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phpList

Open source email marketing manager for email campaigns and newsletters.

Website GitHub X Changelog

Data confidence85/100

Source coverage85/100

Publish confidence85/100

Pricing checkedNo current pricing evidence

Score Breakdown

Public signal read

How to read this

These bars are a reader-facing view of the ToolVitals evidence model. They summarize maintenance, shipping, confidence, and decay signals. Hosted pricing evidence is shown separately.

Activity: Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
Reliability: Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
Adoption: Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
Sustainability: Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.

ToolVitals54/100Health62/100Shipping14/100Zombie Risk7/100

Overall Score 54 Warning

Activity 14

Reliability 62

Adoption 62

Sustainability 56

Score History

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About this tool

What ToolVitals knows about phpList

Open source email marketing manager for email campaigns and newsletters.

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

The tool is still alive, but signs of slower momentum are visible.

Source-visible project Email Marketing OSI-approved OSS Scored Intelligence

Repository

GitHub Activity

PHP

phpList/phplist3

Stars 850

Forks 286

Watchers 850

Open Issues 88

Primary Language: PHP
Last Commit: 7 days ago
Releases 90d: 0
Default Branch: main
License: AGPL-3.0
Repository Status: Active repository

Evidence

Signal Quality

Data Confidence 85/100 Strong

Source Coverage 85/100 Strong

Publish Confidence 85/100 Strong

ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.

Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.

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Openness

License Evidence

Class: OSI-approved OSS
License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing Scope: No hosted pricing tracked

This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.

Sources

Tracked Sources

Website https://phplist.org GitHub phpList/phplist3 X https://x.com/phplist Changelog RSS https://phplist.org/feed

Profile

Classification

Category: Marketing
Use Case: Email Marketing
Openness: OSI-approved OSS
License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing Scope: No hosted pricing tracked
Tool Mode: Source-visible project
Score Model: Open Source Maintenance
Score Visibility: Scored Intelligence
Status: Warning

Hosted Pricing

Pricing Evidence

Scope: No hosted pricing tracked
Free Tier: Not detected
Currency: USD
Tracked Plans: 0

Maintainers

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