How can I see everything I'm subscribed to by email?

Last reviewed: September 23, 2026 · Markdown version

Gmail now has a screen for exactly this — if it has reached your account. Google's help says: "In Gmail, you can manage all your active email subscriptions in one place." On a computer it is under More → Manage subscriptions on the left; in the phone app, Menu → Manage subscriptions. The catch is in the same page: "The ability to manage email subscriptions is gradually rolling out and may not be available to you yet" (Manage your subscriptions in Gmail, read 23 September 2026). If you do not see it, the list has to be rebuilt from your inbox, because you said yes to a shop at a checkout, to a newsletter in 2019, to a webinar you attended once — each one a separate transaction with a separate company.

Three ways to reconstruct it

Search for the footer. Gmail's rules require anyone sending more than 5,000 messages a day to Gmail accounts to "include a clearly visible unsubscribe link in the message body" of marketing and subscribed mail (Email sender guidelines, read 23 September 2026), and in the US, commercial email must explain "how the recipient can opt out of getting marketing email from you in the future" (CAN-SPAM Act: A Compliance Guide for Business, read 23 September 2026). So search unsubscribe, then skim by sender rather than by message. Crude, and it catches a lot of it.
Use the Promotions tab as a proxy. Gmail sorts "Deals, offers, and other promotional emails" there. It is not a complete list — "Automated confirmations, notifications, statements, and reminders" go to Updates instead (Organize your emails into categories, read 23 September 2026) — but it is a fast first pass.
Think by sender. The insight everyone eventually has: subscriptions are defined by repetition, not by content. Anyone who has sent you thirty messages you never replied to is a subscription, whatever the mail looks like. Gmail's from: and list: search operators — the second will "Find emails from a mailing list" — let you check one sender at a time (Refine searches in Gmail, read 23 September 2026).

What each approach misses

Senders who rotate addresses (news@, offers@, noreply-8f2@) can appear as several different things, so any by-sender view over-counts until you look.
An aggressive sweep of everything containing "unsubscribe" can catch senders you want to keep — the shop you buy from also sends your receipts. This is why unsubscribing sender-by-sender beats unsubscribe from everything in the search results.
Genuine spam never honoured a list in the first place, and a US agency warns that its "unsubscribe" option "is often just a method for collecting valid addresses" (Reducing Spam, read 23 September 2026). Unsubscribing from it is a different decision, and not always the right one.

Where we fit

The by-sender view is the whole idea behind Adinand Email Cleaner, and it works whether or not Gmail's screen has reached you. It reads your Gmail's headers — sender, subject, date, size and the unsubscribe headers bulk mail carries — and presents your mail as a list of senders with the measured size each one is taking up. From that list, one tap unsubscribes, another clears that sender's backlog, and an auto-trash rule keeps them from coming back.

It asks Gmail for headers only, never message bodies, and nothing leaves your device except the direct calls it makes to Google's own Gmail API.