsubscribe to a couple of businesses I like and when I find they had gone directly to my deleted items folder I try to put in in my in box but it will just go back to the deleted folder and I can't figure out how to change my preference.

by Iindz6

Everybody my age; those of us who were thereto birth the internet and all the changes it has made in everyday life, were the guinea pigs for those who forged this new age. We made all the mistakes that those creators used to adjust and change that which they were making. One of those oft made mistakes was letting your e-mail address be written on every bathroom wall on the net. Us older models now have to clear 50 or more unwanted e-mails a day from a mailbox we just want to manage our personal lives with. Another reality is that changing your primary e-mail is like moving to another country. It’s like a relationship with a lover that you can’t live with, but cannot leave. Unroll me isn’t perfect (yet), but it will reduce the clutter pretty significantly. If you can’t afford a techie or are too old to be savvy about creating a new identity, try Unroll me!

by Unsubsribe Me-

I recently started recieving 100+ unsolicited emails daily from online retailers, stores, airlines, every cruise line imaginable, surveys, vineyards, catalogs, coupon websites- just a ton of junk. They made it through spam and junk filters and made my inbox a nightmare.

To go into each individual email and find the "unsubscribe" link, open in browser, then answer the customized questions for each site to "say goodbye" took at least five minutes. Some had multiple questions to ensure you wanted them to honestly leave you alone. I was breaking off an unsolicited email "relationship" with JC Penny, Windsor Vineyards, and OTAA neckties- stalkers are easier to get rid of.

I got this, it downloaded quickly, then I simply entered the email account, granted permission with a click, and 80+ junk/mass accounts were isolated in seconds. 100% accuracy! I was able to quickly save those I actually need or want (school emails, retailers I actually frequent) and unsubscribe from 63 mailing lists in just a few minutes! Easy to use and loved the reporting! Have done this to three phones now- Miracle!

A must-have once you have been targeted and had your email taken or gathered from browsing history, job affiliation from Linkedin, marketing lists and retailer affiliates.

by Guitar4life1185

I’ve had UnrollMe for a year or so now, and it’s a huge help. It is simple, and as far as my experience goes, does exactly what it says. You can choose to completely unsubscribe, roll up, or keep emails.

I tend to accidentally sign up for things, so it’s a huge help to know UnrollMe will do the heavy lifting for me in unsubscribing.

My only issue is I may have rolled up some things at one point that I need again later. I’ve forgotten at times if they were rolled up or not and had to hunt a bit to find them again.

But, for the most part it’s a simple, effective app that does what it claims.

I accidentally signed up for a few of those survey and reward sites yesterday , and my inbox was bombarded with new emails and offers.

UnrollMe has consistently been able to offer the unsubscribe option through the simple interface.

The daily roll up email is good to review emails you may not need to keep, but still want to see occasionally.

Definitely recommend!

by Trickyyyts

This has changed the game. With all the legitimate things I receive, sale info from places I go to infrequently (but still want to know about) and then the random junk mail, my inbox stayed full. I used to have to spend so much time unsubscribing to the excess emails, and when I didn’t have the time to do so, it would quickly get out of control. As well, new junk mail quickly took the place of newly unsubscribed junk mail, and the cycle would repeat. Not anymore! I roll up the emails from the stores, unsubscribe from the junk and keep the rest. It’s as quick as swiping left, right or up, in one app. Then my inbox has one nicely rolled up email with all the store offers, no junk, and the rest is what I need to sift through. Even better, it’s constantly looking for NEW junk e-mail, and notifies me in my pretty little roll up! So quick, so easy, and so awesome! HIGHLY recommend!

by Kit Kaplan

I am a compulsive information gatherer. I love to know everything about anything because you just never know when it will come in handy. Every day I am bombarded by email and spam. it seems like every time I subscribe to something new, they sell my name to someone else. Suddenly i get tons of unrelated advertising.

Everywhere I go online I feel pounded with ads. On Facebook now and every “free“ app is chock-full of advertising that pops up in your face so you can’t use UnrollMe until you read it. I’m just so sick of it.

That’s why I love UnrollMe. One of the best tools I have found to manage ADHD and get things done is TIO, or turn it off. When I’m trying to get something done, I turn off notifications. I have an app on my phone to track time I spend on tasks and warn me when the time is over. And I can turn the phone off and still get that alert, but nothing else. Love it.

by Laurikeet

It really is helpful. All you do is choose if you want an email source deleted, kept in their box or kept in your email. I found that I rarely look at the ones they “roll up” in their app, because it takes time for it to open. But it is fabulous for deleting. At first I signed up for their daily emails. It was a total drag, just another email, but I changed it to no emails and now check UnrollMe myself once or twice a week. Websites that hope for money from you change the names of the supposed senders constantly, and so do eventually return to your inbox, but it is still easier to unsubscribe to them through Unroll me, until they change the name again. But that is not Unroll Me’s fault and they really are terrific.

by Vetjb

Edit:
Are your responses robot generated?! This is not an account issue, this is a systemwide issue. Maybe if you actually read my review you would realize that. It says in there that I have been emailing your tech-support back-and-forth since October. They have already told me that this is a bug that hasn’t been fixed, not an account problem. And I also know this because numerous people are having the same issue. And your tech-support already told me this. As well as the numerous people writing in on here, fb, Instagram.

todays earlier review: Are you guys ever going to fix the fact that your app does not work at all?! I understand bugs happening but this issue has been going on since October and all your tech-support says to me over email is that it’s being worked on and then months go by. Why even have an app if you’re just going to have it be garbage. And it seems that all the responses from the developers on here, act like you have no clue what’s going on. Or that it’s the person’s account or they need to reset their phone etc. etc. I know technology considering my husband is a lead engineer for altice USA and the president of all of New Jersey’s cable society. When I have multiple accounts on multiple devices and my friends do as well. Then it is a systemwide thing. Please fix this already. I have sent screenshots and crash errors, etc.

by Charmed824

UnrollMe used to be helpful. But then a few months ago my inbox started becoming flooded again. I emailed support and was told they were aware of the issue and were working on it. Received another email from support a few weeks after that, again telling me they were still working on it. Now with this recent iOS update, anytime I try to even open UnrollMe , it immediately crashes. I’m seeing other reviewers are having the exact same issue. The developer responds to each review, asking for more info. It’s obvious it’s a generic reply because there really is no more info needed! If they were truly reading our complaints through these reviews they’d realize UnrollMe is CRASHING upon attempting to open. How much more of an explanation can we all give? I’m about ready to uninstall/unsubscribe this useless app. and find a new one that works better.

by Cbstrange

UnrollMe is easy (and kinda fun) to use and is extremely effective. For some reason I got an influx of spam a month ago and couldn’t stop the hundreds of emails flooding my inbox during the night. I downloaded UnrollMe and diligently unsubscribed only using UnrollMe every day. My daily emails lowered immediately. Now I only get maybe one spam email every two days, and I handle it through UnrollMe . Make sure to select all the offending emails and mark them as spam, don’t open them or respond yourself.

UPDATE

UnrollMe has stopped sending junk mail on my inbox. I’m currently searching for another app or program that will continuously scan my inbox for junk. I’m also not entirely sure that I was being unsubscribed from these emails.

by Lolor2

I used to miss emails coming to my yahoo all the time because it was so bogged down and overloaded w ads and offers. I’m not talking about spam- I’m talking about good email ads I want to look at - but only periodically when I need them. Otherwise, they’re just sitting in my inbox causing me to hv to scroll so far down to get to the important ones. this app provides a quick and easy one-time method of moving these clogging types of emails without losing access completely. You can also choose to permanently “unsubscribe” easily to emails if you don’t want them to show up again. No more embarrassing “I must’ve missed your email.”

by KsNpet

I love UnrollMe! I have been using it for about a year. I downloaded it because I wanted to unsubscribe to emails, I had tried just clicking unsubscribe but that didn’t always work. UnrollMe works for that.
Recently they had some issues with UnrollMe , I don’t know what the issue was all I know is I sent support an email and they answered right away. They were working on a fix. The fix came and I still couldn’t get in so I sent support another email. Again they answered right away! This time it was setting on my phone. I changed my settings and it works again! Support for UnrollMe is awesome! Thank You!