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Drag-and-drop editor for mobile-ready HTML emails — the thing Listmonk conspicuously lacks.
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What it is
An email editor built as a React component, so it is a piece you add to your own screen rather than a program you run. React is the common way to build a web interface in JavaScript. It produces the HTML that mail programs need, and it supports variables that are filled in per reader, blocks that appear only when a condition is met, buttons, images and dividers. There is a hosted version at maily.to, and the editor itself is MIT licensed.What it is good for. Anyone building a product that sends email their customers can design themselves. The problem it removes is writing an email editor, which is a month of work nobody wants. Edition 21 gave you email-builder-js, which does very nearly the same thing, and the honest comparison is this. email-builder-js comes from Waypoint, is a little more of a complete kit including a viewer, and looks plainer. maily.to has the better writing experience and its variables and conditional blocks are stronger, which matters if your emails are personalised. Both are React only and both are MIT. Pick on which editor you would rather use, because that is the real difference.
- Variables and conditional blocks are built in, which is the part most editors leave to you.
- It is a component, so it sits inside your own application with your own styling around it.
- MIT licence, and it works with the common sending services rather than assuming one.
- React only. If your interface is built another way, this is not usable.
- The repository publishes no GitHub releases at all, so you track it on npm. That is a publishing habit and not a health signal, and the latest package was published on 3 February 2026.
- It is the editor and nothing more. Sending, lists, and tracking are somebody else's job — see Listmonk from Edition 2 and useSend from Edition 18 #5.
usewaypoint/email-builder-jsVery nearly the same tool and the same licence, with a plainer editor and a more complete kit including a reader component.
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maizzle/frameworkNot an editor at all: you write the email in HTML with Tailwind and it prepares it for mail programs, which suits a developer and not a customer.
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# Inside your own React project: npm install @maily-to/core # It is a component you render, and it gives you back the HTML. # The starting example is in the repository: # https://github.com/arikchakma/maily.to#readme # To try the editor before you build anything: # https://maily.to
