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Privacy-minimizing cloud
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INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
addy.io
An open-source email-alias platform for protecting a real inbox with unique, revocable addresses.
- Web · Mobile · Browser extension · Self-hosted
- Hybrid
- Open source
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Category
- Privacy and security
Privacy at a glance
A quick view of the dimensions most useful for comparing this product. Unconfirmed facts stay explicitly unconfirmed.
Identity
Email account
Whether an account is needed to use it.
Tracking
Privacy-preserving analytics
Reported analytics and tracking posture.
Ownership & source
Open source
Availability of the product source code.
Offline support
No
Whether core use can continue offline.
Self-hosting
Yes
Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure.
What to know
Why it stands out
- Users can create, deactivate and manage separate aliases for different services without revealing their primary inbox.
- The service is open source, self-hostable and supports PGP-encrypted delivery to a recipient mailbox.
Trade-offs
- The hosted forwarding server can process readable mail and routing metadata unless PGP encryption to the recipient is enabled.
- Failed-delivery storage, operational logs, payment information and support communications have separate retention rules described in the privacy policy.
Best for
Privacy-conscious users who want an independent alias provider or a fully self-hosted alias service.
Consider another option when
People expecting conventional end-to-end encrypted email without configuring PGP and controlling the destination mailbox.
Technical details
Complete privacy-profile dimensions, grouped for easier review. Each value is retained from the catalogue record.
4 groups · 18 dimensions
- Processing
- Privacy-minimizing cloud
- Storage
- Temporary
- Offline support
- No
- Self-hosting
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
- Data deletion
- Yes
Alternatives
Evidence
5 public sources collected
Review status: ListedLast reviewed: Not yet reviewedCatalogue updated: 22 Jul 2026
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