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  "path": "/t/paperweight-local-first-open-source-desktop-app-to-cleanup-email-and-manage-your-digital-footprint/37164#post_1",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T17:22:55.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Paperweight",
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    "V1 roadmap",
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    "GitHub - wslyvh/paperweight: Paperweight scans your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data. Local-first and open source. · GitHub"
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  "textContent": "Hi Privacy Guides community,\n\nI’m excited to introduce Paperweight, a local-first open-source desktop app I’ve been building to help people understand and reduce their digital footprint.\n\nThe core idea: your inbox is a paper trail of every company that has ever had your data. Every account you created, every service you tried, every online purchase. It’s all connected to your email. Most people have 100+ accounts they’ve forgotten about, each a potential security, or privacy risk. For me the final push was the Odido data breach in the Netherlands. I hadn’t been a customer for more than 8 years, but all my data was still in their systems.\n\n**What it does:**\n\n  * **Account inventory** — Maps every company that has ever emailed you, with risks classifications and recommendations for action.\n\n  * **Bulk unsubscribe** — Find and unsubscribe from any marketing and mailing lists (auto RFC 8058 where supported).\n\n  * **Breach alerts** — Alerts when any company you’ve been in contact with has been breached (via HaveIBeenPwned).\n\n  * **GDPR requests** — Generates pre-filled GDPR requests in multiple languages.\n\n\n\n\nSupports Gmail (OAuth), Outlook, IMAP, and Proton Mail via Bridge.\n\n**Privacy approach:**\n\nEverything runs on your machine. Email content, credentials, and connection details never leave your device. No telemetry, no cloud sync, no analytics. The code is fully open source and auditable on GitHub.\n\nMost alternatives in this space all require your to share your data through their services. Some of them have actually been caught selling your data. Paperweight is the only tool I’m aware of that does this entirely local and is open-source.\n\n**Licensing & pricing:**\n\nFree to use with a 30-day scan window. If you want to support ongoing development and get unlimited history, multi-account support, there’s a one-time perpetual license. No subscriptions. I think recurring fees don’t fit how people actually use a tool like this, which tends to be more periodic cleanups rather than daily, or even monthly active use. Hope to make it sustainable this way rather than locking people into subscriptions.\n\n**Current status:**\n\nIn active development with a solid working version. Few caveats, is that Google OAuth verification (CASA) is in progress, so Gmail users currently see browser warnings. All other providers work fine. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux (AppImage, or deb).\n\nThe V1 roadmap is available on Github if you want to see what’s coming. Main priorities is further refining the risk & classification engine, and automating GDPR tracking.\n\n**Links:**\n\n  * Website https://www.paperweight.email/\n  * Github GitHub - wslyvh/paperweight: Paperweight scans your inbox to map your digital footprint, then helps you take back control and delete your data. Local-first and open source. · GitHub\n\n\n\nWould love to hear your feedback or answer any questions. Curious if the local-first approach for these kind of tools make sense. Which use-case resonates more, the clean up functionalities, GDPR requests, or both? Or are there any features that you’d like to see?\n\nThanks!",
  "title": "Paperweight — local-first, open-source desktop app to cleanup email and manage your digital footprint"
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