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44MattWolf44
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Is Litmus the best email client/device tester? Any others you'd recommend?

  • July 21, 2022
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Hi all

Litmus seems to be the gold standard on email client/device testing from what I've seen, but I'd love to hear if anyone has other opinions or resources to share. Anyone have any thoughts on EmailOnAcid as well?

 

Thank you!

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Best answer by Dave_Roberts

It's been a few years, but I've used Litmus extensively and liked it a lot. As a developer it had all the tools I needed to test things out and the only downside I found was the cost. We use Email on Acid now and Im just not as big a fan -- it seems a bit less capable and inconsistent and I'm not a fan of the UI.

 

If you can swing it, I'd say you'll be further ahead going with Litmus but Email on Acid is "good enough" that you can get work done.

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Dave_Roberts
Dave_RobertsAccepted solution
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July 21, 2022

It's been a few years, but I've used Litmus extensively and liked it a lot. As a developer it had all the tools I needed to test things out and the only downside I found was the cost. We use Email on Acid now and Im just not as big a fan -- it seems a bit less capable and inconsistent and I'm not a fan of the UI.

 

If you can swing it, I'd say you'll be further ahead going with Litmus but Email on Acid is "good enough" that you can get work done.

dcreagh
dcreagh
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July 22, 2022

We use Litmus to validate the responsiveness of our emails. I inherited a set of messy email templates and Litmus helped me sort out the lack of responsiveness in several of the templates.

We do not have the Litmus to Marketo connector. This is only available through the Enterprise license and we opted not to pay for that. 

I've built a few custom emails where the design did not match any of our built email modules.  

 

Dennis

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44MattWolf44Author
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July 25, 2022

Interesting. I was under the impression you needed the Litmus + Marketo connector to utilize it with Marketo.

Without the connector, what specifically do you use it for?

Can you create emails in Marketo, and test their appearance on many email clients using Litmus, without the connector?

Alternatively, could you build emails in Litmus's template builder, test their appearance on many email clients, and then copy/paste the email's html into Marketo and send it through there?

 

Thanks a bunch in advance for your info

Dave_Roberts
Dave_Roberts
Level 10
July 25, 2022

When I used it, I didn't have the connector part hooked up so the HTML has to be a little different. I kept two copies of the code: One had the Marketo syntax for variables built in (the Marketo code) and the other was the rendered code (no variables) that I'd load into Litmus.

 

I'd grab the HTML from a rendered email by previewing the email in the editor and then paste that into Litmus to test it. Basically you've got to work around the tokens and variables (anything Marketo would substitute) to test the code in Litmus. In Litmus you can use their builder tool to paste in the HTML and run a render test. 


The thing I really liked about Litmus vs. Email on Acid was being able to dump the code into their builder tool and make some changes there for testing and test that before bringing anything back into Marketo. I got a ton of use from the builder tool and was able to learn a lot in a little time by having an environment like that where I could make incremental changes and render that code to test/review the changes. 

 

 

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