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    High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.

    self-hosted
    campaign
    campaign-management
    email-marketing
    email-subscription
    listmonk
    Go
    AGPL-3.0
    23.0K stars
    2.5K forks
    23.0K GitHub watchers
    Updated 8/20/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • listmonk is a high-performance, self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard and single binary deployment.
    • Built with Go backend and Vue frontend, it uses PostgreSQL for data storage and supports SMTP, SMS gateway, and transactional emails.
    • Strengths include fast performance, feature-rich capabilities, easy Docker and binary installation, but requires self-hosting and PostgreSQL setup.
    • With 17,700 stars and 1,727 forks since 2019, it shows strong community adoption and active maintenance as of 2025.
    • Ideal for organizations needing a scalable, self-hosted email marketing and campaign management solution with full control over data.

    About listmonk

    listmonk-logo

    listmonk is a standalone, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager. It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store.

    listmonk-dashboard

    Visit listmonk.app for more info. Check out the live demo.

    Installation

    Docker

    The latest image is available on DockerHub at listmonk/listmonk:latest. Download and use the sample docker-compose.yml.

    # Download the compose file to the current directory.
curl -LO https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/raw/master/docker-compose.yml

# Run the services in the background.
docker compose up -d

    Visit http://localhost:9000

    See installation docs

    Binary

    • Download the latest release and extract the listmonk binary.
    • ./listmonk --new-config to generate config.toml. Edit it.
    • ./listmonk --install to setup the Postgres DB (or --upgrade to upgrade an existing DB. Upgrades are idempotent and running them multiple times have no side effects).
    • Run ./listmonk and visit http://localhost:9000

    See installation docs

    Developers

    listmonk is free and open source software licensed under AGPLv3. If you are interested in contributing, refer to the developer setup. The backend is written in Go and the frontend is Vue with Buefy for UI.

    License

    listmonk is licensed under the AGPL v3 license.

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