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What "burner email" actually means
The name comes from burner phones: a cheap prepaid handset you use for a while and then throw away, so nothing links back to your main number. A burner email works the same way. It's a real, working address that you hand out instead of your own, and you never plan to use it again.
People say burner, throwaway, disposable or temp mail more or less interchangeably. The idea behind all of them is the same: the site you're signing up for gets an address that works today and leads nowhere tomorrow.
Good reasons to burn an address
- Gated downloads. A white paper, a template or a sample chapter that's only sent "to your inbox".
- One-time Wi-Fi portals at cafés, hotels and airports that want an email before they let you online.
- Comment sections and forums you'll post on once to ask a single question.
- Giveaways and coupon codes where the price of the discount is a lifetime of promotional mail.
- Sites you don't trust yet. If a shop or app looks shaky, a burner keeps your main address out of their database, and out of the next breach.
Using this burner, step by step
- Copy the address in the card above. It's created the moment the page loads.
- Choose a style if you like. Realistic gives you something like a person's name, which fewer forms reject. Random gives you a string of letters and digits.
- Paste it into the sign-up form. Keep this tab open; incoming mail appears in the inbox below within seconds, no refresh needed.
- Open the message and click the link or copy the code. Verification codes of 4 to 8 digits are pulled out for you with a copy button.
- Walk away. You don't need to delete anything. The inbox expires on its own after 24 hours, and our hourly cleanup erases the stored mail.
Burner, alias or your real address?
A burner is the right choice when the account has no future. If there's a chance you'll need to log back in, reset a password or receive a refund, a forwarding alias is the better tool, and for anything involving money, health or official paperwork you should use your real address. We wrote a short guide on when not to use temp mail because getting this wrong can lock you out of an account for good.
What our burner can and can't do
| Can | Can't |
|---|---|
| Receive mail from any sender, usually within seconds | Send or reply to messages |
| Show the text of every message and pull out verification codes | Receive file attachments |
| Stay alive for 24 hours, or up to 7 days with one free extension | Live forever |
| Reopen on another device with its recovery link | Get past sites that block every disposable domain |
Staying safe with any throwaway inbox
- Don't reuse a burner for anything personal. Whoever holds the recovery link can read the inbox until it expires, so keep that link to yourself.
- Don't send sensitive documents to a temporary address, even your own. It's built to be convenient, not to be a vault.
- Watch out for phishing. A message in a burner inbox can still be a scam. Check the sender before you click.
Questions
Is a burner email anonymous?
It hides your real address from the site you sign up for. It doesn't hide your IP address or anything else you type into that site's forms.
Can I get the same burner back later?
Yes, until it expires, by opening its recovery link. After that the address is gone and can't be reissued to you.
Do I need an account?
No. There's nothing to register and no password to remember.