Even though Gmail offers 7.5 GB of storage to users for free and this sounds like a lot, it’s amazing how fast you can fill this up particularly if you send and/or receive lots of emails with attachments.

Well, there’s a free app that can find the larger of your emails so that you can judiciously choose which ones to delete to create some space for your future emailing. It’s called appropriately FindBigMail.

I’m using about 20% of my Gmail storage allowance and FindBigMail took about 10 minutes to analyze my situation. It then labelled the larger emails with three categories of labels: Big, Really Big and Ultra Big.

I found this be be extremely useful although, at 20%, I really don’t need it right now.

One problem, though, is that I would almost prefer if there was an option to just delete the attachments, which generally is stuff you have stored somewhere on your computer, but keep the text as a reminder of the email.

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