Your device. Your archive.
Read, search and export saved mail offline. Your archive stays useful even after you disconnect the account.
A desktop home for your email
Your email. Yours to keep.
Save a copy on your computer. Find an old conversation, print what matters, and make room in your mailbox with your saved copies checked first.
Your own archive. No new inbox to manage.
Keep the mail. Leave the clutter.
Receipts, letters, attachments, and the details you might need one day. Give them a place outside your inbox, in original files you can keep.
- 1,000
- new messages free
- .eml
- original mail files
- macOS · Windows
- Separate licenses for macOS and Windows.
Private by design
Your mail stays on your computer.
BackMyMail saves messages and attachments directly from your provider to a folder you choose. Your mail is never uploaded to our servers. We keep no copy.
Make room, with a checked copy.
Review large messages and attachments. BackMyMail verifies saved copies before you confirm moving provider mail to Trash.
A backup only you can unlock.
Create a portable, passphrase-encrypted backup. BackMyMail never stores the passphrase and cannot reset it.
Your working archive is readable while its disk is unlocked. On macOS, you can move it into a verified encrypted disk image. FileVault or BitLocker protects the working disk; encrypted backups have a separate passphrase.
Privacy & dataA shelf, not another inbox.
A quiet workspace for finding, saving, and looking after the email you already have.
The right message, even offline.
Search your saved archive, filter by sender or date, follow conversations, and save attachments. Messages are shown as plain text; images and mail scripts do not run.
From your mailbox to your bookshelf.
Connect your account
Mail passwords use macOS Keychain. On Windows, the local credential vault is encrypted with Windows DPAPI for your Windows account. Passwords are never stored in the mail archive.
Choose what to keep
Pick folders and dates, or import an .mbox file. BackMyMail saves original messages locally and indexes them for fast search.
Keep it useful
Read offline, export .eml, .mbox, or PDF volumes, and make an encrypted portable backup. Clean up your provider only when you choose.
Built to be trusted.
Your mail stays on your computer. For the few things that leave it, here is who handles them and which certifications those providers hold.
Stays on this computer
Your mail goes straight from your provider to your own disk. It never passes through our servers.
GDPR
Your mail is processed on this computer. Error reports use legitimate interest; you can turn optional diagnostics off.
California privacy (CCPA/CPRA)
We do not sell or share your personal information.
HIPAA: local processing
Your mail never reaches us, so we do not receive or store protected health information (PHI). Your organization stays responsible for its HIPAA compliance; we do not sign Business Associate Agreements.
Sentry: ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2
Error reports are processed by Sentry, which holds these certifications.
Polar and Stripe
Polar is our merchant of record and handles checkout, taxes, invoices and refunds. Card payments run on Stripe’s PCI DSS Level 1 certified infrastructure. This website does not take payments or collect card details.
Start with your first 1,000.
Try the archive before you decide. Saved mail stays readable, searchable, and exportable after the free download allowance ends.
The free archive
1,000new messages downloaded
Read, search, print, export, and manage saved mail without a time limit.
Get BackMyMailUnlimited archiving
$29.99One-time purchase
Download your first 1,000 messages free. Unlock unlimited archiving with a one-time license for macOS or Windows.
Buy a licenseUS price: $29.99 per platform, paid once. No subscription. Polar shows taxes and the total before you pay.
A few things worth knowing.
Will downloading change my mailbox?
No. Download uses read-only mailbox access and does not mark messages as read, move them, or delete them. Cleanup is a separate action with copy verification and explicit confirmation.
Can I still read mail if I disconnect my account?
Yes. Saved mail stays on your computer. You can read, search, print, and export it without reconnecting your provider.
Are my local messages encrypted?
Archive files and the index are readable while the disk is unlocked. On macOS, create an encrypted disk image in Disk Utility, unlock it, then let BackMyMail verify and copy the archive there. Disk Utility can save its password in Keychain. FileVault or BitLocker protects the working disk; portable .tar.age backups use a separate passphrase.
Does scheduled archiving run when the app is closed?
No. Daily and weekly schedules run while BackMyMail is open. A missed run is considered once after the app opens again.
Which providers can I connect?
The app includes guides for Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, iCloud, and other IMAP accounts. Google and Microsoft browser sign-in requires distributor OAuth registrations. Real-provider acceptance is still a release check.
Is BackMyMail available to download today?
BackMyMail for macOS and Windows is in preview. Public release and real-provider acceptance checks are still pending.
Can I use my license on another computer?
Yes, on up to 2 computers of the same platform: enter the same key in Settings › License. To free a computer, remove the license there or in Polar’s customer portal. A macOS license does not unlock Windows, and a Windows license does not unlock macOS.
Free to start. Yours to keep.
Made for your computer. Available in six languages.