Your newsletter's metadata is now available in email templates, giving you global variables you can reference across every email you send.
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Sort and filter by open and click rates
Find your most (and least) engaged subscribers by sorting and filtering by open and click rates.
Custom click tracking domains
Your click tracking links now use your own sending domain instead of a shared proxy.
More newsletter settings in the API
The /v1/newsletters endpoint now exposes locale, templates, socials, transactional emails, and more.
Revamped replies
Reply tracking is now automatic for sending domains, and always on for everyone.
Custom email templates for everyone
Full HTML control over your email design is now available to all Professional plan users.
Simplified cancellation
No more choosing between "pause" and "cancel" — there's just one option now.
Ask a Nerd: Does email length affect deliverability?
You’d have to send fairly lengthy newsletters to run into issues. And even then, only a subset of subscribers would suffer.
The changelog, reborn
A day-by-day log of everything we ship, in plain English
Swedish localization
Swedish localization
Forwarding an email is not always straightforward
It’s rare for a good email to start with Fwd: Fw: fwd:
Public descriptions for tags
Add context to subscriber-editable tags with a new API field.
OpenAPI spec for archives
A machine-readable spec for the data powering your archive pages.
How Rodrigo brings a humanistic view to consumer technology
Journalist, Rodrigo Ghedin, uses his bilingual newsletter to share his insights on the social and psychological impacts of modern consumer technology.
How Brandon Lucas Green shares his music and supports artists
Musician and tech professional, Brandon Lucas Green, uses his newsletter as an outlet to share his music journey and provide insights on how fellow creators can achieve creative independence.
Subscribers can come from anywhere. Even another newsletter platform's form.
Everything can be customized, if you try hard enough.
Your newsletter's archives are more valuable than your list
Store, share, and protect your work so as many people as possible can see it.
Survey responses on the web
Subscribers can now respond to surveys from the web archive, not just email.
Better tag self-management
Flip a toggle and subscribers can add or remove tags themselves in the portal.
Granular API keys
Create as many API keys as you need, each with its own permissions.
Smarter automation filters
Make sure subscribers still match your filters before an automation runs.
Ask A Nerd: How does newsletter cadence affect deliverability?
The amount of time between emails can have a significant impact on how ESPs and subscribers view your writing.
New design settings pages
We've removed the Design settings page in favor of separate settings for Archives and Emails.
Snippets
Reusable content blocks you can insert into any email.
Starred views
Star pages to keep them one click away in your sidebar.
More ways to customize your archives
Change fonts, colors, and more without touching CSS.
Inbox filtering
Filter your inbox to show unread items or conversations needing a response.
Mastodon follower analytics
Track your Mastodon follower count over time
Ask a Nerd: What are good open, click, and response rates for an email newsletter?
30% open rates and 2% click rates are good. But numbers can lie.
How we migrated our database to PlanetScale
Swapping the rug everyone's dancing on