The index
The sorting office
Everything filed here. Platforms that have been weighed carry a score in the right-hand corner; the tariff workings carry a postmark. Both get pulled back out and re-read whenever a price board changes.
Weighed at the counter
Buttondown Review (2026): The Newsletter Tool That Sells You Nothing Else
Buttondown charges for sending and nothing else, bills only on active subscribers, and prints a sentence about send frequency that most pricing pages would rather you missed.
Weighed 7.4/10
MailerLite Review (2026): Cheap, Capable, and Half the Free Plan It Was
MailerLite still has the lowest serious paid rate in this category. It also cut its free plan by half its subscribers and four fifths of its sends in June, and that changes who it suits.
Weighed 8.0/10Tariff workings
What a Newsletter Platform Can and Cannot Promise About Deliverability
Vendors advertise delivery rates in the high nineties. Those figures are self-reported, they measure something narrower than you think, and almost everything that decides whether your email is read is on your side of the line.
10 SEPT 2026
Moving a Newsletter List Without Losing Half of It
Exporting addresses is the easy part of leaving a newsletter platform. The archive, the paying subscribers and the URLs are where migrations go wrong, and each of them needs handling before you cancel anything.
04 SEPT 2026
Why Newsletter Pricing Is a Staircase, and Nobody Prints the Steps
Subscriber-metered pricing is advertised at its cheapest rung and sold through a slider. Here is how the staircase is built, why comparison tables cannot quote it honestly, and how to budget for it anyway.
28 AUG 2026
Who Takes a Cut of Your Reader Payments
A revenue share is the most expensive line in newsletter pricing and the one most often left off the comparison. Here is what each platform takes, how it stacks with payment processing, and where a flat fee overtakes a percentage.
19 AUG 2026
What the Meter Actually Counts on Your Newsletter Bill
Two platforms can quote the same price for ten thousand subscribers and bill you differently, because they do not agree on what a subscriber is. The definition is in the documentation, not on the pricing page.
14 AUG 2026
Free Newsletter Plans and the Caps That End Them
Every free newsletter plan ends somewhere. What separates them is which limit you hit first, what the platform does when you hit it, and whether the ceiling you signed up under is still the ceiling today.
06 AUG 2026