Step 01
Create an alias
One click. No setup.
Free · Private · No tracking No. 01
Stop giving out your
real email.
Emcognito creates unlimited anonymous aliases that forward to your real inbox. Reply from any alias. Burn it whenever you want.
Free forever for up to 100 forwards/month No credit card Passkey sign-in — no passwords, ever
Emcognito is a free anonymous email service that creates unlimited disposable aliases on the emcognito.com domain. Each alias forwards messages to your real inbox while keeping your address private. You can reply directly from any alias, suspend addresses you no longer trust, or delete them permanently — all from a passwordless dashboard. Free for the first 100 forwards every month; paid plans start at $2/mo.
Updated Edited by Yoni Cigan, founder
How it works
Three steps. About thirty seconds.
Step 02
Use it anywhere
Sign up. Subscribe. Sketchy site? Use a fresh one.
Websitenewsletter@shop.example
Aliasm3vn@emcognito.com
Your inboxyou@gmail.com
Step 03
Reply or burn
Reply normally. Your real address never shows up.
- Replyfrom the alias
- Suspendpause forwards
- Deleteburn it forever
Free for the first 100 forwards every month — no credit card.
Why trust us
A privacy product is only as good as the team behind it.
Emcognito started because I was tired of handing out my real email to every website that asked for one. I wanted a single tool that gave each site its own throwaway address, forwarded mail back to me, and let me delete the address the moment a site started misbehaving. That's the whole product.
We don't read your mail, we don't sell anything to anyone, and the code that does the forwarding is small enough that you can ask exactly what it does and get a straight answer.
— Yoni (Cigan), founder
Passwordless by default
Magic links and passkeys only — there's no password for an attacker to phish or leak.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
TLS on every hop. Stored data is encrypted with managed keys.
We forward, we don't archive
Message bodies pass through and are dropped. We don't keep a copy of your mail.
Hosted on AWS, US-East
Standard AWS infrastructure. No third-party trackers on this site.
Rate card
Pay for forwards. Aliases stay free.
Every tier ships with unlimited anonymous aliases. You only pay for forwarded mail — the part that actually costs us to run.
Free
$0forever100 forwarded emails / month
- Unlimited anonymous aliases
- Suspend / resume any alias
- Footer ad on forwarded mail
Plus
Most popular$2/ month2,500 forwarded emails / month
- Everything in Free
- No footer ads on forwards
- Reply from your alias
- Priority delivery
Pro
$4/ month15,000 forwarded emails / month
- Everything in Plus
- Pay-as-you-go above the cap
- Priority email support
Annual billing saves about 17%, and Pro can opt into pay-as-you-go overage at half a cent per send. See full pricing →
Common questions
The objections worth answering.
Is my email content readable by Emcognito?
Mail flows through the forwarder and lands in your real inbox. We don't archive message bodies and we have no UI for staff to read your forwarded mail.
What happens to messages sent to a deleted alias?
They're silently dropped. The sender doesn't get a bounce, so they can't tell whether the address ever existed — your anonymity stays intact.
Can the recipient figure out my real email?
No. Mail forwarded to you carries the alias as the destination, and replies you send through Emcognito leave from the alias too. Your real address is never on the wire.
How is this different from Gmail's “+” aliasing or Apple Hide My Email?
Gmail “+” aliases all share your real address — anyone can strip the suffix to recover it, and you can't disable a single alias when it gets sold to a spam list.
Apple Hide My Email is great inside Apple's ecosystem, but it ties every alias to your iCloud account and you only get unlimited if you pay for iCloud+. Emcognito's aliases live independently of any platform account, on a domain you can use from any device.
What happens to my aliases if Emcognito shuts down?
We'll give 60 days' notice and stop charging immediately. During the wind-down, every alias keeps forwarding so you have time to rotate the addresses you actually care about.
Where is data stored, and what's your retention policy?
Aliases and account metadata live in AWS (US-East). Mail bodies pass through the forwarder and aren't archived.
Ready to stop the spam?
Takes 30 seconds. No credit card.
Create my first alias — free100 forwards/month, then $2 if you want more