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
Validity Engage
Score9 out of 10
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Validity Engage is an email marketing platform for high-volume enterprise marketing teams. It covers competitor intelligence, contact validation, design and testing, deliverability, and live email monitoring.
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Email on Acid
Validity Engage
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The Basics
$86
month
Premium
$132
month
Professional
$499
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Email on Acid
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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 …
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Verified User
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.
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Validity
Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Validity Engage has more functionality. But Email on Acid is also useful. I have used Email on Acid as well and it is very useful. I would say it depends on where you're in the organization. You may want to start with Email on Acid and then move to Validity Engage once you have …
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Senior Marketing Technology Analyst in Marketing at Bounteous (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Validity Engage
We evaluated Validity Engage against Email on Acid and ultimately opted for Validity Engage due to its more expansive functionality and workflow. In fairness, Email on Acid offered a good rendering tool, but Validity Engage went further with engagement analytics, heatmaps and …
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Validity Engage is much more user-friendly and easier to use, and it comes with additional features that weren't available in Email on Acid.
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CRM Marketing Manager in Marketing at Crystalbrook Collection (Hospitality, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Validity Engage
Having used both, I definitely prefer Validity Engage over Email on Acid. It's a little more intuitive in terms of UI, and previews load faster. The integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud also sets it apart further.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
We've tried Email on Acid in the past and Validity Engage has a much more advanced offering. The user interface is superior and they are constantly innovating and rolling out new features.
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Email on Acid years ago. It really is adoption that's shortchanging our use of Validity Engage.
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Automations Manager in Marketing at Amused Group (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Validity Engage
Email on Acid and BrowserStack. Both are good, but great to see Validity Engage investing, though the Dark mode preview doesn't really help much in builder.
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
I prefer Validity Engage, the proofing features put it over the top for us.
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
I prefer the user interface and I like that its possible to join it with Salesforce
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Validity Engage 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.
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
We selected Validity Engage 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 …
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Overall better user interface, product and pricing. Validity Engage is very well-known in the industry.
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
More robust device/client previews and accessibility testing, better SFMC integration
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Validity Engage 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. Validity Engage is always coming out with …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
Validity Engage has a better UI and is friendlier to non-email building people who need to collaborate and leave comments
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Verified User
Chose Validity Engage
I prefer the Build feature on Validity Engage, as it allows me to share those previews with others. In addition, there seems to be a greater selection of available email previews. Finally, Validity Engage is just easier to use and understand.
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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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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. Validity Engage provides peace of mind that you did your due diligence on crafting your email. While Validity Engage does provide some reporting you will not see every typical analytic an email report offers. However, you can use your Validity Engage data to enhance your email reports which in turn creates a robust view of email performance.
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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.
Validity Engage’ 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 Validity Engage uses real examples and stats from the brands they work with—it makes the content feel actionable and relevant.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
I've not seen many limitations but I have noticed that sometimes emails sent from our CRM take too long to land in Validity Engage, 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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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 Validity Engage 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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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 Engage 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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We have never had a problem with Validity Engage 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, Validity Engage was back up and running in a very short time.
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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 Validity Engage 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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Absolutely fantastic support. It runs circles around the competition. They regularly reach out and chat, even if it's just to see if there's any issues we need to discuss. They clearly want the business and don't forget you once you sign the contract which is an issue with other similar services.
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I didn’t really personally participate much in the implementation of Validity Engage, 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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
This is not applicable to my role as I have used Validity Engage to test emails since I have started. Because of the ease of use, timeliness, consistent quality, and affordability that Validity Engage 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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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, Validity Engage has the technology backing to support a global team with a 24-hour workday across regions.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Validity Engage 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 Validity Engage 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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