Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
6 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Email marketing with a free plan that lasts
AWeber offers a free plan that lasts and paid from $12.50, plain newsletter sending; the roundup-shaped editor is what you would be leaving behind.
Email marketing that stays cheap as lists grow
MailerLite is a general newsletter tool priced to stay cheap as the list grows, free tier then $12, with the weekly link-collecting flow left for you to do by hand.
Email for lists that outgrew a free plan
EmailOctopus is the budget general option at $9 with its own free plan, built for lists that outgrew a free tier elsewhere.
Email marketing built around automation
Kit is email marketing built around automation, with a free tier and paid from $29; what you give up is an issue that assembles itself from collected links.
Newsletters with paid subscriptions and referrals
beehiiv suits the essayist a link-digest tool underserves, with paid subscriptions and referral growth built in; free tier, then paid from $49.
Works with Substack
Paid subscriptions with a reader network attached
Substack is free, with paid subscriptions and a reader network attached, and fits prose newsletters more naturally than assembled link digests.
Works with Podcast, Substack
