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Alternatives to Mailtrap

Mailgun, MailCatcher, Gmail, MailHog, and Litmus are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Mailtrap.
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What is Mailtrap and what are its top alternatives?

We offer one platform that covers all email-related needs in one place: testing, sending, and in-depth tracking to control how email infrastructure works and performs.
Mailtrap is a tool in the Transactional Email category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to Mailtrap

  • Mailgun
    Mailgun

    Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly. ...

  • MailCatcher
    MailCatcher

    It runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface. It catches all mail and stores it for display. It shows HTML, Plain Text and Source version of messages, as applicable. ...

  • Gmail
    Gmail

    An easy to use email app that saves you time and keeps your messages safe. Get your messages instantly via push notifications, read and respond online & offline, and find any message quickly. ...

  • MailHog
    MailHog

    It is an email testing tool for developers. You can configure your application to use MailHog for SMTP delivery. You can view messages in the web UI, or retrieve them with the JSON API. ...

  • Litmus
    Litmus

    Litmus is a testing service for web and marketing professionals. It allows people to cross-browser test their websites, and test their email newsletters across a range of email clients and spam filters. ...

  • Twilio SendGrid
    Twilio SendGrid

    Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's. ...

  • Amazon SES
    Amazon SES

    Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. ...

  • Mandrill
    Mandrill

    Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp. ...

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Mailgun

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The Email Service for Developers.
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PROS OF MAILGUN
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    Quick email integration
  • 147
    Free plan
  • 91
    Easy setup
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    Ridiculously reliable
  • 54
    Extensive apis
  • 29
    Great for parsing inbound emails
  • 25
    Nice UI
  • 23
    Developer-centric
  • 15
    Excellent customer support
  • 12
    Heroku Add-on
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    Easy to view logs of sent emails
  • 3
    Email mailbox management for developers
  • 2
    Great customer support, love rackspace
  • 2
    Great documentation
  • 1
    Great PHP library
  • 1
    Better than sendgrid not ask too many question
CONS OF MAILGUN
  • 2
    Cost
  • 2
    No HTTPS tracking links supported
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    Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
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    Cannot create multiple api keys

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We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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MailCatcher logo

MailCatcher

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An email testing tool
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PROS OF MAILCATCHER
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      Gmail

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      A free web-based e-mail service
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      PROS OF GMAIL
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        Its free
      • 7
        User-friendly
      • 2
        Nice UI
      • 2
        Snooze
      CONS OF GMAIL
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        Can't unsend, add open trackers or read recipients

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      MailHog logo

      MailHog

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      Web and API based SMTP testing
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          Litmus

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          Email Testing and Email Marketing Analytics
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          PROS OF LITMUS
          • 13
            Support for tons of email clients
          • 5
            Works fast
          • 4
            Great free trial offer
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            Review what the user sees
          CONS OF LITMUS
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            Twilio SendGrid

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            Email Delivery. Simplified.
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            PROS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
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              Easy setup
            • 137
              Cheap and simple
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              Easy email integration!
            • 86
              Reliable
            • 58
              Well-documented
            • 28
              Generous free allowance to get you started
            • 25
              Trackable
            • 21
              Heroku add-on
            • 15
              Azure add-on
            • 13
              Better support for third party integrations
            • 6
              Simple installation
            • 6
              Free plan
            • 4
              Helpful evangelist staff
            • 4
              Great client libraries
            • 3
              Great support
            • 3
              Better customer support than the competition
            • 3
              Great add-ons
            • 2
              Nice dashboard
            • 2
              Scalable
            • 1
              Web editor for templates
            • 1
              Cool setup
            • 1
              Within integration
            • 1
              Easy set up
            • 1
              Free
            • 1
              Great customer support
            • 1
              Google cloud messaging
            CONS OF TWILIO SENDGRID
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              Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
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              Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
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              Shares IP blacklist removal

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            Sr. Engineer at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 63.4K views

            At StackShare we were discussing how to increase the retention of our newly signed up users. We hypothesized that if we made certain changes to the emails in our on-boarding process we could increase our retention and activation of users.

            We decided to use sendwithus because it offered us the ability to A/B test our transactional emails. We also utilized the sendwithus analytics dashboard to gain real time insight into the performance of our email campaigns. Furthermore sendwithus has a Rails gem that allowed us to easily integrate the product into our application. We were also able to integrate sendwithus with our SendGrid account. #ABTestingAnalytics #TransactionalEmail

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            Julien DeFrance
            Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 527K views

            Nexmo vs Twilio ?

            Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

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            Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

            Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

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            Amazon SES

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            Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
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            PROS OF AMAZON SES
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              Reliable
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              Cheap
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              Integrates with other aws services
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              Easy setup
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              Trackable
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              Easy rails setup
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              I would like to know how I can implement a transactional email, or if it is possible to do so, like Mailchimp, using Amazon SES. I want to have the flexibility of creating emails like MailChimp, with a bulk email sending capability. Is it as simple with AWS SES as it is with MailChimp? If so, then how can I implement that for my own product? Thanks!

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              Mandrill

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              Send transactional, triggered, and personalized email, then track results.
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                Simple installation
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                Great api
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                Generous free allowance to get you started
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                Cheap and simple
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                Trackable
              • 59
                Well-documented
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                Doesn't go to spam
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                Great for mailchimp users
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                Webhooks
              • 28
                Client libraries
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                Heroku Add-on
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                Easy to use
              • 5
                Meaningful Metrics
              • 5
                Free
              • 3
                Advanced Tagging and Reports
              • 3
                Mobile Access
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                Status Update
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                Very chimp-like
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                Great Documentation
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                love this service
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                Free Plan
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                Webhooks for bounce mail
              CONS OF MANDRILL
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                Really hard to pull analytics out via api

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              Need help to somehow reduce the number of my emails going into junk mail, can someone help?

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