Review: Unroll.me – Email subscription management tool

Disclaimer – I was provided an incentive in return for my honest review of Unroll.Me. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are MY OWN and not influenced by the company and/or its affiliates in any way. Y’all know I keep it OG.

If you’re an online marketer, your email inbox might look like mine aka be full of email marketing subscriptions. You can definitely use a burner email when you sign up for whitepapers and other free PDFs, but if you don’t, this tool will help you get your sh*t together in your inbox! Drum roll please…

Unroll.Me says it will clean up your inbox. BUT will it? I signed up so we can test things out!

Before you activate Unroll.Me…

Unroll.Me and your privacy

The one thing I do want to point out is their privacy policy. You’ll find a link to what they do with their data, the anchor text is “Why we don’t charge you for this amazing service.” So while Unroll.Me is free, just remember that you’re paying with your data, which actually shouldn’t be a problem if you use social media. Just sayingggg…

Clean up your inbox

Surprisingly, and honestly, I didn’t think I was on 155 email lists, but upon further inspection, I was on lists I didn’t even know I was added to! After the subscription count screen, it will show you ALL the email lists you’re “subscribed” to and you can either add it to your Unroll.Me, Unsubscribe or do nothing. I don’t know how the Unsubscribe function works to be honest, does it just find the URL in an email from that list and click it for you?

I was always the type of person to delete emails instead of unsubscribing because it was easier than going through the hassle of opening the email, finding the link, clicking the link and usually having to select which segmented “list” I don’t want to be on. I know, that doesn’t really make sense, but whatever.

Sushi roll your subscriptions

In my opinion, one of the best features of Unroll.me is their Rollup function. By adding to your Rollup, you’ll get a summary of all the email subscriptions you still have emailed to you on a whatever regular basis you choose. It looks something like this:

You get to choose the date, the time and the scheduling of the Rollup. So, want to get your Rollup at in the morning so you can avoid doing work when you get to the office? Yes, Rollup will make all your lack of work-productivity dreams come true.

You can also choose to leave specific senders in your inbox. So if you’re noticing that you’re missing out on a lot of timely deals, keep them in your inbox and don’t add them to your Rollup.

My thoughts on Unroll.Me

Pros of using Unroll.Me

• All my marketing junk emails are rolled into one convenient place so I can pick and choose what you feel like reading
• I don’t actually have to open the email because the email preview is good enough #imlazy
• My inbox is less clogged now, which helps me unclog my brain
• The unsubscribe feature makes it so simple to do so

Cons of using Unroll.Me

• Another tool that you’re giving up your data for… But at this point, it’s not a huge blocker for me, however I can see why this would be a huge blocker for some people.
• I’m still worried that I’ll miss a timely deal or email

My followers’ thoughts on Unroll.Me

Chris was pretty excited to try it out…

I sure as heck do now! Damn!!!! Time to get to work!! Thanks for the recommendation! pic.twitter.com/FYDFTNCGM6

— Chris Mikulin™ (@cmikulin) December 12, 2018

Boom! That was so fast! pic.twitter.com/qjUCGot03y

— Chris Mikulin™ (@cmikulin) December 12, 2018

Brittany likes using it to ignore emails…

I use it but basically never actually look at it. I find it just allows me to ignore one email over many ha. but maybe its making sure you are rolling the right types of emails into it.

— Brittany Purkis (@brittanypurkis) December 11, 2018

Liz agrees with me on the convenience of the Rollup feature…

I like having all my extra emails rolled into one… that’s pretty convenient.. mostly I like using them to catch subscriptions I don’t want.

— ohmylizz (@ohmylizz) December 11, 2018

Alyssa misses timely promotions and flash sales…

I like it. I do find it difficult if there are flash sales or promos as I usually miss them based on the once daily roll up. But I love not having an inbox full of crap.

— Alyssa Berry (@Aly_B_YYC) December 11, 2018

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Just an FYI – I was provided an incentive in return for my honest review of Unroll.Me. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this post are MY OWN and not influenced by the company and/or its affiliates in any way. Y’all know I keep it OG.