A private alternative to Clean Email
Klar filters spam on your Mac, inside Apple Mail. No account, no cloud, nothing to hand over.
If you are weighing up Clean Email, here is how Klar differs and where each one is the better pick.
| Aspect | Klar | Clean Email |
|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Your Mac | Clean Email's servers |
| Who can read your mail | No one new during filtering. Classification stays on your device. | Analyzes headers in its cloud; states it never downloads message bodies |
| Works with | Apple Mail, with any account: IMAP, Gmail, iCloud, Exchange | Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook and any IMAP mailbox |
| Price | Free forever | From $7.99/month |
Klar fits better when You want spam caught by a filter that learns, not by rules you write and maintain
The honest picks
- Clean Email
- The pick for digging out an overflowing mailbox: smart folders act on thousands of messages at once, rules keep it tidy, and it reads headers only. Filtering means rules you define yourself, so pick it for cleanup, not detection.
- Klar
- Pick Klar if you read mail in Apple Mail and want a modern multilingual model that runs entirely on your Mac. No account, no cloud, nothing to hand over.
Product and price details from the vendors' public pages, July and August 2026: clean.email. Klar is not affiliated with any vendor named here. No vendor endorses Klar. Product names only identify the tools.
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