10 Best ActiveCampaign Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
ActiveCampaign has 40,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to ActiveCampaign
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Smart Marketing SMS and Newsletters Forms
Closest match5.0 (154) 1,000+ active installsE-commerce Automation Engine: Product sync, Track & Engage, and abandoned cart recovery via Email and SMS for WooCommerce stores.
Shares the Email Marketing, marketing automation tags on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 40,000+, last updated 14 days ago.
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Brevo – Email, SMS, Web Push, Chat, and more.
4.1 (285) 100,000+ active installsTurn your WordPress site into a marketing powerhouse. Grow your audience, boost engagement, and drive more sales with Brevo.
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated June 24, 2026.
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Email Marketing for WooCommerce by Omnisend
4.9 (168) 40,000+ active installsEmail Marketing, Newsletter, Email Automation, Forms, Pop Up, SMS, Abandoned Cart made easy for WordPress & WooCommerce by Omnisend
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 7 days ago.
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Sender – Newsletter, SMS and Email Marketing Automation for WooCommerce
4.8 (78) 5,000+ active installsSender is an all-in-one email & SMS marketing platform designed keeping the challenges of ecommerce and small businesses in mind.
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. 5,000+ installs against 40,000+, last updated 13 days ago.
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FunnelKit Automations – Email Marketing Automation and CRM for WordPress & WooCommerce
5.0 (346) 20,000+ active installsRecover lost revenue with Cart Abandonment Recovery for WooCommerce. Increase retention with Post Purchase Follow-Up Emails.
Shares the Email Marketing, marketing automation tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated August 5, 2026.
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Simple Newsletter Plugin – Noptin
4.5 (118) 10,000+ active installsA fast, GDPR-compliant newsletter plugin. Collect newsletter subscribers, let users subscribe to new post notifications, and send newsletters. ★★★★★
About a quarter of the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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CartBounty – Save and recover abandoned carts for WooCommerce
4.8 (84) 10,000+ active installsSave abandoned carts and send automated abandoned cart recovery messages. Get more leads, reduce cart abandonment, and increase sales.
Shares the activecampaign tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated May 25, 2026.
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Groundhogg — CRM, Newsletters, and Marketing Automation
4.9 (149) 2,000+ active installsGroundhogg is the best WordPress CRM & Marketing Automation plugin. Create flows, email campaigns, and have a CRM all within your WordPress site.
Shares the Email Marketing, marketing automation tags on WordPress.org. 2,000+ installs against 40,000+, last updated 4 days ago.
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Newsletter
Paid version availableNewsletter – Send awesome emails from WordPress
4.6 (1,204) 200,000+ active installsAn email marketing tool for your blog: subscription forms to create your lists with unlimited subscribers and newsletters.
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 19 days ago.
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FluentCRM – Email Newsletter, Automation, Email Marketing, Email Campaigns, Optins, Leads, and CRM Solution
4.8 (249) 80,000+ active installsThe easiest and fastest Email Marketing, Newsletter, Marketing Automation Plugin & CRM Solution for WordPress
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 4 days ago.
Switching from ActiveCampaign: common questions
What is the best alternative to ActiveCampaign?
Smart Marketing SMS and Newsletters Forms is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 1,000+ active installs with a 5.0 out of 5 rating.
Which ActiveCampaign alternative has the most users?
Newsletter, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which ActiveCampaign alternative is rated highest?
FunnelKit Automations, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 346 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these ActiveCampaign alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with ActiveCampaign score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against ActiveCampaign on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Smart Marketing SMS and Newsletters Forms is the closest match to ActiveCampaign by the data we track, and Newsletter has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Groundhogg shipped the most recent release, on September 3, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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