ButtondownvsConstant Contact

Constant Contact is a fully-featured "marketing automation" tool that handles it all: email newsletters, SMS campaigns, ecommerce storefronts, event registration, social media ad management and more.

If you're running a store or venue, Constant Contact might be a better fit for your growing business than Buttondown.

But if all that marketing tooling sounds like overkill, we agree, and that's why we built Buttondown. Our tool is simple, powerful newsletter platform that's perfect for writers and publishers who simply want to write great emails and build their community.

Even if you're not using Constant Contact's full suite of tools, you'll still be paying a premium for their product. Here's how our pricing compares to Constant Contact (assuming you were to send a single email per week):

Plus, their most affordable plan doesn't even include the most basic features like attachments, subscriber tagging, segmentation or an archive.