Mujaz vs Mailchimp: an Arabic newsletter or a marketing tool? (2026)
Mailchimp is one of the oldest and best-known email tools, and many Arab businesses use it for their marketing email. But it was designed for store and business campaigns, not for a newsletter a writer sends their readers every week. The Mujaz team wrote this comparison; Mailchimp's numbers are from its pricing page as of 30 September 2026.
The short answer
- Pick Mailchimp if you run an online store and need abandoned-cart emails, a Shopify connection and customer management, and your campaigns are mostly in English.
- Pick Mujaz if you write a newsletter in Arabic: a right-to-left editor, a public page and archive search engines index, and articles published to the web and sent by email together.
- On price: Mujaz's free plan is twice Mailchimp's, in both subscribers and emails.
Side by side
| Mujaz | Mailchimp | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 500 subscribers · 1,000 emails/month | 250 contacts · 500 emails/month (250 a day) |
| First paid plan | $19/month (1,000 subscribers) | Essentials from $13/month (up to 500 contacts) |
| As your list grows | $39 up to 2,000, $69 up to 5,000, $99 up to 10,000 | Price rises with contact count |
| Built for | Newsletters from writers and publishers | Marketing campaigns for stores and businesses |
| Right-to-left interface and editor | Yes, fully in Arabic | No; templates need adjusting to run right-to-left |
| Public page and archive | Yes, at mujaz.io/@you, with web articles | An archive of sent campaigns |
| Automation | Welcome emails and sequences | The strongest: abandoned cart, customer journeys, store integrations |
| AI assistant | Writes Arabic | Yes, built for English |
Newsletter or campaign?
In Mailchimp you build a campaign and send it to an audience. In Mujaz you write an issue that subscribers read and that stays published on your public page. The difference isn't the naming: a newsletter needs an archive new readers can find on Google, a good subscribe page, and analytics that tell you who actually reads. A campaign needs customer segments and a store connection. Each tool fits what it was built for.
Arabic in Mailchimp
You can send an Arabic email from Mailchimp, but the templates are built left-to-right, so you'll set direction, alignment and column order yourself, and sometimes edit the HTML. In Mujaz everything starts from the right with no setup, and harakat and joined letters render as you wrote them in Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail.
Where Mailchimp is better, honestly
- E-commerce automation: abandoned carts, product recommendations and customer journeys.
- Hundreds of integrations with stores, CRMs and ad platforms.
- Landing pages and forms and marketing tools beyond email.
Where Mujaz is better
- Built for Arabic, from the interface to the inbox.
- A public page for your newsletter with an archive and web articles, plus an Arabic newsletter directory that brings new readers.
- A bigger free plan: 500 subscribers and 1,000 emails a month.
- Writer tools: a spam check, resend to non-openers, and an AI assistant that writes Arabic.
Moving from Mailchimp to Mujaz
- Export your audience from Mailchimp as a CSV, keeping only subscribed contacts.
- In Mujaz, open Subscribers, then Import CSV, and upload the file.
- Send a short issue telling readers about the move, so a new sender address doesn't surprise them.
Move your newsletter to an editor that starts from the right: free up to 500 subscribers, no card.
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