Buttondown
Newsletter software for people like you·buttondown.com
Buttondown is a newsletter platform that lets writers, creators, and developers write and send newsletters, manage subscribers, and accept paid subscriptions via Stripe. It offers a Markdown or rich-text editor, custom sending and hosting domains, RSS-to-email, tagging and segmentation, automations, surveys, and a comprehensive REST API for building custom integrations. It is aimed at people who want to own their audience relationship rather than depend on a social platform.
What it's for
Features 19
- Analytics and reporting
- Automations
- CLI tool
- Cross-posting to other platforms
- Custom sending and hosting domains
- Email attachments
- Free concierge migration from other platforms
- Full REST API with OpenAPI spec
- Hosted newsletter archives
- Markdown or rich-text email editor
- Multiple newsletters support
- Paid subscriptions via Stripe with no revenue share
- RSS-to-email support
- Sponsorships management
- Subscriber tagging and segmentation
- Surveys and comments
- Team collaboration with no per-seat charge
- Webhooks
- Whitelabeling
At a glance
Integrations
Pricing
The pricing page shows a free base plan (free for the first 100 subscribers, unlimited emails) with individually priced add-ons ranging from $9/month to $79/month for features like tagging, paid subscriptions, analytics, automations, whitelabeling, and teams. Enterprise pricing is custom/quote-based. Prices assume sending at most one email per day; higher-frequency senders are quoted usage-based pricing on request.
Base plan; additional features are available as paid add-ons.
Free for your first 100 subscribers, unlimited emails
Custom domains, API access, Automations, Remove Buttondown branding
Surveys, Premium integrations, Priority support
Custom pricing for large organizations.
50% discount for registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits (or country equivalent) with proof of registration.