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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Notifuse is a self-hosted newsletter and transactional email platform with a visual MJML editor, contact timelines, and a transactional API, free to run.
Keila is an open-source newsletter platform with visual campaign editing, contact segmentation, and signup forms, available self-hosted or as managed EU cloud.
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.
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.