Email on Acid vs. Litmus from Validity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Email on Acid
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
Email On Acid is an email marketing solution built as a standalone product and as an integration into marketing automation tools such as Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Marketo. It includes features such as collaboration, code analysis, and spam filter testing.
$86
month
Litmus from Validity
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Litmus, from Validity, is an email marketing solution used to create error-free emails in less time. It is also used to build email campaigns, personalize and test them thoroughly, monitor deliverability, and analyze email performance.
$500
per month
Pricing
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Editions & Modules
The Basics
$86
month
Premium
$132
month
Professional
$499
month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSave 15% on the monthly cost when billed annually!Litmus offers different plan types to fit various needs, offering monthly and annual plans, as well as fully customizable Enterprise plans.
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Community Pulse
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Considered Both Products
Email on Acid
Chose Email on Acid
Email on Acid has more features than Litmus. They offer more email clients to test on and during my time using both tools, had fewer clients that displayed as being down. This was a major time suck especially when testing for specific clients such as Microsoft Outlook.
Chose Email on Acid
I've used Litmus for Salesforce Marketing cloud's emails along side Email on Acid. Litmus offers strong analytics and design insights, while Email on Acid excels in speed, collaboration and rendering accuracy. Compared to Litmus limited previews, Email on Acid provides more …
Litmus from Validity
Chose Litmus from Validity
Email on Acid years ago. It really is adoption that's shortchanging our use of Litmus.
Chose Litmus from Validity
We've tried Email on Acid in the past and Litmus has a much more advanced offering. The user interface is superior and they are constantly innovating and rolling out new features.
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus is much more user-friendly and easier to use, and it comes with additional features that weren't available in Email on Acid.
Chose Litmus from Validity
We evaluated Litmus against Email on Acid and ultimately opted for Litmus due to its more expansive functionality and workflow. In fairness, Email on Acid offered a good rendering tool, but Litmus went further with engagement analytics, heatmaps and read time insights. …
Chose Litmus from Validity
I prefer the user interface and I like that its possible to join it with Salesforce
Chose Litmus from Validity
We selected Litmus primarily due to its balance of cost and functionality compared to other platforms. It offers a wide range of features for testing, previewing, and optimizing email campaigns, which was critical for our needs. While some competitors offer similar tools, …
Chose Litmus from Validity
From a platform and tool perspective, Litmus does a great job at providing rendering testing. No issues.
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus has an easier view to see how the emails render across different email clients and seems to be very accurate to how they show up in mailboxes.
Chose Litmus from Validity
Overall better user interface, product and pricing. Litmus is very well-known in the industry.
Chose Litmus from Validity
More robust device/client previews and accessibility testing, better SFMC integration
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus has a stronger industry wide reputation and is more widely used across larger marketing teams. The overall capabilities, product enhancement and tool set far exceeds the capabilities of our tools I have evaluated before. Litmus is always coming out with new product …
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus has a better UI and is more of a full featured suite of tools for a digital dev/marketer.
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus has a better UI and is friendlier to non-email building people who need to collaborate and leave comments
Chose Litmus from Validity
Litmus rises to the top for the education they provide with blog posts, newsletters, and webinars. Can't beat that value - I've learned so much from them about email design.
Chose Litmus from Validity
I prefer the Build feature on Litmus, as it allows me to share those previews with others. In addition, there seems to be a greater selection of available email previews. Finally, Litmus is just easier to use and understand.
Chose Litmus from Validity
Great customer service and easy to use tool
Chose Litmus from Validity
Very comparable, but Litmus passes the test and comes out on top.
Features
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Email on Acid
9.2
4 Ratings
15% above category average
Litmus from Validity
5.3
356 Ratings
40% below category average
Mobile optimization10.02 Ratings9.2345 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.53 Ratings8.1252 Ratings
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings7.955 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings7.856 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings7.6231 Ratings
Landing pages00 Ratings2.63 Ratings
A/B testing00 Ratings1.84 Ratings
List management00 Ratings1.82 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Email on Acid
5.5
3 Ratings
32% below category average
Litmus from Validity
6.7
234 Ratings
13% below category average
Dashboards8.01 Ratings5.610 Ratings
Standard reports3.02 Ratings7.7233 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings6.6165 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Email on Acid
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Ratings
Litmus from Validity
9.0
346 Ratings
13% above category average
URL Validation00 Ratings8.7261 Ratings
Link Tracking00 Ratings8.7229 Ratings
Spam Testing00 Ratings9.0258 Ratings
Email Previews00 Ratings9.5344 Ratings
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User Ratings
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(6 ratings)
9.1
(370 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(27 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.2
(21 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.7
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
4.3
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
3.7
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
3.6
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Email on AcidLitmus from Validity
Likelihood to Recommend
Email On Acid Inc.
Suited: Pre-deployment QA and rendering validation: If your audience uses a diverse mix of email clients and devices (e.g., corporate Outlook users, gmail users on mobile, etc.) Email on Acid ensures consistency across all of them. Less appropriate: If your organization only sends basic text-based emails or uses template with minimal HTML customization, then Email on Acid might not be appropriate.
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Validity
Proofing your emails is necessary. This is a tool that allows you to see how your email not only renders on multiple devices but how it performs. Some email building platforms will tell you their drag and drop templates are ready to go, however they stop short of analyzing accessibility, checking links, load speed among other things. I've also experienced drag and drop template issues as new email clients are released. Litmus provides peace of mind that you did your due diligence on crafting your email. While Litmus does provide some reporting you will not see every typical analytic an email report offers. However, you can use your Litmus data to enhance your email reports which in turn creates a robust view of email performance.
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Pros
Email On Acid Inc.
  • Email Spam Testing
  • Email Code Editing
  • Email Previews Across Multiple Providers
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Validity
  • We haven’t explored the personalization features in depth yet, aside from using the Add-to-Calendar option, but we're excited to dig in further. Tools like live polls offer an easy way to boost engagement in our product marketing emails, and we see a lot of potential in using these templates to enhance personalization moving forward.
  • Litmus’ continuing education resources have been really helpful. I recently read an article on email deliverability that offered practical insights my team can apply moving forward. I especially appreciate how Litmus uses real examples and stats from the brands they work with—it makes the content feel actionable and relevant.
  • Online Training.
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Cons
Email On Acid Inc.
  • Limites Reporting and Analytics
  • It a little slow when it comes to Rendering email clients
  • The user interface is not so friendly
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Validity
  • I've not seen many limitations but I have noticed that sometimes emails sent from our CRM take too long to land in Litmus, or sometimes don't land at all.
  • As a beginner it was quite difficult for me to make my way around the platform - I thought "Create new" CTA was actually creating something new, maybe "Import from CRM" would have been more understandable. There were a few others but I remember this one.
  • In the Emails section, whenever I hover over an email, I want to be able to copy the subject line instead of getting the different CTAs appear intrusively (Summary, Builder, Previews & QA, Proof, Analytics, Monitor) - maybe these could appear on the bottom of the textbox, instead of them being imposed on top?
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Likelihood to Renew
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
It's one the best tools that we've found for this type of tool but we would like some additional features like spell check so if there's a platform that features that with everything else Litmus has, then we'd potentially look to move over to that platform instead. However, we are overall pretty help with the platform
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Usability
Email On Acid Inc.
I'd rate Email on Acid a 7 out of 10 for overall usability. It is intuitive, reliable, and greatly enhances the QA process for email campaigns, though there's still some room for improvement in speed and report flexibility. For example: the previews sometimes take longer during peek hours, especially for complex or image-heavy emails
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Validity
Litmus has integrations that make the software an integrated part of my work every day. Being able to test right within my email builder is just brilliant. Daily I also use the web interface to review analytics and spam testing. Overall it is one of the pieces of software I use daily without any complaints or issues.
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Reliability and Availability
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
We have never had a problem with Litmus being unavailable so I would say their availability is fantastic. There might have been one time years ago that the site was down briefly but it also might have been a server issue on my end. Either way, Litmus was back up and running in a very short time
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Performance
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
As with all technology, there are inevitably use-cases where you are unable to get to your original goal without some good old-fashioned experimenting. Some situations will (and are) more urgent which complicates an effective integration of a new process or a new team using an existing process but the "issues" are regularly resolved by re-starting the process specific to when Litmus is introduced to a project. If it doesn't come out the way you're anticipating, run it again and verify there is an issue before declaring all is lost
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Support Rating
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
I am always so so impressed with the litmus support team. They are not only prompt but attentive and offer very personalised responses and support
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In-Person Training
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
I had internal training for how to use, not lead by litmus. Unsure if there was any external training which took place before my time
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Online Training
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
It has all the required information.
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Implementation Rating
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
I didn’t really personally participate much in the implementation of Litmus, but from what I observed during the process, it was a smooth process with minimal disruptions. The team was able to get up and running quickly, and the platform’s user-friendly interface made onboarding fairly easy for everyone involved from the start.
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Alternatives Considered
Email On Acid Inc.
Email On Acid is very similar to Litmus, but perhaps slightly more reliable. I have used both extensively, and prefer Email On Acid.
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Validity
This is not applicable to my role as I have used Litmus to test emails since I have started. Because of the ease of use, timeliness, consistent quality, and affordability that Litmus offers, I haven't found the need to look at similar products or organizations. If all of these features continue to stay strong, I don't plan on changing providers
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Scalability
Email On Acid Inc.
No answers on this topic
Validity
With our enterprise account, scalability is not an issue. I have not yet seen or heard of significant issues with user access, API connections for integrations etc. This includes down time for "Scheduled Maintenance" as some providers call them, Litmus has the technology backing to support a global team with a 24-hour workday across regions
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Return on Investment
Email On Acid Inc.
  • Ability to send over 1000 previews spanning across 90 email clients.
  • Saves a lot of time getting emails out the door.
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Validity
  • Litmus saves our team so much time by making the QA and email review process so much easier, streamlined, and efficient.
  • We often send out campaigns out to thousands of members, and Litmus gives us the assurance and peace of mind that everything is working as it should before it gets sent out.
  • Decreases the number of email review cycles we go through.
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ScreenShots

Email on Acid Screenshots

Screenshot of Whether you know HTML or not, our new Campaign Precheck gives you the power to fix email mistakes while you QA, so you can create a message that every subscriber can read and understand.Screenshot of See what your email looks like on more than 70 clients and devices. View the emails in portrait or landscape so you know how your email will look for every subscriber.Screenshot of Test and edit instantly. Simply load up your email and tweak the code in our editor – you’ll see the preview change as you adjust the code.Screenshot of Whether you’re an email marketer or a developer, our tools can help your team streamline the email testing process. Use the “share” link to easily send test results to team members and clients. Our mark-up tool also allows reviewers to draw or comment within the email previews.Screenshot of Image validation makes sure your images render properly on every email client and device, so you can reach more subscribers on more platforms.Screenshot of Email testing, simplified. Send a test email directly from your email service provider or upload your HTML to our system. We’ll help you spot funky formatting, broken links and code problems.

Litmus from Validity Screenshots

Screenshot of Litmus Personalize Essentials, with live polls to give subscribers a voice and drive email engagement.Screenshot of Litmus Email Guardian, featuring 24/7 link monitoring to safeguard emails.Screenshot of Litmus' integrated insights reports, that can automatically combine metrics from Salesforce Marketing Cloud with subscriber engagement insights from Litmus.Screenshot of campaign preview, available in 100+ popular email clientsScreenshot of Litmus' inbox previewing and feedback tools, that help users to spot and fix issues early.