ActiveCampaign vs MailerLite Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActiveCampaign
Manage your sales pipeline, marketing campaigns, and customer data from anywhere. Track key performance metrics, update deals, and communicate with contacts on the go. This app provides essential business insights and tools for sales and marketing professionals.
- Marketing reports and analytics
- CRM and sales automation
- Contact and lead management
- Campaign performance tracking
- Deal management
- Customer data access
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The ActiveCampaign app keeps you connected to your customers, not your computer. In a mobile society, if you're not able to run your business in the way your customers live their lives, you’re missing the mark. The ActiveCampaign mobile app keeps your most important data (and your business’s pulse) at your fingertips. A streamlined, intuitive interface lets you easily review important campaign and automation performance metrics whenever you want, and the built-in CRM lets users manage their entire sales team and pipeline from the field. Whether you’re a solopreneur or enterprise, the ActiveCampaign mobile app lets businesses of all sizes manage their business how (and where and when) they want. What you can do with the ActiveCampaign app: MARKETING REPORTS AND ANALYTICS Easily track your most important marketing campaigns and automations with detailed performance metrics like opens, click throughs, link performance, generated revenue, and A/B tests. CRM & SALES AUTOMATION The ActiveCampaign app has everything you need for the salesperson on-the-go. Review detailed lead and B2B activity, create and manage deals, make calls, and get push notifications while you’re in the field. CONTACTS & LEAD MANAGEMENT Dive into individual contact records to view the personal details and account activity of your leads and contacts, including those imported from popular integrations like Gmail and Outlook. Manage deals, lists, tags, and add notes in-app. Call or email contacts directly from their contact page — or connect to your existing app to send SMS messages. About ActiveCampaign: ActiveCampaign's category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform (CXA) helps over 180,000 businesses in 170 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to 750+ pre-built automations that combine transactional email and email marketing, marketing automation and CRM for powerful segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat and text. Over 70% of ActiveCampaign's customers use its 870+ integrations including Microsoft, Shopify, Square, Facebook and Salesforce. ActiveCampaign scores higher in customer satisfaction than any other solution in Marketing Automation, CRM and E-Commerce Personalization on G2.com and is the Top Rated Email Marketing Software on TrustRadius. Pricing starts at just $9/month. Start a free trial at ActiveCampaign.com. If you enjoy using ActiveCampaign, we’d appreciate a review. If something’s not working right, or you have a great idea you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you at app-feedback@activecampaign.com. Note: The ActiveCampaign app requires a paid ActiveCampaign account.
MailerLite Manager
Manage email campaigns, subscribers, and analyze performance from your mobile device. Create, edit, schedule, and review campaigns, while also adding subscribers and tracking form and workflow conversions.
- Create and edit email campaigns
- Schedule campaigns
- Manage subscribers
- Analyze campaign performance
- Track form and workflow conversions
- Switch between accounts
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The new MailerLite Manager iOS app is designed to work with the new MailerLite platform. You must have an account on the new MailerLite in order to use the MailerLite Manager app. For those of you with a MailerLite Classic account, you can download the MailerLite Classic Manager iOS app. Stay connected to subscribers and manage campaigns on the go with the MailerLite iOS app. Email campaigns - Create new campaigns using a rich-text editor. - Edit campaign content, subject lines, recipients and more. - Schedule your completed draft campaigns for now or later. - Preview or cancel campaigns waiting in the outbox. - Review the performance of sent campaigns. Subscribers - Add new subscribers on the fly. - Get a high-level overview of subscriber engagement in the main dashboard. - Review the performance of all subscribers or specific groups and segments. And much more! - Analyze the conversion rates of your forms, landing pages and websites. - Review the engagement of automated workflows. - Check campaign survey results. - Quickly switch between accounts.
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Verdict
ActiveCampaign and MailerLite Manager both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 59% of MailerLite Manager's written reviews are positive against 28% of ActiveCampaign's. MailerLite Manager also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ActiveCampaign against 4.7 for MailerLite Manager. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 1.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of ActiveCampaign's written reviews are positive against 59% of MailerLite Manager's.
ActiveCampaign ships an update fortnightly, MailerLite Manager every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActiveCampaign | MailerLite Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.2K ratings) | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.0% of reviews | 58.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ActiveCampaign, LLC | MailerLite, Inc. |
Customer experience
ActiveCampaign
MailerLite Manager
User reviews
ActiveCampaign
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Surprisingly simple to use
- 🚀 Analytics are great
- 👍 Excellence à un prix abordable
- 👍 Convenient
- 👍 Super awesome app
Room to improve
- 🐛 2FA won't verify
- 🐛 Difficult to get service
- 🐛 No sirve
- 🐛 Poor Customer Service
- 🐛 Poor customer service even for premium users
MailerLite Manager
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 🚀 Convenient for on-the-go tasks
- 🚀 Clean and intuitive interface
- 🚀 Great for tracking campaign analytics
- 👍 Affordable pricing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🔧 Limited functionality compared to desktop version
- 📱 Cannot create or edit campaigns from the app
- ⏱️ Slow performance and loading times
- 🔒 Lack of customer support for free users
Bugs and requests
ActiveCampaign
Reported bugs
5 issues- Deals stopped being displayed following this update on iOS iPhone 8
- Latest update broke it
- Can't see deals anymore after the latest update
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Pode incluir mais funcionalidades?
- Please add push notifications
- Please add the ability to view basic email data like campaigns, lists, and other basics we use AC for!
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
MailerLite Manager
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to switch between accounts
- Inconsistent data display and refresh issues
- Login problems and account access limitations
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to create and edit campaigns from the app
- More advanced email design and formatting options in the app
- Improved integration with other platforms and services
- Faster and more reliable performance
In-app purchases
ActiveCampaign
No in-app purchases
MailerLite Manager
No in-app purchases
Questions
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