Newsletter platforms
listmonk privacy rating
Self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager distributed as a single binary with a PostgreSQL database, with a web dashboard, templates, subscriber lists and transactional email API.
Summary
listmonk scores 80 out of 100 (grade B) on the newsletter platforms criteria. It meets 3 of 4 criteria: open source, no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales. It does not meet independent audit.
Score 80 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No telemetry or analytics in the source code, and individual subscriber tracking is off by default.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Free open source software with no ads.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
listmonk has built-in support for Forward Email bounce webhooks (source), and Forward Email supports sending newsletters and mailing lists over SMTP, so the two work together for a self-hosted newsletter setup.