How Baxter works

They're published as two separate Chrome Web Store listings, so you install one or the other. Started with the free unsubscribe tool and want the rest? You'll upgrade by installing the full Baxter extension and subscribing.

1. Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store — the free Gmail Unsubscribe tool, or the full Baxter extension.
2. Sign in with Google. Baxter uses Google OAuth — you never type a password into Baxter.
3. Grant Gmail permissions. If you skip a required permission you'll hit an “invalid permission” screen — just start sign-in again and accept.
4. Follow the quick walkthrough (full Baxter): welcome → choose your cleanup powers → turn on automatic organizing → enable AI → review suggested senders → subscribe → ready.
5. First scan. Baxter takes a first pass over your inbox to find senders and suggest labels. It runs in the background and can take a few minutes.

Select the senders you want gone and hit Unsubscribe. Baxter lists the senders it found; remove any you want to keep, then choose what happens to their existing mail:

• Archive (default) — existing emails leave your inbox but stay searchable.
• Trash — existing emails go to Trash and are permanently deleted after 30 days.

Unsubscribing is foolproof by design — because a single unsubscribe link often isn't enough, Baxter stacks every mechanism it has for each sender you pick:

• The unsubscribe link — Baxter finds the sender's official unsubscribe target and uses the most reliable method available (a one-click request, an unsubscribe email, or the link itself).
• A Gmail filter — created for that sender as well, so their future mail skips your inbox even if they ignore the request or offer no link at all.
• Baxter itself — if something still slips through, Baxter catches it on arrival and clears it out for you.

The removal runs in the background and finishes within a few minutes. Changed your mind? Undo filter on the Unsubscribed tab reverses everything, including removing the Gmail filter Baxter created.

Found a sender clogging your inbox? Hit Remove and Baxter deletes every email from them — past and present — in a single action, with a progress bar while it works. A lifesaver against Gmail's storage limit.

Baxter organizes your inbox with two kinds of labels, on separate tabs of the Labels page.

My Labels — the labels you create and control. Create, edit and delete them, nest labels for a folder-like hierarchy, and pin favorites. You choose how wide each rule matches:

• Sender — the exact name + address pair (e.g. “Acme Billing” from [email protected]). Narrowest — a different name from the same address won't match.
• Email address — that exact address no matter what display name it uses (e.g. [email protected]). Catches senders that rotate their name.
• Domain — every address at that domain (e.g. anything @acme.com). The broadest.

Baxter Labels — generated automatically. With automatic labeling on, Baxter creates and applies labels as it sorts your mail, so common categories get organized for you. Toggle it in Account Settings. Everything still lands in your inbox — it's just also labeled.

When a label keeps collecting mail from the same senders, Baxter offers a ready-made rule. On the Labels page you'll see “View Baxter's suggested rules for this label.” Open it and Baxter groups the senders it saw into a short list of rules, each pre-set to a safe scope. For each rule you can switch between Sender, Email and Domain (see the scopes above), then apply them all with one click — a whole batch of newsletters or notifications gets filed at once.

Auto-Clean keeps your inbox tidy on autopilot, across two tabs on the Auto-Clean page.

• Rules — automatically archive or delete matching mail the moment it arrives; you can also enable Auto-Clean directly on a sender.
• History — review everything Baxter has cleaned, filtered by date. Your audit trail.

Select a batch of emails and ask Baxter AI about them, or summarize a long thread in one click. When it's time to respond, hit Dictate Draft on a reply — or Dictate Compose on a new email — say how you want to write it, and Baxter drafts it for you to send or tweak.

• Summarize long threads instantly — no scrolling, no copy-paste.
• Reply and Rewrite chips restyle a draft in a click.
• Dictate how to respond and Baxter does the typing.

Turn on AI reply drafts from the Drafts page and Baxter watches for mail that genuinely expects a personal reply — newsletters, receipts and notifications are skipped. When it finds one, it writes a reply and saves it as a normal Gmail draft on that thread.

• In your voice — Baxter builds a writing-style profile from how you actually write and learns from your past replies to the same person, so drafts sound like you, not like a robot.
• Knowledge base — add facts Baxter should know (availability, links you always send, how you handle certain requests) and drafts use them instead of leaving placeholders.
• You choose how eager it is — Conservative, Balanced or Eager controls how confident Baxter must be before drafting.

The Assistant page is a chat that knows your inbox. Ask things like “which senders email me the most?”, “help me clean up”, or “label everything from Stripe as Finance”, and Baxter answers with real numbers from your account.

• Reads your senders, labels and auto-clean rules to answer grounded questions.
• Proposes actions — unsubscribing, creating or editing a label, adding an auto-clean rule — as cards you approve.
• Shows what it did, and when, so you can look back at a conversation and see the outcome.

The Senders page is where you manage every newsletter and sender reaching your inbox. They sit across three tabs, and the actions change per tab — act on one from its row, or select several and act in bulk.

• Subscribed — senders still reaching your inbox. Actions: Ignore, Unsubscribe, Auto-Clean.
• Unsubscribed — senders you've unsubscribed from. Actions: Archive, Undo filter (re-subscribe), Delete old emails.
• Ignored — senders you've set aside. Actions: Unsubscribe, Delete old emails.

Account Settings is free and available whether or not you're subscribed.

Profile & Gmail connection — see whether Gmail is connected. If it says “Gmail needs reconnecting,” click Reconnect to re-authorize so Baxter can keep organizing.

Preferences (8 toggles) — these control what Baxter shows inside Gmail: Display Baxter folders, Group emails by date, Enable label colors, and the Unsubscribe / Remove / Auto-Clean / Label buttons, plus Automatic labels. If a button is missing in Gmail, check the matching toggle here first.

Subscription — Baxter offers a single quarterly plan via secure Stripe checkout. Senders, Labels and Auto-Clean need an active subscription; if it lapses they switch to read-only until you resubscribe.

• Contact Support — opens a live chat in your dashboard; the team usually replies within a few minutes, and your conversation follows you across devices.
• Join the community — the Baxter Slack community, where you can ask questions and share tips with other users and the team.
• Give Feedback — a quick form in the sidebar that goes straight to the Baxter team.

I applied a label rule but nothing changed. Make sure you confirmed and saved the rule (not just selected it), then give the background labeling a minute to sweep your matching mail.

A button is missing in Gmail. Open Account Settings → Preferences and make sure the matching toggle is on, then refresh Gmail.

“Gmail needs reconnecting.” Google occasionally requires re-consent. Open Account Settings and click Reconnect — Baxter resumes where it left off.

Will Baxter's labels make me miss emails? No — every email still lands in your inbox; it's just also labeled. Use Auto-Clean if you want a category to skip the inbox.

If I remove Baxter, do I lose my organization? No emails are deleted — your inbox simply stops being auto-organized.