Temp Gmail: a real @gmail.com address you can throw away
A working @gmail.com address, ready in seconds, for the verification codes you would rather keep out of your own Gmail. No signup, no password.
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The address above really is an @gmail.com address: a unique variant of a Gmail mailbox we run, handed to you alone. TempBooth is not affiliated with Google or Gmail. It is receive-only and temporary — fine for a code, wrong for anything you need to keep.
People search for a “temp Gmail” because a site wants an email address and their own Gmail is the last place they want it. The address above is the real thing: mail sent to it is delivered by Google into a Gmail mailbox, and shown here to you.
It works because Gmail ignores dots. j.o.h.n.smith@gmail.com and johnsmith@gmail.com are the same mailbox to Google, but different strings to every signup form. TempBooth runs a pool of Gmail accounts and hands each visitor one unique dotted variant. Your variant is yours while it lives, is never given to anyone else, and everything sent to it is deleted from the Gmail account when your timer ends.
What you actually get, and what you do not
You get a genuine @gmail.com address that accepts mail immediately, a live inbox on this page, and the verification code pulled out of the message for you. Codes that Gmail files as spam are picked up too, and flagged so you know Gmail distrusted the sender.
You do not get a Google Account, a password, or the ability to send mail. You cannot sign in to Gmail with it, and you share no access to the underlying mailbox: you only ever see mail addressed to your own variant. The mailbox owner’s other mail is never shown to you, and yours is never shown to anyone else.
When a temp Gmail is the right tool
Use it where a site insists on an address only to send a code or a link, and where a Gmail address specifically is likelier to be accepted: signups that reject disposable domains, free trials, app registrations, marketplace accounts, Wi-Fi portals, coupon gates.
If a site rejects the address, that is usually because it recognises the dotted form as a variant of a mailbox it has seen before. Switch the toggle to Random domain and try again — a fresh address on one of our own domains has a different footprint entirely.
When to use your own Gmail instead
This address is deliberately short-lived: it stops accepting mail, and its messages are destroyed, on the timers shown above the inbox. Once that happens the address is retired for good and never reissued, so a code sent afterwards is unrecoverable.
So keep your own account for anything that has to last — your bank, government services, work or school, two-factor codes for accounts you intend to keep. Use a temp Gmail for the moments you would rather forget about.