About Unlayer
Unlayer is a commercial developer platform that lets software companies add content creation to their own applications. Instead of building an editor from scratch, a product team embeds Unlayer's visual builders for emails, pages, popups and documents and gives its users a drag-and-drop interface.
Around the builders sits a set of building blocks: reusable and lockable branded templates, AI workflows that help users generate, rewrite and personalize copy, a media and asset manager, and export APIs that produce HTML, PDF, image, plain text and ZIP output on the server or client. Code-first Elements let developers define custom components in React, Angular or Vue.
The developer platform adds SDKs, APIs, a CLI, agent skills and events for extending the product. Unlayer is sold as a hosted service, with documentation, a sign-in for existing users and a published pricing page; it suits SaaS teams that need email or page editing as a feature.
Key features
- Embeddable drag-and-drop email builder
- Page, popup and document builders
- Lockable branded templates
- AI workflows for writing and rewriting
- Export to HTML, PDF and images
- Code-first Elements in React, Angular and Vue
- SDKs, APIs and CLI for developers
Good fit for
- →SaaS products adding an email editor
- →Platforms offering branded template management
- →Apps generating PDF documents from templates
- Tags
- email-builder
- embeddable-editor
- drag-and-drop
- sdk
- developer-platform
- templates
- pdf-export
Unlayer: questions and answers
- What is Unlayer used for?
- Unlayer is a developer platform for embedding drag-and-drop email, page, popup and document builders into SaaS products, with templates, AI and export APIs. It is a good fit for SaaS products adding an email editor, platforms offering branded template management and apps generating PDF documents from templates.
- Is Unlayer free?
- Yes. Unlayer has a free plan, and paid plans start at $250 per month. A free trial is also available.
- Is Unlayer open source?
- No. Unlayer is proprietary (closed-source) software. In the Email Marketing category, open-source options include Postal, Plunk and Laudspeaker.
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