ActiveCampaign: half of it.
What you hire it for: Write the issue, so ActiveCampaign has something to send.
ActiveCampaign, list price
$15/mo
With Kryx
$15/mo
Sending email properly is deliverability work — reputation, bounces, one-click unsubscribe, the law — and it is worth paying for. Keep ActiveCampaign. What an agent replaces is the blank page every week, which is the reason most newsletters quietly stop.
What the agent does
- Drafts the issue from sources you name
- Keeps a consistent format week to week
- Runs on the day you actually send
What it does not
- Deliver email
- Hold your subscriber list or handle unsubscribes
Before you pay anyone
The free way to do ActiveCampaign’s job
These are real, and we would rather you heard it here. Each one is free in money and costs something else — the catch is written next to it.
- ListmonkOpen source
Handles lists and sending; you bring an SMTP provider and own the deliverability.
None of these do the work. They are somewhere to put it. Your posting queue was not empty because the scheduler cost money, and a free scheduler you have to host yourself will be just as empty on Monday. Our agent is the part that fills it — and it works the same whether the thing underneath is free or paid.
The agent that does it
Newsletter Agent
Writes your weekly newsletter from what actually happened that week.
Things people ask it
- “Write this week's issue”
- “Draft a newsletter about our new pricing”
- “What should I write about this week?”
No card. It turns on immediately, and you only pay if you want to keep it past the first hour.