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24 alternatives to Professional Email Design

A handbook for understanding HTML email design

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Professional Email Design launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Responsive Web Design: An Email Course▲100
Free daily lessons to learn the basics of responsive design
2015 · designlab.com · its alternatives →
2
Design for Humans▲231
An email course about emotional design
2015 · paulaborowska.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
3
OpenSource Email Template▲109
Responsive, Free, and Community Driven
2014 · dyspatch.io · its alternatives →
4
Responsive Email▲180
A collection of patterns & modules for responsive emails
2014 · its alternatives →
5
HTML Email▲783
Responsive HTML email templates for startups & developers
2016 · htmlemail.io · its alternatives →
6
Mailcloud▲110
A New Way to Email
2014 · mailcloudapp.com · its alternatives →
7
Iterable▲94
Smarter email marketing
2014 · iterable.com · its alternatives →
8
Outline Mail▲80
Making HTML email ridiculously easy
2016 · its alternatives →
9
Email Templates For Freelancers▲98
Well-crafted messages to improve your business
2015 · kgelster.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
10
Ink▲241
Create responsive HTML emails that work on any device/client
2014 · zurb.com · its alternatives →
11
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited▲80
A common sense approach to web usability
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Email Design Podcast #26: Exploring New Table Structure Techniques and Dreamweaver CC Beta▲61
The latest tips & tricks in HTML email design & development
2016 · litmus.com · its alternatives →
13
Boxer▲73
The first open platform for mobile email
2014 · omnissa.com · its alternatives →
14
Bulletproof Email▲72
bulletproof html email components
2014 · dyspatch.io · its alternatives →
15
Email Insights▲154
See and track your competitors' email
2014 · its alternatives →
16
Helo▲103
An independent email API from former Postmark folks
23d ago · helohq.com · its alternatives →
17
Email Design for Newbies▲219
A visual crash-course on email design
2023 · mailmodo.com · its alternatives →
18
Tabular – Email design tool that generates bulletproof email HTML▲88
Hi HN, I’ve developed http://tabular.email (Tabular), a new email design tool that generates hybrid mobile-first email HTML. Think of emails for your app, such as user verification or welcome, newsletters, or marketing emails. My goal was to make designing emails as quick and intuitive as possible. To make a tool where everything is done visually (adjusting margins, paddings, gaps, dimensions etc.), without the user having to worry about writing email HTML code. Cool thing is that you get full control over how your email looks on mobile devices. When designing, you can switch to…
2023 · tabular.email · its alternatives →
19
InkBrush▲61
Quickest way to turn email designs into bulletproof HTML
2015 · movableink.com · its alternatives →
20
Seer▲98
Making emails actionable.
2014 · getseer.com · its alternatives →
21
Inboxcube▲72
The Future of Email.
2014 · inboxcube.com · its alternatives →
22
AniJS▲87
UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English
2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →
23
Xem▲69
Open-source email marketing with managed SMTP
Sep 2026 · xem.email · its alternatives →
24
Happy Grasshopper▲81
Follow-up emails as a service
2014 · happygrasshopper.com · its alternatives →

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