The rise of no-code email design tools has made it astronomically easier for anyone to create professional campaigns without any knowledge of HTML or email development.
Beefree and Stripo are among the best email design platforms in the game. But how do the two compare, and which one is a better fit for your business? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for.
How do Beefree and Stripo compare in terms of ease of use and user interface?
When it comes to email design, Beefree and Stripo are leading solutions that enable users, regardless of design skills, to craft engaging campaigns easily.
Both editors are sophisticated and advanced, allowing you to drag and drop multiple content types such as images, videos, banners, forms, GIFs, and more. For more advanced users and needs, both platforms allow you to add custom HTML blocks for interactive elements such as countdown timers, polls, and questionnaires.
Beefree not only enables users to design high-quality, on-brand emails, but it also allows for the creation of landing pages. This means that customers can craft comprehensive 360° campaigns, consisting of emails and landing pages with a consistent look and feel, in just a few minutes.
Users can generate a landing page from an email with one click and vice versa, making creating cohesive multi-channel communications effortless. Users can host landing pages within Beefree or export them to their preferred sending platform.
Email templates
Both platforms offer a wide range of templates. Beefree’s catalog, however, has a more extensive library of 1,700+ templates covering various use cases, industries, seasons, and landing page designs.
Within the Beefree catalog, you can find matching email and landing page pairings and curated collections to help users and teams create complete email marketing sequences.
Editor capabilities
Advanced design capabilities
Stripo and Beefree are both no-code drag-and-drop builders that enable quick email design.
For many, Stripo has a steep learning curve. Some of its more robust features, such as AMP, require a higher level of expertise since they are not universally supported by all email clients.
Beefree, on the other hand, has a notably simpler learning curve, allowing users to produce emails in minutes, regardless of skill level. For more experienced email creators or mid-size organizations needing more advanced design and customizable emails, Beefree offers dynamic campaigns, multilingual designs, custom subdomains and domains, custom merge tags, and more.
Another differentiating feature between Beefree and Stripo is their brand controls. Beefree gives users stronger brand controls, an element crucial for those juggling multiple clients, brands, and business units.
In Beefree, the Styles section allows you to set up the brand styles per workspace so that every new email or landing page will be created with the company's brand guidelines. In Stripo, the Brand Guideline Kit is simply a PDF, and the styles covered do not directly impact the editor experience.
In Stripo, you cannot set default brand colors, typography, or other design defaults, making it harder for users to comply with brand guidelines.
AI
Stripo and Beefree have been early adopters of AI, but their capabilities have a few differentiating features. For instance, Beefree’s AI Assistant can
- Writing copy for your email or landing pages
- Translate content with your designs to another language
- Generating alt text to boost the accessibility of images within your content
- Transforming your text prompts into beautiful images that are ready to be used in your designs.
Stripo’s AI writing assistant can be used for subject lines, preheaders, and writing email copy.
Customer support and resources
Support quality is a common concern, with users seeking information on the availability and responsiveness of customer service, as well as the quality of available resources like tutorials and documentation. Both Stripo and Beefree offer a few methods of support depending on your plan. However, Beefree takes it one step further for Business and Enterprise customers, assigning a dedicated Customer Success Manager to support onboarding and beyond.
More recently, Beefree launched their Beefree Academy with video tutorials and certifications to help users get the most out of their builders.
How do Beefree and Stripo handle integrations with email service providers?
Email builders are excellent tools, but they work best when seamlessly integrating with your existing tech stack. Stripo and Beefree offer a variety of ways to export your emails to your sending platform of choice, including:
- Downloading HTML
- copying and pasting HTML,
- or downloading as a PDF
Stripo has integrations with over 80 ESPs. As for Beefree, you can export to any sending platform using the “Customer Connector” option that leverages Webhooks and Zapier to send your design’s HTML to any ESP, CRM, MAP, and everything in between. This wide range of integrations ensures seamless connectivity with existing marketing tools, facilitating efficient campaign execution.’
In addition, Beefree also has 22 native integrations that allow for seamless exporting between Beefree and your favorite tools.
Integrations
How do the pricing models of Beefree and Stripo compare?
The limitations of the free plan for both platforms vary. For instance, Stripo limits access to its template catalog, while Beefree offers full access for all plans. Some other limitations of Stripo’s free plan include:
- 5 test emails per day,
- 4 exports per month with limits on its exporting options.
- 1 user
Beefree follows a “start for free, upgrade as you grow” pricing structure that allows users and their teams to scale as needed. Their free plan includes:
- 6 exports per month with no limitations on integrations
- Unlimited users
- Access to collaborative features such as design-specific commenting.
Free plan
Stripo’s paid plans are as follows:
- Basic ($20/m): Recommended for “solo email creators.”
- Medium ($45/m): Recommended for “small teams.” Limited to only 5 projects.
- Pro ($95/m) Recommended for “big teams.”
- Prime: Contact
Beefree’s paid plans are as follows::
- Professional ($30/m): Best for teams of 2-3
- Business ($160/m): Best for organizations who are scaling their email production
- Enterprise (Custom): Best for large organizations with complex email needs.
Paid plans
How do the collaboration features of Beefree compare to Stripo’s
Collaboration is key whether you’re a team of one working with multiple clients or 10 managing numerous clients and brands.
Stripo offers basic collaboration features such as user roles, permissions, and real-time co-editing. Beefree provides all of these and more. For mid-size and larger teams, Beefree stands out for its ability to help streamline email creation, organize assets, and enforce strong brand controls — essential for efficient teamwork in larger teams.
One of Beefree's stand out in-app collaboration tools is a review-for-approval workflow. Team members can easily submit designs for review, track approval status, and incorporate feedback seamlessly.
Moreover, Beefree enables real-time push notifications into your existing project management and communication tools using Webhooks, further helping to facilitate clear communication amongst teams.
Beefree's existing and fully integrated collaboration tools provide a more comprehensive and immediate solution for mid-size organizations seeking efficient email creation and collaboration capabilities.
Collaboration tools
Which email builder is best for you?
We’ve heard from many customers that they find the Beefree builder more intuitive and enjoyable to use, but what truly sets us apart is the fact that we don’t just offer a great builder experience but provide your team with a range of powerful tools to optimize your workflow so you can create on-brand, error-free designs.
With Beefree, you can access powerful collaboration features (like built-in commenting and approval workflows) or options to pre-set your brand styles in the builder — functionality that more sophisticated teams love (and that isn’t available in Stripo.)
While Stripo’s pricing is lower than Beefree, many customers who try both tools end up selecting Beefree because they find that the ease of use of our builder and the powerful collaboration and quality control features are worth the extra cost.
Luckily, both solutions offer a free plan to help you get started, so try it for yourself. Try Beefree for free, and happy designing!
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