Maskmail

Maskmail (domain maskmail.io) is an independent email aliasing service that gives users a unique disposable forwarding address (a “mask”) for every signup, with the goal of keeping the user’s real inbox address private and limiting the blast radius of any one data leak.¹ The product is operated by solo founder Leon Meka from Vienna, Austria, and entered public availability in 2025.¹²

Product

Maskmail issues per-service email aliases on the mask.maskmail.io subdomain (or on a customer-supplied custom domain), forwards inbound mail to the user’s existing inbox in real time, and supports anonymous two-way replies so the recipient never sees the user’s real address.¹ When a mask starts attracting spam, the user can disable it in one click; the rest of the user’s masks keep forwarding.¹

The advertised feature set as of May 2026:¹

• Unlimited masks (no per-account cap)
• Real-time forwarding to any existing inbox (Gmail, Outlook, Proton Mail, iCloud, etc.)
• Anonymous two-way replies through the mask
• Custom domains with automatic catch-all (any address at the user’s domain forwards without per-mask setup)
• Browser extension for Chrome, with one-click mask generation on any focused email field, smart per-site reuse, and auto-copy to clipboard³
• One-click mask kill switch
• Full forwarding visibility (delivered, bounced, mask-of-origin)
• Customer support in English, German, French, Spanish, and Russian¹

The product is positioned as an “email mask firewall” — a layer that sits between every signup form and the user’s real inbox — rather than a replacement email provider.¹

Pricing

Maskmail’s published pricing as of May 2026 is a single usage-based plan, with no feature tiers:⁴

Plan	Base price	Per-message charge	Trial
Pro	US$0.99 / month	US$0.006 per email sent or received	14 days free

Maskmail’s own pricing-page worked example puts a typical user (≈50 messages per month, in and out combined) at roughly US$1.29 per month, with the cost scaling linearly with traffic.⁴ Every plan tier feature — unlimited masks, custom domains, two-way replies, browser extension — is included from the first paid month; there is no upgrade path to unlock additional functionality.⁴

The product can be cancelled at any time without notice, and onboarding is advertised as taking under two minutes.⁴

History

Maskmail’s Organization schema declares a foundingDate of 2025 and lists Leon Meka as the sole founder.¹ In a March 29, 2026 comment on the r/SaasDevelopers subreddit, an account associated with Maskmail described the product as “controlling where emails come from vs filtering after,” consistent with the firewall positioning on the marketing site.⁵ The product was listed on the maker-launch directories Fazier (186 upvotes as of May 10, 2026) and Uneed (added April 17, 2026; 21 upvotes), and the Maskmail Chrome extension was published to the Chrome Web Store at version 1.0.1 with a most-recent update of May 6, 2026.³⁶⁷

The founder’s public statement of motivation, on the Maskmail “Our story” section, frames the product as a personal-frustration-driven side project: “I built Maskmail because I got tired of handing out my real email to every app, store, and newsletter, and paying for it later with spam, leaks, and a bloated inbox… No venture capital, no growth-at-all-costs pressure.”¹

Comparison with similar products

Maskmail’s own April 2026 comparison post lists six services in the email-aliasing category.⁸ Five of those plus Apple’s Hide My Email cover the alternatives a user is most likely to weigh against Maskmail. Pricing and integration claims are sourced from each vendor’s own pages where available.

Product	Free tier	Paid start	Custom domains	Two-way replies	Ownership
Maskmail	14-day trial4	US$0.99/mo + US$0.006/email4	All plans1	Yes1	Independent, bootstrapped1
SimpleLogin	10 aliases8	US$4/mo or US$36/yr8	Premium only8	Yes8	Subsidiary of Proton AG (Switzerland)8
Addy.io	Unlimited (10 MB cap)8	€1–€3/mo8	Lite and up8	Lite and up8	Independent, open source (formerly AnonAddy)8
Firefox Relay	5 masks8	~US$1/mo8	Premium subdomain8	Premium only8	Operated by Mozilla (USA)8
Apple Hide My Email	Bundled with iCloud+ from US$0.99/mo9	Bundled9	iCloud+ custom domain9	Apple Mail9	Apple Inc. (USA)
DuckDuckGo Email Protection	Unlimited @duck.com aliases8	Free (no paid tier)8	No8	No8	DuckDuckGo Inc. (USA)8
Fastmail Masked Email	30-day trial8	From €5/mo (full mailbox)8	All plans8	Within Fastmail8	Fastmail Pty Ltd (Australia)8

Within this set Maskmail is distinct for offering every feature on a single usage-based plan rather than gating custom domains, two-way replies, or unlimited aliases behind a higher tier, and for being independently bootstrapped rather than part of a larger email or password-manager platform.¹⁴⁸

Alternatives

The most appropriate alternative depends on the user’s existing email and privacy stack:

• Choose SimpleLogin if you are already inside the Proton ecosystem — SimpleLogin is owned by Proton AG and integrates directly with Proton Mail and Proton Pass, and US$36/year unlocks unlimited aliases plus PGP encryption.⁸
• Choose Addy.io if you want maximum technical control: it is fully open source, self-hostable, and offers GPG encryption, a REST API, and regex-based mask creation. The free tier is the most generous in the category (unlimited standard aliases).⁸
• Choose Firefox Relay if tracker stripping and the Mozilla brand matter to you, and you do not need more than 5 masks for free or are happy to pay roughly US$1/month for the Premium tier with a custom subdomain.⁸
• Choose Apple Hide My Email if you already pay for iCloud+ and use Apple Mail across your devices — masks are auto-suggested at signup time on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at no additional cost.⁹
• Choose DuckDuckGo Email Protection if you want a zero-cost set-and-forget masking layer with built-in tracker removal and do not need custom domains or anonymous replies.⁸
• Choose Fastmail Masked Email if you are willing to switch your primary email provider — masked email is a feature inside a full Fastmail mailbox, with native 1Password and Bitwarden auto-fill on signup.⁸
• Choose Maskmail if you want every alias-service feature (unlimited masks, custom domains, two-way replies, Chrome extension) on day one for under US$1.50 per month at typical personal volume, and prefer a small independent product over an aliasing layer attached to a larger suite.¹⁴

Recent activity

• May 6, 2026. Maskmail’s Chrome extension was updated to version 1.0.1 in the Chrome Web Store, with one-click mask generation, smart per-site reuse, and auto-copy to clipboard.³
• April 17, 2026. Maskmail was listed on the indie-product directory Uneed in the “Personal Life” category (21 upvotes as of May 10, 2026).⁷
• March 29, 2026. A founder-associated account commented on the r/SaasDevelopers subreddit positioning Maskmail as the “control where emails come from” counterpart to inbox-filtering tools, consistent with the firewall language used on the marketing site.⁵
• 2026. Maskmail published an independent six-product comparison of email-alias services on its blog covering SimpleLogin, Addy.io, Firefox Relay, Fastmail, DuckDuckGo Email Protection, and Maskmail.⁸
• Continuing. Maskmail is mentioned as a recommended option in r/GMail, r/Outlook, r/paypal, and r/Simplelogin discussions about reducing inbox spam and tracing data-broker leakage.¹⁰

As of May 10, 2026, no third-party editorial coverage of Maskmail (independent reviews, press releases, or analyst writeups) has been located outside maker-launch directories and community forum threads.

External links

• maskmail.io (official product site)
• Maskmail on the Chrome Web Store
• Maskmail on Fazier
• Maskmail on Uneed
• Founder profile on LinkedIn
• Maskmail on X (Twitter)

Footnotes

1. Maskmail homepage, including the Organization, SoftwareApplication, and HowTo schema graph (founder, founding date, supported languages, feature list). Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://www.maskmail.io/en ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

2. Google web result for Leon Meka’s LinkedIn profile (Vienna location and Technische Universität Wien education). Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://at.linkedin.com/in/leon-meka ↩

3. Maskmail extension on the Chrome Web Store (version 1.0.1, last updated May 6, 2026). Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/maskmail/flieeofllncgdhhjmepejfegfdgffemg ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. Maskmail pricing page. Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://www.maskmail.io/en/pricing ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

5. u/SeaEstablishment1367, comment on “My first Saas,” r/SaasDevelopers, March 29, 2026. https://www.reddit.com/r/SaasDevelopers/comments/1s6gnk8/my_first_saas/ ↩ ↩²

6. Maskmail listing on Fazier. Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://fazier.com/launches/maskmail-maskmail-io ↩

7. Maskmail listing on Uneed. Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://www.uneed.best/tool/maskmail ↩ ↩²

8. “Best Email Alias Services in 2026: An Independent Comparison,” Maskmail blog. Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://www.maskmail.io/en/blog/best-email-alias-services-2026 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴ ↩¹⁵ ↩¹⁶ ↩¹⁷ ↩¹⁸ ↩¹⁹ ↩²⁰ ↩²¹ ↩²² ↩²³ ↩²⁴ ↩²⁵ ↩²⁶ ↩²⁷ ↩²⁸ ↩²⁹ ↩³⁰ ↩³¹ ↩³² ↩³³

9. Apple Support, “Use Hide My Email.” Retrieved May 10, 2026. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105078 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

10. Reddit threads referencing maskmail.io: r/GMail “Gmail filters for spam getting worse every year?”, r/Outlook “Spam about Marriott, Costco…”, r/paypal “Question about privacy”, r/Simplelogin “Hi DDG, or SimpleLogin.” Retrieved May 10, 2026. ↩