addy.io
Hacker ApprovedRanked 3 of 4 email alias services by recommenders
Recommended for generating a unique email alias for each site, letting you block any one, and it supports your own domain.
Recommended for generating a unique email alias for each site, letting you block any one, and it supports your own domain.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 11 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Unique alias for each site
“I use it all the time in conjunction with Bitwarden to generate unique emails per site.”
Comment from 2 Apr 2026 in “Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?” “use a service like addy.io where you can create a new alias for every service”
Comment from 18 Aug 2026 in “An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail” “use a service like https://addy.io/ to generate email aliases on the fly”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Bye Bye Gmail” Works with your own domain
“You can always use AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, or similar to receive emails at your domain then forward them to Posteo.”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an Almost All-EU Stack (and Saved 500€/Year)” “Simplelogin, addy support using own custom domain”
Comment from 28 Jan 2026 in “SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned” Isolates senders and allows blocking
“Burner email services like AnonAddy, iCloud "Hide my email", et al work well for actual receipt but also provide isolation.”
Comment from 1 Jan 2026 in “Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups” “having control over each of them so you can block it when you want”
Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless” Open source and affordable
“I do something similar, use an open source service called addy.io”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless” “addy.io and proton pass are both great, affordable options”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless”
Other email alias services people recommend
The three most recommended other email alias services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple Hide My Email | 66 | 56 | 54% | 11 | — | — |
| SimpleLogin | 21 | 5 | 81% | 11 | — | Approved |
| addy.ioThis page | 11 | 1 | 92% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Fastmail Masked Email | 10 | 2 | 83% | 4 | — | Approved |
What people said
12 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“use a service like addy.io where you can create a new alias for every service”
“having control over each of them so you can block it when you want”
“it had account limits and I had to manually manage every alias”
“addy.io and proton pass are both great, affordable options”
“I do something similar, use an open source service called addy.io”
“Addy.io and SimpleLogin are the best”
“I use it all the time in conjunction with Bitwarden to generate unique emails per site.”
“Simplelogin, addy support using own custom domain”
“use a service like https://addy.io/ to generate email aliases on the fly”
“for the vast majority, having an alias would be enough”
“Burner email services like AnonAddy, iCloud "Hide my email", et al work well for actual receipt but also provide isolation.”
“You can always use AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, or similar to receive emails at your domain then forward them to Posteo.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.