[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":641},["ShallowReactive",2],{"comparison-index":3,"i-lucide:arrow-right":634,"i-lucide:arrow-up-right":639},[4,160,276,399,509],{"id":5,"title":6,"bestFor":7,"body":14,"comparison":103,"competitor":124,"description":125,"extension":126,"faq":127,"heading":140,"meta":141,"navigation":142,"path":143,"reviewedAt":144,"seo":145,"sources":146,"stem":156,"summary":157,"verdict":158,"__hash__":159},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Fbeefree.md","Beefree alternative: MySigMail Card vs RGE Studio and Beefree SDK",[8,11],{"product":9,"useCase":10},"Card","You want a free, inspectable editor on your own infrastructure — for your team or embedded in your product — and can supply storage and delivery integrations yourself.",{"product":12,"useCase":13},"RGE Studio \u002F Beefree SDK","You need a maintained cloud workspace for a multi-person email team, or a commercially supported SDK and its plan-based capabilities fit your budget.",{"type":15,"value":16,"toc":94},"minimark",[17,22,35,38,42,45,48,52,59,62,66,73,76,80,83],[18,19,21],"h2",{"id":20},"first-the-name-beefree-is-now-rge-studio","First, the name: Beefree is now RGE Studio",[23,24,25,26,30,31,34],"p",{},"If you searched for a \"Beefree alternative\", the product map changed under you in May 2026: Beefree's web builder moved into the Really Good Emails platform as ",[27,28,29],"strong",{},"RGE Studio",". Beefree remains the company, and ",[27,32,33],{},"Beefree SDK"," remains its separately priced embeddable editor.",[23,36,37],{},"That rebrand is worth pausing on, because it illustrates the structural trade of every hosted design tool: the vendor can rename, repackage or reprice the product your workflow depends on, and your only input is reading the announcement. Card takes the opposite trade. It is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) application you deploy yourself — nobody can move, rebrand or sunset the editor running on your own infrastructure.",[18,39,41],{"id":40},"what-card-gives-you","What Card gives you",[23,43,44],{},"Card is a free visual email editor built with Vue and TypeScript, developed in the open since 2022. It ships 78 drag-and-drop blocks on a block → row → cell → atom document model, exports responsive HTML for any sending platform, and round-trips editable JSON so designs stay revisable. There is no account and no cloud: templates live in your browser's local storage, and durable backup is a JSON export you store wherever you like.",[23,46,47],{},"The same application covers both jobs Beefree splits into two products. Deployed at a company URL, it is your team's editor. Integrated into your own product, it is your embedded builder — under AGPL-3.0 when your use complies with that licence, or under a commercial licence for closed-source embedding.",[18,49,51],{"id":50},"the-honest-comparison-with-rge-studio","The honest comparison with RGE Studio",[23,53,54,55,58],{},"RGE Studio is a maintained hosted workspace: shared projects, brand controls, approvals, a large template library and integrations. If your bottleneck is many contributors working against deadlines, that layer has real value — and Card does not provide it. What Card removes is the meter attached to it. RGE Studio's free plan caps you at 10 designs, ",[27,56,57],{},"6 exports per month"," and a two-version history; unlimited usage starts at $30 per month per plan tier, with business features at $160.",[23,60,61],{},"Card has no export counter, no design cap and no version paywall. The cost you take on instead is operational: hosting a static app, arranging storage for exported JSON, and wiring your own handoff into the sending platform.",[18,63,65],{"id":64},"the-honest-comparison-with-beefree-sdk","The honest comparison with Beefree SDK",[23,67,68,69,72],{},"For product teams, the arithmetic is starker. Beefree SDK starts at ",[27,70,71],{},"$400 per month"," and scales to $3,000; hosting the editor inside your own cloud is reserved for the $6,000-per-month Enterprise tier. In exchange you get a supported, documented SDK with vendor-managed infrastructure — a real benefit if editor engineering is a distraction you are paying to avoid.",[23,74,75],{},"Embedding Card costs licence compliance instead of subscription fees: the source is open, self-hosting is the default rather than the top tier, and your engineers own upgrades and the bridge into your product's storage and auth. Both editors preserve editable design data, but the formats are editor-specific — whichever you pick, test a full load-edit-save-reopen-export cycle before committing.",[18,77,79],{"id":78},"who-should-switch-and-who-shouldnt","Who should switch — and who shouldn't",[23,81,82],{},"Switch to Card if you are paying (or about to pay) for what is fundamentally an editor, if export caps and cloud storage of your designs chafe, or if SDK pricing puts vendor embedding out of reach. Stay with RGE Studio if a distributed email team genuinely runs on its workspace, and evaluate Beefree SDK if vendor support is a requirement your budget covers.",[23,84,85,86,93],{},"Then verify the claim that matters: open the ",[87,88,92],"a",{"href":89,"rel":90},"https:\u002F\u002Fcard.mysigmail.com\u002Fapp",[91],"nofollow","Card editor"," — no signup — rebuild a production email, export HTML and JSON, and see whether the free, self-hosted option already does the job.",{"title":95,"searchDepth":96,"depth":96,"links":97},"",2,[98,99,100,101,102],{"id":20,"depth":96,"text":21},{"id":40,"depth":96,"text":41},{"id":50,"depth":96,"text":51},{"id":64,"depth":96,"text":65},{"id":78,"depth":96,"text":79},[104,108,112,116,120],{"criterion":105,"card":106,"competitor":107},"Price","Free and open source (AGPL-3.0); optional commercial licence for closed-source embedding","RGE Studio: free plan, then $30–$160\u002Fmo; Beefree SDK: from $400\u002Fmo (as of Aug 3, 2026)",{"criterion":109,"card":110,"competitor":111},"Export limits","Unlimited exports of responsive HTML and editable JSON","RGE Studio free plan: 6 exports\u002Fmo, 10 designs, 2-version history",{"criterion":113,"card":114,"competitor":115},"Self-hosting","Yes — a static Vue + TypeScript app on your infrastructure, at no cost","Only Beefree SDK Enterprise ($6,000\u002Fmo) offers self-hosting in your own cloud",{"criterion":117,"card":118,"competitor":119},"Account and data","No account; templates stay in your browser's local storage and your own backups","Cloud account required; designs are stored in the RGE Studio \u002F Beefree cloud",{"criterion":121,"card":122,"competitor":123},"Team workflow","No built-in cloud workspace — you bring your own review process","RGE Studio offers collaboration, approvals and templates, gated by plan","Beefree","Searching for a Beefree alternative? The builder is now RGE Studio, and the SDK starts at $400\u002Fmo. Card is a free open-source email editor you can self-host and embed.","md",[128,131,134,137],{"question":129,"answer":130},"Is Beefree the same as RGE Studio?","The web builder formerly called Beefree became RGE Studio in May 2026 and lives at reallygoodemails.com. Beefree remains the company name, and Beefree SDK is still its separate embeddable editor product.",{"question":132,"answer":133},"Is Card really free when Beefree SDK starts at $400\u002Fmo?","Yes. Card is open source under AGPL-3.0 — using and self-hosting it costs nothing. A paid commercial licence is only needed to embed Card in a closed-source product.",{"question":135,"answer":136},"Can I embed Card in my own SaaS?","Yes. Self-hosting is Card's default deployment, not an enterprise tier. Use it under AGPL-3.0 when your product complies with the licence, or take the commercial licence for closed-source embedding.",{"question":138,"answer":139},"Can I import RGE Studio or Beefree designs into Card?","No — design formats are editor-specific in both directions. Plan a one-time rebuild of your active templates and keep Card's editable JSON as the source going forward.","The open-source Beefree alternative",{},true,"\u002Fcompare\u002Fbeefree","2026-08-03",{"title":6,"description":125},[147,150,153],{"label":148,"url":149},"Beefree announcement: Beefree is now RGE Studio","https:\u002F\u002Fbeefree.io\u002Fblog\u002Fbeefree-to-rge-studio",{"label":151,"url":152},"RGE Studio pricing","https:\u002F\u002Freallygoodemails.com\u002Fpricing",{"label":154,"url":155},"Beefree SDK pricing plans","https:\u002F\u002Fdevelopers.beefree.io\u002Fpricing-plans","compare\u002Fbeefree","Card is a free, open-source, self-hosted email editor with unlimited exports and no account. The product formerly called Beefree is now RGE Studio, a hosted workspace from $30\u002Fmo; Beefree SDK is the embeddable product from $400\u002Fmo.","Pick Card to own a free editor runtime with no export caps. Pick RGE Studio when a maintained cloud workspace is worth the subscription, or Beefree SDK when you want a vendor-supported embed and can carry its pricing.","t7ub5RpYgc9g6ewk5BYnas7QmrwkfKN8DR90GedXenA",{"id":161,"title":162,"bestFor":163,"body":169,"comparison":224,"competitor":167,"description":244,"extension":126,"faq":245,"heading":258,"meta":259,"navigation":142,"path":260,"reviewedAt":144,"seo":261,"sources":262,"stem":272,"summary":273,"verdict":274,"__hash__":275},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Fmjml.md","MJML alternative: a visual open-source email editor",[164,166],{"product":9,"useCase":165},"Non-developers need to assemble and revise emails themselves, while developers still get responsive HTML and a structured, re-editable artifact.",{"product":167,"useCase":168},"MJML","Developers own authoring end to end, templates are reviewed as text in pull requests, and compilation is part of an existing build pipeline.",{"type":15,"value":170,"toc":218},[171,175,178,181,183,186,189,193,201,204,208,211],[18,172,174],{"id":173},"why-people-look-for-an-mjml-alternative","Why people look for an MJML alternative",[23,176,177],{},"Usually not because MJML is bad — it isn't. The compiler is mature, MIT-licensed, actively maintained (v5.4.0 shipped in June 2026) and used by tens of thousands of projects. People go looking for an alternative because of who has to use it: MJML is markup. Every button, every spacing tweak, every \"can we swap the hero image?\" is a code change, which makes a developer the gatekeeper of every email.",[23,179,180],{},"MJML's ecosystem never solved this officially. The MJML desktop app has not seen a release since February 2022, and the official online editor is a code playground, not a builder. The visual layer was left to third parties — which is exactly the gap Card fills.",[18,182,41],{"id":40},[23,184,185],{},"Card is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) visual email editor, developed in the open since 2022. A marketer or designer assembles a message from 78 drag-and-drop blocks on a canvas, and the output is the same thing MJML ultimately produces: responsive, email-client-safe HTML. Alongside it, Card exports editable JSON, so a design can be reopened and revised without anyone reading a line of markup.",[23,187,188],{},"Like MJML, Card is honest open source rather than a freemium SaaS: no account, no export limits, no cloud. Templates live in the author's browser and in whatever storage you export the JSON to, and the editor itself is a static Vue + TypeScript app you can serve from your own infrastructure — next to your docs, behind your VPN, wherever policy wants it.",[18,190,192],{"id":191},"what-mjml-still-does-better","What MJML still does better",[23,194,195,196,200],{},"For developer-owned templates, text wins. A ",[197,198,199],"code",{},".mjml"," file diffs cleanly in a pull request, lives in git beside the application, and can be generated from data and components in CI. Card's JSON is structured but editor-oriented — you can version it, but nobody reviews it line by line. If your transactional emails are effectively code, MJML remains the right tool, and this page will not talk you out of it.",[23,202,203],{},"Both routes end at the same door: test the compiled or exported HTML against real email clients, because no tool exempts you from Outlook.",[18,205,207],{"id":206},"or-use-both-the-boundary-is-ownership-not-tooling","Or use both — the boundary is ownership, not tooling",[23,209,210],{},"This is the rare comparison where \"both\" is a first-class answer. Plenty of teams keep transactional templates in MJML under developer control, while the campaign side uses Card so marketing can ship a newsletter without opening a ticket. The split works when ownership is explicit and both outputs pass through the same rendering and compliance checks.",[23,212,213,214,217],{},"If the pain that brought you here is \"developers are the bottleneck for every email\", the fix takes minutes to evaluate: open the ",[87,215,92],{"href":89,"rel":216},[91]," — no signup — hand it to the person who keeps filing those tickets, and see whether they can rebuild last week's email without you.",{"title":95,"searchDepth":96,"depth":96,"links":219},[220,221,222,223],{"id":173,"depth":96,"text":174},{"id":40,"depth":96,"text":41},{"id":191,"depth":96,"text":192},{"id":206,"depth":96,"text":207},[225,228,232,236,240],{"criterion":226,"card":106,"competitor":227},"Price and licence","Free and open source (MIT)",{"criterion":229,"card":230,"competitor":231},"Primary interface","Drag-and-drop visual editor with 78 blocks — no markup to learn","MJML markup written in code, compiled to responsive HTML",{"criterion":233,"card":234,"competitor":235},"Visual tooling","The visual editor is the product, actively maintained","No official visual builder; the MJML desktop app has been unmaintained since Feb 2022",{"criterion":237,"card":238,"competitor":239},"Who can author","Marketers, designers and developers alike","Developers, or teams generating templates from code",{"criterion":241,"card":242,"competitor":243},"Editable source","Card JSON (block → row → cell → atom), exported and re-imported through the editor","Text-based .mjml files, ideal for git history and code review","Looking for an MJML alternative with a visual editor? Card is a free open-source drag-and-drop email builder — use it instead of MJML, or beside it for non-developers.",[246,249,252,255],{"question":247,"answer":248},"Is Card a replacement for MJML?","For visual authoring, yes; for developer-owned template pipelines, not necessarily. Many teams run both — MJML for transactional templates in git, Card for campaign emails that marketers assemble themselves.",{"question":250,"answer":251},"Does Card export MJML markup?","No. Card exports responsive HTML ready for any sending platform, plus its own editable JSON for reopening and revising designs in the editor.",{"question":253,"answer":254},"Is Card open source like MJML?","Yes — Card is AGPL-3.0 with the source on GitHub, while MJML is MIT. AGPL is copyleft: free to use and self-host, with a commercial licence available for closed-source embedding.",{"question":256,"answer":257},"Do marketers need to learn any markup to use Card?","No. Emails are assembled from 78 drag-and-drop blocks in the browser; no MJML, HTML or CSS knowledge is required.","The visual MJML alternative",{},"\u002Fcompare\u002Fmjml",{"title":162,"description":244},[263,266,269],{"label":264,"url":265},"MJML GitHub repository","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmjmlio\u002Fmjml",{"label":267,"url":268},"MJML documentation","https:\u002F\u002Fdocumentation.mjml.io\u002F",{"label":270,"url":271},"MJML desktop app repository (last release Feb 2022)","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmjmlio\u002Fmjml-app","compare\u002Fmjml","MJML is an excellent MIT-licensed markup language for developers — but it has no maintained official visual editor. Card is a free, open-source drag-and-drop builder that gives non-developers the canvas MJML never shipped.","Pick Card when the people building emails should not have to write markup. Keep MJML when templates belong in source control and developers own every change. Many teams honestly need both.","1ggtup4gEm3qiDQjoDMjUJd7ppeNbWyE2OJ2e9w6m6s",{"id":277,"title":278,"bestFor":279,"body":285,"comparison":346,"competitor":283,"description":364,"extension":126,"faq":365,"heading":378,"meta":379,"navigation":142,"path":380,"reviewedAt":144,"seo":381,"sources":382,"stem":395,"summary":396,"verdict":397,"__hash__":398},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Fdesignmodo-postcards.md","Designmodo Postcards alternative: free open-source email builder",[280,282],{"product":9,"useCase":281},"You want a free visual builder you can inspect and host, with no limits or conditions on what you export — and you can manage storage and the handoff to your ESP.",{"product":283,"useCase":284},"Postcards","A marketing or design team wants a maintained online workspace with collaboration, AI assistance and one-click export integrations, and the subscription fits the budget.",{"type":15,"value":286,"toc":340},[287,291,302,305,309,312,315,318,322,325,328,330,333],[18,288,290],{"id":289},"why-people-look-for-a-postcards-alternative","Why people look for a Postcards alternative",[23,292,293,294,297,298,301],{},"Postcards is one of the best-looking hosted email builders — no point pretending otherwise. The friction is in the terms around it. On the free plan you get ",[27,295,296],{},"5 exports per month",", zero AI credits, no email-client preview, and templates licensed for ",[27,299,300],{},"personal, non-commercial use only",", with a Designmodo badge that the Terms explicitly forbid removing or hiding. Commercial use of gallery templates requires a paid plan ($16–$24 per month), and even then templates may not be resold, redistributed or built into other products.",[23,303,304],{},"There is also no way to run Postcards yourself: the FAQ states plainly that self-hosting is not supported. The builder lives in Designmodo's cloud, needs an internet connection, and your projects live inside its service.",[18,306,308],{"id":307},"what-card-gives-you-instead","What Card gives you instead",[23,310,311],{},"Card is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) email builder developed in the open since 2022. You compose emails from 78 drag-and-drop blocks — the same modular authoring model Postcards uses — and export as much as you like: responsive HTML for your sending platform, plus editable JSON so a design can be reopened and revised months later.",[23,313,314],{},"What you export is yours. There is no badge, no commercial-use tier and no template licence between you and your own newsletter — client work included. There is also no account: templates are stored in your browser's local storage, so your designs exist on your machine and in whatever backups you make of the exported JSON, not in a vendor's project list.",[23,316,317],{},"And because Card is a static Vue + TypeScript application, you can deploy it under your own domain. If policy says the editing workflow stays on your infrastructure, Card is the version of this product category that can actually comply.",[18,319,321],{"id":320},"what-postcards-still-does-better","What Postcards still does better",[23,323,324],{},"The subscription buys the layer around the canvas. Postcards offers real-time collaboration with comments and version history, AI-assisted generation and translation on paid plans, email-client previews, and one-click export into dozens of sending platforms. Card leaves all of that to you: no cloud workspace, no AI authoring, and the handoff to your ESP is a manual export with an owner and a QA step.",[23,326,327],{},"For a ten-person campaign team on deadlines, that layer can be worth far more than $24 a month. For a developer, a solo operator or a small team with its own review habits, it is often paying rent on features a file share and a checklist already cover.",[18,329,79],{"id":78},[23,331,332],{},"Switch to Card if the export caps bite, the badge and non-commercial terms constrain your work, or you need the editor on your own infrastructure with your data under your control. Stay on Postcards if its collaboration, AI tooling and integrations are what your team actually runs on.",[23,334,335,336,339],{},"The test costs nothing on either side — and on Card's side it doesn't even cost a signup. Open the ",[87,337,92],{"href":89,"rel":338},[91],", rebuild a real campaign with your assets and footer, export it, and send it through your ESP. Unlimited exports mean you can run that experiment as many times as it takes to be sure.",{"title":95,"searchDepth":96,"depth":96,"links":341},[342,343,344,345],{"id":289,"depth":96,"text":290},{"id":307,"depth":96,"text":308},{"id":320,"depth":96,"text":321},{"id":78,"depth":96,"text":79},[347,349,351,355,358,360],{"criterion":105,"card":106,"competitor":348},"Free plan, then Plus $16\u002Fmo or Pro $24\u002Fmo (as of Aug 3, 2026)",{"criterion":109,"card":110,"competitor":350},"5 exports\u002Fmo on the free plan; 20\u002Fmo on Plus; unlimited only on Pro",{"criterion":352,"card":353,"competitor":354},"Use of your emails","No restrictions and no badge — the HTML you export is yours","Free-plan templates are personal, non-commercial only, with a mandatory Designmodo badge; resale and redistribution are prohibited on all plans",{"criterion":113,"card":356,"competitor":357},"Yes — a static Vue + TypeScript app on your infrastructure","Not supported; browser-based and requires an internet connection",{"criterion":117,"card":118,"competitor":359},"Hosted account; projects live in the Postcards service",{"criterion":361,"card":362,"competitor":363},"Collaboration and AI","No built-in cloud workspace or AI authoring","Real-time collaboration; AI features on paid plans (0 AI credits on the free plan)","Need a Postcards alternative without export caps, a mandatory badge or non-commercial template limits? Card is a free open-source email editor you can self-host.",[366,369,372,375],{"question":367,"answer":368},"Can I use emails built in Card commercially?","Yes, without restrictions. The HTML you export is yours — no badge, no non-commercial clause, no paid tier for client work. AGPL-3.0 applies to Card's source code, not to the emails you create with it.",{"question":370,"answer":371},"Can I self-host Postcards?","No — Designmodo's FAQ states self-hosting is not supported; Postcards runs only in its cloud. Card is a static open-source app you deploy on your own infrastructure.",{"question":373,"answer":374},"Does Card limit how many emails I can export?","No. Exports of both HTML and editable JSON are unlimited — there is no counter to upgrade away, unlike the 5 exports per month on Postcards' free plan.",{"question":376,"answer":377},"Does Card have AI features or real-time collaboration?","No. Card is deliberately a focused editor: no AI authoring and no cloud workspace. If those are must-haves for your team, Postcards' paid plans are the honest recommendation.","The open-source Postcards alternative",{},"\u002Fcompare\u002Fdesignmodo-postcards",{"title":278,"description":364},[383,386,389,392],{"label":384,"url":385},"Postcards pricing","https:\u002F\u002Fdesignmodo.com\u002Fpostcards\u002Fpricing\u002F",{"label":387,"url":388},"Postcards FAQ","https:\u002F\u002Fdesignmodo.com\u002Fpostcards\u002Ffaq\u002F",{"label":390,"url":391},"Postcards integrations","https:\u002F\u002Fdesignmodo.com\u002Fpostcards\u002Fintegrations\u002F",{"label":393,"url":394},"Postcards Terms and Conditions","https:\u002F\u002Fdesignmodo.com\u002Fterms-and-conditions\u002F","compare\u002Fdesignmodo-postcards","Card is a free, open-source email builder: unlimited exports, no account, no branding on your emails, and it runs on your own infrastructure. Postcards is a polished hosted tool whose free plan caps exports at 5 per month and restricts templates to non-commercial use.","Pick Card for a free, self-hosted builder with unlimited, unrestricted exports. Pick Postcards when a maintained online workspace with AI features and ESP integrations is worth $16–$24 a month.","Gb-qfk6uLIXiwe4SIiR_W-_OjInGOB6axhbzk4pLtds",{"id":400,"title":401,"bestFor":402,"body":408,"comparison":463,"competitor":406,"description":477,"extension":126,"faq":478,"heading":491,"meta":492,"navigation":142,"path":493,"reviewedAt":144,"seo":494,"sources":495,"stem":505,"summary":506,"verdict":507,"__hash__":508},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Fstripo.md","Stripo alternative: MySigMail Card — free, open-source, self-hosted",[403,405],{"product":9,"useCase":404},"You want a capable visual editor that is free, inspectable and under your control — and you can handle storage and the handoff to your sending platform yourself.",{"product":406,"useCase":407},"Stripo","Several people produce campaigns together and one-click export into your ESP removes real work; the subscription is the price of that workflow.",{"type":15,"value":409,"toc":457},[410,414,421,424,426,429,432,435,439,442,445,447,450],[18,411,413],{"id":412},"why-people-look-for-a-stripo-alternative","Why people look for a Stripo alternative",[23,415,416,417,420],{},"Stripo is a solid cloud editor, but its model has hard edges you only meet after adopting it. The free plan allows ",[27,418,419],{},"4 template exports per month"," and 10 stored emails; going over on paid tiers costs $0.10–$0.50 per extra export. Everything requires an account, and every template you design is stored in Stripo's cloud rather than on anything you control. If you outgrow the free tier, plans run from $20 to $125 per month, with the embedded Plugin priced separately from $100 per month.",[23,422,423],{},"None of this is hidden — it is standard SaaS economics. But if what you actually need is an editor, not a platform, you are paying monthly for infrastructure you could own.",[18,425,308],{"id":307},[23,427,428],{},"Card is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) visual email editor built with Vue and TypeScript. You can open it in the browser with no signup, assemble an email from 78 drag-and-drop blocks, and export as often as you like — responsive HTML for your sending platform, plus editable JSON so the design can be reopened and revised later.",[23,430,431],{},"Because Card is a static application, you can also deploy it on your own domain and keep the entire editing workflow inside your infrastructure. Templates are stored in the browser's local storage by default: your designs never touch anyone's cloud, because there is no cloud behind the editor. That same property means backup is your job — export the JSON and keep it wherever your team keeps files that matter.",[23,433,434],{},"The code is public and has been developed in the open since 2022, so \"trust us\" can be replaced with reading the source.",[18,436,438],{"id":437},"what-stripo-still-does-better","What Stripo still does better",[23,440,441],{},"To be fair to it: Stripo's real advantage is everything around the canvas. It pushes finished emails directly into 90+ sending platforms, offers co-editing and approvals on paid plans, and bundles AI-assisted authoring. Card does none of that — it exports HTML and JSON, and the handoff to your ESP is a manual step you own.",[23,443,444],{},"If a distributed marketing team ships several campaigns a week and the bottleneck is review and delivery rather than editing, Stripo's subscription can be money well spent. If you are embedding an editor into your own product, compare Card's commercial licence with the Stripo Plugin (from $100\u002Fmo) — not with the regular cloud plans.",[18,446,79],{"id":78},[23,448,449],{},"Switch to Card if you hit Stripo's export caps, don't want template data in a vendor's cloud, need the editor on your own infrastructure, or simply refuse to rent a tool you could own for free. Stay on Stripo if its integrations and team workflow are load-bearing for your process — replacing them with in-house process has a cost too.",[23,451,452,453,456],{},"The fastest way to decide is not another comparison page. Open the ",[87,454,92],{"href":89,"rel":455},[91]," — no account, nothing to install — rebuild your latest campaign, and export it. If the result works in your sending platform, you have just replaced a subscription with a free tool you control.",{"title":95,"searchDepth":96,"depth":96,"links":458},[459,460,461,462],{"id":412,"depth":96,"text":413},{"id":307,"depth":96,"text":308},{"id":437,"depth":96,"text":438},{"id":78,"depth":96,"text":79},[464,466,468,471,475],{"criterion":105,"card":106,"competitor":465},"Free plan, then $20–$125\u002Fmo; Prime is custom (as of Aug 3, 2026)",{"criterion":109,"card":110,"competitor":467},"4 exports\u002Fmo on the free plan; 50–4,000\u002Fmo on paid tiers, then $0.10–$0.50 per extra email",{"criterion":117,"card":469,"competitor":470},"No account; templates live in your browser's local storage and your own backups","Account required; templates stored in Stripo's cloud (AWS, Ireland)",{"criterion":472,"card":473,"competitor":474},"Deployment","Static Vue + TypeScript app you can serve from your own infrastructure","Cloud only; self-hosting exists only in the Plugin's Enterprise tier",{"criterion":121,"card":122,"competitor":476},"Co-editing on paid plans, brand kit, AI features, 90+ ESP integrations","Looking for a Stripo alternative without export caps, cloud accounts or a subscription? Card is a free open-source email editor you can run on your own infrastructure.",[479,482,485,488],{"question":480,"answer":481},"Is MySigMail Card really free?","Yes. Card is open source under AGPL-3.0 with no plans, seats or export caps. The only paid option is a commercial licence for embedding Card in a closed-source product — simply using the editor costs nothing.",{"question":483,"answer":484},"Can I import my Stripo templates into Card?","Not directly: template formats are editor-specific and there is no converter. In practice teams rebuild their master templates in Card once, then keep the editable JSON as the new source of truth.",{"question":486,"answer":487},"How do emails get from Card into my sending platform?","Export responsive HTML and paste or upload it into your ESP — the output works in any platform. Card has no one-click push integrations, so the handoff is a manual step you control.",{"question":489,"answer":490},"Can I self-host Stripo instead?","No. The Stripo editor is cloud-only; self-hosting exists only in its embedded Plugin's Enterprise tier. Card is self-hosted by design — a static app you serve from your own infrastructure.","The open-source Stripo alternative",{},"\u002Fcompare\u002Fstripo",{"title":401,"description":477},[496,499,502],{"label":497,"url":498},"Stripo pricing","https:\u002F\u002Fstripo.email\u002Fpricing\u002F",{"label":500,"url":501},"Stripo plugin","https:\u002F\u002Fstripo.email\u002Fplugin\u002F",{"label":503,"url":504},"Stripo integrations","https:\u002F\u002Fstripo.email\u002Fintegrations\u002F","compare\u002Fstripo","Card is a free, open-source email editor: no account, no export limits, and templates never leave your browser unless you export them. Stripo is a paid cloud platform whose strength is team workflow and one-click handoff to 90+ sending platforms.","Pick Card for a free, self-hosted editor with unlimited exports and full ownership of your data and runtime. Pick Stripo when cloud collaboration and direct ESP integrations save your team more than the subscription costs.","niA5zAo02PB30SGB_FG6JvP33HK7nARXL586ndbezIU",{"id":510,"title":511,"bestFor":512,"body":518,"comparison":581,"competitor":516,"description":599,"extension":126,"faq":600,"heading":613,"meta":614,"navigation":142,"path":615,"reviewedAt":144,"seo":616,"sources":617,"stem":630,"summary":631,"verdict":632,"__hash__":633},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Funlayer.md","Unlayer alternative: self-hosted open-source email editor",[513,515],{"product":9,"useCase":514},"Your team wants the editor source and runtime under its control — embedded or standalone — and will build product-specific storage, auth and workflow around it.",{"product":516,"useCase":517},"Unlayer","You are buying an editor component as a managed service and value vendor support, cloud APIs and documented SDK integration more than runtime ownership.",{"type":15,"value":519,"toc":575},[520,524,535,538,540,543,546,550,553,556,558,561],[18,521,523],{"id":522},"why-people-look-for-an-unlayer-alternative","Why people look for an Unlayer alternative",[23,525,526,527,530,531,534],{},"Unlayer is the best-known embeddable email editor, and its docs are genuinely good. The pressure comes from the commercial model. The free tier keeps Unlayer's branding, offers no cloud API, no custom tools and a single domain. Removing the branding and getting API access starts at ",[27,528,529],{},"$250 per month","; custom CSS and JavaScript — the things developers reach for first — arrive at the ",[27,532,533],{},"$2,000-per-month"," tier. Running the editor inside your own infrastructure is an Enterprise-only conversation with custom pricing.",[23,536,537],{},"There is also a fresh reminder of what depending on a vendor's roadmap means: Unlayer Studio, its end-user design product, is being retired on June 30, 2026. Embedded SDK customers are on a different product line, but the lesson generalizes — a hosted editor is a service someone else can reprice, retier or retire.",[18,539,308],{"id":307},[23,541,542],{},"Card is a free, open-source (AGPL-3.0) visual email editor built with Vue and TypeScript, public on GitHub since 2022. Self-hosting is not a top-tier privilege; it is the deployment model. You serve static files from your own infrastructure, on any number of domains, with no Unlayer-style branding to buy out and no metered API between your users and their designs.",[23,544,545],{},"Functionally it covers the same core loop an embedded editor needs: 78 drag-and-drop blocks, a block → row → cell → atom document model, responsive HTML export, and JSON that round-trips — load a design, let a user edit it, save the JSON, reopen it later. Because the source is open, \"can we customize the editor?\" is a pull request, not a plan upgrade. For closed-source products where AGPL obligations don't fit, a commercial licence is available — a one-vendor conversation instead of a permanent subscription tier.",[18,547,549],{"id":548},"what-unlayer-still-does-better","What Unlayer still does better",[23,551,552],{},"Card hands you source code; Unlayer hands you a service. Its SDK ships vendor-maintained infrastructure, cloud APIs for server-side export, documented integration paths, and enterprise apparatus (SLAs, SSO, audit logs, compliance certifications) that procurement departments recognize. With Card, upgrades, security review, persistence and the bridge into your product's auth and storage are your engineering budget.",[23,554,555],{},"That budget is real. If editor engineering is a distraction you would rather pay to avoid — and $250–$2,000 a month clears your ROI bar — Unlayer is a rational purchase. Note one design difference either way: both products' JSON formats are editor-specific, so migrating between them later means a conversion layer. Whichever you choose, test the full load-edit-save-reopen-export cycle before you commit.",[18,557,79],{"id":78},[23,559,560],{},"Switch to Card if you need self-hosting without an enterprise contract, want white-label behavior without a $250\u002Fmo floor, or want to read and modify the editor you are building your product on. Stay with Unlayer if vendor support and cloud APIs are requirements, not conveniences.",[23,562,563,564,568,569,574],{},"The evaluation is cheap: Card's editor runs in the browser with no account. Open the ",[87,565,567],{"href":89,"rel":566},[91],"live editor",", inspect the exported JSON and HTML against your data model, then clone the ",[87,570,573],{"href":571,"rel":572},"https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmysigmail\u002Fcard",[91],"source"," and run it on your own infrastructure — the entire proof of concept costs an afternoon, not a sales call.",{"title":95,"searchDepth":96,"depth":96,"links":576},[577,578,579,580],{"id":522,"depth":96,"text":523},{"id":307,"depth":96,"text":308},{"id":548,"depth":96,"text":549},{"id":78,"depth":96,"text":79},[582,584,587,591,595],{"criterion":105,"card":106,"competitor":583},"Free tier, then $250–$2,000\u002Fmo; Enterprise is custom (as of Aug 3, 2026)",{"criterion":113,"card":585,"competitor":586},"Default deployment model — static files on your infrastructure, any use case","Enterprise tier only; all other plans run on Unlayer's cloud",{"criterion":588,"card":589,"competitor":590},"Source access","Full source on GitHub — inspect, modify, extend","Proprietary; customization gated by plan (custom CSS\u002FJS from the $2,000\u002Fmo tier)",{"criterion":592,"card":593,"competitor":594},"Editable format","JSON export\u002Fimport plus responsive HTML","Design JSON round-trip and HTML export, documented in the SDK",{"criterion":596,"card":597,"competitor":598},"Free tier","Everything — there are no tiers","No cloud API, no white-labelling (Unlayer branding stays), no custom tools, single domain","Looking for an Unlayer alternative you can self-host without an enterprise contract? Card is a free open-source email editor with JSON round-trip you can embed in your product.",[601,604,607,610],{"question":602,"answer":603},"Can I self-host Card without an enterprise contract?","Yes — self-hosting is the default. Card is a static Vue application you serve yourself; there are no tiers, usage meters or sales calls involved.",{"question":605,"answer":606},"Is Card white-label?","There is no vendor branding to remove in the first place, and the source is open if you want to restyle the editor. Unlayer removes its branding only on paid plans, starting at $250\u002Fmo.",{"question":608,"answer":609},"Does Card provide cloud APIs like Unlayer?","No. Card ships as an editor with JSON import\u002Fexport and HTML export; persistence, auth and server-side services are yours to build. That is the trade: full ownership instead of a managed service.",{"question":611,"answer":612},"Is AGPL-3.0 safe for a commercial product?","AGPL works for many products but carries source obligations when you serve or distribute modified closed-source software. 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