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> A collection of awesome frameworks, templates, tools, workflows and many more to build better emails.



### Table of Contents



- [Frameworks](#frameworks)

- [Cheatsheets](#cheatsheets)

- [Templates](#templates)

- [Tools](#tools)

- [Services](#services)

- [Self-Hosted Services](#self-hosted-services)

- [Workflows](#workflows)

- [Articles](#articles)

- [Inspirations](#inspirations)

- [Statistics](#statistics)

- [Design](#design)

- [Testing](#testing)

- [Learning](#learning)



## Frameworks



- [MJML](https://mjml.io) - MJML is a markup language designed to reduce the pain of coding a responsive email. :fire:

- [Foundation for Emails](https://github.com/zurb/foundation-emails) - Quickly create responsive HTML emails that work on any device & client. Even Outlook.

- [Email Framework](http://emailframe.work/) - The HTML email framework developed to help you build responsive HTML email.

- [HEML](https://heml.io) - HEML is an open source markup language for building responsive email.

- [Acorn](https://docs.thememountain.com/acorn/) - A responsive email framework based on a golden ratio typography grid.

- [Pine](https://docs.thememountain.com/pine/) - A 12 column grid, responsive email framework.

- [Maizzle](https://maizzle.com) - Rapidly prototype HTML emails with Tailwind CSS and advanced, email-specific post-processing.



## Cheatsheets



- [Rico's cheatsheet](https://devhints.io/html-email) - Rico's cheatsheet for HTML email



## Templates



- [Campaign](https://github.com/bevacqua/campaign) - Compose responsive email templates easily, fill them with models, and send them out.

- [Sendwithus](https://www.sendwithus.com/resources/templates) - Open Source Email Templates

- [Mailchimp Email Blueprints](https://github.com/mailchimp/Email-Blueprints) - Email Blueprints is a collection of HTML email templates that can serve as a solid foundation and starting point for the design of emails.

- [Campaign Monitor Templates](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/email-templates/) - Easily create beautiful, branded email marketing campaigns.

- [Responsive Transactional HTML Email Templates](https://github.com/mailgun/transactional-email-templates) (Each template is responsive and each has been tested in all the popular email clients.)

- [Cerberus](https://github.com/TedGoas/Cerberus) - Few responsive email patterns.

- [Antwort](https://github.com/internations/antwort) - Antwort offers responsive layouts for Email that both fits and adapts to client widths.

- [Responsive HTML Template](https://github.com/charlesmudy/responsive-html-email-template) - This template is designed to work on all major email platforms and it is built with media query, making it responsive for smartphones that supports media query.

- [HTML Email Templates](https://www.htmlemailtemplates.net/) - Responsive HTML email templates for Startups & SaaS.

- [Free Responsive template : Slate](https://litmus.com/resources/free-responsive-email-templates/) - Five pre-tested templates that work with any mailing service

- [Grunt Email Boilerplate](https://github.com/dwightjack/grunt-email-boilerplate) - A Grunt template to create emails.

- [Responsive Email Patterns](http://responsiveemailpatterns.com/) - A collection of patterns & modules for responsive emails.

- [Email boilerplate](https://github.com/seanpowell/Email-Boilerplate) - The email boilerplate for sending out nicely formatted messages.

- [htmlemail](https://htmlemail.io/) - Responsive HTML email templates for startups & developers.

- [Postmark Transactional Email Templates](https://github.com/wildbit/postmark-templates) - Rock-solid email templates for applications.

- [Stripo.email](https://stripo.email/templates/) - Rich set of responsive, interactive beautiful email templates with Stripo.



## Tools



- [caniemail](https://www.caniemail.com/) - Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails.

- [Topol](https://topol.io/) - Create stunning responsive HTML e-mails in a minute.

- [MJML App](https://mjmlio.github.io/mjml-app/) - MJML official desktop app.

- [Rollover](http://freshinbox.com/tools/rollover/) - Generates code for a Rollover Image that displays an alternative image when the email recipient hovers the cursor over the image.

- [Bulletproof Email Buttons](http://buttons.cm/) - Design gorgeous buttons using progressively enhanced VML and CSS.

- [Bulletproof Background Images](http://backgrounds.cm/) - Create rock-solid background images for your HTML email with some help from VML and CSS.

- [Stripo.email](https://stripo.email/) - Online drag-n-drop and HTML email builder to create professional and responsive email templates fast without any HTML skills.

- [MySigMail Card](https://mysigmail.com/card/) - A free drag & drop builder helps you create email templates intuitively and very quickly.

- [TestSubject](http://zurb.com/playground/testsubject) - Test How Your Email Subject Lines Appear On The Most Popular Mobile Devices.

- [mailspice analytics](https://mailspice.com) - Email analytics add-on for all email services that provides deep insights into all of your email campaigns (works with all ESPs).

- [Alter.email](https://alter.email/) - A free tool to help you inline CSS, remove unused CSS, clean up your text, add extra attributes to tags, add URL tracking parameters, minify, and even prettify HTML email.

- [Sensitive Subjects](https://sensitivesubjects.com/) - Never send an embarrassing subject line!

- [Detergent](https://detergent.io) - A tool to prepare the text for pasting into HTML: removes invisible Unicode characters (like [ETX](https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0003/index.htm) which can come from PSD files), encodes special characters (like turning £ into `£`) and improves typography.

- [EmailComb](http://emailcomb.com/) - Email-friendly unused CSS removal tool which does not parse and thus accepts mixed sources, including your ESP templating tags. Extras: CSS uglification and HTML/CSS minification (powered by HTML Crush).

- [HTML Crush](https://htmlcrush.com/) - Email-friendly HTML minifier: limits lines to 500 chars. (best practice), respects Outlook conditional tags and accepts mixed sources, including ESP templating tags. Optionally, can only remove indentations (not touching line breaks).

- [Tabifier](https://tools.arantius.com/tabifier) - Opposite of HTML Crush - a tool to beautify the indentation in HTML files. Works with mixed input sources, including your ESP templating tags.



## Services



- [Mailchimp](https://mailchimp.com/) - MailChimp provides email marketing for more than 15 million people globally.

- [Mailjet](https://mailjet.com/) - all-in-one Email Services Provider that allows businesses to send Marketing, Transaction Email and Email Automation.

- [Campaign monitor](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/) - Campaign Monitor makes it easy for you to create, send, and optimize your email marketing campaigns.

- [Sendgrid](https://sendgrid.com/) - Delivering your transactional and marketing email through one reliable platform.

- [Postal](https://github.com/atech/postal) - A fully featured open source mail delivery platform for incoming & outgoing e-mail.

- [SparkPost](https://www.sparkpost.com/) - Your application’s emails: Delivered on time and to the inbox.

- [Mautic](https://mautic.com/) - Mautic Marketing Automation. Build smarter campaigns – and build them faster – with marketing automation that’s quick to learn, simple to use, and easy to iterate.

- [Mailgun](https://www.mailgun.com/) - Transactional Email API Service For Developers.

- [eSputnik](https://esputnik.com/en) - eSputnik is a marketing automation system trusted by more than 30 thousand loyal customers worldwide to send more than a billion emails every month.

- [Postmark](https://postmarkapp.com) - Lightning fast delivery for your application emails. Postmark delivers your transactional email to customers on time, every time

- [ImprovMX](https://improvmx.com/) - Create free email aliases for your domain name.



## Self-Hosted Services



- [Mailtrain](https://mailtrain.org/) - Self Hosted Newsletter App Built on Top of Nodemailer.

- [Mautic](https://mautic.org/) - Mautic Marketing Automation. Build smarter campaigns – and build them faster – with marketing automation that’s quick to learn, simple to use, and easy to iterate.

- [Mail-in-a-box](https://mailinabox.email/) - Lets you become your own mail service provider in a few easy steps.

- [iRedMail](https://iredmail.org/) - Easy to install open source mail server solution

- [mailcow](https://mailcow.email/) - The mailserver suite with the 'moo'. An easy to use dockerized selfhosted email solution.

- [Poste.io](https://poste.io/) - Complete mailserver built in one docker container.



## Workflows



- [Lee Munroe's Grunt Email Design](https://github.com/leemunroe/grunt-email-workflow) - A Grunt workflow for designing and testing responsive HTML email templates with SCSS.

- [Darylldoyle Gulp workflow](https://github.com/darylldoyle/Gulp-Email-Creator) - Gulp Email Creator is a gulp workflow inspired by Lee Munroe's grunt-email-design workflow.

- [Html Email Development Workflow](http://www.sitepoint.com/my-current-html-email-development-workflow/) - A Typical Email Development Workflow by Sitepoint.



## Articles



- [Email Design Workflow](http://www.leemunroe.com/email-design-workflow/) - An email design workflow by By Lee Munroe.

- [Composing better emails](https://iridakos.com/how-to/2019/06/26/composing-better-emails.html) - Tips for writing effective emails



## Design



- [CSS Support](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/) - A complete breakdown of the CSS support for every popular mobile, web and desktop email client on the planet.

- [Email Template Guide](https://blocksedit.com/email-template-guide/) - Using a modular email template system

- [Mail Servers Best Pratices](https://documentation.mailgun.com/best_practices.html#email-best-practices) - This guide is a brief summary of email best practices that we have learned from managing mail servers.

- [Stylecampaign](http://stylecampaign.com/blog/2014/02/responsive-email-navigation/) - I looked at the navigation of 50 responsive retail emails. Here is a breakdown of the patterns I discovered.



## Blogs



- [Litmus Blog](https://litmus.com/blog/)

- [Stylecampaign Blog](http://stylecampaign.com/blog/)

- [Myemma Blog](http://myemma.com/content-hub)

- [Postmarkapp Blog](http://blog.postmarkapp.com/)

- [Spently Blog](https://blog.spently.com/)

- [Emailmonks Blog](http://www.emailmonks.com/blog/)

- [Stripo.email Blog](http://www.emailmonks.com/blog/) - Email Marketing & Email Design Blog.

- [HTML Email Blog](https://htmlemail.io/blog/)

- [Build Better Blog](https://blocksedit.com/content-code/) - Design and content production in email marketing



## Copy



- [Email Copy](http://www.goodemailcopy.com/) - Email copy from great companies.



## Resources



- [Email toolbox](http://email-toolbox.com/) - Hand-picked resources for email marketers and designers.

- [Mailchimp](http://mailchimp.com/resources/) - Super awesome resources from Mailchimp

- [Litmus Resources](https://litmus.com/resources) - Stay up to date with the latest email news and trends with Litmus resources.

- [Campaign Monitor Resources](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/) - Campaign Monitor resources will turn you into an expert in no time.

- [Campaign Monitor Dev Resources](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/dev-resources/)

- [Mailchimp](http://templates.mailchimp.com/) - MailChimp Email Design Reference

- [Arstechnica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-to-run-your-own-e-mail-server-with-your-own-domain-part-1/) - Tutorial on how to build your own email server



## Inspirations



- [Really good emails Codepen](http://codepen.io/reallygoodemails/)

- [Really good emails](http://reallygoodemails.com/) - The Best Email Designs in the Universe.

- [Milled](http://milled.com/)

- [The Top Email Campaigns](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/best-email-marketing-campaigns/) -The most effective email marketing campaigns from Campaign Monitor.

- [Mailchimp Inspiration](http://inspiration.mailchimp.com/#all) - Mailchimp beautiful newsletters examples.

- [Htmlemaildesigns](http://htmlemaildesigns.com/) - Beautiful emails to help inspire your next email design.



## Statistics



- [Myemma Email Stats](http://myemma.com/brainiac/gate-free-stats) - 18 must-know stats for modern email marketers by Emma, Inc.

- [Mailchimp Research](http://mailchimp.com/resources/research/) - MailChimp's researchers are constantly analyzing data to help you make the most of your email campaigns.

- [Campaign Monitor 2015 Report](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/guides/email-marketing-new-rules/) - 2015 Report: The new rules of email marketing

- [Campaign Monitor 2016 Report](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/company/annual-report/2016/) - 2016 Report: Campaign Monitor 2016 Year in Review



## Testing



- [PutsMail](https://putsmail.com/) - Free tool to test your HTML emails before sending them!

- [Litmus](https://litmus.com/) - Test and track your emails with Litmus

- [Campaign Monitor](https://www.campaignmonitor.com/testing/) - Test your design in all the different email client with Campaign Monitor.

- [Grunt Litmus](https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-litmus) - Send email tests to Litmus with grunt

- [Gulp Litmus](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-litmus) - Send email tests to Litmus with gulp

- [MailTrap](https://mailtrap.io) - A Fake SMTP Server to Test, View and Share emails without spamming real customers.

- [testmail.app](https://testmail.app) - A fake SMTP server with unlimited mailboxes and a GraphQL API for automating end-to-end tests.

- [MailHog](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) A local fake SMTP server (based on Go)

- [MailCatcher](https://mailcatcher.me/) A local fake SMTP server (based on Ruby)

- [Email Privacy Tester](https://www.emailprivacytester.com/) - A tool to test your email client's priacy features (loading remote content)

- [Mail Tester](https://www.mail-tester.com/) - Test the Spammyness of your Emails

- [Sendtest.email](https://sendtest.email/) - Test your HTML email, ⚡4email, or text version before sending. Privacy-focused, no sign-up required!



## Learning



- [Responsive HTML Email Design](https://frontendmasters.com/courses/responsive-email/) - Responsive email course by Justine Jordan and Jason Rodriguez.

- [HTML Email Design](http://teamtreehouse.com/library/html-email-design) - MailChimp UX Designer Fabio Carneiro demonstrates how to build a full-featured, mobile-friendly email from scratch.

- [Mastering HTML Email](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/series/mastering-html-email--webdesign-17696) - This series of tutorials will take you through the fundamentals, exploring development techniques, workflow and design approaches.

- [Building Responsive Email Templates with Ink](https://scotch.io/tutorials/building-responsive-email-templates-with-ink) - Building Responsive Email Templates with Ink.

- [Litmus learning](https://litmus.com/community/learning) - Litmus learning resources.






### Contribution



Suggestions and PRs are welcome! 🤙

If you want to contribute, please read the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/jonathandion/awesome-emails/blob/master/contributing.md).



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