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AcyMailing vs Craft CMS
A side-by-side editorial comparison of AcyMailing and Craft CMS — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
AcyMailing vs Craft CMS: at a glance
What is AcyMailing?
AcyMailing spent 11.0 on a security rewrite and is now paying down the regressions.
Patch releases arriving every few days since the 11.0.0 major. The 11.0.x line is dominated by fixes to what the rewrite disturbed — automation conditions, campaign send settings, custom field handling, add-on integrations — with small improvements alongside, such as REST API errors when a campaign targets disallowed lists and faster module insertion in emails.
What is Craft CMS?
Craft 6's alphas keep converting the plugin API, one removal at a time
Craft is running two lines with very different energy. The 5.10 maintenance branch ships one-bug releases hours apart and nothing else. Craft 6 is in its seventeenth alpha, still migrating onto Laravel: alpha 17 removes Plugin::settingsHtml() in favour of a settingsForm() built on the Control Panel Form system, replaces the Pane.vue component with a craft-pane web component, and moves another management command onto Laravel's schema API.
AcyMailing vs Craft CMS: editorial side-by-side
AcyMailing
5.0MKT AUTO
AcyMailing spent 11.0 on a security rewrite and is now paying down the regressions.
◆ Current state
Patch releases arriving every few days since the 11.0.0 major. The 11.0.x line is dominated by fixes to what the rewrite disturbed — automation conditions, campaign send settings, custom field handling, add-on integrations — with small improvements alongside, such as REST API errors when a campaign targets disallowed lists and faster module insertion in emails.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc is consolidation, not expansion. 11.0.0 reworked the codebase for security and added GDPR-aware pixel tracking; 10.11.1 before it patched a SQL injection. Since then the work has been stabilizing that base, and the attachment fix in 11.0.3 even asks administrators to re-upload files or correct permissions.
◆ Prediction
Expect continued 11.0.x patches closing regressions from the rewrite before any new feature work resumes.
Craft CMS
6.3MKT AUTO
Craft 6's alphas keep converting the plugin API, one removal at a time
◆ Current state
Craft is running two lines with very different energy. The 5.10 maintenance branch ships one-bug releases hours apart and nothing else. Craft 6 is in its seventeenth alpha, still migrating onto Laravel: alpha 17 removes Plugin::settingsHtml() in favour of a settingsForm() built on the Control Panel Form system, replaces the Pane.vue component with a craft-pane web component, and moves another management command onto Laravel's schema API.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern established at alpha 14 has not changed shape, only advanced: every alpha retires another Yii-era extension point and re-lands it on the new stack, with craftcms/yii2-adapter carrying the compatibility burden. Alpha 17 adds an Inertia-native slideout system that renders any CpScreenResponse as an in-page panel, which is the control panel moving from a legacy JavaScript layer to a genuinely Inertia/Vue one rather than wrapping it. The long fix list — stale permission trees, autosave firing on unchanged values, provisional drafts created on page open, queue jobs stuck reserved — reads as the cost of that churn being paid down alpha by alpha.
◆ Prediction
Expect further alphas that remove specific Yii-era plugin APIs with adapter fallbacks, and the 5.10 line to keep shipping single-fix patches until a Craft 6 beta absorbs the team's attention.
Alternatives to AcyMailing and Craft CMS
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either AcyMailing or Craft CMS.
Joomla
Two security releases ship the same day, and 6.2 finally clears alpha
Buttondown
Buttondown ships almost daily, and most of it is someone else's bug report closed.
Flodesk
Flodesk just moved its analytics out of the dashboard and into Claude and ChatGPT.
Formidable Forms
Formidable widens MCP compatibility and locks down signature files
Mailtrap
Mailtrap is assembling a full email operations platform, one category step at a time
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Recent activity from AcyMailing and Craft CMS
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 12h agoCraft CMSAlpha 17 retires plugin settingsHtml and adds Inertia slideouts
- 8d agoAcyMailingREST API error messages and faster module insertion
- 13d agoAcyMailingAutomation and multilingual campaign fixes
- 13d agoCraft CMSAlpha 16 fixes double-required migrations and a widget gap
- 13d agoCraft CMS5.10.13.2 fixes a SQL error on empty Categories fields
- 14d agoCraft CMS5.10.13.1 restores rendering of sanitized SVGs
- 14d agoAcyMailingConsent shown in form preview; translation file restored
- 14d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 swaps its image pipeline to intervention/image and libvips
- 20d agoAcyMailingGDPR pixel-tracking option and a full security rework
- 27d agoCraft CMSCraft 6 alpha 14 breaks plugin providers and lifecycle hooks ⚡
- 1mo agoAcyMailingSQL injection vulnerability patched
- 1mo agoAcyMailingOptional IP collection and configurable statistics delay
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between AcyMailing and Craft CMS?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Craft CMS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is AcyMailing better than Craft CMS?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Craft CMS is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to AcyMailing?
Top AcyMailing alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "AcyMailing alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/acymailing for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Craft CMS?
Top Craft CMS alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Craft CMS alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/craft-cms for the full list with editorial commentary on each.