Email Marketing & Newsletters
Email Marketing & Newsletters tools -- a subcategory of Email & Newsletters
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7 Tools
Ghost
52KProfessional publishing platform with built-in newsletters, memberships, and paid subscriptions. Used by Platformer, 404Media, The Browser, and thousands more.
Listmonk
19KSend e-mail campaigns and transactional e-mails. High performance and features packed into one app
Billion Mail
14KReleased under AGPL-3.0, Billion Mail provides email marketing platform on self-hosted infrastructure.
Kill-the-Newsletter
3KSelf-hosted email marketing & newsletters tool that converts email newsletters into Atom feeds.
Keila
2KFor email marketing & newsletters, Keila is a self-hosted solution that provides newsletter platform.
Notifuse
1.9KSelf-hosted email servers tool that provides email platform for newsletters and transactional emails. alternative to Mailchimp.
Geoposler
33Self-hosted email servers tool that provides e-mail campaign management application.
Why Self-Host Your Email Marketing and Newsletter Platform?
Mailchimp charges $13-350/month based on subscriber count, and prices increase as your list grows — exactly when you can least afford it. SendGrid, Resend, and Sendinblue follow the same subscriber-based pricing. Substack takes 10% of paid subscription revenue. Self-hosted email marketing tools let you send newsletters and campaigns to unlimited subscribers at the cost of your server and SMTP delivery.
Listmonk is the standout self-hosted newsletter platform — a high-performance, Go-based application that handles millions of subscribers with campaign management, template editing, subscriber segmentation, and detailed analytics. Ghost includes built-in newsletter functionality alongside its blogging platform, supporting paid subscriptions with Stripe integration. Billion Mail focuses specifically on high-volume email sending. Keila provides a clean, Elixir-based newsletter tool with good deliverability defaults.
The economics are straightforward. A list of 50,000 subscribers costs $350/month on Mailchimp’s Standard plan. Running Listmonk on a $20/month server with an Amazon SES account ($0.10 per 1,000 emails) brings the same capability to roughly $25/month total — a 93% cost reduction. Notifuse adds multi-channel notification support. GeoPostler provides location-targeted email campaigns. Kill the Newsletter converts RSS feeds into email newsletters. The key requirement for self-hosted email marketing is proper SMTP configuration — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records must be set up correctly to ensure deliverability, which is the main technical hurdle compared to using a managed service.