Mailstrom’s been around for ages. It’s powerful for grouping and sorting—but its unsubscribe flow shows its age. Let’s compare it to MailMop in 2025.
What Mailstrom still does well
- Big-inbox grouping/triage (sender, subject, time).
- Familiar UI.
- Around $59.95/year according to recent G2 reviews.
Where Mailstrom struggles
- Unsubscribes one sender at a time. For long lists, that's hours of clicking.
- If no List-Unsubscribe address exists, Mailstrom opens the sender's website and makes you finish the process manually—putting the work back on you.
What MailMop changes
- Real-unsubscribe that sticks: Headers and the body. If a sender wires headers to dead endpoints (common), MailMop surfaces the human-visible URL so you're actually removed.
- Bulk deletion that respects edge cases: Delete with Exceptions (e.g., keep receipts, kill promos).
- Block Sender for repeat offenders, plus Mark Read/Unread, Add/Remove Label, Create Filters, and CSV Export.
- Local-only privacy: Everything runs on your computer, not ours.
Practical advice
- Love manual triage? Mailstrom's grouping helps—just budget time for unsubscribes.
- Want the fastest end-to-end fix with real unsubscribes and safe bulk deletes? Use MailMop.
Progress beats nostalgia when you have 50k unread.