DuckDuckGo Email Protection review

The paid subscription is priced at $9.99. That is above the secure email entry median on the site, and well above Apple Hide My Email at $0.99 and addy.io at $1. A free plan is also available, so the suite can be used at no cost first.

The free plan covers private search, a private browser and Duck.ai text chat, plus voice chat and image generation. All of it runs within daily limits, which are the stated cap on free usage. The pricing tiers for this brand are free and budget, so a free tier and a budget tier both sit in the lineup.

It runs on web, windows and macos, covering desktop and mobile alongside the browser based tools. Support is handled through email, help centre and community, so help arrives by email, through the help centre or via the community rather than by phone.

Its logging policy is that IP addresses and the user information used for micro-targeting are not kept, and none of it goes to advertisers. The provider is Duck Duck Go, Inc., and its jurisdiction is listed as US, so the commitment is a company level policy rather than a technical guarantee.

Open source: no, so the code is not published for outside inspection. The company behind it is Duck Duck Go, Inc., founded in 2008, and it builds these privacy tools as a closed product across web, windows and macos. Confidence therefore rests on the company's own policy statements rather than on readable code.

It suits readers who want private search, a private browser and a forwarding address in one subscription. Priced at $9.99, it sits above the middle of the site's entry prices, where the median is €6.84. Buyers who only want a disposable forwarding alias will find cheaper options.

Support runs on email, help centre and community: email, a help centre and the community. Live chat and a phone number are not among those channels, so time sensitive questions wait for a written answer. The same channels cover the apps and desktop tools listed in web, windows and macos.