Do I need a credit card to start?
No. The 30-day trial doesn't require a credit card or any payment info up front.
What happens when the trial ends?
Nothing happens automatically. There's no surprise charge. When you come back to the app after day 30, you'll be prompted to subscribe to keep using it. Until then, everything you set up stays put.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel anytime from your account settings, no minimum commitment, no cancellation fee.
What if I use Gmail? Why not just use filters or a label?
Filters and labels still leave newsletters sitting in your inbox, mixed in with everything else, sorted by rules you have to maintain. bwak.news takes them out of your inbox entirely and gives them their own space, built for scrolling and reading, not managing.
Do I have to resubscribe to every newsletter one by one?
Yes, there's no bulk import, but the migration assistant handles the busywork: forward any newsletter to migrate.<yourseed>@bwak.news and it automatically mints a bwak.news address for that sender, so you never have to invent one yourself. From there you just subscribe with the new address on the sender's site and unsubscribe your old one. You'll see it listed as "Pending first issue" until your first issue arrives at the new address.
Prefer to do it manually? You can also update your subscription preferences directly with the sender, or subscribe fresh and drop the old one, without using the migration assistant at all.
Can senders still see my real email address?
No. Each newsletter gets its own alias, like kevin.morningbrew@bwak.news for Morning Brew, and that alias is all the sender ever sees. Your real email address never leaves bwak.news.
What happens to my alias if I cancel?
Nothing right away. You get a 30-day grace period after canceling where your aliases keep receiving newsletters normally. After that, new mail to your aliases stops being saved, but the aliases stay reserved to your account. If you resubscribe, everything picks back up.
Is this just a side project, or will it stick around?
It will stick around. I'm not only the builder, I'm bwak.news' heaviest user with over 70 newsletters and counting. Using bwak.news has curbed my doom-scrolling on X when I have spare time. I'm honestly not building this to get rich. I'm building this to challenge myself to bring a product to market that I love to use. I built it because I needed it.
