10 Best Sender Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Sender has 5,000+ 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 Sender
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Poptin
Closest matchPoptin – 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. 🎉
Shares the email automation, Email Marketing, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 5 days ago.
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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, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 7 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 20 times the installs, rated 4.1 against 4.8, last updated June 24, 2026.
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WebToffee eCommerce Marketing Automation – Email marketing, Popups, Email customizer
4.8 (54) 10,000+ active installsCreate and send marketing emails and campaigns. Enable email automations, Popups, spin-a-wheel, sign-up forms, and more. Customize WooCommerce emails.
Shares the email automation, Email Marketing tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
- 5
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.
Shares the Email Marketing, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated 12 days ago.
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Mail Mint – Email Marketing, Newsletter, Email Automation & WooCommerce Emails
4.7 (126) 4,000+ active installsThe easiest email marketing automation plugin for WordPress & WooCommerce - capture leads, send email campaigns, and automate your newsletters.
Shares the email automation, Email Marketing, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.7 against 4.8, last updated 6 days ago.
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Getsitecontrol — Email Marketing Plugin | Popup Maker, Automations & Newsletters
4.1 (23) 1,000+ active installsComplete email marketing toolset with a powerful popup builder on board. Generate leads with email opt-in forms, send professional newsletters, build …
Shares the Email Marketing tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated December 19, 2025.
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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, newsletter, signup forms tags on WordPress.org. About 40 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated 19 days ago.
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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 automation, Email Marketing tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.8, last updated 4 days ago.
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MailPoet
Paid version availableMailPoet – 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
Shares the email automation, Email Marketing, newsletter tags on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, rated 4.4 against 4.8, last updated 6 days ago.
Switching from Sender: common questions
What is the best alternative to Sender?
Poptin is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Sender alternative has the most users?
MailPoet, with 500,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Sender 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 Sender 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 Sender 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 Sender 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
Poptin is the closest match to Sender by the data we track, and MailPoet has the widest reach with 500,000+ 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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