A Mailchimp free plan alternative for churches, PTAs and clubs
Import your members, pick a template, and Hallpost sends it through your Gmail or Zoho at a safe pace. For church offices, PTAs, clubs and small charities.
$39 once instead of $13 every month. Free for up to 100 contacts.
24-second demo. The video loads from YouTube only when you press play.
Mailchimp's free plan now stops at 250 contacts and 500 emails a month. A parish or a PTA with 300 families is over it on day one.
The paid plans bill every month, forever, and count people who unsubscribed. That is money a bake sale raised.
Other free tools cap you at 200 or 300 emails a day, and the self-hosted ones need a web server nobody on the committee knows how to run.
Four templates (Parish, School, Club, Plain letter) with a live preview beside your text. Type the way you write an email: headings, bold, bullet lists, links. {first_name} turns "Dear friend" into "Dear Ruth" for every member.
Newsletters go out from your own Gmail, Google Workspace, Zoho, Yahoo or iCloud address, so replies land in your inbox. One email every 4 seconds, under the daily limit you set (Gmail allows about 500 a day). At the limit Hallpost stops and carries on tomorrow from the same member.
Write, preview and send from Android. Free with ads: each newsletter goes to 100 members, and a short video sends it to your whole list.
Open the CSV from Google Contacts, Excel or your old newsletter service. Rows that can't be used are listed with the reason.
Paste an app password for your Gmail or Zoho. Hallpost checks the login and your domain's SPF and DMARC.
Pick a template, write the news, send a test to yourself.
Press Send and leave it running. A paused or interrupted send resumes where it stopped.
Mailchimp Essentials is $156 a year. Hallpost Pro is $39, once. On Android Hallpost is free and supported by ads.
They come from your own mailbox, signed by Gmail or Zoho, which is what inbox filters trust. If you use your own domain, Hallpost checks its SPF and DMARC records first and tells you in plain words what to fix.
Hallpost sends one email every few seconds and stops below the daily limit you set, so you stay under Gmail's 500-a-day ceiling. At the limit it pauses and continues tomorrow from the same member.
On your computer or phone, in Hallpost's own folder. Your app password is kept in Windows Credential Manager or the Android Keystore. We run no server and never see your list.
Every newsletter ends with "reply STOP" and an unsubscribe link that emails you. Paste the replies into Hallpost and those people are skipped on every list from then on.
Not yet: Microsoft turned off app-password sending for personal accounts in 2026. Gmail, Google Workspace, Zoho, Yahoo, iCloud and any SMTP mail server work.
No. Those need tracking pixels on a server, and Hallpost has none. Replies come straight to your inbox instead.
Free for up to 100 contacts with no time limit. No account to create, no card to start.