Chamaileon vs Foundation for Emails
Chamaileon
chamaileon.ioFoundation for Emails
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| Figure | Chamaileon | Foundation for Emails |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $333.33/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 2 |
| Spec score · Email Template Software | 7.8 (#13) | 8.8 (#4) |
| Company history | The about page says parent company EDMDesigner.com was founded in 2013 and separately says Chamaileon started in 2018. | ZURB says it began in 1998, moved to Campbell, California in 2005, released Ink in 2013 and renamed it Foundation for Emails 2 in 2016. |
| What it does | Chamaileon is a no-code email creation platform for building, reviewing, and connecting marketing emails to email service providers. | Foundation for Emails is a framework for building responsive HTML email that targets major clients, including Outlook. |
Plans
Foundation for Emails
- Foundation for EmailsFree
- Open-source Foundation for EmailsFree
In their own words
Chamaileon
Chamaileon has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Foundation for Emails
Foundation for Emails is a free, open-source web framework for creating responsive HTML emails. It is aimed at marketing, promotional, drip campaign, and transactional messages, with designs intended for major email clients including Outlook. The collection includes 11 customizable templates for newsletters, orders, password resets, and welcome messages. Its responsive grid can stack content on small screens and adjust padding and row width for mobile devices. Inky lets developers write tags such as and , which become email table markup. The ZURB Email Stack combines Gulp, Sass, Inky, an inliner, BrowserSync live reloading, and automatic image compression. Panini layouts and Handlebars partials support reusable headers, footers, and other content. The inliner embeds CSS into style attributes, moves media queries into the body, and compresses output. The CSS version is a ZIP download; the Sass version has a build process requiring Node.js. HTML is the listed export format.