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Stretchly

Personal tools

Stretchly is a cross-platform desktop app that schedules short and longer breaks during computer use. It offers configurable reminders and break ideas for users who want a regular prompt to pause.

Free open source
Desktop only; reminders require the app to run in the background.

Safe Eyes

Personal tools

Safe Eyes is a Linux desktop break reminder with short and long pauses, notifications and configurable behavior. It supports people who want recurring prompts to look away from the screen during extended computer sessions.

Free open source
Linux-focused; desktop integration and optional plugins depend on the environment.

Mailchimp

Marketing

Mailchimp brings email creation, audience management, signup forms and campaign reporting into a hosted marketing workspace. Its small free tier suits a first newsletter or occasional updates to a tightly managed contact list.

Free plan
1 user, 1 audience, 250 contacts; 500 emails/month, at most 250/day.

Brevo

Marketing

Brevo combines email campaigns and transactional messaging with contact storage and basic marketing automation. The free plan is useful for modest daily sending, provided teams can work within a firm daily email allowance.

Free plan
300 email sends/day, 100,000 stored contacts, 1 marketing seat; automation for up to 2,000 contacts.

MailerLite

Marketing

MailerLite provides hosted newsletters, signup forms, landing pages and basic email automation. Its free tier now targets very small audiences, with explicit allowances for subscribers, monthly sending and the number of published assets.

Free plan
250 active subscribers, 2,500 emails/month, 2 seats; 3 automations, 3 forms, 1 landing page and 1 five-page website.

Kit

Marketing

Kit helps creators build an email audience, send broadcasts and sell digital products from a hosted account. Its ongoing free plan supports a large subscriber list but separates newsletter publishing from paid automation features.

Free plan
Up to 10,000 subscribers; unlimited broadcasts, forms and landing pages.

Buffer

Marketing

Buffer organizes social posts into channel-specific publishing queues and provides a place to save content ideas. Its free plan suits one person managing a few accounts with short, regularly refreshed posting schedules.

Free plan
3 channels, 10 queued posts per channel, 1 user and 100 ideas.

Publer

Marketing

Publer helps individuals prepare, preview and schedule posts across social networks. Its free tier includes a small multi-account workspace, post customization and basic scheduling, with short history retention and explicit limits on drafts and queues.

Free plan
1 user, 1 workspace, 3 social accounts excluding X; 10 queued posts/account, 25 drafts and 24-hour history.

Mautic

Marketing

Mautic is a self-hosted marketing automation platform for collecting contacts, segmenting audiences and coordinating campaigns. Organizations can customize its open-source workflows while controlling the infrastructure that stores and processes their marketing data.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted marketing automation; email delivery and hosting are separate costs.

listmonk

Marketing

listmonk is a self-hosted newsletter and mailing-list manager built around a compact application and PostgreSQL. It supports subscriber segmentation, campaign composition and delivery through configured mail servers for teams comfortable operating their own stack.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted newsletter manager; a PostgreSQL database and email delivery service are required.

phpList

Marketing

phpList is an open-source application for managing subscribers and distributing newsletters from your own server. It focuses on mailing lists, campaigns and delivery management, with separate hosted services available for organizations that prefer managed operation.

Free self-hosted
Downloadable self-hosted application; server and mail delivery are not included.

Keila

Marketing

Keila is a self-hostable newsletter application for managing contacts, building signup forms and sending campaigns. Its open-source code and straightforward publishing workflow suit organizations that want an independently operated email list without a complex automation suite.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted newsletter software; managed hosting and outbound email delivery are separate.

WordPress

Web & e-commerce

WordPress is a free, self-hosted content management system for websites, blogs and publishing teams. Themes, plugins and its block-based editor provide flexible site construction, while hosting, domains and optional commercial extensions are purchased separately.

Free self-hosted
WordPress.org software; hosting, domains and premium extensions are separate.

Drupal

Web & e-commerce

Drupal is an open-source content management platform for structured websites and publishing workflows. Its configurable content models, access controls and extension system fit organizations with multiple editors, complex information architecture or requirements beyond a simple brochure site.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted CMS; infrastructure and professional implementation are separate.

Joomla

Web & e-commerce

Joomla is a self-hosted content management system for business sites, portals and multilingual publishing. It combines article management, menu organization and access controls with a template and extension ecosystem, under an ongoing free software license.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted CMS; hosting and separately sold extensions are not included.

Ghost

Web & e-commerce

Ghost is a publishing platform for articles, newsletters and membership-based websites. The open-source application can run on your own infrastructure, giving independent publishers control over their site while managed Ghost(Pro) hosting remains a separate commercial service.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted Ghost software; Ghost(Pro), mail delivery and payment processing are separate.

Grav

Web & e-commerce

Grav is a flat-file content management system that stores website content without requiring a separate database. Markdown pages, templates and plugins make it suitable for smaller sites whose owners prefer files that can be backed up or versioned directly.

Free self-hosted
Self-hosted flat-file CMS; PHP hosting and any premium themes are separate.

PrestaShop

Web & e-commerce

PrestaShop is an open-source commerce platform for building and operating an online store. Its downloadable core manages products, customers and orders, while merchants arrange hosting, payment processing and any specialized commercial modules separately.

Free self-hosted
Open-source store core; hosting, payment processing and commercial modules cost extra.
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