The best SimpleLogin alternative
SimpleLogin is a solid email aliasing tool — but it lacks end-to-end encryption, sender-risk detection, and zero-knowledge privacy. EmailAlias was built to solve those gaps.
Why users switch from SimpleLogin to EmailAlias
True Zero-Knowledge Privacy
SimpleLogin processes your emails in plaintext on their servers. EmailAlias uses a zero-knowledge architecture — we never read, analyze, or store your email content. Not even we can see what's in your inbox.
AES-256 Encryption at Rest
Your alias mappings and metadata are encrypted with AES-256 in our database. SimpleLogin stores this data in plaintext, leaving it vulnerable if their database is ever compromised.
Suspicious Sender Intelligence
EmailAlias scores every incoming sender on risky TLDs, typosquatting patterns, and phishing signals — and alerts you the moment a high-risk sender hits one of your aliases. SimpleLogin offers no sender-risk detection.
Encrypted Email Forwarding
Every email forwarded through EmailAlias is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3 and processed through encrypted channels. We go beyond standard TLS with additional encryption layers at every hop.
Feature comparison
Pricing side-by-side
Both providers run a free tier and a single paid tier. EmailAlias adds a 7-day Premium trial and bundles exposure analytics into the price.
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 SimpleLogin 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 custom domains.
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Export your SimpleLogin alias list
Open SimpleLogin → Settings → Data export and grab the JSON or CSV. Keep a copy of which alias was given to which service — that's the mapping you'll re-create.
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Re-create the aliases on EmailAlias
If you used SimpleLogin's shared domain, mint a fresh alias on @emailalias.io for each service. If you used a custom domain, add the domain to EmailAlias, verify DNS (SPF + DKIM + DMARC), and re-create the same local-parts so the addresses keep working.
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Update your forwarding destination
Confirm your destination inbox is verified in EmailAlias. Send a test email to one new alias and check it lands. Repeat for any alias that routes to a different inbox (Premium supports unlimited verified destinations).
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Cut over and retire SimpleLogin
For each high-value service, update the contact email from the old SimpleLogin alias to the new EmailAlias one. Leave SimpleLogin forwarding active for 2–4 weeks as a safety net, then disable aliases there once nothing's arriving.
Frequently asked questions
The questions we get most often from people moving over from SimpleLogin.
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 EmailAlias open source like SimpleLogin?
No — EmailAlias is closed-source, hosted SaaS. SimpleLogin's main draw for some users is its open-source codebase and the option to self-host. EmailAlias optimizes for a different trade-off: a fully managed service with sender-risk scoring, exposure intelligence, and a curated dashboard that you'd otherwise have to build on top of self-hosted infrastructure. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, stay on SimpleLogin; if you want zero-ops privacy with leak detection bundled in, switch.
Can I self-host EmailAlias?
No. EmailAlias runs on a managed multi-tenant pipeline (AWS SES inbound + outbound, Redis-backed workers, encrypted-at-rest metadata) and we don't publish a self-hosting distribution. If you need on-prem control specifically, SimpleLogin's open-source release is the better fit. If you want the privacy without the ops burden, EmailAlias delivers it as SaaS.
Can I migrate my existing SimpleLogin aliases to EmailAlias?
Yes, with one caveat. Aliases on SimpleLogin's shared domains (e.g. @simplelogin.com) can't be ported — those addresses live on their domain. But if you used a custom domain with SimpleLogin, 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 having to learn a new address. Aliases on shared domains need to be re-issued as fresh @emailalias.io addresses and the services updated one-by-one.
Will my forwarded mail break during the switch?
Not if you overlap the two services for a couple of weeks. Leave SimpleLogin forwarding active while you cut services over to the new EmailAlias aliases — anything still hitting an old alias keeps getting delivered. Once your dashboard shows no traffic on the SimpleLogin aliases for 2–4 weeks, you can safely disable them. Custom-domain users have an even cleaner cutover: change MX records once and both inbound paths converge.
More questions? See the full FAQ.
Ready to upgrade your email privacy?
Switch from SimpleLogin to EmailAlias in minutes. Import your aliases, get encrypted forwarding, and start spotting suspicious senders — all with a 7-day free trial.