Keila vs Listmonk

Both are self-hosted communication - email - mailing lists and newsletters projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Keila and Listmonk are closely matched on maintenance health (62 vs 65). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
KeilaListmonk
Health score 62/100 65/100
Commits (11 mo) 367 226
Commits (last 3 mo) 57 34
Stars 2.2k 24k
Latest release 6 Sept 2026 25 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker Go, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Keila

Reliable and easy-to-use newsletter tool (alternative to Mailchimp and Sendinblue).

62/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 23/40
Releases 25/25
Community 10/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 57% of tracked projects; popularity more than 52%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 3 commits 2025-11: 57 commits 2025-12: 20 commits 2026-01: 78 commits 2026-02: 17 commits 2026-03: 20 commits 2026-04: 71 commits 2026-05: 44 commits 2026-06: 42 commits 2026-07: 2 commits 2026-08: 13 commits

Listmonk

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

65/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 18/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 46% of tracked projects; popularity more than 89%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 7 commits 2025-11: 26 commits 2025-12: 21 commits 2026-01: 22 commits 2026-02: 25 commits 2026-03: 46 commits 2026-04: 20 commits 2026-05: 25 commits 2026-06: 20 commits 2026-07: 9 commits 2026-08: 5 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted communication - email - mailing lists and newsletters.