I’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.
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.
What it does:
- Account inventory — Maps every company that has ever emailed you, with risks classifications and recommendations for action.
- Bulk unsubscribe — Find and unsubscribe from any marketing and mailing lists (auto RFC 8058 where supported).
- Breach alerts — Alerts when any company you’ve been in contact with has been breached (via HaveIBeenPwned).
- GDPR requests — Generates pre-filled GDPR requests in multiple languages.
Supports Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, Proton (via Bridge) and any other email provider via IMAP.
Privacy approach:
Everything 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.
Most 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.
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Feedback welcome! Thanks
Will you ever switch to other git forges? Honestly i think github right now is a bad place, it’s being enshittified very fast by microslop, i switched to Codeberg and i think it’s great, they also make switching to codeberg easy
Agree, and I’ll consider. I know its not a great reason, but Github is still too convenient as it also runs CI/CD, and other actions/workflows. I don’t believe its possible with Codeberg?
You can use CI/CD on codeberg but it’s use is limited, you will have to fill a form so that the staff can deem if your use case is appropiate, they sadly have little resources and CI/CD is kinda costly
https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/
You can also self-host your own CI and link it to codeberg id you want to do resource intensive stuff
It’s actually a legit concern, everyone uses softwares because it’s more convenient for them, even if i am a big fan of “if you can, you should compromise a little” philosophy i can totally see why someone wouldn’t want to use a inconvenient software for them