The best alias.email alternative
alias.email offers basic email forwarding — but when it comes to encryption, custom domains, sender-risk detection, and true privacy, EmailAlias goes much further.
Why EmailAlias is a better choice than alias.email
Enterprise-Grade Encryption
alias.email provides basic forwarding without encryption guarantees. EmailAlias encrypts every alias mapping with AES-256 and forwards emails through TLS 1.3 encrypted channels — your data is never exposed in plaintext.
Custom Domain Support
alias.email doesn't support custom domains. With EmailAlias Premium, you can add up to 5 custom domains with full SPF, DKIM, and DMARC verification for professional, branded email aliases.
Exposure Intelligence
EmailAlias scores every incoming sender on phishing-risk signals — sketchy TLDs, typosquatting, suspicious domain keywords — and flags high-risk senders before they reach your real inbox. alias.email offers no sender-risk detection.
Reply & Send from Aliases
With EmailAlias, you can reply to emails directly from your alias address. The recipient never sees your real email. alias.email only supports one-way forwarding with no reply capability.
Feature comparison
Pricing side-by-side
Both providers run a free tier and a paid tier. The annual prices are within $2 of each other; the real differences are custom-domain count, sender-risk alerts, and trial vs cancellation-window structure.
Free plan
Premium plan
Competitor pricing reflects publicly listed tiers and may change — verify on the provider's site before switching.
How to switch from alias.email in 5 steps
Most users can cut over in under 15 minutes. Custom-domain users have it even easier — change MX records once and both inbound paths converge.
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Create your EmailAlias account
Sign up at emailalias.io with the same destination inbox you use today. Premium starts with a 7-day free trial — you'll need it active to add multiple custom domains.
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Export your alias.email list
Open alias.email → Settings → Aliases and copy out each alias with the site it was given to. The mapping is what you'll re-create on the new side.
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Re-create the aliases on EmailAlias
If you used alias.email's shared domain, mint a fresh alias on @emailalias.io for each service. If you used a custom domain, add it to EmailAlias, verify DNS (SPF + DKIM + DMARC), and re-create the same local-parts so the addresses keep working.
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Confirm your forwarding destination
Verify your destination inbox in EmailAlias and send a test email to one new alias. Premium supports unlimited verified destinations if you split mail across multiple inboxes.
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Cut over and retire alias.email
Update each service's contact email from the old alias.email address to the new EmailAlias one. Leave alias.email forwarding active for 2–4 weeks as a safety net, then disable aliases there once your dashboard shows zero traffic.
Frequently asked questions
The questions we get most often from people moving over from alias.email.
Can I move my aliases between providers?
Aliases on a shared provider domain (e.g. @emailalias.io) aren't portable — they live on our domain and stay with us. Aliases on a custom domain (yourdomain.com) are fully portable: you keep the domain, point its MX records at a new provider, re-create the same local-parts on their side, and the addresses keep working — provided the new provider supports custom local-parts (most do; some only issue random codes). Custom domains are a Premium feature on EmailAlias, but for anyone who plans to use aliases long-term, it's vendor-independence insurance worth having.
What does Premium include?
Unlimited aliases, up to 5 custom domains, unlimited verified forwarding inboxes (so each alias can route to the right mailbox), send & reply from any alias, real-time leak detection with exposure analytics, and priority processing — all for $4/month or $35/year (save 27%).
What happens if a service I signed up for gets breached?
Because each service has its own unique alias, you'll know exactly which service leaked your data — when spam or phishing hits that alias, the source is obvious. Our exposure intelligence engine also flags suspicious senders in real time. Disable the affected alias and your real email stays safe.
Is alias.email cheaper than EmailAlias Premium?
Marginally. alias.email is $3.33/mo billed annually ($39.96/yr); EmailAlias Premium is $4/mo monthly or $35/yr annual (save 27%) — so over a year, EmailAlias works out about $1.56 cheaper at the annual rate. The bigger difference is what you get for the price: EmailAlias adds real-time sender-risk alerts, up to 5 custom domains (vs 2), and a 7-day free trial, where alias.email gives you a 14-day cancellation window instead.
Does alias.email score senders for risk?
No. alias.email focuses on the core forwarding/reply use case and doesn't ship sender-risk scoring or exposure analytics. EmailAlias runs continuous exposure intelligence on every forwarded message — flagging risky TLDs, typosquatting, and phishing signals — and alerts you the moment a high-risk sender hits one of your aliases. That's the main reason most users switch.
Can I migrate my existing alias.email aliases?
Yes, with one caveat. Aliases on alias.email's shared domain can't be ported — those addresses live on their domain. But if you used a custom domain with alias.email, you can move it to EmailAlias by repointing MX records, re-creating the same local-parts on our side, and the addresses keep working without any sender learning a new address. Shared-domain aliases need to be re-issued as fresh @emailalias.io addresses.
Can I bring more than one custom domain?
Yes — up to 5 on EmailAlias Premium, vs 2 on alias.email Premium. If you split aliases across multiple personal or business domains (e.g. work + side-project + family), that gap matters; if one domain is enough, both providers cover you.
More questions? See the full FAQ.
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