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Email & Messaging Infrastructure

Sending, receiving, and orchestrating transactional and notification messages.

29 products, 22 Projects: 16 open source, 1 source-available, 5 unresolved-license

Mailchimp

Mailchimp

Marketing email, audiences, and campaign reporting

CompanyIntuit
Since2001
PricingFreemium

Mailchimp made email marketing approachable for people who are not marketers. The editor, the templates, and the reporting are all pitched at a small business owner rather than at a growth team.

SendGrid

SendGrid

Transactional and marketing email delivery

CompanyTwilio
Since2009
PricingFreemium

SendGrid handles the part of email nobody wants to own: reputation, authentication, bounce processing, and the endless negotiation with inbox providers about whether your mail is wanted.

Alternative toTwilio
Gmail

Gmail

Google's email client and the inbox most people mean

CompanyGoogle
Since2004
PricingFreemium

Gmail's search is still the reason to use it. Conversation threading, effectively unlimited retention on paid plans, and spam filtering that most self-hosted setups cannot match make it the default even for people uncomfortable with the arrangement.

Twilio

Twilio

APIs for SMS, voice, and verification at scale

CompanyTwilio
Since2008
PricingPaid

Twilio turned telecommunications into an HTTP request, and the abstraction held. Sending a message to a phone anywhere in the world became a few lines of code rather than a carrier negotiation.

HEY

HEY

Screened, tracker-free email plus calendar from 37signals

Company37signals
Since2020
PricingPaid

HEY is a paid email and calendar service from 37signals that screens new senders, sorts mail into a focused Imbox, and blocks tracking pixels.

Alternative toGmail
Novu

Novu

Multi-channel notification infrastructure for applications

Stars39.7K
Commit8h ago
LicenseUnknown

Novu takes the notification logic that usually ends up scattered across a codebase - which channel, which template, which quiet hours, which digest window - and puts it behind one API and one workflow editor.

Alternative toMailchimpTwilio
Loops

Loops

Marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email for SaaS teams

CompanyLoops
Since2022
PricingFree

Loops is an email platform for SaaS teams that sends marketing, lifecycle, and transactional email from one product and API.

Alternative toSendGrid
ntfy

ntfyOpen

Self-hosted push notifications over simple HTTP PUT/POST

Stars34.8K
Commitjust now
LicenseApache-2.0

ntfy is a self-hosted push-notification service that sends alerts to phones and desktops with a simple HTTP PUT or POST to a topic, plus open-source Android, iOS, web, and CLI apps.

Alternative toNovu
AgentMail

AgentMailAI

Email inbox API that gives every AI agent its own address

CompanyAgentMail, Inc.
Since2025
PricingFreemium

AgentMail is an API-first email service that gives AI agents their own inboxes to send, receive, and track messages programmatically.

Alternative toGmail
Listmonk

ListmonkOpen

Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Stars18.4K
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Listmonk is a single Go binary and a Postgres database that handles subscriber lists, segmentation, campaigns, and bounce processing at a scale that would be expensive on a hosted platform.

Alternative toMailchimp
BillionMail

BillionMailOpen

Run your own mail server and email marketing from one dashboard

Stars15.8K
Commit3mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

BillionMail combines a mail server with newsletter and campaign tooling in one self-hosted package. One Docker Compose file brings up the web console plus mail transfer, mailbox, spam-filtering, database, and cache services, so a team can send and receive mail and run bulk campaigns from infrastructure it controls.

Alternative toMailchimp
Inbox Zero

Inbox ZeroAI

Open-source AI email assistant that triages Gmail and Outlook

Stars12.4K
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0 with Inbox Zero Inc. commercial-use terms

Inbox Zero is an open-source AI email assistant for Gmail and Outlook that triages mail, drafts replies, and automates follow-ups, available as paid hosted plans or self-hosted.

Alternative toGmail
Mautic

Mautic

Open source marketing automation with email and campaigns

Stars10.7K
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0-only

Mautic is a free, self-hosted marketing automation platform for email campaigns, lead scoring, and multi-channel customer journeys.

Alternative toHubSpot
Fonoster

FonosterOpen

Open-source programmable voice and messaging platform

Stars8,127
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Fonoster is an open-source programmable telecommunications platform for voice and messaging, positioned as a self-hostable alternative to Twilio.

Alternative toTwilio
Tuta

TutaOpen

Encrypted email, calendar and contacts with open-source apps

Stars8,006
Commitjust now
LicenseGPL-3.0

Tuta is an end-to-end encrypted email service with calendar and contacts, offering open-source apps and hosted servers in Germany.

Alternative toGmail
Plunk

PlunkOpen

Open-source transactional and marketing email platform

Stars5,517
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Plunk is an open-source email platform that unifies transactional email, marketing campaigns, and automated workflows against one contact list.

Alternative toListmonkMailchimp
useSend

useSendOpen

Open-source email API with self-hosting

Stars4,727
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

useSend is an open-source email platform with a developer API, contact management, and campaign tools, available as managed cloud or self-hosted with your own AWS SES keys.

Alternative toSendGrid
Dittofeed

DittofeedOpen

Self-hostable customer engagement for automated lifecycle messaging

Stars2,975
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

Dittofeed is a self-hostable customer engagement platform that automates marketing and transactional messages across email, SMS, webhooks, and mobile push.

Alternative toMailchimpSendGridNovu
Sendune

SenduneOpen

Open-source drag-and-drop HTML email designer for AWS SES

Stars2,303
Commit3mo ago
LicenseMIT

Sendune is an open-source HTML email designer and AWS SES dashboard for contacts, campaigns, and delivery tracking through your own AWS account.

Alternative toListmonk
WR.DO

WR.DOOpen

Self-hosted short links, temporary email, and file storage on your own domain

Stars2,287
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

WR.DO is an open-source platform for short links, temporary email, file storage, and subdomain management on your own domain.

Alternative toDub
Notifuse

Notifuse

Self-hosted newsletters and transactional email

Stars2,245
Commitjust now
LicenseBUSL-1.1

Notifuse is a self-hosted newsletter and transactional email platform with a visual MJML editor, contact timelines, and a transactional API, free to run.

Alternative toListmonkMailchimp
Keila

KeilaOpen

Open-source newsletters, self-hosted or managed

Stars2,232
Commitjust now
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Keila is an open-source newsletter platform with visual campaign editing, contact segmentation, and signup forms, available self-hosted or as managed EU cloud.

Alternative toListmonkMailchimp
SendPortal

SendPortalOpen

Self-hosted email marketing with campaigns and lists

Stars2,177
Commitjust now
LicenseMIT

SendPortal is a self-hosted email marketing app for subscriber lists, campaigns, and delivery reports. It connects to providers such as Amazon SES and SendGrid, and runs standalone or as a Laravel package.

Alternative toMailchimp
UnInbox

UnInbox

Open-source team email hub with shared inboxes

Stars1,759
Commit7mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0 with commercial ee terms

UnInbox is an open-source communication hub that gives teams shared email inboxes and messaging in one place, available as hosted plans or self-hosted.

Alternative toHEY