All Mailinator Reviews
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Devin
Real Estate, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
The simplest solution for QA and software/workflow testing
Incredibly easy to use, highly intuitive, and virtually no learning curve. We use Mailinator for creating dummy addresses for workflow and software testing, and it saves us from bogging down our actual inboxes with test data. Mailinator has made it easy to test complex workflows involving multiple stakeholders without needing to toggle between a variety of inboxes--we now get all our test communications flowing into one place, which has enabled us to speed up our QA process significantly.
CONSI don't have any complaints about the product. If they could eventually roll out an SMS inbox without needing to use the API, that would be incredible, but that's a big ask and is the only "weakness" I can think of offhand.
Jared
E-Learning, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2022
Mostly all good things to say
System uptime is functionality is mostly dependable
CONSCertain words (like 'admin') cannot be used in test emails (they don't deliver). Certain characters (like apostrophes) cause problems for the inbox as well (emails cannot be opened).
Thomas
Real Estate, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
1
Reviewed March 2022
Horrible sales team
Terrible
PROSSomeone at Mailinator or likely the sales team blew up our inbound leads with a couple of dozen leads. All fake leads including their @mailinator domain.
CONSThe ridiculous spam of fake leads that put our sales team through
Vendor Response
Hi Thomas, Unfortunately, it sounds like someone at another company was harassing your team. Mailinator is a receive-only system, meaning that it can not send emails. Whomever sent those was spoofing the @mailinator address. Again, sorry for the misfortune, but I can assure you that nobody from Mailinator would have been able to do this. -Albert
Replied March 2022
Natalie
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Very Easy Service!
It's really very easy to use. I use it every day and have been for a few years. It is a very reliable service.
CONSSome services blacklist Mailinator, but not too many to put me off using it.
Dan
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Essential tool for our testing team.
I have been extremely satisfied with the service and Mailinator product.
PROSIt is so flexible we use it to test nearly every email that we develop.
CONSWould like more user accounts available to share with team members.
Yunus
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
The Power of Mailinator
I use Mailinator public and private inboxes to automate our E2E tests. Mailinator has very critical role at this point.
PROSPublic and private inbox are awesome feature. Also it is very easy to automate the process with API
CONSI like Mailinator a lot. I think the UI can be improved a little bit. It can be more user friendly
Reason for choosing Mailinator
Documents are very simple, it is cheap,
Elizabeth
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2022
Mailinator is great for busy QA teams. It makes our email and SMS testing much easier.
Ease of use. Privacy. The number of features to help testers (webhooks, API, SMS integration etc.) we just couldn't find anywhere else.
CONSLimited reading material - tricky to find out what others thought of it (hence why I'm writing this!)
Vendor Response
Thank you for the thoughtful review, Elizabeth! If there's anything we can do improve, feel free to let us know :)
Replied January 2022
Rajesh
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2022
Excellent product especially for small startups
Excellent- 10/10!
PROSMailinator is a life saver! it has helped the test team here at pepper content automate lot of our onboarding/login flows thanks to the ability of accessing OTPs via emails.The ease of use and setup is flawless and the APIs work smoothly.Documentation is good and the customer support is very fast. The verified pro version is a great product for small startups which may not have the resources to get paid version.I learn about mailinator in my current company and it is definitely going to be one of my favorite products going forward.
CONSNothing really - may be some more APIs for mail parsing. Sometimes I get a bounce message which can be removed. Also onboarding documentation could be improved - I didnt really know how/which authorization token to use.
rajiv
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Email testing made easy
I was in the market for an email testing tool to use for my Automated test cases. After a lot market research I found Mailinator which in my opinion is one of the best for the features it offers for fraction of the price compared to the competition. For a small use case like mine , I get to send/receive 300 messages a month which seems a very reasonable for free tier. There is also SMS feature available. Being able to send/receive test messages via API just makes the experience very seamless. I would definitely recommend Mailinator to my peers.
PROSThe ease of API access, Feature set, seamlessly integrated with Cypress Automation
CONSAPI Documentation could be a little more structed
Reason for choosing Mailinator
Feature set /pricing
Vendor Response
Thanks, Rajiv. We're glad you are enjoying Mailinator. If you're open any additional conversations to help us improve the service, please email albert@manybrain.com to find some time to chat.
Replied July 2022
sawan
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Love the products, cuts all red tape around email address
In one word, "simplicity". the product is so simple,
CONSNothing, if I was picky, if i am logged in, should take directly to my inbox. saves an extra click
Eddie
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2023
Mailinator for development use to increase the easy way to develop web applications
My experience with mailinator is great solution for mail sandbox in order to have fast solution during the development of an web application
PROSI like the way that is a multi send box mail for development purpose
CONSThe interface could be more appealing, but it's easy to use
Reece
Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2023
Automated Email Quality Control with Mailinator
It's been very positive. Some customer support was required to get my validated account, but it worked out and has been really helpful for me since then.
PROSMailinator has helped me identify customer segments that needed attention in our email strategy, that would have otherwise gone unnoticed! This was really helpful, and was a missing piece in our quality control.
CONSI've used Mailinator for a really basic use case, so I cannot speak to the more in depth functions. However I can say that the look and feel of the browser layout might be my least favorite part.
Shivashish
Medical Devices, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Honest Review
The ease of use is the main thing which I like about the product and this product is very user friendly and helps to test Email functionality very smoothly and saves a lot of time.Thanks.
CONSAt this point of time there is no drawback of this product
Ray
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2022
Easy and free to use
It's free and powerful. I can receive e-mails for testing software quickly and easily rather than having multiple email accounts for testing
CONSThere's nothing I don't like about the software
Paxton
Internet, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Easy to set up and use
Easily receive email at arbitrary email accounts for testing purposes. Can easily see the raw email and embedded links
CONSLatest UI is better than before, but still a bit dated styling. The actual functionality is fine.
Dinesh
Computer Software, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed December 2022
Mailinator for email testing
verified status to users for customized private email inbox
CONSnot having attachment for even verified accounts but only paid
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
An excellent option for small businesses
Since we are doing lots of test regarding the auto generated emails sent during sign-up, this is a perfect solution and the $0 price point is literally impossible to beat.
PROSThe Pro feature being free for a single user is great because I can receive test emails for the project I'm managing and make sure that everything looks exactly how I want it to.
CONSIt would be nice if I could have the emails forwarded to another email address instead of having to log into the website to access those emails.
Eric
Non-Profit Organization Management, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2022
great for testing
it ease of use is great when we need a temporary email address for testing and application or process
CONSwe have seen salesforce not send to mailinator emails after a while
Vendor Response
Thanks, Eric. While emails using the @mailinator.com domain may be blocked by Salesforce, we've seen that using a private domain (such as @erict.testinator.com) does not.
Replied April 2022
Mark
Professional Training & Coaching, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2022
A Need for Any Business
Amazing!
PROSHaving Mailinator has been a huge lift with making sure automation work well for my clients before release and helps us review copy as a client sees it versus the standard merge fields.
CONSI honestly can't think of one. It has been so great to have.
Vendor Response
Thanks so much for your review!
Replied April 2022
Alexandru Cristian
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2022
Go to client for temporary email
I liked the most the fact that it’s easy to use, free and reliable
CONSThat it might be blacklisted by some services
Vendor Response
Thanks, Alexandru! While @mailinator.com might be blacklisted by some services, the private domains we provide typically are not.
Replied April 2022
Breaker
Online Media, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2022
Great Service!
Overall, my experience with the service was very positive and will refer others, and if we need further services I will speak with my employer about upgrading the package here.
PROSGreat service to test out scripts for social media platform sign-ups. I help to run a social media platform, and I was helping to troubleshoot the e-mail verifications, Mailinator had some tools that made the process easy.
CONSI have no complaints really, seeing that we're a small operation, and my part was small.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review. We're glad you are enjoying the service.
Replied April 2022
Jason
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
member role control
great
PROSlike the private domain and redirect features
CONSall feature are good, if I have to say something, I will point the api documentation
Anonymous
1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Free trial review
It was easy to use but not for a regular email user
CONSIf one could get seperate emails for one account.
Amber
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2022
Very useful for testing
I use mailinator to assist with testing various workflows, it's easy to use and convenient
CONSIt would be nice to be able to link a mailinator account to multiple emails (a professional and personal)
charles
Real Estate, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2023
nice stuff
wanted to test API, have not been able to yet
CONSdifficult to use API. i tyried a few ways and even asked chatgpt :) still no luck