SimpleLogin is an open-source email alias service that protects your inbox by using a unique email alias for every website. Unlimited bandwidth, custom domain, PGP, Yubikey, open roadmap. Made in 🇫🇷.
This chrome extension is great because I can still signup for everything I see online but don't have to worry about getting any junk mail. The UI is simple to use and pairs great with my proton email.
ProxiedMail is cheaper in general and offers you a lifetime plan. It's more affordable to get a ProxiedMail lifetime than to have SimpleLogin for a year.
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Hi there ProductHunt
This is Son, the developer behind SimpleLogin here. Thanks @benln for the hunt!
I used to use my Gmail address everywhere, for signing up for new services, subscribing to newsletters, etc. I didn't realize it had become my Internet identity, my "virtual social security number”. My online activities could be easily linked together by this address and my mailbox was an easy target for any spam/phishing campaign.
What if there was a tool to create a different email address for each website? What if there was a way you could just disable an address if it starts receiving spams? And it would make it much harder to follow you across the internet. Actually there was already a way. The secret lays with "email aliases", an old, underused technology, but can help us take back control of our mailboxes.
In 2019 I quit my comfortable job to create that tool. It had to be easy to use, yet powerful enough that an email alias can not only receive email but also send it. It had to be open source, because I didn't want to have to trust a closed-source software to forward my emails, and it had to be available to everyone.
That's how SimpleLogin was born.
First launched in beta in 2020, SimpleLogin now regularly receives positive feedback from the privacy community and "influencers". SimpleLogin is available for Web, mobile (iOS, Android) and as Chrome/Firefox/Safari browser extensions.
SimpleLogin is 100% open source and can be self-hosted. Its notable features include sending emails from aliases, two-factor authentication (TOTP, WebAuth/FIDO, TouchID), custom domains, PGP encryption, multiple mailboxes/usernames, and catch-all/wildcard domains.
It's never too late for us to take back control of our mailboxes and our privacy. 30,000 people have already done it and never looked back.
Can't wait to see you creating your first alias.
Cheers,
Son.
@benln@nguyenkims congrats on the launch.
When you say, "What if there was a tool to create a different email address for each website? What if there was a way you could just disable an address if it starts receiving spams?", my first thought was about how Sign in With Apple lets you hide your email address.
This offers the same functionality, right?
@benln@chrismessina Hey alias created by "Sign in with Apple" doesn't allow sending emails or replying to forwarded emails. It also misses some features like custom domain, an UI to manage aliases, ability to create aliases on the fly, etc. But "Sign in with Apple" is a clear sign that email aliases is becoming mainstream. This is also confirmed by Firefox Relay, another email alias service that was launched last year.
And it's funny that you mention "Sign in with Apple"! Originally SimpleLogin main product was a privacy-focused alternative to "Login with Facebook/Google" and then Apple launched "Sign in with Apple" at their WWDC ... At this point we decided to do the pivot and focus more on the email alias :). "Sign in with SimpleLogin" continues to be developed, though not really visible on the home page, more info about it on https://simplelogin.io/developer/.
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I've found SimpleLogin last year and subscribed to premium before my trial expired. In my opinion it's the first solution of this kind which is fully thought out through. I especially appreciate support for replies and custom domains. Thanks to the latter feature I was able to migrate my catch-all email domain to SimpleLogin and kill off some compromised aliases used only by spammers.
My only wish is if there were integration with password managers (especially Bitwarden), but that's not really a Simplelogin's issue.
Oh and did I mention it's fully open-source with nice documentation for self-hosting?
@janv Thanks Jan! Being able to reply/send emails from an alias is the most difficult technical challenge in SimpleLogin and glad that it works out well! Stay tuned for the password manager integration, we'll continue asking password managers to integrate SimpleLogin :) and if no one answers, why not create our own 😅.
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SimpleLogin is easy and elegant in use and allows you to create (and destroy) email aliases on the fly - new site you’re not 100% sure of? Register with an off the cuff alias. Excellent free level and loads of extra features on the reasonably priced paid tier - highly recommended by me
@waffle Hey the coupon code is to be used within Paddle, our bank card & PayPal payment provider. For crypto, can you send us an email at hi[at]simplelogin.io so we can find a way to apply the discount :)?
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I was looking for such a service a couple of years ago and didn't find one. Then I looked about a month ago and found 4 different services. Tested 3 of them, chose SimpleLogin and immediately upgraded...
A couple of days ago I managed to purchase and configure my domain (.eu domain deal: about 12 Eur for 10 years).
As someone already mentioned, creation of aliases on own domains is somehow limited. It would be good to extend the functionality for own domains:
- Allow '.' in aliases.
- Implement support for directories on domain.
- Adjust the length of the generated words or even provide a list of own words. That might be useful also for other languages than English.
- Btw. do you also have mobile apps on GitHub? Do you accept pull requests from community?
However, I cannot recommend Producthunt - it forced me to use social SSO login instead of SimpleLogin.
@jeniks Thanks! The dot sign (.) is recently allowed in alias :) and support for directories on custom domain is underway!
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SimpleLogin was the best thing that's ever happened to me (and I assume it the same applies to others who have tried it out. :) ). I use it mainly to protect my main e-mail from companies that potentially don't respect GDPR laws or can't be bothered to.
The free plan is perfect enough to persuade me to upgrade to the premium plan in the near future. They also have an exclusive discount for students, though I don't recall by how much at the moment.
The only thing I'd wish was added to this superb online service is customization of the length of the random words from the Custom Alias section and/or the type of words (not sure if it's already implemented for premium users). Just today, one of the list of domains had generated names like ".unsuspiciousness@slmail.me" and some religious term(s) paired with the domain name. It'd be a bit awkward to explain to people why the e-mail address looks like that.
@verumrex Thanks for your kind words Verum! The premium plan is free for students during their scholarship - we were also broke back then :). About the random suffix, there's this feature request https://github.com/simple-login/... that uses 6 random character instead of a random English word as sometimes the word can be a bit embarassing :D, for example this one is captured by one user 🤦♂️ https://www.reddit.com/r/Simplel...
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@nguyenkims Beat me to the punch! Thought I was the genius with the idea for sec there x). Also, that has got to be the most epic address generated by SimpleLogin thus far!
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I’ve been using SimpleLogin for almost a year. Super helpful and pairs well with ProtonMail for added privacy and identity protection.
@bzdata Thanks Beatriz and glad that SimpleLogin is useful to you! ProtonMail is indeed one of the best privacy-focused email services and we really hope SimpleLogin can collaborate with ProtonMail one day!
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