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Both cover email marketing & automation. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Behaviour-driven email built on a flow editor
Email, automation and webinars on one bill
Encharge | GetResponse | |
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $79 | From $15.58 |
| Pricing model | Free trial, then paid | Free trial, then paid |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | 14 days | 14 days |
| API | Yes | Yes |
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Behaviour-driven email built on a flow editor
Encharge builds email around what somebody did in the product rather than which list they landed on, and the flow editor is where that happens: a visual canvas with branching, waits and conditions instead of a linear sequence. It reads events from the product and from the CRM, which is what makes the branching worth having. Email verification is included rather than billed. This is aimed at a software product with a funnel, so a writer with a subscriber list is paying for machinery they will never open.
Our note
Only buy this if you have product events worth branching on, because that is the entire difference between it and a $9 newsletter tool. If your segmentation is really just tags and signup source, ActiveCampaign or MailerLite will do the same job for a fraction of the price.
Email, automation and webinars on one bill
GetResponse has been sending email since before most of its competitors existed, and it kept adding: landing pages, funnels, paid webinars, an ecommerce push. For a creator selling a course that breadth removes two other subscriptions. It also means the interface carries twenty years of features, and the newer tools feel lighter to use.
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| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Their cut | None | Not stated |
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| Runs on | Web | Web |
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| Covers | Email Marketing & Automation | Email Marketing & Automation, Landing Pages & Funnels, Newsletter & Email |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
The webinar tool is the reason to pick this over Kit or MailerLite, and it is worth real money if you run live sessions. If you do not, you are paying for twenty years of features to send email that those two send more pleasantly.
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