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MailChimp vs Mailtrain: What are the differences?
What is MailChimp? Easy email newsletters. 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.
What is Mailtrain? Self-hosted open-source Mailchimp clone. Mailtrain is a self hosted newsletter application built on Node.js (v5+) and MySQL (v5.5+ or MariaDB).
MailChimp and Mailtrain can be primarily classified as "Email Marketing" tools.
Mailtrain is an open source tool with 3.98K GitHub stars and 430 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mailtrain's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Mailtrain
Pros of Mailchimp
- Smooth setup & ui259
- Mailing list248
- Robust e-mail creation149
- Integrates with a lot of external services120
- Custom templates109
- Free tier60
- Great api49
- Great UI42
- A/B Testing Subject Lines33
- Broad feature set30
- Subscriber Analytics11
- Great interface. The standard for email marketing9
- Great documentation8
- Mandrill integration8
- Segmentation7
- Best deliverability; helps you be the good guy6
- Facebook Integration5
- Autoresponders5
- RSS-to-email3
- Co-branding3
- Customization3
- Embedded signup forms3
- Automation2
- Great logo1
- Groups1
- Landing pages0
Pros of Mailtrain
- Open Source5
- Free4
- Simple to setup and use.3
- Self-hosted3
- Nodejs, scales well1
- Simple to setup and get started1
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Cons of Mailchimp
Cons of Mailtrain
Cons of Mailchimp
- Super expensive2
- Poor API1
- Charged based on subscribers as opposed to emails sent1
Cons of Mailtrain
- Limited features3
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What is Mailchimp?
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.
What is Mailtrain?
Mailtrain is a self hosted newsletter application built on Node.js (v5+) and MySQL (v5.5+ or MariaDB).
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What are some alternatives to Mailchimp and Mailtrain?
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ActiveCampaign
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Drip
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Campaign Monitor
Campaign Monitor makes it easy to attract new subscribers, send them beautiful email newsletters and see stunning reports on the results.
Mandrill
Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp.