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  5. Ghost vs MailChimp vs Mailtrap

Ghost vs MailChimp vs Mailtrap

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Overview

Mailchimp
Mailchimp
Stacks22.9K
Followers12.7K
Votes1.2K
Mailtrap
Mailtrap
Stacks130
Followers127
Votes10
Ghost
Ghost
Stacks518
Followers507
Votes219
GitHub Stars51.1K
Forks11.1K

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Advice on Mailchimp, Mailtrap, Ghost

Xander
Xander

Founder at Rate My Meeting

Mar 30, 2020

Decided

So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.

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Detailed Comparison

Mailchimp
Mailchimp
Mailtrap
Mailtrap
Ghost
Ghost

MailChimp helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform.

We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

Facebook Integration;AutoConnect Templates;Full Featured API;Subscriber Analytics;MailChimp Mobile;Email Templates;Template Language;Drag-and-Drop Editor;Multi-user Accounts;Autoresponders;Co-branding;Custom Forms;Data Security and Privacy;Email Delivery;Groups;Image and File Hosting;List Management;Segmentation;Service and Support;Subscriber Preferences;Delivery Doctor;Geolocation;Inbox Inspector;Merge Tags;RSS-to-email;Campaign Archives;Comments;Social Sharing;Reports Overview;Social Stats;A/B Split Testing;List Dashboard
Automated Testing; HTML/CSS Check; Spam Analysis; Deliverability Alerts; Email Categories; Knowledge Base; Support System; HTML/RAW Preview; Tracking Settings; Statistics Overview; Suppression List; Email Logs; Webhooks; Inboxes; Projects
An intuitive, minimal editor; Ultra-fast content management; All SEO features built-in natively; Native desktop & mobile apps; Publish once, distribute everywhere; Headless CMS with Node.js REST APIs; Over 19x faster than WordPress; Secure & independently audited; Custom theme or any JAMstack front-end
Statistics
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
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GitHub Stars
51.1K
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
-
GitHub Forks
11.1K
Stacks
22.9K
Stacks
130
Stacks
518
Followers
12.7K
Followers
127
Followers
507
Votes
1.2K
Votes
10
Votes
219
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 259
    Smooth setup & ui
  • 248
    Mailing list
  • 148
    Robust e-mail creation
  • 120
    Integrates with a lot of external services
  • 109
    Custom templates
Cons
  • 2
    Super expensive
  • 1
    Poor API
  • 1
    Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent
Pros
  • 10
    Debug emails in development and production
Pros
  • 45
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Fast
  • 29
    Quick/simple post styling
  • 20
    Live Post Preview
  • 20
    Open source
Integrations
Formstack
Formstack
Zendesk
Zendesk
Squarespace
Squarespace
Insightly
Insightly
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction
Hipmob
Hipmob
Recurly
Recurly
ClickTale
ClickTale
HipChat
HipChat
Shopify
Shopify
Heroku
Heroku
No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Mailchimp, Mailtrap, Ghost?

WordPress

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

Mandrill

Mandrill

Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Mailgun

Mailgun

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

Strapi

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Wagtail

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

Twill

Twill

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

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