It's been two months since this profile received a new review

Mailinator Reviews & Product Details

Email and SMS Workflow Testing Mailinator allows Developers and QA Testing teams to automatically test their SMS and Email workflows like 2FA verifications, sign-ups, and password resets with trillions of inboxes at your fingertips. Whether you do Manual Testing, use an API, or a framework like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Puppeteer - Mailinator will close the loop on email/SMS testing.

Seller

Mailinator

Discussions

Mailinator Community

Languages Supported

English

Overview by

Brooks Nelson

Top-Rated Alternatives

Brevo Marketing Platform

4.5/5

(2,373)

Intuit Mailchimp Email Marketing

View All Alternatives

Mailinator Reviews (11)

G2 reviews are authentic and verified.

Here's how.

Sai C.

Associate Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/13/2023

"A one-stop simple software solution to test SMS and Email workflows for Devs and QA."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

1. Mailinator makes testing more comfortable for Devs and QA. It helps in different testing like Load testing and email Testing.

2. It offers two types of Inboxes Public Inbox and Private Inbox. We can update our privacy accordingly.

3. There is a time-saving feature in Mailinator, which is the Direct mail search option. We can search and filter out our mail and check messages.

4. We receive Emails right after triggering without any delay.

5. The Interaction with Email is extremely good. Users can view Email in different interpretations like HTML, JSON, RAW, and LINKS.

6. We can trial the free version of Mailinator and It offers different premium subscription plans to choose from later on.

7. We can multiple testing domains in our account to test.

8. We QA user Mailinator daily in our work for both Manual and Automation.

9. Mailinator provides various blogs/documentions to get familiar with.

10. The integration of Mailinator into any software is easy.

11. The security provided by Mailinator is suitable for keeping our software safe.

12. Mailinator implementation of UI/UX-designed site is Interactive making login and navigating among websites easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

The only dislikes about Mailinator are the customer support provided by the team. Sometimes it was late in resolving queries and In the Private Inbox, occasionally the mail receiving will be a few seconds delayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Dev team and QA team test lots of messages like 2FA, delivery verification, One-time password recovery, etc., through Emails in their software lifecycle. This process is stressful, and time-consuming, to overcome this problem Mailinator hosts features to handle this kind of problem by providing Email software where we get emails into this system and the team can Automate every test case and feature with ease and less time-consuming. The Email workflow now become more effortless.

This is benefiting me in my daily work, Where I need to test different Email delivery like OTPs, Account creation, updates, deletion, and Loyalty programs where I need to verify every mail Manually and check the details, After using Mailinator I can automate every check by Integration Mailinato with my testing software. It saved me time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jennifer B.

HRIS Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/26/2023

"Perfect for Test/Temp Address needs!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

If you need a throwaway or temporary email address, this is the service for you! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

There is nothing to dislike about Mailinator! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you?

Occasionally, a test employee needs to be created for an outside company to create a bridge to one of our systems and instead of creating a whole company email account for them, we can use Mailinator as their account for setup access. It's also been great for testing workflows with another system we use for our pay plans to verify they are bouncing around properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usha B.

Manager

Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/13/2023

"Public email for testing email"

5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

Mailinator provides Email inboxes for testing and monitoring email deliveries, Email content can be viewed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

Some of the information is missing such as To, From email label's are displayed without answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yunus S.

SDET

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/22/2022

"Easily automate E2E tests with Mailinator"

5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

Their API is lovely to automate the E2E tests of email verification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

I like Mailinator a lot but UI can be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bruno G.

Product Designer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/13/2021

"A useful service to try new services and newsletters before polluting your own mailbox"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

It's really easy to use and I've been using it for years now, it's a very reliable service that has proved its value over the years.

Even though you're creating a "public" temporary mailbox, using the free account, you're still able to create a really long a distinct alias so that the account is way harder for others to find and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

It would be great to have the opportunity of having a small number of "private" temporary mailboxes on the free tier.

Some websites have Mailinator as "blacklisted", as an invalid email which isn't great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mailinator:

It's true that you can do a bit of research and try other similar services, but the truth is that Mailinator can be used for free by most users so you probably don't need to spend time looking for other alternatives. Try Mailinator and only do the research later if Mailanot email is not accepted on the particular service/website you're trying to use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Mailinator to try new services and subscribe to some newsletters and access their real value before polluting my own mailbox with SPAM emails.

As a designer, I also use Mailinator to create fake/temporary-accounts on the apps/websites I'm working in order to perform tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rahul K.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/13/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"One of the best mail inbox application"

5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

We can you mailinator for bulk or single mail. I usually use mailinator for testing some of the functionality of my microservices. We don't require creating new temporary accounts again and again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

The inbox gets an empty bit quicker. Mailinator can increase the timing of the emails available to the inbox of mailinator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin M.

Director of Digital Marketing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/29/2021

"Good for email validation *update*"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

Keeps our email lists clean, which allows us to get better results from our bulk email platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

Cost is a little bit higher than I would like, but not egregious. All within acceptable parameters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mailinator:

Try testing out a cleaned email list versus your stock list, and I think you'll see the benefit of a product like Mailinator! It's very easy to test at a small scale before rolling out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you?

We typically run into periodic problems with email validation through email blast clients like Mailchimp if we do not scrub our lists in advance. Mailinator is a good way to scrup the lists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/17/2019

"Great for access without the overhead in your personal email"

4/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

I use this app to test features of software I'm documenting. It lets me separate my work and personal account to perform the testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

mailinator inbox shows empty, so I haven't really used it as an actual email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/10/2019

"Like the Governator but the Mailinator!"

5/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

I loved how simple the service was to use. No problem setting up once and then continued success every time I use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

Be sure to set it up right the first time and you’ll have no problem. I used a couple tests at first to make sure I was using the service right before bulk use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/10/2019

"Perfect for Filtering Unwanted Emails"

4/5

What do you like best about Mailinator?

It is easy to use and set-up. Pretty self explanatory.. And if you can't quite figure something out there are plenty of tutorials to be found on-line. What is really nice is all emails from your companies domain can come to one mailbox. Sounds a bit creepy but if you have a customer service center it's wicked nice to see all the emails that come in, especially when people are out sick or on vaca. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Mailinator?

It's a bit "Big Brotherly". If someone in your organization wants to keep tabs on all email coming in it gets creepy. It is kind-of easy to become a spammer/phisher with this service and if you use the free service they make it really clear that it is a public, free NO PRIVACY service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Mailinator:

If you are reluctant to give your personal email address out or work for a company that has a large support network and needs to keep abreast of all incoming mailing Mailinator will fit the bill. Besides the public, No Privacy, disposable mailbox side they also have a really smart Private side that delivers what it needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Mailinator solving and how is that benefiting you?

On the business end, I have already stated it is great for call centers and large customer service organizations. All the emails can come into one box so if some one is out sick or on vacation the ball isn't dropped on a potential customer or one in need. On the personal side it is great when you do not want to use your personal email address, but you have to "sign-up" for something so you use an email from Mailinator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.