Ghost
98 · HealthyPublishing platform for blogs and newsletters, with paid memberships, subscriptions and email delivery built in.
Open source Email marketing
Mautic
87 · HealthyMarketing automation platform with campaigns, segments, landing pages and lead scoring.
listmonk
83 · HealthyHigh-performance newsletter and mailing-list manager shipped as a single binary.
useSend
74 · StableEmail sending service with an API, SMTP, domain management and campaigns, running on Amazon SES.
Posta
71 · StableEmail delivery service that lets your apps send through an HTTP API, with templates, delivery tracking and analytics.
Plunk
70 · StableEmail platform for SaaS products that combines transactional email, campaigns and automations on top of Amazon SES.
Postal
65 · StableMail delivery platform for sending transactional email from your own servers.
Keila
64 · StableNewsletter tool with a block editor, sign-up forms and campaign stats.
Dittofeed
61 · StableCustomer engagement platform for automated email, SMS and push journeys.
BillionMail
56 · CautionSelf-hosted mail server and newsletter platform for campaigns, templates and subscriber lists.
Mailtrain
15 · At riskSelf-hosted newsletter app built on Node.js.
Source-available and unverified licenses
The code for these is public, but the license is not an OSI open source license, or we have not verified it yet. Check the license notes on each project before relying on it.
Notifuse
68 · StableNewsletter, email marketing and transactional email platform with a visual MJML editor and several sending providers.
Keila
Newsletter tool with a block editor, sign-up forms and campaign stats.
Alternative to
Will it still be around?
Stable
Score 64/100
Can a business use it freely?
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · open source (copyleft)
Flat Rate Deploy
At 500 contacts, Mailchimp Standard costs about $20 a month. Keila on OpenTools costs $15 a month, setup included, so you save $5 a month, about $180 over three years.
Monthly cost
- Keila on OpenTools
- $15
- Mailchimp
$20
You save each month
$5/mo
25% less than today
Saving from month one
You save
- Over 3 years
- $180
- In year one
- $60
List price checked 8 Oct 2026 · Source · Disclaimer
Health score: 64/100
Stable · activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness, from GitHub
Score v2 · How it works
Activity
45% weight100/100
- Last commit 8 days ago (100/100).
- 387 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 9 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor
30% weight4/100
- Top contributor wrote 97% of the last 100 commits (past 12 months).
- 3 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness
25% weight72/100
- 84% of all issues are closed (68 open, 354 closed) (90/100).
- 18 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (60/100).
License
Free, share hosted changes
AGPL-3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
What you need to do
Free for any use, commercial included. If you change the code and people outside your company use it over the network, you must publish your changes under the same license.
For Keila
AGPL-3.0, except extra/, which holds code for running Keila Cloud and grants no rights to use it. Self-hosted builds leave it out.
AGPL-3.0 + unlicensed extra/ directory (Keila Cloud) · Open source (copyleft). OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
License text checked 2026-10-09 · Read it
GitHub activity
- Stars
- 2.2k
- Forks
- 175
- Commits, 12 mo
- 387
- last 8 days ago
- Releases, 12 mo
- 9
- last 34 days ago
- Contributors
- 34
- 3 in last 100 commits
- Open issues
- 68
- 354 closed
Snapshot from 2026-10-08 · Funding: github
Top contributors
Points for pull requests merged into Keila and reviews of them since 10 October 2025. Building something another user asked for earns more. 14 people have points on Keila in all.
