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A smaller Buttondown, for people who don't need Buttondown.
If Buttondown is load-bearing for you, don't switch. You'll find this thinner and you'll be right. Manage subscribers and send campaigns. It comes with 52 other tools for $19.99/mo — which is the argument, not that it beats a product with a team behind it.
Buttondown
$9/mo
Per year
$108
In the bundle
$19.99/mo
How much does Buttondown cost?
About $9 a month, which is $108 a year, on the plan most individuals end up on. It is what we use in our own arithmetic — the list-price figure on the front page is the sum of these, not a round number we liked.
What do you actually get in VibeBundl?
- Subscriber list with import and export
- Compose and send a campaign
- Open tracking
What do I lose by replacing Buttondown?
Honestly, these. If any of them is load-bearing for you, keep paying — a bundle that costs you a workflow isn't a saving.
- Automations and drip sequences
- Paid subscriptions
- A hosted archive page and RSS-to-email
Is there an open-source alternative to Buttondown?
Yes — Listmonk. If you're happy running and updating your own server, it will take you further than our version will, and it's free. VibeBundl's argument isn't that it's more capable than Listmonk; it's that it's already running, and so are 52 other tools, on one login.
What's the catch?
It's smaller. 53 tools built by one person do not match 53 funded products, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Each one covers the job you opened the original for and stops there.
So the honest pitch isn't “cancel Buttondown”. It's that the next time you need something like it — once, briefly — you already have it, and you don't start another subscription to find out.
Newsletter plus 52 more, $19.99/mo
Cancel any time. Keep Buttondown if you need it.