10 Best Newsletter Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Newsletter sits at #2 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. 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 Newsletter
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MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation
4.4 (1,432) 500,000+ active installsSend beautiful newsletters from WordPress. Collect subscribers with signup forms, automate your emails for WooCommerce, blog post notifications & more
#1 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.6, last updated 6 days ago.
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Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
4.8 (3,211) 200,000+ active installsTop-rated antispam for contact forms, comments, WooCommerce, eCommerce, and login. No CAPTCHAs, no friction, just background anti spam protection.
A similar number of installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 5 days ago.
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Email Subscribers & Newsletters – Email Marketing, Post Notifications & Newsletter Plugin for WordPress
4.6 (1,169) 50,000+ active installsAdd subscription forms on the website and send newsletters & automatically send post notification about new blog posts once it gets published.
#3 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
4.8 (1,497) 1 million+ active installsThe #1 Mailchimp plugin for WordPress. Allows you to add a multitude of newsletter sign-up methods to your site.
#5 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 18 days ago.
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Poptin – Email Marketing Automation, Newsletter & Exit Pop Ups, Email Popups
4.9 (695) 20,000+ active installsFree email automation, email campaigns, exit intent popup builder, gamified popups with spin the wheel, contact forms & smart pop ups. 🎉
#8 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. 20,000+ installs against 200,000+, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated 5 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
#4 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 4 days ago.
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Newsletters, Email Marketing, SMS and Popups by Omnisend
4.8 (16) 100,000+ active installsNewsletters, Email Marketing, Email Automation, Forms, Pop Up, SMS by Omnisend
#6 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About half the installs, last updated 24 days ago.
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Hostinger Reach – AI-Powered Email Marketing for WordPress
5.0 (7) 1 million+ active installsLaunch and grow your email marketing effortlessly with Hostinger Reach. Collect contacts, sync subscribers, and send emails – all in one, AI powered.
#10 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About 5 times the installs, last updated 6 days ago.
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Kit (formerly ConvertKit) – Email Newsletter, Email Marketing, Membership, Subscribers and Landing Pages
4.8 (90) 40,000+ active installsBuild your email subscriber lists, send email marketing newsletters, create landing pages, build custom subscription forms with the Form Builder block …
#7 in the WordPress.org Newsletter Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 10 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, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, rated 4.1 against 4.6, last updated June 24, 2026.
Newsletter against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Newsletter vs MailPoet200,000+ vs 500,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.4
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Newsletter vs Email Subscribers200,000+ vs 50,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.6
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Newsletter vs MC4WP200,000+ vs 1 million+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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Newsletter vs Poptin200,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.9
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Newsletter vs FluentCRM200,000+ vs 80,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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Newsletter vs Omnisend200,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
Switching from Newsletter: common questions
What is the best alternative to Newsletter?
MailPoet is the closest match: it shares the Newsletter Plugins top 10 with Newsletter and has 500,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Newsletter alternative has the most users?
MC4WP, with 1 million+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Newsletter alternative is rated highest?
Poptin, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 695 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Newsletter 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 Newsletter 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 Newsletter 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
MailPoet is the closest match to Newsletter by the data we track, and MC4WP has the widest reach with 1 million+ active installs. FluentCRM 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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