10 Best WP HTML Mail Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
WP HTML Mail has 20,000+ 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 WP HTML Mail
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Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce
Closest matchMailonix – Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce
4.6 (105) 20,000+ active installsMake your WooCommerce emails become professional.
Shares the email, email template, woocommerce email tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated 16 days ago.
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Email Templates Customizer and Designer for WordPress and WooCommerce
4.6 (133) 20,000+ active installsDesign and send custom emails with Email Templates plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce
Shares the email, woocommerce email tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated June 18, 2026.
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4.5 (142) 90,000+ active installsCustomize the default WooCommerce email templates design and text through the native WordPress customizer. Preview emails and send test emails.
Shares the email, email template tags on WordPress.org. About 4.5 times the installs, rated 4.5 against 4.8, last updated July 29, 2026.
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Elemailer Lite – Elementor email template & campaign builder
4.6 (27) 5,000+ active installsElemailer is an Elementor addon to create Email templates. It gives you the most flexible design environment to design emails through drag and drop bu …
Shares the email, email template tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, no update since August 5, 2025.
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4.2 (43) 80,000+ active installsLog and view all outgoing emails from WordPress. Very useful if you have to debug email related problems or have to store sent emails for auditing.
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 22 days ago.
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Check & Log Email – Easy Email Testing & Mail logging
4.8 (290) 100,000+ active installsCheck & Log email allows you to test if your website is correctly sending emails . Overriding of email headers and carbon copying to another address.
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Solid Mail – SMTP email and logging made by SolidWP
4.2 (52) 60,000+ active installsEmail deliverability made SOLID. Connect to your chosen email provider with an intuitive set-it-and-forget-it SMTP plugin.
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, rated 4.2 against 4.8, last updated May 12, 2026.
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4.6 (67) 70,000+ active installsConfigure a SMTP server to send email from your WordPress site. Configure the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of the PHP mail() function.
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.8, last updated 17 days ago.
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4.0 (725) 200,000+ active installsConnect your store to your Mailchimp audience to track sales, create targeted emails, send abandoned cart emails, and more.
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.0 against 4.8, last updated August 7, 2026.
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SureMail – SMTP and Email Logs Plugin with Amazon SES, Postmark, and Other Providers
4.7 (24) 200,000+ active installsSureMail – SMTP and Email Logs Plugin with Amazon SES, Postmark, and Other Providers
Shares the email tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from WP HTML Mail: common questions
What is the best alternative to WP HTML Mail?
Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which WP HTML Mail alternative has the most users?
Mailchimp for WooCommerce, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which WP HTML Mail alternative is rated highest?
Check & Log Email, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 290 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these WP HTML Mail 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 WP HTML Mail 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 WP HTML Mail 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
Email Template Customizer for WooCommerce is the closest match to WP HTML Mail by the data we track, and Mailchimp for WooCommerce has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Check & Log Email shipped the most recent release, on September 2, 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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