About Litmus
Litmus is a commercial tool for making sure marketing emails look right everywhere. Teams paste or send a draft into Litmus and see previews across a wide range of email clients and devices, catching rendering problems before a campaign goes out.
Its capabilities have grown to cover email monitoring, design, building, personalization, testing, deliverability, and collaboration and review, along with AI and emerging email technologies. The company is now part of Validity and presents these capabilities within an AI-powered platform called Validity Engage. Litmus is a hosted service used mainly by email marketers, designers and agencies.
Key features
- Previews across email clients and devices
- Pre-send email testing
- Collaboration and review workflows
- Deliverability and monitoring tools
- Email building and personalization
- Integrations with email platforms
Good fit for
- →Checking rendering before a big send
- →Review and approval of email designs
- Tags
- email-testing
- email-preview
- deliverability
- email-design
- collaboration
- validity
- email-marketing
Litmus: questions and answers
- What is Litmus used for?
- Litmus is an email testing and preview platform that checks how campaigns render across inboxes and devices, now part of Validity Engage. It is a good fit for checking rendering before a big send, and review and approval of email designs.
- How much does Litmus cost?
- Litmus is a paid product with no free plan.
- Is Litmus open source?
- No. Litmus is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Email Marketing category, open-source options include Listmonk, Mautic and BillionMail.
- What are some alternatives to Litmus?
- Litmus competes with Mailtrap and Campaign Monitor.
Open-source alternatives to Litmus
See all
Listmonk
Email Marketing
High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 24k
Mautic
Email Marketing
Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.
OSSvs HubSpot★ 11k
BillionMail
Email Marketing
BillionMail gives you open-source MailServer, NewsLetter, Email Marketing — fully self-ho
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 16k
Notifuse
Email Marketing
Open-source, self-hosted newsletter, email marketing and transactional email platform. Vis
OSSvs Mailchimp★ 2.2k
Mailtrain
Email Marketing
Self hosted newsletter app
GPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 5.8k
phpList
Email Marketing
Fully functional Open Source email marketing manager for creating, sending, integrating, a
AGPL-3.0vs Mailchimp★ 874
SaaS alternatives to Litmus
See all
Mailtrap
Email Marketing
Email sandbox for testing plus a sending API for transactional email
SaaS
Campaign Monitor
Email Marketing
Email design and sending platform for marketers and agencies
SaaS
Flodesk
Email Marketing
Email design and automation tool with ready-made templates for creators
SaaS
AWeber
Email Marketing
Email marketing and newsletter tool with automation and landing pages
SaaS
Benchmark Email
Email Marketing
Email marketing tool with a drag-and-drop editor and contact management
SaaS
Campaigner
Email Marketing
Email marketing automation platform with segmentation and workflows
SaaS

