Burner Email: a free throwaway address, ready in seconds
The address above is your burner. Paste it into any form, watch the code or confirmation arrive here, and forget it. No account, no password, nothing to uninstall — the inbox expires and deletes itself on the timers you can see.
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A burner email is a temporary, throwaway email address you use for one task — a signup, a download, a verification code — and then abandon, so the site never gets the address you actually live in. The name borrows from the burner phone: something anonymous you keep only until it has done its job. The address generated at the top of this page is exactly that — a real inbox that receives mail immediately and erases itself when its window closes.
People reach for a burner for the same reason every time: something wants an email address and offers very little in return — a PDF behind a form, a forum you will visit once, a coupon, a trial, a Wi-Fi portal. Handing over your real address turns a two-minute errand into years of newsletters and, eventually, a place in someone’s leaked database. A burner takes the hit instead: whatever is sent to it lands here, you read what you need, and it disappears on schedule.
Burner vs throwaway vs temp mail vs alias
The words are used almost interchangeably, and for the address on this page they describe the same thing. One of them — the alias — is a genuinely different tool. The short version:
Burner email. An address you create for a purpose and discard once that purpose is served. The emphasis is on anonymity: nothing about the address connects back to you, and you do not plan to keep it.
Throwaway email (also written throw away email). Same object, different emphasis — the word points at what you do with it afterwards. “Burner” and “throwaway” are two names for one habit.
Temp mail / temporary email. The umbrella category. A temporary email is any inbox designed to be short-lived; burners and throwaways are what people do with it. A one time email or single use email is the same thing described by how many times you intend to use it: once.
Disposable email. Usually the industry’s own term for the category — a disposable email address is one issued on a domain that exists only to be thrown away. Sites that maintain blocklists call them “disposable domains”, which is why some forms refuse them.
Email alias. The odd one out. An alias is a second address — you+shop@yourmail.com, or a masked address from your mail provider — that quietly forwards to your real inbox. It hides your address but keeps you reachable. An alias is right when you need to hear from a sender for years; a burner is right when you want the relationship to end the moment you close the tab.
How to make a burner email here in about ten seconds
There is no form to fill in, so most of the ten seconds is spent reading this.
1. Open this page. A burner address is created the moment the page loads. If you would rather have a different one, press Generate New Email and another is minted instantly. Where the domain picker is shown, you can also choose which of our domains the next address uses.
2. Copy it into the form that wants your email. One tap on the copy button puts the address on your clipboard. Paste it wherever an email is being demanded.
3. Watch the inbox on this page. Mail addressed to your burner appears here within seconds of being sent, without a refresh. When a message carries a verification code, it is pulled out and shown so you can copy it without opening the mail. Links in a message open in an isolated view that cannot run scripts.
4. Walk away. The two timers above the inbox show how long the address keeps receiving and how long its messages are stored; when they run out the address is retired for good and everything that arrived is deleted. If you might need the inbox again before then — a code that arrives late, a second step in a signup — press Save recovery code first and keep what it shows you.
When a burner is enough, and when it is not
A burner email is the right tool when the exchange is one-way and short. You give an address, the site sends something, you read it, and neither party needs the other again. That covers most of what the web asks of your inbox: one-time verification codes, confirmation links, gated downloads, discount sign-ups, trials you will not renew, event registrations and hotel Wi-Fi portals. For all of those, a receive-only address that expires is not a compromise — it is the better product.
It is the wrong tool in three situations, and it is worth being honest about them. First, if you need to send or reply. Every address here is receive-only, by design. Second, if you need to log in again next month or next year. Password resets, “confirm this is still you” checks and two-factor fallbacks all go to the address on file, and a burner will no longer exist by then. Third, if the account is tied to money, identity or anything you cannot replace: banking, government services, your employer, a store you have paid, the app that holds your photos.
For those cases, use an address you control — an alias if you want privacy from a sender you will keep hearing from, a real account if you need to send. A burner is for the moments you want to forget; the ones you need to remember belong in an inbox that remembers.
The privacy model: what a burner here does and does not know about you
A burner is only private if the service behind it is built to know as little as possible, so here is how this one works. There is no account: you do not register, choose a password or give us an email of your own, so there is no profile of you to leak or sell. The address itself is the key: your browser holds a private authorisation created alongside the inbox, and that is what opens it. Knowing the address alone is never enough to read its mail.
If you want to reopen the same inbox from another device or browser, you use the recovery code shown when you press “Save recovery code”. Treat it like a password: anyone who has both the address and the code can read what arrived. Nothing else — no phone number, no login — stands between you and your messages, which is why the code should stay with you.
The address is receive-only. Because nothing can ever be sent from a burner address, it cannot be used to spam, phish or impersonate anyone. Messages are rendered inside a sandboxed frame that blocks scripts and tracking pixels, so opening a suspicious email here is considerably safer than opening it in your own client.
Finally, everything is deleted automatically. Two clocks run on every inbox: one for how long the address accepts mail, one for how long a delivered message is kept. Both are visible above your inbox and enforced by the server, not your browser. When the second clock runs out the message is gone — not archived, gone. There is no undo, which is the whole appeal of a burner.
Common uses for a burner email address
Verification codes and confirmation links. The most common use: the burner receives the code, you type it in, and the site is satisfied without learning anything about you.
Gated content and downloads. Reports, templates and “enter your email to get the file” pages. Give a burner, get the file, skip the drip campaign.
Trials, coupons and one-off purchases. A trial you will cancel, a first-order discount, a guest checkout you will not repeat. The receipt lands here; the marketing lands nowhere.
Forums, comment sections and communities. Places that require an email to post but have no reason to keep contacting you.
Public Wi-Fi and hotel portals. The captive portal wants an address and will sell it on. A burner gets you online and gives it nothing of value.
Testing your own signup flow. Developers use a fresh burner per run to check that welcome emails, resets and receipts actually arrive, without filling a personal inbox.
Sizing up a stranger. Marketplace listings, classified ads and “contact me” forms where you do not yet trust the other party with a real address.