Open-source Loops alternatives

Plunk is an open-source email platform that combines transactional email, marketing campaigns and workflow automation in a single product. Developers can send messages from an API with templates and variable substitution, or use Plunk as an SMTP relay so that existing tools and frameworks can send through it.

Marketing features include campaigns for newsletters and product updates, dynamic segments, and contact management with custom fields and activity history. Workflows add triggers, delays and conditional logic, analytics track opens, clicks and bounces, custom domains are verified with DKIM and SPF, and inbound emails can be received and routed with custom rules.

Plunk is positioned as an open-source, self-hosted alternative to services such as SendGrid, Resend and Mailgun. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0, written in TypeScript, and can be deployed from an official Docker image following the project's documentation. The README cites a rate of $0.001 per email with no contact limits.

Notifuse is a modern, self-hosted emailing platform for sending newsletters and transactional email at a fraction of the cost of hosted services. It is built with Go and React and presented as an open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, MailerLite, and Klaviyo. The input lists its license only as other.

Email marketing features include a drag-and-drop visual builder with MJML components and live preview, campaign scheduling, A/B testing of subject lines, content, and send times, list segmentation, and contact profiles with custom fields. Automations use a visual canvas with nodes for delays, emails, branches, filters, list changes, A/B tests, and webhooks, and Liquid templating personalizes messages. Messages are sent through seven providers, with topics naming Amazon SES, Mailgun, Postmark, and SendGrid.

For people who prefer not to run it themselves, Notifuse Cloud offers managed hosting, which the README says starts at 16 dollars per month, and a live demo is available. It suits marketers and developers who want lower costs and control over subscriber data.

Dittofeed is an omni-channel customer engagement platform. Teams use it to send one-off broadcasts or build automated, event-driven user journeys that reach people by email, mobile push notifications, SMS, WhatsApp, Slack and other channels. The project positions itself as a developer-friendly, open-source alternative to OneSignal, Customer.io and Segment Engage.

A typical setup starts by connecting user data through Segment, reverse ETL or the Dittofeed API. You then build segments with multiple operators, design message templates in HTML, MJML or a low-code editor, and send through providers such as SendGrid or Amazon SES. A dashboard tracks message performance, and the tools can be embedded in another product through an iframe or a headless React component.

The core is written in TypeScript and licensed under MIT. It can be self-hosted with Docker Compose or deployed to Render, and a hosted cloud trial is also offered. According to the README, features such as multi-tenancy, embedding and white-labeling belong to a separate licensed, closed-source codebase that you can ask the team about.