Sweep it all away.

The moment after you grant access is the one that matters most, so Sweep spends it explaining itself rather than selling. It reads only sender, subject and date; your emails stay in Gmail; nothing moves without your yes.

The dashboard opens with how many emails are ready to clear. When Sweep can propose an automatic list, Review my plan sits on top; otherwise the number simply shows what's left to look at.

Below it: Focus mode for deciding sender by sender, Big clean-up for inboxes in the thousands, Newsletters for stopping mail at the source. Four tiles show the scale, and categories expand only when you want detail.

Biggest senders first, each labelled keep or clear, so the whole decision is visible before anything happens. One button clears what's marked; Review one by one hands the same list to Focus mode.

Senders with attachments, or anything that looks starred, important, personal or financial, are kept out of the plan on purpose.

Everything falls away except the sender in front of you: who they are, how many emails, what they last sent, and a one-line suggestion. Two thumb-sized buttons at the bottom, a progress bar at the top, and you can stop whenever you like.

When a sender carries files, Sweep lists them by name and size but fetches nothing until you tap Preview. Only the file you chose is retrieved from Gmail, shown in your browser, held in memory long enough to display, and never stored by Sweep.

Files too big to show inline say so plainly instead of failing quietly. Close the preview and it's gone.

Going sender by sender is fine for a few hundred emails. For tens of thousands it isn't. Big clean-up walks up to 5,000 messages, listing every sender as it goes, so the list fills in while you watch.

Everything shown will be cleared unless you tap Keep beside it. Starred mail and anything Gmail marks important are excluded from the scan entirely; senders carrying files are listed but flagged, so you can spare them deliberately.

Clearing old mail treats the symptom. Newsletters looks across your recent mail for senders offering a real unsubscribe and lets you stop them without leaving Sweep.

Only senders supporting one-click unsubscribe are listed, because those are the ones Sweep can genuinely act on. The unsubscribe address is read from the message's own headers — a link handed over by the page is never trusted or followed.

Unsubscribing stops new mail; it does not remove what already arrived. Big clean-up handles the backlog.

Everything you clear gathers in one list first. Nothing leaves your inbox until you tap Move to Gmail trash, and until that moment you can undo any sender.

Once moved, it sits in Gmail's bin, recoverable for 30 days. Sweep never permanently deletes anything itself. The final screen shows what you cleared and offers five hearts — one anonymous tap, the only feedback Sweep ever asks for.

Closing your session ends it and clears your review progress from the browser. Nothing is left behind to delete, because no inbox content was ever written to Sweep's storage.

To revoke access entirely, open Google Account Permissions and remove Sweep. It takes effect immediately.