Top Email Creation Platforms to Consider in 2025

The choice comes down to timeline and ambition. Need to start creating emails today with minimal setup? Beefree gets you there faster and cheaper.

But what happens in six months when your program succeeds? When Legal asks about brand compliance? When your CEO asks why email creation is still manual?

Beefree optimizes for today's needs. Knak optimizes for tomorrow's growth. The question isn't which is better, it's which timeline matches your reality.

Custom code seems logical: total control, perfect pixels, unlimited creativity.

The reality is more complex. Email rendering differs across dozens of clients—Outlook 2016 handles CSS differently than Gmail mobile, which behaves differently than Apple Mail. A single design change can break rendering in unexpected places.

What happens when your designer is unavailable? When a small text change requires a two-week development cycle? When your marketing team can't iterate quickly because every adjustment becomes a technical project?

Custom development creates a fundamental disconnect: marketers know what campaigns need, but can't implement changes themselves. Designers understand technical constraints, but may not grasp marketing urgency.

Knak bridges this gap. We handle the rendering complexity, cross-client compatibility, and technical infrastructure so your team can focus on what matters: creating campaigns that drive results.

Both Knak and Jeto understand the challenge of distributed marketing teams. The difference is scale and sophistication.

Jeto works well for smaller teams with straightforward campaign processes. But what happens when your distributed team spans continents? When brand consistency becomes mission-critical? When you need advanced personalization across multiple platforms?

Knak was built for enterprise-scale distributed marketing. We specialize in brand control that actually works, like locked modules, automated governance, and approval workflows that maintain consistency across hundreds of users and dozens of markets.

Where Jeto focuses on workflow optimization, Knak delivers enterprise-grade collaboration tools with the most comprehensive suite of platform integrations in the market.

Native MAP editors are the sensible starting point. They're there, they're integrated, and they get basic emails done.

The challenge comes when your needs evolve. What happens when your distributed team spans multiple regions? When that new marketing hire struggles with your platform's email builder? When your agency partners can't efficiently navigate interfaces designed for platform experts?

Native editors work until they don't. And you usually hit that wall when it matters most—during a campaign crunch or when scaling your team.

Knak democratizes email creation. While native editors require platform expertise, Knak empowers anyone to create professional campaigns. Your distributed teams can contribute without becoming platform specialists. Your agency partners can jump in and be productive immediately.

We maintain the same native integration benefits you get with built-in editors, but remove the barriers that limit who can create and contribute to your campaigns.

Stensul keeps teams on-brand by locking down templates and enforcing strict guardrails. Great if your campaigns rarely change.

But modern marketing doesn't stand still.

What happens when campaign priorities shift midstream? When you enter new markets with unique compliance rules? Or your CEO decides messaging needs to pivot next week?

That's where Knak shines.

Stensul is built for email. Knak is built for everything marketers actually do: email, landing pages, complex integrations, and the unpredictable requests that define today's marketing reality.

Knak gives you flexibility without sacrificing brand control, so you're ready for what's next, even when "next" changes tomorrow.

Stripo shines when it comes to design flexibility and budget, offering robust creative tools at an affordable price.

But what happens when your designer goes on vacation? When Legal needs to sign off on every campaign? When you're running programs across five countries?

Stripo's biggest strength (creative freedom) can become its Achilles' heel when you need scale, collaboration, and workflow governance more than design flexibility.

That's where Knak comes in. Knak combines powerful creative freedom with enterprise-grade controls, approvals, and integrations, so you're ready for whatever marketing throws your way.

The core question: Should email creation live in marketing or development? Taxi for Email puts developers firmly in control. That's great if your emails demand complex custom functionality and your dev team has bandwidth.

Knak takes a different view: marketing teams should own marketing tools. You still get advanced capabilities like Velocity scripting and complex personalization without needing a computer science degree to change a headline.