10 Best Temporary Email Services of 2026

SimpleLogin is the most complete alias service you can use for free. Every account gets 10 aliases with unlimited bandwidth, one mailbox to forward to, and the ability to reply from an alias so the person on the other end never sees your real address. Browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari and apps for iOS and Android let you create an alias right in a sign-up form, and the account itself can be locked with TOTP or a WebAuthn security key. Premium costs $36 a year or $4 billed monthly and removes the alias limit, adds unlimited custom domains so you can create addresses on a domain you own, and now includes Proton Pass premium features as well. The trade-off is the 10-alias ceiling on the free plan, which heavy shoppers will hit, and the fact that it forwards to an existing inbox rather than giving you a disposable mailbox to read on the web.

DuckDuckGo Email Protection is the strongest free option here because it puts no cap on the number of private addresses. You get a personal Duck Address and can generate unique private addresses on the fly for each sign-up, then deactivate any that start receiving junk. Every forwarded message is cleaned of multiple types of hidden email trackers, and the mail lands in the inbox you already use, whether that is Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Proton, so there is nothing new to check. You can also reply from a Duck Address and compose new emails. The catch is setup: you sign up in a DuckDuckGo mobile browser or on duckduckgo.com/email while using a DuckDuckGo desktop browser or extension for Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera. There are no custom domains and no paid tier for more control, so power users who want their own domain should look at SimpleLogin or addy.io.

addy.io, the service formerly called AnonAddy, is the cheapest way to get a full alias setup with your own domain. The free plan gives unlimited aliases on your username plus 10 random aliases such as x481n904@anonaddy.me, forwarding to one inbox with up to 10MB of forwarded email a month. Lite costs $1 a month billed yearly and adds replying and sending from aliases, one domain you own, more alias domains including @addy.io, up to 5 inboxes and tracking pixel blocking. Pro is $3 a month billed yearly or $4 monthly and removes the limits on random aliases and bandwidth, with up to 20 domains and 30 inboxes. Duo and Family plans start at $4.50 a month for 2 people and $7.50 for up to 5. addy.io says it forwards mail automatically and does not read it. The downsides are that replies need a paid plan and the 10MB monthly cap on the free tier can run out if stores send image-heavy mail.

Proton Pass is a password manager first, but its hide-my-email aliases make it a good temporary email tool for people who want to create the address and store the login together. The free plan includes unlimited logins, notes and credit cards on unlimited devices plus 10 hide-my-email aliases. Pass Plus is listed at $1.99 a month, billed at $23.88 for the first 12 months and then $35.88 every 12 months, and adds unlimited aliases, additional mailboxes for aliases, the option to start an email from an alias, a command line interface, a built-in 2FA authenticator, secure sharing and Dark Web Monitoring. Pass Family extends Pass Plus to up to 6 users. Proton also owns SimpleLogin, whose Premium plan includes Proton Pass premium features. The main thing to watch is the renewal price, which is 50 percent higher than the first year, and the free plan's 10-alias limit.

Firefox Relay is Mozilla's email masking service and works through a browser extension that fills a mask into any sign-up form. Everyone gets 5 masks for free, and common email trackers are removed on every plan. Relay Premium adds unlimited masks, a unique subdomain on mozmail.com so you can make masks on the go, such as shop@yourdomain.mozmail.com, promotional email blocking that still lets receipts and shipping updates through, and the ability to reply anonymously within 3 months of receiving an email. A higher tier adds a phone mask for calls and texts, and another bundles Mozilla VPN. Attachments are forwarded up to 10 MB. Mozilla's own FAQ advises against using masks for banks, doctors, lawyers or boarding passes. Premium is sold in a listed set of countries including the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom; its price did not display in USD when we checked, so it is marked pending.

Apple Hide My Email is the simplest option for anyone already on an iPhone, iPad or Mac. It is included with every iCloud+ plan, which starts at $0.99 a month for 50GB of storage and also adds iCloud Private Relay and Custom Email Domain. You generate a unique, random address by tapping Hide My Email above the keyboard in Safari, from the From field in Mail, or in iCloud settings. Mail forwards to your iCloud Mail address or any address tied to your Apple Account, you can read and respond directly, and Apple says it deletes messages from its relay servers after delivery, usually within seconds. Addresses created through Sign in with Apple end in @privaterelay.appleid.com, and others end in @icloud.com. You can deactivate an address to stop forwarding. The limits are that it needs a paid iCloud+ plan, addresses are random rather than named, and it is much less convenient on Windows or Android.

Guerrilla Mail has run since 2006 and is the most flexible of the free disposable inboxes. A random address is ready as soon as the page loads, and you can switch between 11 domains, including sharklasers.com, grr.la, pokemail.net and several guerrillamail domains, which helps when a site blocks one of them. Unlike most throwaway services, it also has a Compose tab, so you can send mail from the disposable address, plus Scramble Address and Forget Me buttons to reset the inbox. The site reports processing more than 21 billion emails. If you own a domain, you can point it at Guerrilla Mail for $9.99 a year and choose whether the mail is private to you or open to everyone, paid by Bitcoin or PayPal. The weaknesses are typical of the category: nothing is forwarded to your real inbox, the page carries ads, and an address on a shared domain is no place for an account you need to keep.

Temp Mail is one of the most widely used disposable inbox sites, and its free version works the moment the page opens: an address appears with Copy, Refresh, Change and Delete buttons and an inbox that updates as mail arrives. Temp Mail describes disposable email as an address that self-destructs after a certain time, which is exactly what you want for forum registrations, Wi-Fi portals and one-off downloads, and exactly what you do not want for an account you need later. There are apps on the App Store and Google Play, a Premium tier, a guide to using temporary email on a private domain, and a separate service for receiving SMS verification codes. Premium pricing did not load in USD from our location, so its price is pending. Like other throwaway inboxes, Temp Mail does not forward anything to your real address.

10 Minute Mail does one thing: it gives you an inbox that disappears. Open the page and an address is ready with a 10-minute countdown, and a 10 more minutes button extends it if a verification email is slow. The site says emails typically arrive within seconds, it is available in 45 languages, and it describes its storage as 100% in-memory. It has run since 2006 and is free, supported by ads and donations. That simplicity is also the limit: there is no forwarding, no replies, no custom domain and no way to get back into an account once the address is gone. Use it for a one-time code or a download link, and use an alias service for anything you might need again.

Mailinator is best known for its public inboxes: pick any name at mailinator.com and you can read mail sent to it with no sign-up. That makes it handy for a quick throwaway, but anyone who guesses the same name can read the same mail, so it is not private. Mailinator's real business is email and SMS testing for QA and engineering teams. A Verified Pro tier, $0 with verification, adds unlimited private inboxes and 1 private domain with 10MB of permanent storage. The Business plan costs $79 a month billed yearly and adds 50MB of permanent storage, up to 20 emails a second, team management, SSO support and pay by invoice. Business Plus is $159 a month billed yearly with 3 private domains, and Enterprise starts at $699. API access, webhooks, routing rules and load testing sit on the paid tiers. For personal privacy, the alias services higher on this list are cheaper and safer.