Marketing tools

All-in-one marketing platforms, analytics and campaign tools.

What to look for in marketing tools

  • Which channels you actually use — avoid paying for suites you will not touch
  • Reporting that ties activity to leads or sales
  • Contact-based pricing that can jump as your list grows
  • Templates and automation that a small team can maintain

Marketing tools in our database

Listed alphabetically — this is not a ranking. We only rank tools after hands-on testing.

Brevo

Email Marketing

A marketing platform (formerly Sendinblue) covering email campaigns, transactional email, SMS and WhatsApp campaigns, plus a built-in CRM.

Main use
Newsletters
Free plan
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HubSpot’s customer relationship management system, the foundation of its wider marketing, sales and service software. It tracks contacts,…

Main use
Tracking sales leads
Free plan
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Mailchimp

Email Marketing

One of the best-known email marketing platforms. It manages subscriber lists, newsletters, automated emails and basic landing pages, and…

Main use
Monthly newsletters
Free plan
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