Cleanfox - Mail & Spam Cleaner Reviews

by Vampaliciousss

Deceiving you makes you believe that it will continue to monitor your mailbox diligently and, like unroll me used to do and has also lately completely been a fail, makes you believe that on a daily basis you will open Cleanfox and continue to sort through all this junk mail until eventually you will have a clean and sleek mail experience. Epic fail. It’s a one hit wonder. Works, sort of, one time and then asks for a quick 5 star rating. You’ve been suckered. Those emails aren’t even actually removed from your mailbox. The promise of unsubscribing you? A total joke. It literally made absolutely no difference in my mailbox other than, having started with yahoo, it moved legit emails that I swiped to keep- it moved everything to junk and deleted my entire mailbox. Because my gmail, frustrating as it is, does not have a delete all oprion when you select all, was spared. But literally nothing was done. Other that some mail I wanted moved to junk, very luckily not deleted. Do not use Cleanfox. False promises and I’ve lost emails probably of great importance. Shame on these developers. Epic fail.

by Reuters 5 Stars

Didn’t work. Need an app like this but this isn’t it. Scanned my email alright. It wanted to unsubscribe and delete email but wouldn’t let me keep it. It just didn’t give me an option to do so. Also, instructions and options are skimpy at best. Poorly written, poor documentation.

Cleanfox doesn’t seem to have been tested very well. Should be extensively tested with average people, not just using it a few times by the developer before releasing it. As my wife says, “people should look at their stuff (websites and apps) at least once a week.”

by Steveo11284

It didn't do anything. It was scanning for over 24 hours (still was before I uninstalled it). I deleted tons of emails via Cleanfox but they were actually never deleted. Also the way that they handle signing into Cleanfox and getting control of your email is VERY suspicious.... They force you to turn on 2 factor authentication (which is good to have on, but you shouldn't force people to do it). They also don't authenticate the right way. They do it through app passwords which I haven't seen done in years and isn't as secure and a super old way of doing things. Just be careful who you give your Google account access to!

by FairyTailLoverMRC2068

Once I got everything set up (which took forever) I tried using it to unsubscribe from some of the companies I was getting emails from that I no longer use, but it did nothing. I still get emails from this companies and never got any emails saying I unsubscribed. With that, ever since I did that Cleanfox says my inbox is clear when it still full of the old and the new. Cleanfox is a piece of crap, don’t download it. It’s just a scam made to look at your private info through your emails. (Luckily I don’t even use the email I tried this with, but don’t risk it my dudes!) Waste of time and privacy!

by Arlastuart

I normally don’t write reviews, but I don’t want someone to have to go through the same issue I did. I downloaded this app, & it took several hours to scan my inbox.I was so excited thinking I had found an app that would delete clumps of my unopened or spam emails at once. Nope! I can’t tell you how much time I spent selecting the things I wanted to unsubscribe to or the emails I deleted, only to find when I went to my regular email client, there was not one single thing deleted. Everything I unsubscribed to, still there. Please don’t waste your time...

by DeeNYC2018

Downloaded Cleanfox despite the prior reviewer’s review, which advised that Cleanfox kept crashing. Anyway, after I gave them permission to get all of my data, and I saw that over 3,000 “articles” were scanned, when I was time to “clean up,” it never got past 101 “articles” and just kept coming up with error messages. I quickly deleted, but thought it strange that the next day I started getting excessive spam calls and one person ever called, said my first name, and when I answered “yes,” immediately hung up. I’ve watch g my account like crazy now...again, NOT saying this is all true, but these are my concerns.

by Fafnir812

I just downloaded Cleanfox to give it a try. They get to a screen asking for my first and last name and birth year. But it says it can’t read the data ... why do so many boneheaded SW developers think little or no testing is ok yet they foist their bad programming on customers to beta test and then apologize for their screw ups.
I can’t get thru the install process far enough to get to a customer support email or toll free number to call and ask for help or to report the problem.
Having to give a one star rating to submit this comment is over rating this experience

by Bradon Schwarz

Don’t waste your time. I spent over 3 hours deleting and unsubscribing from over 8,000 emails. Afterwards, I checked my inbox and not a single email was deleted.

I emailed my issue to support and they emailed me back the next day saying the emails would be deleted within 10 days.

As you probably have put together by now, not a single email has been deleted almost 20 days after the fact. Thanks for wasting my time and for hijacking my personal information.

by Ifreedom839

I feel like my information has been stolen and they just put on a front that they clean emails. This did not work. It got access to my email and showed that I was unsubscribing from my newsletters and deleting emails but when I got back into my email everything was still there. I even waited for a week like they told me to and it still did nothing!

Don't waste your time with Cleanfox. I don't know which app you can use but don't use this one.

by ZheAwesomePenguin

It says that it “works” but not only does it only take you into your subscriptions once, but doesn’t do ANYTHING once it’s there. I still am subscribed to the same emails that this app supposedly unsubscribed me from. It didn’t even clear my messages. I had to do it manually.

And after three attempts it’s become clear that it will never work for my email again. Save yourself some time and just go through your emails and unsubscribe manually. It’ll be faster than trying to sync this waste of an app to your email anyway.

by LandonBall3

It’s truly ridiculous. I downloaded Cleanfox cause I love the concept of how they plant trees, but I had to keep closing it down just to get it to continue with the set up process. It wouldn’t freeze, but it just would take forever. I have a total of 3 email accounts I’d like to have looked into, and it took me 20 minutes for it to get 1 basic gmail account set up, and it didn’t even have a huge number of emails. It only found 52 newsletters; I do my best to keep my actual inbox clean on my own. I just thought by how many times I had to restart Cleanfox There would be over 1000 junk emails there.

Completely NOT worth your time or effort.

by Didymops

So much for up to a “few hours” working in the background. I haven’t even gotten to the disappointing part where it deletes all my email except the junk. Only moved to Cleanfox because Unroll Me ‘upgraded’ and stopped working, leaving me with several hundred daily incoming messages from spammers, solicitors, and every politician in the country with their hands out. Buh bye.

Received an email that 32 new subscriptions detected. Told I needed to reconnect.
DELETED!!

by Veestah

For whatever reason, a .io extension email address isn’t seen as valid, so I can’t get an email out? And Google says NOTHING about how to contact such an email.

Anyway. I was under the impression this app would let me search for emails i want to delete en masse, and get rid of them.

I was apparently only able to get rid of NEWSLETTERS. I still have thousands of emails left. They could simply install a search box, you enter the name of a frequent sender, and use the same method of batch deletion as before.

by Reader1718

Please don’t make 2-factor sign in a necessity for Gmail accounts. I can’t sign in on Kindle without my iPhone on to receive the authentication message and that’s annoying, not to mention that having to verify every time is annoying, period, even on iPhone or iPad. Please take this out. I want to use Cleanfox with Gmail, but that authentication thing is making it so I don’t want to bother. Also have had errors and sign-in trouble occasionally too.

by SirCC

I appreciate the auto-delete function, if manual unsubscribe doesn’t work, but that’s the thing: it just deletes, not unsubscribes. It also has clear connection issues when adding mailboxes. And it auto enables data selling, which can be turned off, but is still auto on.

by Boolove83

Let me say I don't write reviews often but I felt the need for clean fox.... I've had Cleanfox for a few months and I obviously could get anything working... So I thought I'd just wait out the bug fixes and sure enough today working smooth and perfect

by Bharp100

Cannot recommend them enough. I was literally about to go through by hand and do this. They delete and unsubscribe for you I can finially have my inbox back no need to make another email. Had 12k emails but they make it fun with a swipe.!

by JenniTirado

I’m notorious for having a million unopened unread emails in my personal email. No lie, I’m at 25,000 emails across three mailboxes. Cleanfox changed my life, as I was spending hours unsubscribing from newsletters only to find it didn’t work or I got 15 more before it canceled. Cleanfox is a one stop shop.

by Dearborn56

I have had so many unread emails I hate to check in with my gmail. This is a great app for everyone to know how to clean the email for just your needs. I am so happy to have found this on TicTok.

by JoashRN

What a great tool to clear the clutter!! I wish I had known about this sooner. I love how it categorizes everything for you and you just swipe to delete or keep…or remain in your subscription but delete the previous emails.
Thanks this app!

by Ms423

Cleanfox is terrible. When you sign up it has you crate a password. Then it continually makes you sign into your mailbox, and apparently doesn’t remember that you already created a password and asks you to do that again. And again. And again. Basically, it’s unusable, because it can’t even remember the password it just made for you that’s already saved to your settings.

by Catsybaby

Claims that it’ll unsubscribe and delete all the emails in your inbox, but it doesn’t actually remove any emails from your inbox. So there’s that.

Also, be careful when you swipe because you
cannot review the newsletters you’ve unsubscribed from. Cleanfox means well, but it falls extremely short of being a useful product for decluttering your inbox.

by Ashley Finney

When I first used Cleanfox it was awesome! But for some reason, it stopped loading my inbox? Whenever I click "clean my inbox" I'm literally on the waiting screen for more than 15 minutes. What happened? This is such a great app to clear out any junk and unsubscribe from unwanted emails and it just stopped. Made me sad. Now I have to find a different app.

by JEnnyTee1

I’m notorious for having a million unopened unread emails in my personal email. No lie, I’m at 25,000 emails across three mailboxes. Cleanfox changed my life, as I was spending hours unsubscribing from newsletters only to find it didn’t work or I got 15 more before it canceled. Cleanfox is a one stop shop.

by Little Rocketship

They hold your hand and even send you to the Apple website to sign in and walk you through every step! It’s a very clean and organized looking app as well! The best thing about it is it does everything in the background so I can leave it open and wait to get an email when it’s done processing! A little bonus I thought was amazing is they have fun facts at the top about CO2 admissions and me being a green thumb this is truly amazing!

Summary:
Easy to use
Efficient app
Provides insight