Email and newsletters

Swipe Files alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

knadh/listmonk22,916AGPL-3.0Self-hosted, high-performance newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern web dashboard.Open on GitHub mautic/mautic10,352licence unclearOpen-source marketing automation platform for campaigns, contacts, landing pages, and email workflows.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Established audience and subscriber list (hard to replicate quickly)
Brand recognition and endorsements shown on the site
Curated history and editorial voice accumulated over years
Any proprietary community activity/threads and member relationships

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Swipe Files, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.