diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 66f057d28..16e09040f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -60,3 +60,6 @@ packages/client-app/spec/isomorphic-core
 .elasticbeanstalk/*
 !.elasticbeanstalk/*.cfg.yml
 !.elasticbeanstalk/*.global.yml
+
+# Sqlite amalgamation for scripts
+scripts/sqlite
diff --git a/scripts/benchmark-initial-sync.sh b/scripts/benchmark-initial-sync.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ef8a589a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/benchmark-initial-sync.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+function print_help {
+  OUTPUT=$(cat <<- EOM
+
+    A script to benchmark the initial sync performance of Nylas Mail. To use,
+    simply run the script after authing whatever accounts you wish to measure
+    in your development version of Nylas Mail. The benchmarking script will
+    clear all of the data except for your accounts and open and close Nylas
+    Mail several times, printing out the number of messages synced after each
+    iteration.
+  )
+  echo "$OUTPUT"
+}
+
+if [[ $1 == '-h' || $1 == '--help' ]]
+then
+  print_help
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# Run sudo to prime root privileges
+sudo ls > /dev/null
+
+CWD="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+NYLAS_DIR="$HOME/.nylas-dev"
+EDGEHILL_DB="$NYLAS_DIR/edgehill.db"
+TIME_LIMIT=120
+ITERS=5
+
+for i in `seq 1 $ITERS`
+do
+  bash $CWD/drop-data-except-accounts.sh > /dev/null
+
+  (npm start &> /dev/null &)
+
+  sleep $TIME_LIMIT
+
+  ELECTRON_PID=`ps aux | grep "Electron packages/client-app" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
+  sudo kill -9 $ELECTRON_PID
+
+  MESSAGE_COUNT=`sqlite3 $EDGEHILL_DB 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Message'`
+  echo "Synced Messages: $MESSAGE_COUNT"
+
+  # Sometimes it takes a while to shutdown
+  while [[ $ELECTRON_PID != '' ]]
+  do
+    sleep 1
+    ELECTRON_PID=`ps aux | grep "Electron packages/client-app" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
+  done
+done
diff --git a/scripts/drop-data-except-accounts.sh b/scripts/drop-data-except-accounts.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..805af3284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/drop-data-except-accounts.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+CWD="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+NYLAS_DIR="$HOME/.nylas-dev"
+TRUNCATE_TABLES="
+Account 
+AccountPluginMetadata 
+Calendar 
+Category 
+Contact 
+ContactSearch 
+Event 
+EventSearch 
+File 
+Message 
+MessageBody 
+MessagePluginMetadata 
+ProviderSyncbackRequest
+Thread 
+ThreadCategory 
+ThreadContact 
+ThreadCounts 
+ThreadPluginMetadata 
+ThreadSearch"
+SQLITE_DIR=$CWD/sqlite
+SQLITE_BIN=$SQLITE_DIR/sqlite3
+SQLITE_SRC_DIR="$SQLITE_DIR/sqlite-amalgamation-3170000"
+
+# Build the sqlite3 amalgamation if necessary because we need FTS5 support.
+if [[ ! -e "$SQLITE_BIN" ]]
+then
+  mkdir -p $SQLITE_DIR
+  curl -s "https://www.sqlite.org/2017/sqlite-amalgamation-3170000.zip" > "$SQLITE_DIR/sqlite-amalgamation.zip"
+  unzip -o -d $SQLITE_DIR "$SQLITE_DIR/sqlite-amalgamation.zip"
+  clang -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5 "$SQLITE_SRC_DIR/sqlite3.c" "$SQLITE_SRC_DIR/shell.c" -o $SQLITE_BIN
+fi
+
+rm -f $NYLAS_DIR/a-*.sqlite
+
+EDGEHILL_DB=$NYLAS_DIR/edgehill.db
+
+for TABLE in $TRUNCATE_TABLES
+do
+  COMMAND="DELETE FROM $TABLE"
+  $SQLITE_BIN $EDGEHILL_DB "DELETE FROM $TABLE"
+done
+
+$SQLITE_BIN $EDGEHILL_DB 'DELETE FROM JSONBlob WHERE client_id != "NylasID"'