Listmonk vs Sympa

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.

Listmonk scores 65 against Sympa's 41, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Sympa may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Listmonk	Sympa
Health score	65/100	41/100
Commits (11 mo)	226	63
Commits (last 3 mo)	34	18
Stars	24k	315
Latest release	25 Sept 2026	14 Aug 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	GPL-2.0
Built with	Go, Docker	Perl
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

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

Sympa

Mailing list manager.

41/100

Slowing

Activity has dropped noticeably. Check the repository before committing to it.

Maintenance 9/40

Releases 25/25

Community 3/20

Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 21% of tracked projects; popularity more than 16%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

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.