The best email template builders of 2026

Stripo is a drag-and-drop editor for email templates that you design once and then send to the platform you mail from. Stripo says it exports to more than 90 email platforms and has more than 1,650 free HTML templates, and it adds interactive email widgets and an AI generator for templates and subject lines.

The free plan is enough to learn the editor. It stores 10 emails and allows 4 exports a month, but Stripo's own FAQ says it leaves out exporting straight to your email platform, inviting colleagues, previews in email clients and test sends to anyone except you. Basic costs $20 a month or $200 a year and adds premium templates, 50 exports a month and 50 stored emails for two members. Medium costs $45 a month for three members and 300 exports, and Pro costs $125 a month for ten members and 4,000 exports. Prime, for up to 100 teammates, is priced by sales.

Watch the export limits when you pick a plan. A team that sends two or three campaigns a week fits in Basic, while an agency building emails for many clients will move to Medium quickly. If you want unlimited exports for less, Tabular and RGE Studio both include them on cheaper plans.

Beefree's email builder is now called RGE Studio. It sits with Really Good Emails, the email design gallery, which is part of Beefree. The editor is the drag-and-drop builder many teams know from Beefree, and it builds landing pages as well as emails.

The free Starter plan allows unlimited users, which few builders do, but it caps you at 10 designs, 6 exports a month, 3 custom templates and 2 reusable blocks, and it keeps only the last 2 versions of each design. Professional costs $30 a month, or $25 a month billed yearly, and removes the design and export caps for 2 users. Extra editors cost $15 a month each. It also adds an AI writing assistant, 4 view-only users and 4 HTML imports a month. Business costs $160 a month ($134 billed yearly) and adds built-in approval workflows, a QA assistant, 10 view-only users and a second workspace. You can try Business free for 15 days.

RGE Studio suits a team where one or two people build emails and others need to look and comment before anything goes out. Business is a big step up from Professional, so use the trial to check whether you need its approval workflows before you pay for them.

Tabular is a newer drag-and-drop email builder, and its Pro plan is one of the cheapest ways to get unlimited exports. Tabular's pricing page shows euros from our location, but the US dollar prices it loads are $29 a month (or $290 a year) for Plus, $42 a month ($420 a year) for Pro and $99 a month ($990 a year) for Organization.

The free plan stores 3 emails and allows 3 exports a month and 5 email previews a day. Plus gives 2 members unlimited stored emails, 100 exports a month and 50 previews a day. Pro raises that to 3 members and unlimited exports, and Organization to 5 members with 300 previews a day. Every plan, free included, gets the full library of templates and premade email blocks, plus unlimited guests, so a client can look over an email without taking a paid seat.

Tabular fits a freelancer or a small agency that turns out a lot of emails and doesn't need a huge template gallery. Before you pay, use the free plan to export a test email to the platform you send from and check that it arrives the way you built it.

Postcards comes from Designmodo. You build emails from more than 100 ready-made modules, then export to platforms including HubSpot, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Brevo, Kit and Mailjet, or download the HTML to use anywhere. You can open the editor without signing up.

The free Start plan gives you 10 template projects, 5 exports a month, 10 test emails a day and unlimited teammates, but no AI credits. Plus costs $16 a month billed yearly, or $19 month to month, for one editor. It adds unlimited projects, 20 exports a month (5 a day), 5,000 AI credits, 20 email client previews a month, countdown timers and AMP email. Pro costs $24 a month billed yearly, or $29 monthly, and includes three editors, unlimited exports and 10,000 AI credits. Extra editors cost $8 each on either paid plan, and viewers are free.

Postcards has the cheapest paid plan among the dedicated builders here, and the module library makes it quick to put together a tidy newsletter. The 20-export cap on Plus is tight for anyone who sends several campaigns a week, so regular senders should look at Pro, the cheapest unlimited-export plan in this guide.

If you send from one email platform and only build your own emails, the editor inside that platform may be all you need. MailerLite is a good example. Its free plan includes all three of its editors (drag and drop, custom HTML and a simple text editor) for up to 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month, with two user seats, and paid plans start at $12 a month.

Building where you send removes the export step. You design the email, send a test and schedule the campaign from the same screen, and you never have to check whether a design survived the trip from one tool to another. The custom HTML editor also means a developer can paste in code from MJML or another builder when you want something the drag-and-drop editor can't do.

The free plan's newsletter templates are limited, and the editor works only for emails you send from MailerLite. A dedicated builder such as Stripo makes more sense when you send from several platforms or build emails for clients. For a wider look at senders, see our email marketing software guide.

Chamaileon sells to teams with many people involved in each email. Every plan includes as many seats as your team needs, and external viewers and the people who receive test emails don't count toward them. You get unlimited email code and PDF exports and unlimited test emails to any address.

The price matches that audience. Chamaileon doesn't list fixed plans; it quotes each customer, starting from $4,000 a year or $400 a month. It gives 25% off to social-impact nonprofits and 25% off to customers who agree to a case study, which includes a video interview within three months of subscribing. The pricing page doesn't describe a free plan or the length of a trial, so book a call to ask.

For one or two people building their own emails, Chamaileon costs far more than you need, and Stripo or RGE Studio cover the editing for a fraction of the price. It starts to make sense when a dozen or more people touch every email and per-seat charges on other builders start to add up.

Litmus made its name with inbox previews, which show how an email renders across email clients and devices, and it also has an email builder. The builder has a drag-and-drop editor for anyone on the team and an HTML builder for designers and developers, with custom code modules and previews while you build. Litmus is now part of Validity Engage, Validity's email platform.

On Litmus Plus, the builder syncs with Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp and HubSpot. Enterprise adds more platforms, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, Acoustic Campaign and Marketo. Litmus doesn't publish prices: its pricing page leads to a sales form, so expect a quote rather than a card checkout. Eligible nonprofits can ask for a discount.

Choose Litmus if broken layouts in Outlook or Gmail cost you real money and you want building and testing in one place, with one vendor to deal with. If you build in another editor and only want testing, Email on Acid publishes its prices, starting at $99 a month for 1,000 previews. Its owner says Mailgun Inspect is succeeding it, so check which product you are buying.

Unlayer is for developers. You embed its email, page, popup and document builders in your own software, so your customers design emails without leaving your product. Unlayer says more than 1,000 software companies use it, and it is backed by Y Combinator. For React, Angular and Vue projects it also has Elements, components that render to email, web or PDF.

The free plan includes the email, page, popup and document builders. Every paid plan comes with a 14-day free trial. Launch costs $250 a month for 5,000 exports and adds white labeling, an image editor, an AI assistant and an AI template importer. Scale costs $750 a month for 25,000 exports and adds team collaboration, custom blocks and inbox previews. The top published plan costs $2,000 a month for 100,000 exports and adds custom CSS and AMP. Yearly billing takes 10% off, and extra exports cost $50 a month for each 10,000.

The closest rival is the Beefree SDK, which has a free plan for prototyping with 10 users and paid plans from $400 a month. Compare the two on what each export costs you and on which features you need under your own brand. Neither one is meant for a marketer who wants to design their own emails.

MJML is an open-source markup language for email. You write short tags such as <mj-section> and <mj-column>, and MJML turns them into the nested tables and inline CSS that email clients need for a responsive layout. A team of Mailjet developers created it in 2015, it is released under the MIT license, and version 5.4.1 came out on September 10, 2026.

It costs nothing. Because your templates are plain text files, you can keep them in Git, review each change and reuse the same components across projects. You can try it in the browser on the MJML site before you install anything, and the HTML it produces works in any email platform that accepts custom code.

MJML has no drag-and-drop editor, so someone on your team needs to be comfortable writing code. If marketers also need to edit emails, pair it with a visual builder or pick one of the tools above. Mailjet, where MJML started, has its own drag-and-drop tool called Passport if you also need a sending service.