[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":145},["ShallowReactive",2],{"comparison-stripo":3,"i-lucide:arrow-up-right":138,"i-lucide:arrow-right":143},{"id":4,"title":5,"bestFor":6,"body":13,"comparison":82,"competitor":11,"description":103,"extension":104,"faq":105,"heading":118,"meta":119,"navigation":120,"path":121,"reviewedAt":122,"seo":123,"sources":124,"stem":134,"summary":135,"verdict":136,"__hash__":137},"comparisons\u002Fcompare\u002Fstripo.md","Stripo alternative: MySigMail Card — free, open-source, self-hosted",[7,10],{"product":8,"useCase":9},"Card","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":11,"useCase":12},"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":14,"value":15,"toc":74},"minimark",[16,21,30,33,37,40,43,46,50,53,56,60,63],[17,18,20],"h2",{"id":19},"why-people-look-for-a-stripo-alternative","Why people look for a Stripo alternative",[22,23,24,25,29],"p",{},"Stripo is a solid cloud editor, but its model has hard edges you only meet after adopting it. The free plan allows ",[26,27,28],"strong",{},"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.",[22,31,32],{},"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.",[17,34,36],{"id":35},"what-card-gives-you-instead","What Card gives you instead",[22,38,39],{},"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.",[22,41,42],{},"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.",[22,44,45],{},"The code is public and has been developed in the open since 2022, so \"trust us\" can be replaced with reading the source.",[17,47,49],{"id":48},"what-stripo-still-does-better","What Stripo still does better",[22,51,52],{},"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.",[22,54,55],{},"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.",[17,57,59],{"id":58},"who-should-switch-and-who-shouldnt","Who should switch — and who shouldn't",[22,61,62],{},"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.",[22,64,65,66,73],{},"The fastest way to decide is not another comparison page. Open the ",[67,68,72],"a",{"href":69,"rel":70},"https:\u002F\u002Fcard.mysigmail.com\u002Fapp",[71],"nofollow","Card editor"," — 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":75,"searchDepth":76,"depth":76,"links":77},"",2,[78,79,80,81],{"id":19,"depth":76,"text":20},{"id":35,"depth":76,"text":36},{"id":48,"depth":76,"text":49},{"id":58,"depth":76,"text":59},[83,87,91,95,99],{"criterion":84,"card":85,"competitor":86},"Price","Free and open source (AGPL-3.0); optional commercial licence for closed-source embedding","Free plan, then $20–$125\u002Fmo; Prime is custom (as of Aug 3, 2026)",{"criterion":88,"card":89,"competitor":90},"Export limits","Unlimited exports of responsive HTML and editable JSON","4 exports\u002Fmo on the free plan; 50–4,000\u002Fmo on paid tiers, then $0.10–$0.50 per extra email",{"criterion":92,"card":93,"competitor":94},"Account and data","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":96,"card":97,"competitor":98},"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":100,"card":101,"competitor":102},"Team workflow","No built-in cloud workspace — you bring your own review process","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.","md",[106,109,112,115],{"question":107,"answer":108},"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":110,"answer":111},"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":113,"answer":114},"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":116,"answer":117},"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",{},true,"\u002Fcompare\u002Fstripo","2026-08-03",{"title":5,"description":103},[125,128,131],{"label":126,"url":127},"Stripo pricing","https:\u002F\u002Fstripo.email\u002Fpricing\u002F",{"label":129,"url":130},"Stripo plugin","https:\u002F\u002Fstripo.email\u002Fplugin\u002F",{"label":132,"url":133},"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",{"left":139,"top":139,"width":140,"height":140,"rotate":139,"vFlip":141,"hFlip":141,"body":142},0,24,false,"\u003Cpath fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M7 7h10v10M7 17L17 7\"\u002F>",{"left":139,"top":139,"width":140,"height":140,"rotate":139,"vFlip":141,"hFlip":141,"body":144},"\u003Cpath fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M5 12h14m-7-7l7 7l-7 7\"\u002F>",1786067482618]