Alternatives
Unroll.Me,
beside Brood.
If you use Unroll.Me, or are choosing between it and Brood, this page sets out what Unroll.Me reads, and what its privacy notice says it does with that, from its own pages, beside what Brood reads. Each line about Unroll.Me links to the page it comes from, with the day we read it.
What each reads.
How it reaches your Gmail
Unroll.Me
Gmail access to read, change or control message bodies and attachments, metadata, headers and settings. From Unroll.Me, Privacy notice, read 9 October 2026.
Brood
- Email metadata: sender, recipients, date, existing labels
- Permission to create and modify labels in your Gmail
- Permission to create and modify Gmail filters
What it reads
Unroll.Me
Copies of the commercial mail you receive, and information from it. From Unroll.Me, Privacy notice, read 9 October 2026.
Brood
It never reads:
- The subject line of any message
- The body of any message
- Attachments of any kind
- Anything you've drafted but not sent
- Anything in Drive, Calendar, Meet, or Contacts
- Anything we'd use to train a model
Whether your mail goes to a model
Unroll.Me
We have no source to cite on this.
Brood
Brood decides what to propose by rules and counts you can read, and never sends your data to a model, its own or anyone else's. If you point an assistant of your own at what Brood has learned, that is your assistant, reading your record, because you asked.
The permission that lets Brood file your mail also lets it read your mail. Google does not offer a narrower one that can label a message you have already received. Brood never uses it to read. Every request it makes asks for metadata only, through one module, and the subject line is not among the headers it asks for, so it never arrives at all. So the promise is that Brood never reads what your mail says, not that it can't.
What else Unroll.Me's pages say
Gathers the subscriptions you choose into one digest a day. From Unroll.Me Support, What is the Rollup?, read 12 October 2026.
If you enrol as a panelist, it may sell data about the commercial mail you receive, with some of your demographic details, to businesses that include data brokers. From Unroll.Me, Privacy notice, read 9 October 2026.
Moving over to Brood.
Blocking a sender in Unroll.Me moves its future mail under a label, Unroll.Me/Unsubscribed; its page says nothing of asking the sender to stop. From Unroll.Me Support, How does Unroll.Me block my unwanted emails?, read 12 October 2026.
The Unroll.Me and Unroll.Me/Unsubscribed labels, with the mail under them, stay after the account is deleted. From Unroll.Me Support, I have deleted my Unroll.Me account. Will the Unroll.Me's labels still appear in my email?, read 12 October 2026.
On the Classifications page, Show my own filters names either label above, if it finds one in your Gmail, as left by the product that made them. Brood does not file into them or change them.
On Pro, where a mailing offers a one-click unsubscribe, Brood can ask the sender to stop, and tells you later whether it did.
If you leave Brood:
- Disconnecting takes Brood's filters out of your Gmail first.
- Any filter it cannot remove is listed, with where to take it out yourself, and goes on filing mail until you do.
- The labels stay, and so does the mail under them.
- Then it asks Google to withdraw Brood's access, and deletes Brood's sealed copy of that permission once Google confirms; Brood stops looking at the mailbox.
- What Brood has already noted about your mail goes when you delete your account. Copies in the database's backups expire within 30 days.