Gist vs. MailUp

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Gist
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Gist is a unified marketing, sales, and support platform. It includes live chat, a help desk, knowledge base, email marketing, marketing automation, opt-in forms, and more.
$29
per month
MailUp
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
MailUp is the eponymous email & SMS platform from the Italian company that was founded in 2002 that now has a modest but respectable presence across the western world with a diverse customer base (Yamaha, Amnesty International, Korean Air, etc.). Mailup's platform combines email marketing, with transactional email and SMS features, and offers SMTP relay and plugins for ecommerce, CRM and CMS systems. Their unusual pricing scheme is tiered just on subscribers but on volume of sends and that…N/A
Pricing
GistMailUp
Editions & Modules
Professional
$29.00
per month
Premium
$99.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GistMailUp
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
GistMailUp
Features
GistMailUp
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Gist
8.9
Ratings
3% above category average
MailUp
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics8.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Email & Online Marketing
Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Gist
-
Ratings
MailUp
9.5
Ratings
18% above category average
WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Dynamic content00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Mobile optimization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
GistMailUp
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
GistMailUp
Likelihood to Recommend
Gist is perfect for SaaS I'd say, and perfect for long sales cycles with lots of lead nurturing involved, and for scenarios where you re-market via FB ads, because there's FB custom audience integration built into the workflows. Perfect for customer service and support. Really outstanding there. It's a little less suited to ecom but they're hammering out the finishing touches to make ecom cart recovery easier.
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Great for marketing teams looking to quickly deploy emails without the need for HTML coding.
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Pros
  • Gist provides endless ways of interacting with customers. I can chat and email with them, track their usage on my site, qualify them, add tags and other profile information, and so much more.
  • There is even an awesome live view that lets me spy on visitors to see how they're using the site.
  • The tools are powerful, easy to use, and constantly getting improvements. It seems like every week there is another update being rolled out that substantially extends the functionality or usability of the features in Gist.
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  • Email marketing creation
  • Email design
  • HTML template creation
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Cons
  • Free plan limits are too low.
  • Chatbots should work not only for Gist's native online chat, but also for the other chat-based channels such as Facebook. (instead of having to use another software for that purpose)
  • Pricing structure - Support bot should not be an add-on but a core feature.
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  • Alt tag styling within the editor
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Likelihood to Renew
Gist is a quite reliable service with a lot of added values. We don't need to pay for different Saas for these important features. If I had an issue the team was super responsive and helpful, that is essential for every business. The email delivery is great, so virtually no email has landed into spam folder
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Usability
Gist does pretty much anything you want it to when it comes to managing your contacts. Sometimes I wish it updated faster, but wait a few beats and it gets there. I really love that I can show a colleague how to use the chat messenger and they understand it right away. Very user friendly!
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Support Rating
I have communicated with their team multiple times and every time they have been very responsive, knowledgeable, and polite. They work to make sure you are happy and informed of what is going on. Better their team keeps up to date with their app, giving you new features, and keeping you notified and educated about what they are and how to use them. A+
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Alternatives Considered
They both seem to have parity with each other with each having their own small advantages. I went with Gist because it was more affordable. Infusionsoft customer for almost 5 years and it seemed I was always working more on getting it to work instead of getting work done. Gist is so intuitive I had it setting up and running the basics in a few hours.
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Mailup has hands down the best editor for creating responsive emails, I've tried almost everything out there and this is the best, I recommend this to colleagues all the time!
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Return on Investment
  • Our ROI has increased significantly because of Gist's chat and app integration into our website. Contact forms are great but a real-time conversation means you can be more effective in meeting your customer's needs.
  • The additional features in the recent upgrade mean we can use Gist for more. They have always been effective for email campaigns, but the addition of the knowledge base and more effective workflows means we can automate more. This has saved us from buying more software.
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  • Faster email development
  • More team members able to contribute to the email development process
  • Better templates
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ScreenShots

Gist Screenshots

Screenshot of Live ChatScreenshot of Email MarketingScreenshot of Marketing Automation WorkflowsScreenshot of Knowledge BaseScreenshot of Meetings

MailUp Screenshots

Screenshot of Manage lists. With MailUp, you can manage mailing lists, groups and sending profiles, automatically eliminating duplicate addresses and handling users who cancel their subscription. The procedure is guided, quick and safe. The utmost simplicity, with no need to install additional software. Not bad, right?Screenshot of he winning variable, with mathematical certainty
With A/B testing, discover, prior to mailing, what your recipients prefer to read, by automatically testing several versions of the same text, measuring its effectiveness on a select group. Opening results improve by up to 30% and, for each version, you have more statistical information. Mailing after mailing, you can only do better!Screenshot of Creating emails for mobile devices is easy
Free your creativity and create emails and newsletters that have great visual impact, optimised for mobile devices. While you concentrate on the content of your campaign, MailUp takes care of the rest with the aid of an intelligent editor and plenty of cutting-edge functions. Not bad, right?Screenshot of Countless ways to create your messages.

There's not only BEE with which create messages. You can start with HTML documents, RSS/Atom, URL or choose from hundreds of graphic models. Starting with an empty email? The convenient WYSIWYG editor helps you put your messages together with just a few clicks. It's all up to you!Screenshot of .and you can do the same with unsubscribe lists.

Automatic management of unsubscribe lists allows you to activate the UNSUBSCRIBE button directly in the email client interface. The unsubscribers list also shows a list of users who performed this action, which may be edited and exported. This function also allows you to make up random groups of users, specifying the number of subscribers. This makes it easier to manage random sampling and A/B testing.Screenshot of