The honest version.

I had 13,000+ unread emails because I'd been ignoring my inbox for years and the number stopped meaning anything. I wanted to zero it out and start fresh so I could stay on top of what matters.

Gmail lets you do this. You select all, mark as read. Except it stops at 50 emails at a time. So you do it again. And again. Eighty times if you have 4,000. It's tedious in a way that feels specifically designed to make you give up.

There is a way around it that Reddit has figured out, though even the native method has a catch nobody tells you about: it only works if your inbox is sorted by Most Recent, not Most Relevant. How dumb.

The Gmail API has no such limit. You can clear 1,000+ at a time repeatedly. I built this small tool to connect to Gmail, fetch all the unread IDs, and remove the UNREAD label from every one of them. It takes a few seconds and doesn't store anything. When you close the tab, we're done.

How this pays for itself

The one-click clear is free and stays free. Alongside it there's a paid set of cleanup tools — bulk unsubscribe, clearing with protections, ad cleanup — for people whose inbox problem is bigger than one button.

The pricing is also incredibly simple: $12 for a year, billed once, never renews. Or $1.59 for 24 hours if you just need one big cleanout. No subscription exists here and none ever will. I built this because inbox software kept trying to own me, and I'm not going to charge you rent for the privilege of leaving.

About the Google warning

When you connect, Google shows a screen that says "Google hasn't verified this app." It's a certification warning more than anything else. Vail0 completed a security self-evaluation against the same frameworks and passed. What's left is a paid third-party audit (CASA Tier 2) that removes the warning permanently — and revenue from the paid tools is what funds it. No tip jar, no asking: if the tools are worth paying for, the audit gets paid for.

What Vail0 is not

This is not a startup. There's no growth team, no investor deck, no roadmap built around engagement metrics. It's a utility that does one thing well for free and a handful of things carefully for really cheap, made by one person.