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Buttondown is a newsletter tool with soul: a one-person project by Justin Duke with clean Markdown-native editing, no bloat, no default tracking, and subscriber-based pricing. If you're a developer or writer who loves Markdown and just needs a clean newsletter, it's lovely. TinyCommand is a different animal: TinyEmails designs the email, TinyCampaigns broadcasts it to a TinyTables table, and TinyForms, TinyWorkflows, and TinyAgents live in the same product. A workflow can email a new subscriber from your Gmail or Outlook account the moment they sign up through a form; multi-step drip sequences aren't part of it today.
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Why teams switch
Built into the same product. No separate subscription, no glue code.
Built into the same product. No separate subscription, no glue code.
subscribers live in TinyTables next to everything else you know about them
Side-by-side
Honest feature parity where it exists. Concrete gaps where it doesn’t.
| What comes with TinyCampaigns | TinyCampaigns |
|---|---|
AI template drafting and a visual designer vs Buttondown's Markdown-only editor | |
Email connects natively to forms, database, workflows, and AI agents | |
Your table is the list subscribers live in TinyTables next to everything else you know about them | |
458 app integrations including Slack, Gmail, HubSpot, Salesforce, Stripe, webhooks | |
Forms, tables, workflows, AI agents and email in one product One plan and one credit pool across all of them. |
| Feature | TinyCampaigns | Buttondown |
|---|---|---|
Beautifully clean, Markdown-native experience built by someone who sends newsletters | TinyCampaigns Not our focus | Buttondown Buttondown's strength |
Privacy-respecting defaults, paid subscriptions and multi-step email automations | TinyCampaigns Not our focus | Buttondown Buttondown's strength |
Free forever tier | TinyCampaigns 1,000 credits a month, no time limit | Buttondown 100 subscribers, Markdown, custom domain |
Price for the same job | TinyCampaigns $49 / mo (whole stack) | Buttondown $79 (Buttondown plan) |
Where it fits
Design it in TinyEmails and TinyCampaigns sends it to the same tables your forms write to. The agent that scored the lead wrote to that row, so the context is already there to merge in.
Real flows
Your signup form writes each subscriber and their consent choice to a table. The campaign sends only to rows marked opted-in.
An AI column writes one sentence per row from what the table already holds. The template merges it in, so each recipient gets their own line.
Fill in missing emails and verify the risky ones first. Hard bounces and complaints that still happen suppress themselves.
A scheduled workflow copies lapsed customers into their own table. Point a campaign at that table and send when you are ready.
Switching from Buttondown
Email us your Buttondown account and our team rebuilds your setup in TinyCommand, carries over your contacts and email designs, and helps you wire up the workflows. Multi-step drip flows don’t carry over: TinyCampaigns sends broadcasts, and single triggered emails are rebuilt as workflows. Live within a week.
Start the migrationFAQ
TinyCampaigns sends to a TinyTables table, so there is no CSV to export and re-upload: pick the table, the email column and, if you want, the column that records consent. You design the email in TinyEmails, where AI can draft the whole template and any column can be merged in. The audience is fixed when you confirm the send. It's bundled with the database, forms, workflows and AI agents.
Campaigns can send from your own DKIM-verified domain; without one they go out from TinyCommand's shared sender address. Hard bounces, complaints and unsubscribes suppress themselves and are checked again at send time, every email carries one-click unsubscribe, and a campaign pauses itself if bounces pass 5% or complaints pass 0.1% after fifty sends. For cold sales outreach at volume, specialized tools (Instantly, Smartlead) still have the edge.
Not as one sending product. TinyCampaigns is broadcast sending to a table; drip sequences aren't part of it today. A workflow can still send a single email the moment a trigger fires, through a Gmail, Outlook or SendGrid step. There's no transactional sending API today, so high-volume receipts and alerts aren't part of it.
Your audience is a TinyTables table. Bring your contacts into a table, name the email column and the column that records consent, and only rows that match are sent to.
You can start free with no card. TinyCampaigns, TinyEmails, forms, tables and workflows are on every plan, including Free. Professional at $49/mo adds 50,000 credits and up to 10 seats.
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$49/mo for forms + tables + workflows + agents + email. Or free forever for solo.
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