Litmus from Validity vs. Mailigen

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Litmus from Validity
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Litmus, from Validity, is an email marketing solution used to create error-free emails in less time. It is also used to build email campaigns, personalize and test them thoroughly, monitor deliverability, and analyze email performance.N/A
Mailigen
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Mailigen is a web based integrated marketing provider offering email, mobile and social marketing. In the SaaS platform, you can gather subscribers, prepare, send or schedule email campaigns and receive real time reports. One can leverage statistics for behavioral segmentation and lifecycle email marketing. Mailigen offers several integration points including online surveys that you can use to segment your audience and send personalized emails.
$10
per month
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Mailigen
$10.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsLitmus offers different plan types to fit various needs, offering monthly and annual plans, as well as fully customizable Enterprise plans.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
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Better user experience
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Litmus is better overall. Better UI. User friendly. Relatively intuitive.
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I selected Litmus because it provides an all-in-one powerful tool to update content, collaborate with teams, and analyse data seamlessly. This saves a big amount of time for the whole team. The insights are more granular allowing us to focus deeper into improvements. The …
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Having used both, I definitely prefer Litmus over Email on Acid. It's a little more intuitive in terms of UI, and previews load faster. The integration with Salesforce Marketing Cloud also sets it apart further.
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In my experience, Email on Acid is far less reliable for accuracy than Litmus
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We've tried Email on Acid in the past and Litmus has a much more advanced offering. The user interface is superior and they are constantly innovating and rolling out new features.
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This is not applicable to my role as I have used Litmus to test emails since I have started. Because of the ease of use, timeliness, consistent quality, and affordability that Litmus offers, I haven't found the need to look at similar products or organizations. If all of these …
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I've used Hubspot marketing Hub previously to build marketing emails. In my current role, I do not use Litmus to build emails, only to QA - so I can cannot compare apples to apples. But I do have some familiarity with Hubspot, and I was never able to easily share an email for …
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From a platform and tool perspective, Litmus does a great job at providing rendering testing. No issues.
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Litmus is our first tool and will most likely be our last.
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Litmus has an easier view to see how the emails render across different email clients and seems to be very accurate to how they show up in mailboxes.
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I found that Litmus was able to give a more in-depth review and feedback on accessibility issues in my campaigns, whereas SendForensics lacked any helpful features for this purpose. Litmus' features have helped us better serve all our clients' customers.
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I haven't used another service similar to Litmus before, but would be very happy to recommend it and I do not feel the need to evaluate other products.
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Litmus is the first testing tool we've used and secured the account as an add-on through the ESP.
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Email on Acid and Mailchimp
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We currently use both Everest and Litmus. In my opinion, the way our team uses Litmus would rank in second place compared to Everest. Everest not only reports on deliverability, feedback loops, spam traps, block listings, domain and IP reputation, and so much more, but it also …
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There is just no comparison in a way, Litmus offers a much greater range of features, from builder to previews accross various clients. Mailchimp only seems to allow very simple features compared to what Litmus itself has to offer.
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Litmus is easier to understand, easier to use, and you cant beat the code editor Litmus provides
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We selected Litmus primarily due to its balance of cost and functionality compared to other platforms. It offers a wide range of features for testing, previewing, and optimizing email campaigns, which was critical for our needs. While some competitors offer similar tools, …
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Overall better user interface, product and pricing. Litmus is very well-known in the industry.
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Litmus provides better client preview and collaborative reviewing of message and format.
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N/a - have not tried others.
Mailigen
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Mailigen falls short to Listrak due to Listrak's far superior contact, conversion, and message analytics. Some features are unavailable or not easily integrated with the Mailigen platform compared to its competition, but features such as model acquisition & shopping cart …
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MailChimp, AWeber - which are all good products but we believe that MailiGen has better support and is more cost effective.
Chose Mailigen
  1. Although both Mailchimp and Mad Mimi are easy to use, they are both limited in the customization options for advanced users.
  2. Mailigen integrates with vast majority of CMS's used in my country
  3. I can directly in real-time get answer to my questions - haven't filed a support ticket …
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Clear product use conditions, fast reaction, active service support
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In comparison Mailigen has better customer support and more advanced features.
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Mailigen developed human relations, helped us develop our tactics, rather than just providing the technical solution
Features
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Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Litmus from Validity
5.3
Ratings
40% below category average
Mailigen
7.4
Ratings
7% below category average
WYSIWYG email editor7.10 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Dynamic content7.90 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content7.80 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Landing pages2.60 Ratings00 Ratings
A/B testing1.80 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization9.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Email deliverability reporting8.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
List management1.80 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Triggered drip sequences1.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Litmus from Validity
7.4
Ratings
4% below category average
Mailigen
3.0
Ratings
88% below category average
Dashboards5.60 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Standard reports8.80 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Custom reports7.70 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Pre-Send Testing
Comparison of Pre-Send Testing features of Product A and Product B
Litmus from Validity
9.1
Ratings
13% above category average
Mailigen
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Ratings
URL Validation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Link Tracking8.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Spam Testing9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Previews9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.4
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8.6
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Usability
9.4
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8.2
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
7.4
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Support Rating
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9.1
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In-Person Training
9.0
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Online Training
8.2
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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7.3
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Configurability
7.3
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Ease of integration
10.0
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Product Scalability
8.5
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Vendor post-sale
9.1
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9.2
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User Testimonials
Litmus from ValidityMailigen
Likelihood to Recommend
I’ve been really impressed with Litmus, especially the personalization features. Being able to easily plug in tools like sentiment trackers right into our emails has helped us gather valuable third-party data without a lot of extra work. I also really appreciate the ongoing learning resources—they offer tons of free webinars and articles that are actually useful. I recently read one on email deliverability that broke down specific data and gave me clear, actionable steps to improve how our emails are hitting inboxes. It’s more than just a testing tool—it’s become a go-to resource in our email marketing toolkit.
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MailiGen is suited for any sized organization from single owner businesses or clubs upwards. The pricing works well for entry level customers
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Pros
  • The AQ and Approval Process is very seamless. We have a brand team of 20 people, and there are mostly five emails being deployed every day across 3 Hotels and 30 restaurants.
  • The Preview of the email template on all devices, ranging from mobile phones to laptops and iPads, which we can also check based on ISPs like Gmail, Outlook, and AOL, is a very good feature that we use for each email.
  • The Analytics tools we use for each email to create a tracking link to insert into our email for a send is a great feature. It helps us to see the email performance based on ISP clients.
  • For every edits, we receive an email on our inbox, which is very helpful.
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  • They dig our thing and establish human relations which makes easyer to work with them than with any other email marketing platform
  • They really helped us to develop our email marketing strategy
  • They deliver the emails
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Cons
  • When creating a tracking code, I would like to see a button that says "Create New" without having to return to the main page.
  • When creating a tracking code, I would like to have no expiration option.
  • There is a little bit more personalization for the personalization content (being able to access the code HTML and not only the snippet).
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  • One thing we would like is the ability to send test mails to any mail address during campaign development. Currently the system sends only to the designated mail addresses. So sending a sample to a customer to a marketing person is harder than necessary.
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Likelihood to Renew
I love using Litmus and find that it has been a huge component of the success of our email campaigns. I can't say enough great things about the platform, and I have seen firsthand how it has saved me time building and sending fully optimized email campaigns. I would absolutely renew again.
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We are satisfied with this cooperation and we don't see why we should change email marketing service provider at this point. Excellent service and rapid new feature development keeps us very satisfied.
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Usability
Litmus has integrations that make the software an integrated part of my work every day. Being able to test right within my email builder is just brilliant. Daily I also use the web interface to review analytics and spam testing. Overall it is one of the pieces of software I use daily without any complaints or issues.
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Although it is easy to use for basic users and people with no experience in e-mail marketing, but for more advanced users it still lacks functionality - really advanced filtering - on it's web interface. However everything is possible once you use API.
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Reliability and Availability
We have never had a problem with Litmus being unavailable so I would say their availability is fantastic. There might have been one time years ago that the site was down briefly but it also might have been a server issue on my end. Either way, Litmus was back up and running in a very short time
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Performance
As with all technology, there are inevitably use-cases where you are unable to get to your original goal without some good old-fashioned experimenting. Some situations will (and are) more urgent which complicates an effective integration of a new process or a new team using an existing process but the "issues" are regularly resolved by re-starting the process specific to when Litmus is introduced to a project. If it doesn't come out the way you're anticipating, run it again and verify there is an issue before declaring all is lost
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Support Rating
I am always so so impressed with the litmus support team. They are not only prompt but attentive and offer very personalised responses and support
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Although time to time I send a support ticket, but more frequently I use the live support option on their website. I get instant feedback and feel that my problem is addressed immediately.
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In-Person Training
I had internal training for how to use, not lead by litmus. Unsure if there was any external training which took place before my time
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Online Training
It has all the required information.
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Implementation Rating
I didn’t really personally participate much in the implementation of Litmus, but from what I observed during the process, it was a smooth process with minimal disruptions. The team was able to get up and running quickly, and the platform’s user-friendly interface made onboarding fairly easy for everyone involved from the start.
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With most systems it is faily easy. It offers CSV import so transferring contacts should be easy.
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Alternatives Considered
I selected Litmus because it provides an all-in-one powerful tool to update content, collaborate with teams, and analyse data seamlessly. This saves a big amount of time for the whole team. The insights are more granular allowing us to focus deeper into improvements. The preview tools is one of the most important features we heavily rely on, as we can see how emails are previewed across multiple devices. Speed is also a major factor. Being an organisation sending out many emails, we are happy with the speed and efficiency of accessing and organising emails.
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Mailigen falls short to Listrak due to Listrak's far superior contact, conversion, and message analytics. Some features are unavailable or not easily integrated with the Mailigen platform compared to its competition, but features such as model acquisition & shopping cart abandonment are available. The ability to integrate such features into your website may be easier when using a competitors platform, but easy usability comes with a price. Extra perks such Coupon managers & etc. are useful features that allow you to generate Barcodes & QR codes, as well as track various data analytics when implementing this feature. Small items as such are what Mailigen lacks in comparison to its competitors, but their price point kicks the rest out of the water if you can live without some of the bells and whistles.
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Scalability
With our enterprise account, scalability is not an issue. I have not yet seen or heard of significant issues with user access, API connections for integrations etc. This includes down time for "Scheduled Maintenance" as some providers call them, Litmus has the technology backing to support a global team with a 24-hour workday across regions
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Return on Investment
  • Litmus saves our team so much time by making the QA and email review process so much easier, streamlined, and efficient.
  • We often send out campaigns out to thousands of members, and Litmus gives us the assurance and peace of mind that everything is working as it should before it gets sent out.
  • Decreases the number of email review cycles we go through.
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  • Increased company's annual revenue for 2017
  • Mailigen has allowed our business to expand far and wide - demonstrating to customers that our pricing and services are far superior to any competitor in the industry.
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ScreenShots

Litmus from Validity Screenshots

Screenshot of Litmus Personalize Essentials, with live polls to give subscribers a voice and drive email engagement.Screenshot of Litmus Email Guardian, featuring 24/7 link monitoring to safeguard emails.Screenshot of Litmus' integrated insights reports, that can automatically combine metrics from Salesforce Marketing Cloud with subscriber engagement insights from Litmus.Screenshot of campaign preview, available in 100+ popular email clientsScreenshot of Litmus' inbox previewing and feedback tools, that help users to spot and fix issues early.