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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mailtrap

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AMailtrap is an email platform for developer and product teams that send emails at scale. It is designed to send emails with a focus on high deliverability rates, fast delivery, and protecting sender reputation. The service includes 24/7 technical support. The benefits of using Mailtrap, as described by the vendor include: High deliverability & fast delivery: 99.99% platform uptime, dedicated IPs, auto warm-up, and throttling. Multi-tenant accounts also…

    $15

    per month Emails or contacts

    MailUp

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AMailUp is the eponymous email & SMS platform from the Italian company that was founded in 2002 that now has a modest but respectable presence across the western world with a diverse customer base (Yamaha, Amnesty International, Korean Air, etc.). Mailup's platform combines email marketing, with transactional email and SMS features, and offers SMTP relay and plugins for ecommerce, CRM and CMS systems. Their unusual pricing scheme is tiered just on subscribers but on volume of sends and that…N/A
    Pricing
    MailtrapMailUp
    Editions & Modules
    Email Marketing
    $15
    per month Contacts
    Email API/SMTP
    $15
    per month Emails
    Email Sandbox
    $17
    per month Test emails
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MailtrapMailUp
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsEach plan's price in the table is its starting point. They vary based on the number of emails, test emails or contacts per month. Mailtrap can be tried with a free forever version of Email API/SMTP, Email Sandbox, or Email Marketing.—
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    Features
    MailtrapMailUp
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Mailtrap and MailUp
    Feature
    Mailtrap
    -
    Ratings
    MailUp
    9.5
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    MailtrapMailUp
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    User Testimonials
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    Railsware
    As I said, Mailtrap is particularly well-suited for software development teams working on email functionality within their applications. All the automation and intuitive environment helped us create a workflow that's almost set and forget.
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    MailUp
    Great for marketing teams looking to quickly deploy emails without the need for HTML coding.
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    Pros
    Railsware
    • Flexible for engineering teams. Mailtrap works well in environments where multiple developers are responsible for email functionality.
    • We're on the Enterprise plan which allows for customizations for our needs. For example, we had a request not to record email bodies for privacy reasons, and Mailtrap enabled that pretty fast.
    • The user experience is awesome. The platform is easy to use and the support team responds fast and helps us out with any questions.
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    MailUp
    • Email marketing creation
    • Email design
    • HTML template creation
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    Cons
    Railsware
    • Inbox placement analysis - currently, Mailtrap does not offer inbox placement analysis. But their analytics dashboard compensates well for that.
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    MailUp
    • Alt tag styling within the editor
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    Railsware
    sendgrid is powerful for email delivery, but Mailtrap's dedicated testing environment and focus on development teams made it the clear choice for our needs. Its ability to simulate various email scenarios without affecting real users is unmatched. Plus, their sending is reliable, regardless of your volume.
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    MailUp
    Mailup has hands down the best editor for creating responsive emails, I've tried almost everything out there and this is the best, I recommend this to colleagues all the time!
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    Return on Investment
    Railsware
    • Efficiency - Made testing emails faster, so we can launch new features quicker.
    • Reliability - Enhanced the reliability of our email notifications (transactional emails). It really improved our customer satisfaction.
    • Cost-Effective - Avoided the need for multiple tools and saved us money by consolidating our email testing, sending, and management.
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    MailUp
    • Faster email development
    • More team members able to contribute to the email development process
    • Better templates
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    ScreenShots

    Mailtrap Screenshots

    Screenshot of a display of specific data, such as Bounce Rate, Open Rate, Spam Rate, and Click Rate.Screenshot of the Mailtrap API, or it can be used by setting Mailtrap as SMTP server in a project, app, or sending service.

    MailUp Screenshots

    Screenshot of Manage lists. With MailUp, you can manage mailing lists, groups and sending profiles, automatically eliminating duplicate addresses and handling users who cancel their subscription. The procedure is guided, quick and safe. The utmost simplicity, with no need to install additional software. Not bad, right?Screenshot of he winning variable, with mathematical certainty
With A/B testing, discover, prior to mailing, what your recipients prefer to read, by automatically testing several versions of the same text, measuring its effectiveness on a select group. Opening results improve by up to 30% and, for each version, you have more statistical information. Mailing after mailing, you can only do better!Screenshot of Creating emails for mobile devices is easy
Free your creativity and create emails and newsletters that have great visual impact, optimised for mobile devices. While you concentrate on the content of your campaign, MailUp takes care of the rest with the aid of an intelligent editor and plenty of cutting-edge functions. Not bad, right?Screenshot of Countless ways to create your messages.

There's not only BEE with which create messages. You can start with HTML documents, RSS/Atom, URL or choose from hundreds of graphic models. Starting with an empty email? The convenient WYSIWYG editor helps you put your messages together with just a few clicks. It's all up to you!Screenshot of .and you can do the same with unsubscribe lists.

Automatic management of unsubscribe lists allows you to activate the UNSUBSCRIBE button directly in the email client interface. The unsubscribers list also shows a list of users who performed this action, which may be edited and exported. This function also allows you to make up random groups of users, specifying the number of subscribers. This makes it easier to manage random sampling and A/B testing.Product screenshot