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CleanLinks for Outlook & Mail

Strip tracking parameters from every link in every email — before you even click. Works directly inside your email client with no copy-paste required.

Outlook for Windows & Mac Outlook on the Web macOS Mail.app 500+ tracker params stripped

Microsoft Outlook Add-in

A task-pane add-in that scans any email on demand, strips tracking parameters from every link, and posts a summary banner directly in the reading pane. Works in Outlook for Windows, Mac, and the web.

Free No account required Mailbox 1.3+

How it works

Open any email

A "Clean Links" button appears in your Outlook toolbar whenever you read a message.

Click "Clean Links"

The add-in scans every link in the email and calls the CleanLinks engine on each one.

See stats in the header

A banner appears above the email: "Removed 7 trackers from 3 of 12 links." Copy or open any cleaned link from the side panel.

Installation — all versions of Outlook

These steps work identically in Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook on the Web (office365.com / outlook.com). The "Get Add-ins" button is in the same place in all three.
  1. 1 Open any email in the reading pane — the add-in only activates when a message is open.
  2. 2 Click Get Add-ins in the toolbar. In Outlook for Windows it's on the Home ribbon. In Outlook for Mac and on the web, click the … (more actions) button at the top of the open email, then Get Add-ins.
  3. 3 In the Add-ins dialog, click My add-ins in the left sidebar.
  4. 4 Scroll to the bottom and click + Add a custom add-in → Add from URL…
  5. 5 Paste the manifest URL below and click OK, then Install on the warning dialog.
  6. 6 Close the dialog. A Clean Links button now appears in the toolbar of every email you open — you're done.

Manifest URL — paste this in step 5:

https://cleanlinks.thewebdexter.com/addons/outlook/manifest.xml

Using the add-in

  1. 1 Open any email you want to check.
  2. 2 Click Clean Links in the toolbar. The side panel opens and immediately starts scanning.
  3. 3 A notification banner appears at the top of the email showing how many trackers were found — e.g. "Removed 5 trackers from 2 of 8 links."
  4. 4 The side panel shows each link grouped into Cleaned (trackers removed) and Already Clean. For each cleaned link, tap Copy to copy the clean URL or Open to open it directly.

Uninstalling

Open Get Add-ins → My add-ins, find CleanLinks, click … → Remove. The add-in is removed immediately.

macOS Mail.app Service

An Automator Quick Action that registers a Clean Link with CleanLinks entry in macOS's system-wide Services menu. One curl command installs it — no Xcode, no build step, no admin rights. Select any URL in Mail.app, right-click, and a macOS notification shows the tracker count with the clean URL copied to your clipboard.

Free & open source macOS 12+ required No Xcode needed

How it works

Select a URL

In Mail.app, select any link text or right-click a hyperlink to see its URL.

Services → Clean Link

Right-click → Services → Clean Link with CleanLinks. Works in Mail.app, Safari, and any macOS app.

Notification & clipboard

A macOS notification pops up: "Removed N tracker(s). Clean URL copied." The clean URL is in your clipboard instantly.

Install — one command

Open Terminal and paste this. It creates an Automator Quick Action in ~/Library/Services/ — no admin rights required.

curl -fsSL https://twdxcleanlinks.pages.dev/cli/install-mail-service.sh | bash

Requires macOS 12 (Monterey) or later and python3 — pre-installed on macOS 12.3+ or available via Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

After the script finishes, if Clean Link with CleanLinks doesn't appear in Services straight away, go to System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Services and make sure it's checked under Text.

Using the service

  1. 1 Open an email in Mail.app. Find a link you want to clean.
  2. 2 Select the URL text — click and drag to highlight it. The text must be selected for the Services menu to activate.
  3. 3 Right-click the selected text → Services → Clean Link with CleanLinks.
  4. 4 A macOS notification appears in the top-right corner — e.g. "Removed 5 tracker(s). Clean URL copied." The clean URL is already in your clipboard. Just paste it wherever you need it.
Works everywhere: This is a system-wide macOS Service — it works in Mail.app, Safari, Notes, Terminal, or any app that supports the Services menu. Just select text containing a URL and invoke it from right-click → Services.

Uninstalling

Delete the workflow bundle from Terminal:

rm -rf ~/Library/Services/Clean\ Link\ with\ CleanLinks.workflow

Or open Finder → Go → Go to Folder → ~/Library/Services/ and delete the Clean Link with CleanLinks.workflow bundle. The Services menu entry disappears immediately.