Review: Unroll.me condenses emailed subscriptions into digests - janousekthearly

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Attractive interface
Slick purpose

Cons

Serious to view messages

Our Verdict

Unroll.Maine shows forebode in bringing order to your electronic mail, but this beta is still a trifle rough out around the edges. It works on Gmail, Google Apps, and Yahoo mail.

More and more email services are tackling the problem of e-mail overload. One of the latest is Unroll.Maine, which attempts to organize your inbox by tidying up the mess left aside all of those subscriptions most of U.S.A receive. Unroll.Pine Tree State has deal of promise, but this gratuitous beta service stiff a bit rough roughly the edges.

Unfurl.me works with Gmail, Google Apps, and Yahoo e-mail accounts; the company (also called Unroll.me) says it is temporary on adding bread and butter for AOL and else e-mail services, but does non enunciat when that will happen. You sign up for the free service online and link your email account, and Wind off.me goes to work automatically, scanning your e-mail account to learn which subscriptions you receive. It took just a couple of minutes for Unroll.me to scan a Gmail account that holds more than 10,000 messages.

Once the initial read is complete, Unwind.me shows you your Rollup, which the company describes as "a brook that gives you an overview of the subscriptions you receive daily." By default, Unfurl.ME places complete messages that it deems subscriptions into your Rollup, and IT proved somewhat accurate, though it did mistakenly identify messages from a couple of colleagues as subscriptions. You do have arrant control all over your Rollup, though, so it was elementary to tell Unroll.Pine Tree State to deliver these messages to my inbox, instead.

Unfurl.Pine Tree State mechanically adds a booklet to your email describe, and whol of your bulk messages are delivered directly to that.

You also can tell Unroll.me what hour you'd like to have your daily Rollup: morning, afternoon, or night. If you can't look until your Rollup arrives to peruse its contents, you don't rich person to: you can either login to Wind off.me's website or you can take a look in the Unroll.me folder that's automatically added to your email account. All of your messages are delivered directly to this folder, which appears happening mobile devices and any browser that you use to watch your account.

If you privation to use Unwind.me to monitor two email accounts, such as one Yahoo account and unrivalled Gmail account, you'll birth to sign into for each one write u individually on Wind off.Maine's site. Unroll.me does not create uncomparable blended rollup from the two accounts, which would take been a nice touch.

Another effect: I was less than impressed by the daily Rollup. The idea is promising, and the email message itself looks neatly organized, as information technology shows a list of your emails, organized into categories and away time received. Simply clicking on one of the message icons doesn't countenance you to view that message, Eastern Samoa I expected it would. Instead, it opens a page on Unfurl.Maine's land site, where you'atomic number 75 embezzled to your current Rollup. So, if I open a Rollup from 2 years ago and attack to view a message, I'm or else bumped to Unroll.ME's site and my current Rollup. I and then wealthy person to cut into through and through different messages (my Rollup had almost 700 messages in it from the last few weeks) before I put up find the one I want. I'd much choose immediate access to the substance in enquiry. After completely, if a service is going to salvage me time by sorting out the messages I don't need to see right away, I don't deprivation to ravage any many time trying to find the message when I decide I act need to see them.

Unroll.Pine Tree State offers an attractive list of your subscription-supported email messages.

I do like how Unroll.ME's land site lets you edit your Rollup, though. When I hover over the message, I ass decide to enter "Edit mode." From there, I can either choose to unsubscribe from this message saving or opt to have IT sent straight to my inbox, instead.

Unroll.me is similar in many ways to Sanebox, a $5-per-calendar month service that cleans upbound your inbox to display only the messages it thinks you need to see right today. While Unroll.Maine is release, Sanebox justifies its higher price by offering additional features, such as the ability to assort your less-important messages into a variety of folders, such as an file away, a folder to panoram later, and a brochure specifically for newsletters. Sanebox also makes it easier to find the messages you need when you decide information technology's time to view them.

Unroll.me does have promise. Its design is sleek and its aesthetics are appealing. But until it makes it easier to access the messages I do want when I want them, Unroll.me International Relations and Security Network't saving Pine Tree State atomic number 3 much time as it should.

Note: The Download clit on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor's place, where you can buoy link your netmail account to this Web-settled overhaul.