Listmonk
High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 237 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v7.0.0-beta.1 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Mailchimp.
At a glance
Listmonk quick facts
- Health score
- 98/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 24,059
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v7.0.0-beta.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Listmonk
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "listmonk is a standalone, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager. It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Listmonk scores 98/100, #1 of 12 in Communication - Email - Mailing Lists and Newsletters: 237 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v7.0.0-beta.1, 10 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 24,059 stars add 17.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 2.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
237 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v7.0.0-beta.1 released 10 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 17.5 / 20
24k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 237
- Last 90 days
- 463
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #1 of 12 tools in Communication - Email - Mailing Lists and Newsletters by health , just above Keila (#2) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v7.0.0-beta.1 · 10 days ago |
| Stars | 24,059 |
| Open issues | 67 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | knadh/listmonk ↗ |
Listmonk vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Listmonk (Communication - Email - Mailing Lists and Newsletters), scored on the same five terms.
Listmonk: common questions
What does Listmonk replace?
Repoly lists Listmonk as an open-source alternative to Mailchimp. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Listmonk stands against the others.
Is Listmonk still maintained?
Listmonk had 237 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v7.0.0-beta.1, is from 10 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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