Four years of a newsletter you never opened, gone. Sweep finds every message from a sender and selects the lot — then you press Delete.
No sign-in · No inbox access · No data collected · Open source
Three steps, and the last one is Gmail's.
Any message from the sender you're tired of. Sweep reads who sent it.
Sweep searches your mail, waits for the results, and ticks every match — all of them, not just the ones on screen.
Gmail's own button. Everything goes to Trash, recoverable for 30 days.
Not everything from a sender is junk. Open the panel and keep what still matters.
7 days, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year or 2 years. Keep the recent ones.
1, 5, 10 or 25 MB. Reclaim storage first, worry about the rest later.
Delete what you've already seen. Or only what you never opened.
On by default. Important mail can be protected too.
Gmail puts Older / Newer at the top of the list and nowhere else, so every page turn means scrolling back up. Sweep mirrors it at the end of every list and every search.
Not "does not" — cannot. Sweep has no server and never asks for your Google account, so there is nowhere for your mail to go and nothing to connect to.
| Sweep | Typical inbox cleaner | |
|---|---|---|
| Sign in with Google | Never asked | Required |
| Grants mailbox access to a server | No server exists | Yes |
| Reads mail when your browser is closed | Impossible | Usually |
| Network requests | None at all | Continuous |
| Source code | Public | Closed |
Read the privacy policy, or just read the code — it's one file.
Sweep is a shortcut, not a secret. Gmail can do this on its own — there's just one non-obvious step that limits most people to 50 messages at a time.
The complete manual method, the search operators worth knowing, what actually frees up storage, and how to stop the pile rebuilding.
Yes. Sweep uses Gmail's Delete, which moves mail to Trash where it stays for 30 days. Sweep cannot delete permanently or empty Trash.
Yes. It stays within whichever account you're using and never crosses between them.
Gmail caps bulk actions at about 1,000 conversations. For bigger cleanups, repeat — it takes seconds.
No. Sweep deletes what already arrived. Use Gmail's own unsubscribe link to stop new mail.