Growth · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Maildown

Emails campaigns with Markdown syntax

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maildown launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1MM
   Maildown – Markdown email campaigns▲92

   Hi, The beta program of my new startup, Maildown, is now complete and is now accepting paying customers: https://www.maildown.app As well as a lot of stability enhancements, we've added a new help system, a new CLI (https://github.com/chris104957/mailer-cli) and a REST API. Maildown lets you create transactional and marketing email campaigns using Markdown syntax, so you can generate and send your email content far more quickly than with traditional WYSIWYG editors. Thanks for looking, Chris

   2019 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML▲380

   Turn markdown into responsive, email-safe HTML that renders perfectly across every client.

   Mar 2026 · emailmd.dev · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Markdown Here▲67

   Write emails in markdown (Chrome extension)

   2014 · markdown-here.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Loops▲1,556

   Measure whether a campaign drove the desired outcome

   2023 · loops.so · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Buttondown▲208

   The easiest way to send simple newsletters

   2017 · buttondown.com · its alternatives →

6. 6MS
   Maildown – super simple email API▲40

   2020 · maildown.dev · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines▲912

   2024 · markwhen.com · its alternatives →

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   Maildown – Super Simple Email API▲98

   A super simple CLI for sending emails. Contribute to chris104957/maildown development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Copy as Markdown▲302

   Convert text to markdown for LLMs like ChatGPT

   2025 · copyasmarkdown.com · its alternatives →

10. 10OS
    Open sourcing my email sending startup▲38

    Hi all, I've posted a few times here about Maildown, a startup that I've been trying to validate lately. Due to lack of time to focus on this, I've taken the decision to abandon the project as a startup, but to make it available as an open source solution instead. The (still very basic) github repository is here: https://github.com/chris104957/maildown Maildown now exists as a simple CLI wrapper for Amazon SES which bakes in Markdown and styling support, making it much easier to get transactional mails up and running in any project Thanks for looking, Chris

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Markdown page – Create a web page with just markdown▲169

    📝 create a webpage with just markdown. Contribute to oscarmorrison/md-page development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HW
    https://www.markdownmail.io – Bulk newsletter sender using Amazon SES▲18

    We recently launched a new project called https://www.markdownmail.io The motivations behind https://www.markdownmail.io was that we wanted to be able to occasionally send out an email to our user base. Currently we have over 100k subscribers and on average send an email once every other month. With the mailchimp it was costing us $475 per month. That's a lot of money to send an occasional newsletter. So we started to look for alternatives. We decided to move to sendy.co which is self hosted and uses SES. Whilst the costs where lower we found the product unstable and…

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI▲360

    Hey HN! I originally built “html-to-markdown” back in 2018 (while still in high school) to handle complex HTML conversions where other libraries struggled. Now, I’ve released v2 — a complete rewrite designed to handle even more edge cases. It supports entire websites with a high accuracy. Example use: I’ve used it in my RSS reader to strip HTML down to clean Markdown, similar to the "Reader Mode" in your Browser. It can be used as a Golang package or as an CLI. Give it a try & tell me what edge cases you encounter!

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14MU
    Markdown-UI – Write UI/UX with Markdown Syntax▲65

    2015 · jjuliano.github.io · its alternatives →

15. 15MC
    MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown▲220

    2021 · mark.show · its alternatives →

16. 16
    HEML▲191

    Quickly craft clean, responsive emails.

    2017 · heml.io · its alternatives →

17. 17
    MailerSend▲305

    Better transactional emails for teams.

    2020 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    newsletter-cli▲80

    CLI tool to write and send newsletters in Markdown

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19WO
    Writedown - Open Source Markdown Diary▲99

    2023 · writedown.app · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Jekyll-Markdown▲75

    An elegant markdown blog generator using Jekyll

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Markdown Preview▲211

    Markdown Editor with instant preview using GitHub CSS.

    2022 · freecodetools.org · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Simple email rendering tool to handle multi-language email content▲19

    A command line tool to render HTML and text emails of markdown content. - KeepSafe/ks-email-parser

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    A self-hosted email engine▲149

    Everything you need to start sending newsletters, drip campaigns, transactional emails. Mailcoach is a fully featured email marketing platform built for growing creators, developers, and businesses.

    2020 · mailcoach.app · its alternatives →

24. 24SA
    Sundown – an alternative to Markdown▲121

    2017 · seyedi.org · its alternatives →

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