15 Best Email Template Builders To Try in 2026

Email ToolsAndrian Valeanu and Laiba Siddiqui • Reviewed by Andrian Valeanu • Updated: September 30, 2026 • 17 minutes READ

An email template builder lets you design reusable, on-brand email layouts with buttons, images, columns, and brand colors, using drag-and-drop blocks instead of code. Some of the best options today include Stripo, Beefree, Mailchimp, Unlayer, and MailerLite, and each one takes a slightly different approach to speed, flexibility, and price.

If you’ve got a small team and a big contact list, a template builder is your fastest way out, because it means you don’t have to build a newsletter from scratch every week.

In this article, we’ll explore the 15 best email template builders in detail.

15 Best Email Template Builders

The best email template builders in 2026 include:

1. Postcards AI

Postcards AI Suite is the set of AI tools built into Designmodo’s Postcards email builder. You describe the email you want in plain language, and it builds or edits the whole template, including layout, copy, colors, and HTML.

Most AI email tools only rewrite text inside an existing design. AI Suite changes the design itself, so one prompt can restyle every button, restructure the layout, or turn a newsletter into a password reset email.

That makes it an all-in-one tool for marketers, agencies, and small teams that want finished, on-brand templates in minutes and already send through an email service.

More than 10,000 companies use Postcards, including Disney, GoDaddy, Cisco, and Adidas.

Standout Features

Its one-of-a-kind features include:

• Template type conversion: Turn a promotional newsletter into a transactional email, such as a password reset or order receipt. The layout, copy, and call-to-action buttons all restructure to fit.
• Global restyling: Describe a style change once, such as “set all button corners to 10px,” and AI Suite applies it to every matching element in the email.
• Matching content blocks: Add product cards, testimonials, or FAQ sections that match your existing fonts, colors, and spacing, with no manual restyling afterward.
• Translation into 40+ languages: Translate the copy, buttons, and alt text, including right-to-left languages like Arabic and Urdu. AI Suite also adjusts the layout for longer text.
• Brand setup from a URL: Import your logo, colors, and fonts from your website, so every template starts on-brand.
• One-prompt versions: Create a dark mode version, a mobile-first layout, a shorter A/B test variant, or a new tone of voice without rebuilding the email.
• AI HTML import: Upload an existing HTML email and AI Suite converts it into a fully editable Postcards template.

Beyond AI Suite, Postcards gives you:

• a drag-and-drop editor
• Figma import
• countdown timers
• Gmail Promotions annotations
• an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT
• one-click export to Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Brevo, and other email platforms

Limitations

Every AI Suite action, such as generating a template or applying a restyle, uses credits from your monthly allowance, so it’s not free.

Pricing

The free-forever plan gives you the full drag-and-drop editor, 10 template projects, 5 exports a month, 10 test emails a day, unlimited teammates, and API and MCP access.

However, AI Suite isn’t included on the free plan. It starts on the Plus plan at $19/month, which includes 5,000 AI credits a month.

2. Stripo

Stripo is an email design platform for creating responsive HTML emails without coding skills.

The platform is trusted by over 1.7 million users worldwide. It is designed for marketers, designers, and developers who need to quickly build professional email campaigns while still keeping full control over layout, structure, and customization.

Standout Features

• Drag-and-drop builder + HTML editor, so you can create email templates visually without coding using a drag-and-drop interface, or switch to a full HTML editor for advanced, code-level customization and complete design control.
• Prebuilt modules like headers, footers, CTA sections, and product cards.
• 1,650+ prebuilt email templates for different use cases.
• ESP integrations to connect and export directly to 90+ email service providers, including Mailchimp, HubSpot, Salesforce, Klaviyo, and more.
• AI tools to generate and improve email content with AI, including subject line creation, email copy enhancement, AI-generated images, and AI alt text optimization.
• Team collaboration features with custom roles and access levels for smooth teamwork and controlled email production.

Limitations

Emails exported for Outlook don’t always stay fully responsive. Stripo can also overwrite responsive code you add manually during export, so plan time for extra testing before you send.

Pricing

The free plan covers 2 team members, 4 exports a month, 5 test emails a day, and 10 stored emails. Paid plans start at $20/month.

3. Sender

Sender is an email marketing platform that offers an intuitive drag-and-drop email builder with responsive templates. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, you can create professional emails in minutes, even if you’re a beginner. Sender also offers popups for capturing quality leads, audience segmentation and real-time analytics.

The platform is trusted by over 180K businesses worldwide including Deloitte, Disney, and Emirates.

Standout Features

• Email and SMS marketing automation so your messages reach the right audience at the right time.
• Drag-and-drop email builder with responsive templates to create professional-looking emails in minutes.
• Easily capture leads and segment your audience based on their behaviors and preferences. Then, target them with tailored content that resonates with them.
• Live reporting and a newsletter heatmap to instantly see what works and what doesn’t so you can make data-driven decisions that enhance your strategies.
• 24/7 friendly customer support, even on the free plan, so you can receive the support you need whenever you need it.

Limitations

You may face some of these limitations too:

• The design editor offers fewer advanced options than larger platforms and doesn’t support AMP.
• Free-plan emails carry a “Sent via Sender” footer.
• Senders can suspend accounts with little warning, so keep your list clean and opt-in only.

Pricing

The free-forever plan covers up to 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails a month. It includes newsletters, automation, landing pages, signup forms, and transactional emails, with Sender branding. Its paid plans start at $9/month.

4. SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid is best known as an email API for developers, and its Marketing Campaigns product adds a template builder on top. You can switch between a visual Design Editor and a full Code Editor on the same email. This makes it suitable for teams where marketers and developers build emails together.

Standout Features

• The two-in-one email template builder lets you edit visually with a streamlined Design Editor and control every pixel with the Code editor.
• The code editor is backed by features that rival native developer tools, like error flagging, syntax highlighting, one-click-scroll syncing, and more.
• Has a library of highly customizable email templates with built-in CTAs curated across various industries.
• Responsive HTML email templates with reusable content blocks to prevent double work.
• Leverage role-based management for controlled access to view/edit templates based on the roles and departments.

Limitations

The drag-and-drop editor offers limited design options, and you can’t add custom HTML or CSS inside it. Reporting is basic too, so teams that need detailed performance reports often build them outside SendGrid.

Pricing

SendGrid doesn’t have a free-forever marketing plan. Instead, it offers a 60-day free trial that lets you store 100 contacts and send 100 emails a day. The trial includes both editors, segmentation, A/B testing, and automation. Its paid plans start at $15/month.

5. Brevo

Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, is an all-in-one marketing platform for email, SMS, WhatsApp, and CRM. It charges by the number of emails you send, not the size of your contact list. So if you run a business with large lists and send only a few campaigns a month, Brevo is a good option.

Standout Features

• Has a library of pre-built templates across various categories like newsletter, transactional, seasonal, or promotional emails.
• Built-in image editing tools allow you to edit images after adding them to the template.
• Offers an intuitive drag-and-drop editor for easy customization of chosen templates or creation of new ones.
• Personalize transactional emails using variables like customer names, prices, and products.
• Integrates with hundreds of third-party apps including helpdesks, CRMs, lead generation, payment services, and more.

Limitations

Templates may feel rigid next to design-focused builders, and highly custom layouts quickly hit the limits of the block editor. Brevo may also pause accounts that import older or inactive contact lists, so clean your list before you upload it.

Pricing

The free plan lets you send 300 emails a day. It includes the drag-and-drop editor, templates, an AI content generator, forms, and basic reporting. Brevo’s paid plans start at $9/month.

6. MailJet

Mailjet handles marketing newsletters and transactional emails from one account. Its editor lets marketers and developers comment on and edit the same email in real time, the way they would in Google Docs.

Standout Features

• Has an intuitive drag-and-drop interface to easily add content, photographs, videos, GIFs, and HTML code blocks, too.
• A library of pre-built newsletters and transactional templates; separate folders to manage draft or saved email templates
• Stay on-brand with reusable content blocks that can be saved and reused for future email campaigns.
• Use AI-powered writing assistants to generate compelling content and copy almost instantly into 21 languages.
• Collaboration tools are similar to that of Google Docs: share ideas, leave comments, and keep everyone on the same page.
• Developers can write responsive email code in MJML, an email-specific coding language, alongside the drag-and-drop editor.

Limitations

The editor can feel clunky when you change fonts and colors, and the template library is smaller than most. The free plan’s 200-emails-a-day cap also makes larger sends slow.

Pricing

The free plan lets you send 6,000 emails a month, capped at 200 a day, to up to 1,000 contacts. It also includes the full email editor. However, paid plans start at $9/month which includes advanced features.

7. MailerLite

MailerLite is a comprehensive HTML email template builder. And with AI, these editors can now help fill in the blanks and edit seamlessly without any bottlenecks.

Standout Features

• It offers three different editors for different purposes – drag and drop, HTML, and plain text editing.
• Find life-saving features like undo functionality, version tracking, and real-time previews to make editing error-free.
• Target diverse audiences from a single newsletter using dynamic content blocks and filtering who can see certain sections.
• Choose from a gallery of pre-built newsletter templates and customize it to fit your brand using any of the three editors.
• Generate content or copies on various topics within minutes and align brand voice using the built-in AI text generator.

Limitations

The editor can slow down or crash on larger emails, so save often. In addition, MailerLite manually approves every new account before it can send, which may delay your first campaign.

Pricing

The free plan covers up to 250 subscribers and 2,500 emails a month. It includes 2 user seats, community support, and up to 3 active automations. Its paid plans start at $12/month.

8. Beefree (now RGE Studio)

Beefree, renamed RGE Studio in 2026, is a drag-and-drop email and landing page builder that designs emails but doesn’t send them. It exports to more than 20 email platforms, including Salesforce Marketing Cloud, HubSpot, Klaviyo, and Mailchimp.

Its code renders reliably in Outlook, where many other builders’ emails break. That makes it a good fit for marketing teams and agencies that need consistent, on-brand emails across several email platforms. Netflix, L’Oréal, Volvo, and UNICEF use it.

Standout Features

• Beefree helps teams produce emails faster and keep them consistent:
• Synced rows: update a saved header or footer once, and the change applies to every design that uses it.
• Email-to-page conversion: turn an email into a landing page, or a landing page into an email, in one click.
• Really Good Emails gallery: browse 20,000+ real emails from brands for inspiration before you start designing.

Limitations

The email builder handles standard layouts well, but complex or highly custom designs can hit the limits of its editing options. In addition, fonts sometimes render differently in test sends than in the editor, so always send a test before your campaign.

Pricing

The free-forever Starter plan gives you up to 10 designs, 6 exports a month, 3 custom templates, and the landing page builder. It also includes unlimited users, but without roles and permissions. Paid plans start at $30/month, billed monthly, and a 15-day free trial of the Business plan is available.

9. Tabular

Tabular is a no-code email template builder that designs responsive HTML emails and sends them to your email platform. It suits marketers and small teams that care about how their emails look on mobile and want reliable code without touching HTML.

Standout Features

Tabular’s standout feature is its separate mobile builder. Other builders on this list give you a mobile preview or let you make small adjustments like font size and spacing. Tabular gives you a full second editor for mobile, where you can:

• Change the layout: use a different structure on mobile, such as a single column in place of a desktop product grid.
• Swap content: show shorter text, different images, or a different call to action to mobile readers.

Limitations

Tabular’s focus on design comes with a few trade-offs:

• Tabular only designs emails, so you’ll need a separate email platform to send them and track results.
• The template library is smaller than larger builders like Stripo or Beefree.
• The free plan’s limits of 3 stored emails and 3 exports a month mean regular senders will outgrow it quickly.

Pricing

The free-forever plan includes unlimited team members, guests, and teamspaces, plus all templates and premade blocks. It also gives you 3 stored emails, 3 exports a month, 5 email previews a day, and 20 GB of image hosting a month. Paid plans start at $29/month, billed yearly.

10. Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an all-in-one email marketing platform with a built-in drag-and-drop email builder, owned by Intuit since 2021. It’s the most widely used email marketing platform, with over 13 million users.

Standout Features

Mailchimp stands out from the other tools on this list in three ways:

• Mailchimp Marketplace: on the Standard and Premium plans, you can buy custom, expert-designed templates instead of adapting generic ones.
• 300+ integrations: Mailchimp has the largest integration library on this list, connecting with ecommerce, booking, analytics, and customer service tools.
• The default export destination: almost every design-only builder here, including Postcards, Stripo, Beefree, Chamaileon, and Tabular, exports to Mailchimp in one click. You can start in Mailchimp’s own builder and add a specialist builder later without switching platforms.

Limitations

Its free plan now includes no automation, a limited template selection, and email support for the first 30 days only. Prices climb steeply as your list grows, and unsubscribed contacts still count toward your plan limit.

Also, the email builder has formatting quirks. Emails built in the older “classic” builder don’t carry over to the new one, so some users end up rebuilding old templates from scratch.

Pricing

The free plan covers up to 250 contacts and 500 emails a month, capped at 250 a day, for 1 user. It includes a limited selection of templates and carries Mailchimp branding. Its paid plans start at $13/month, and a 14-day free trial is available.

11. Constant Contact

Constant Contact lets you create stunning email designs using simple drag and drop – no coding required. The builder comes loaded with pre-built templates, AI, and automation to assist in email creation and delivery.

Standout Features

• Its PDF-to-email conversion feature. Upload a flyer, brochure, or newsletter you’ve already designed as a PDF, and Constant Contact turns it into an editable, mobile-responsive email in a few clicks.
• Choose from 100s of beautifully designed, mobile-responsive email templates for your business.
• Built-in AI content generator assists in crafting email copies like announcements, product promos, newsletters, and more within seconds.
• It integrates with popular platforms like Etsy, Canva, Stripe, and Magento, making marketing automation easy from within the platform.

Limitations

The interface and many templates look dated, and customizing much beyond the built-in templates is difficult. The Canva integration may also feel awkward to apply to templates.

Pricing

Constant Contact offers a 30-day free trial, and paid plans run from $12/month to $80/month. Every plan includes the drag-and-drop editor, templates, and AI copy tool. Higher plans add scheduling, testing, automation, segmentation, and dynamic content. In fact, teams managing 5+ accounts can also get custom multi-account pricing.

12. Moosend

Moosend is the industry’s leading email marketing software. Its newsletter editor lets you edit and hyper-personalize emails with intuitive tools and HTML-free editing. The software is trusted by various businesses like Dominos, GUCCI, Nova, TedX, and more.

Standout Features

• Email credits that never expire. Skip the monthly plan and buy credits, starting at $350 for 350,000 emails.
  Weather-based targeting. Send emails based on each subscriber’s local weather, such as promoting raincoats only to readers where it’s raining.
• Built-in image picker that integrates with Stock Photos, Giphy, Facebook, Instagram, and other apps.
• Choose from a library of 80+ free designer-made templates to get your campaigns up and running within minutes.
• Create personalized emails using powerful features like fallback values, conditional blocks, product recommendations, and more.
• Integrate with popular email marketing tools, CMS, and CRMs, including HubSpot, Salesforce, and Zoho.

Limitations

• Before you sign up, keep these drawbacks in mind:
• The template selection is thinner than most competitors’.
• Dragging blocks into place can be glitchy.
• Moosend enforces its anti-spam rules strictly and can suspend accounts with little explanation.

Pricing

Moosend offers a 30-day free trial. After that, the Pro plan starts at $9/month for 500 contacts and includes unlimited sends, automation, landing pages, the AI writer, and A/B testing.

The price rises as your list grows. Custom plans add transactional emails, a dedicated IP, SSO, and an account manager. You can also buy email credits that never expire, starting at $350 for 350,000.

13. Drip

Drip is an email marketing platform for ecommerce stores on Shopify, WooCommerce, and similar platforms. Its editor works with your store data, so it can pull products and customer behavior into emails automatically. That’s why it’s a strong fit for online stores that want sales-driven emails instead of general newsletters.

Standout Features

• Dynamic product blocks. You can add your current top-selling products to emails automatically, so promotions always show what’s actually selling.
• Abandoned-cart recovery. Insert the exact items a shopper left in their cart, with images and prices, into an automated follow-up email.
• Leverage dynamic product blocks to add top-selling products directly into emails.
• White-label email templates using brand logos, colors, fonts, SM handles, and more.
• Integrates with popular e-commerce platforms like Shopify, and other third-party apps like Stripe, Zapier, and more.

Limitations

Pricing climbs quickly as your list grows, which strains small stores. In addition, the interface takes time to learn if you’re new to email marketing, and the template variety is limited.

Pricing

Drip offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. It then has one plan that scales with your list size, starting at $39/month for up to 2,500 people. The plan includes unlimited sends, dynamic segments, onsite campaigns, up to 50 workflows, and API access. Live chat support starts at the $99/month tier.

14. Chamaileon

 

Chamaileon

is a collaborative email design platform that allows you to create dynamic email templates with the visual editor and even translates design to code without devs. Simply put, the software fits best with businesses looking for an advanced email template builder at a budgeted price.

Standout Features

• Block-level locking: lock individual blocks, such as legal disclaimers or brand headers, while teammates edit the rest of the email.
  Multi-language dynamic content: write personalization in Handlebars, Liquid, Mustache, or Mailchimp merge tags, so one template works across the different email platforms your teams use.
• Built-in image library with 100s of royalty-free images and a handy image editor so you never leave the editor to find images.
• Integrates with your existing CRMs and email-sending systems, such as Marketo, Klaviyo, SendGrid, Iterable, Campaign Monitor, and more.
• Collaborate with teams and departments on template design and content via built-in review and commenting feature.

Limitations

The platform can feel slow, both when it loads and when you move between pages, and uploading images takes extra steps. The price also only makes sense for teams that build emails regularly.

Pricing

Chamaileon has no free plan, but you can have a 30-minute call with its team before buying a plan that fits your use case. The Startup plan costs $320/month for nonprofits, startups, and teams willing to be featured in a case study. The standard Premium plan costs $400/month. But the Enterprise plan’s pricing is custom.

15. SendX Email Builder

SendX as example of code MJML email builder tool boasts an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, making it easy to work with email format structures and even experiment with colors and layouts – without any HTML knowledge.

The platform is trusted by over 3,000+ global companies including Drivezy, Furlenco, and more.

Standout Features

• Get access to real-time previews of your email newsletter for mobile and desktop screen sizes without leaving the editor.
• Has a library of over 1500+ pre-built premium email templates for diverse use cases and industries.
• Integrates with third-party email deliverability apps and ESPs like Gmail, AWS, Postmark, and more.
• Choose from over half a million royalty-free stock photos for different email types and campaigns.

Limitations

The template library is smaller than most tools here, especially for landing pages. And connecting SendX to your website also takes some trial and error because the setup guides are thin.

Pricing

SendX offers a 14-day free trial. The single plan starts at $9.99/month for up to 1,000 contacts and includes unlimited sends, A/B testing, automation, full API access, and 24/7 support.

The price scales as your list grows, up to 1,000,000+ contacts. But accounts under 100,000 contacts get a 60-day money-back guarantee.

Best Email Template Builders for Small Businesses and Solopreneurs on a Budget

The best email template builders for small businesses and solopreneurs on a budget are Postcards AI Suite, Sender, MailerLite, Brevo, and SendX. However, the right choice depends on whether you already have a platform to send your emails:

• Postcards AI Suite is best for designing templates you send elsewhere. It builds a complete template from a prompt and exports it to Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot, and other email platforms.
• Sender is the best free all-in-one option. You can build and send emails to up to 2,500 subscribers without paying.
• MailerLite is best for creators and newsletters. It offers three editor types and a free plan for up to 250 subscribers.
• Brevo is best for large lists that send rarely, because it charges by emails sent instead of by contacts.
• SendX is best for simple, predictable pricing. Every feature and unlimited sends are included from $9.99/month.

Why Use an Email Template Builder?

Email template builders save you from paying a designer for every campaign and sending emails that look different in every inbox. Some of the key benefits of using an email template builder include:

• Consistent branding: Set your logo, colors, and fonts once, and every new email uses them automatically.
• Faster production: Start from a ready-made layout, swap in your text and images, and have an email ready in under an hour.
• No coding required: Anyone on your team can build a responsive email with drag-and-drop.
• More engaging emails: Add carousels, surveys, and quizzes that give readers a reason to click.

What to Look for in an Email Template Builder

Before you choose an email template builder, check that it has:

• Drag-and-drop editing with HTML access to build emails visually now and take full control of the code later.
• A large, mobile-ready template library, so you rarely start from a blank page. Postcards, for example, gives you 1000+ ready-made modules plus a full gallery of templates you can filter by industry or season.
• Full control over fonts, colors, and layout, so your emails match your brand instead of the template’s defaults.
• Preview and test sends to catch broken links and layouts before your subscribers do.
• Comments, shared drafts, and approval steps, so teammates can review emails without passing files back and forth.
• Built-in image editing to crop and resize images without switching to another tool.
• Email client compatibility and ESP integrations, so emails display correctly in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail and export straight to the platform you already use.

Build Your First Email with Postcards AI Suite

The fastest way to see what an email template builder can do is to build a real email with one. Postcards AI Suite gets you from a blank screen to an exported, on-brand template in a few minutes.

Pick the next campaign on your calendar and build it in Postcards AI Suite today.

FAQs

Which email template builder is the best?

Postcards AI Suite is the best email template builder for teams that want finished, on-brand templates fast, because it builds and edits the design from a plain-language prompt. If you need one tool that both designs and sends, Sender and MailerLite are the strongest free options.

What is the difference between an email template builder and an email marketing platform?

An email template builder only designs emails and exports them as HTML. Examples are Postcards, Stripo, and Chamaileon. An email marketing platform, such as MailerLite or Brevo, also stores your contacts, sends campaigns, and tracks results. Many teams pair a dedicated builder with their email platform to get better designs than the platform’s own editor offers.

Can I use a template from one builder in a different email platform?

Yes, most builders export templates as HTML, which you can paste or upload into almost any email platform. Some, like Postcards and Stripo, also offer one-click export to platforms such as Mailchimp, HubSpot, and Klaviyo.

Are free email template builders good enough?

Free plans are enough for most small businesses sending a few campaigns a month. They usually limit exports, stored templates, or subscribers, and some add the tool’s branding to your emails. You’ll need a paid plan once you send often, work in a team, or want AI features.

What size should an email template be?

Keep your email template 600 to 640 pixels wide, so it displays properly in most inboxes. Keep the total HTML under 102 KB, because Gmail clips larger emails and hides the rest behind a “View entire message” link.

Why does my email template look different in Outlook?

Desktop versions of Outlook use Microsoft Word to render emails, and Word doesn’t support many modern layout styles. Test your email in Outlook before sending, either with your builder’s email client preview or with a test send.

Can AI design an email template?

Yes, AI email builders like Postcards AI Suite generate a complete template from a description, including the layout, copy, and brand styling. You can then edit it with follow-up prompts, such as translating it or creating a mobile version.

What is an AMP email?

An AMP email is an interactive email that lets readers act inside the inbox. For example, they can answer a poll, take a quiz, or fill in a form without opening a website. Gmail and Yahoo Mail support AMP, and builders like Stripo and MailerLite let you add AMP elements without code.