Listmonk
Listmonk is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Newsletters & Mailing Lists category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp, Twilio SendGrid and Substack and ships a Docker image. It has 23,972 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 24, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 23,972
- Forks
- 2,718
- Open issues
- 59
- Commits, last 12 months
- 460
- Last commit
- Oct 24, 2026
- Latest release
- v7.0.0-beta.1Oct 20, 2026
- Created
- Jun 26, 2019
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 24, 2026, 460 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases4 releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 24, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 460 |
| Latest release | v7.0.0-beta.1 (Oct 20, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 4 |
| Releases, all time | 42 |
| Open issues | 59 |
| Open pull requests | 9 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jun 26, 2019 |
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About Listmonk
High performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/knadh/listmonk.
Topics
- email-marketing
- newsletter
- newsletter-management
- mailing-list
- smtp
- self-hosted
- listmonk
- email-subscription
- campaign-management
- campaign
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Is Listmonk free and open source?
Yes. Listmonk is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Listmonk with Docker?
Yes. Listmonk provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Listmonk?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Listmonk include Mautic, Dittofeed and Keila. Listmonk itself is a self-hosted alternative to Mailchimp, Twilio SendGrid and Substack.
Is Listmonk actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Listmonk was on Oct 24, 2026 with 460 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v7.0.0-beta.1, published Oct 20, 2026. It had 59 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.