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MailChimp Email Blueprints vs Maildown: What are the differences?
What is MailChimp Email Blueprints? HTML Email Layouts by MailChimp. Email Blueprints is a collection of HTML email templates that can serve as a solid foundation and starting point for the design of emails. They include template language elements that make them customizable when imported into a MailChimp account, as well as merge tags that will generate dynamic content when sent through MailChimp. Not a MailChimp user? You can sign up free or simply strip out merge tags and use these templates to send through any system.
What is Maildown? A super simple CLI for sending emails. A command line interface that lets you send emails using Amazon AWS SES with a minimum of fuss. It supports Markdown syntax out of the box, meaning that you can just send Markdown files as emails with no additional effort.
MailChimp Email Blueprints and Maildown can be primarily classified as "Open Source Email Templates" tools.
MailChimp Email Blueprints and Maildown are both open source tools. It seems that MailChimp Email Blueprints with 6.57K GitHub stars and 2.75K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Maildown with 559 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
