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Email & Messaging Infrastructure

Sending, receiving, and orchestrating transactional and notification messages.

6 products, 2 Projects: 1 open source, 0 source-available, 1 unresolved-license

Mailchimp

Mailchimp

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.

Twilio

Twilio

APIs for SMS, voice, and verification at scale

CompanyTwilio
Since2008
PricingPaid

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.

Gmail

Gmail

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.

SendGrid

SendGrid

Transactional and marketing email delivery

CompanyTwilio
Since2009
PricingFreemium

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.

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Novu

Novu

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.

Alternative totwiliomailchimp
Listmonk

ListmonkOpen

Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

Stars18.4K
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

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.

Alternative tomailchimp