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MailChimp Email Blueprints vs Mailgun: 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 Mailgun? The Email Service for Developers. Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.
MailChimp Email Blueprints and Mailgun are primarily classified as "Open Source Email Templates" and "Transactional Email" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by MailChimp Email Blueprints are:
- /modular-template-patterns contains a single template built out of modular blocks of common design patterns
- /responsive-templates contains a collection of responsive / mobile-friendly email templates with various layouts
- /templates contains a collection of fixed-width email templates with various layouts
On the other hand, Mailgun provides the following key features:
- Optimized Queue
- Scheduled Delivery
- MIME Assembly
MailChimp Email Blueprints is an open source tool with 6.78K GitHub stars and 2.81K GitHub forks. Here's a link to MailChimp Email Blueprints's open source repository on GitHub.
Slack, Stripe, and reddit are some of the popular companies that use Mailgun, whereas MailChimp Email Blueprints is used by Glu IO, MyOperator- VoiceTree Technologies Pvt. Ltd., and Dev3lopers.com. Mailgun has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2659 company stacks & 3082 developers stacks; compared to MailChimp Email Blueprints, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 20 developer stacks.
Pros of MailChimp Email Blueprints
Pros of Mailgun
- Quick email integration178
- Free plan148
- Easy setup91
- Ridiculously reliable67
- Extensive apis53
- Great for parsing inbound emails30
- Nice UI25
- Developer-centric22
- Excellent customer support15
- Heroku Add-on12
- Easy to view logs of sent emails4
- Email mailbox management for developers4
- Great PHP library2
- Great documentation2
- Great customer support, love rackspace2
- Better than sendgrid not ask too many question1
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Cons of MailChimp Email Blueprints
Cons of Mailgun
- Cost2
- No HTTPS tracking links supported2
- Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun1
- Cannot create multiple api keys1
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