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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Smaily OÜ · smaily.com

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Smaily at a glance

Vendor
Smaily OÜ
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Smaily 0.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Smaily OÜ is an email marketing and newsletter tool whose captured homepage names two triggered e-commerce flows — abandoned carts and a new user welcome series — plus transactional sending; campaign and automation, spanning 1 to 3, is where the bench found the most evidence, the higher marks crediting automation beyond broadcast and the lower one noting that the editor, segmentation and testing are without public information. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Data Protection Officer

Weighted verdict

Signs off the tool that holds named people and records what each of them opened. Wants double opt-in with a proof that survives a complaint, tracking that can be switched off, and an answer to where the behavioural data lives that does not require a Schrems II argument.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Data Protection Officer

Panel median The Data Protection Officer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Data Protection Officer
Campaigns & automation 1 of 5 1.5 of 5
Deliverability infrastructure 0 of 5 0 of 5
Consent, proof & tracking limits 0 of 5 0 of 5
List ownership, import & exit 0 of 5 0 of 5
Integrations & API 0.5 of 5 1 of 5
European sovereignty 0.5 of 5 1 of 5

Campaigns & automation

How this is scored

Building the mail and the journey around it: editor, templates, segmentation, triggered sequences, A/B testing.

0 — One-off broadcasts from a fixed template; no segmentation and no automation of any kind.

3 — A drag-and-drop editor and simple list segmentation, but automation is a single welcome mail and there is no testing.

5 — Reusable templates, attribute and behaviour segmentation, multi-step automations on common triggers, and subject-line A/B testing.

8 — A visual journey builder with branching on behaviour and data, dynamic content per segment, send-time optimisation, and testing that reports significance rather than raw counts.

10 — Journeys treat the whole lifecycle: event-driven entry from other systems, branching on any attribute or event, holdout groups for measurement, and automations a marketer can read months later without a diagram.

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The Data Protection Officer

E-commerce automation is evidenced — abandoned-cart recovery, a new-user welcome series and transactional sending, which is more than a single welcome mail — but I found no public information on the editor, templates, segmentation or any A/B testing. Automation alone does not carry the criterion. 1

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Deliverability infrastructure

How this is scored

Whether the mail arrives — authentication, sending reputation, bounce and complaint handling — judged on what the vendor documents rather than the inbox rate it advertises.

0 — No documentation of authentication or bounce handling; deliverability appears only as a marketing number.

3 — SPF and DKIM setup documented, but no DMARC guidance, no stated bounce policy and shared sending only.

5 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC documented with a custom sending domain, automatic hard-bounce suppression, and complaint-loop handling stated.

8 — The above plus dedicated-IP options with a documented warm-up, seed or inbox-placement testing, engagement-based sunsetting, and published guidance on list hygiene.

10 — Deliverability is operated as a service: reputation monitoring surfaced to the customer, per-domain and per-ISP diagnostics, enforced authentication before first send, and postmaster or blocklist handling the vendor documents doing on the customer's behalf.

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The Data Protection Officer

The captured pages give no documentation of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, bounce handling or sending infrastructure, and not even a deliverability claim to inspect. Judged on documented practice rather than advertised numbers, this is the floor. 1

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List ownership, import & exit

How this is scored

Whether the list and its history remain the sender's: import with attributes intact, full export including engagement history, deletion that executes, and no metering that prices leaving out of reach.

0 — Export is addresses only; engagement history, segments and automations cannot leave.

3 — CSV import and export of subscriber fields, but engagement history and unsubscribe state are not exportable.

5 — Full subscriber export including custom attributes, subscription status and unsubscribe state, plus API access sufficient to sync elsewhere.

8 — Everything exportable in open formats — subscribers, engagement history, campaigns and templates — with documented deletion of a subscriber across all records, and no export throttling.

10 — Exit is a documented feature: full-fidelity export of the whole account, contractual data return, deletion that is evidenced rather than asserted, and migration tooling in both directions.

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The Data Protection Officer

I found no public information on import with attributes intact, export of engagement history or unsubscribe state, or deletion of a subscriber across all records. Whether the list remains the sender's property on the way out is entirely undocumented in what was captured. 1

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The connection surface a newsletter lives on: shop and CRM systems, events in and out, webhooks, and an API somebody can build against without a partner agreement.

0 — No API and no named integrations; the list is maintained by CSV upload.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common shop and CRM systems, a documented REST API with keys, and webhooks for the core subscriber events.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations with named systems including at least one major shop platform, event webhooks with retries, documented rate limits, and a sandbox.

10 — The tool is a component rather than a destination: transactional and marketing sending on one API, events flowing both directions, versioned API with a deprecation policy, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The Data Protection Officer

The vendor describes connecting the tool to a website and e-commerce business to power automated flows, so this is not CSV-upload territory, but I found no public information on named integrations, API documentation, webhooks or rate limits. 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where subscriber data and behavioural tracking live, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors touch the send. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — US vendor and contracting entity, US hosting, subprocessors unnamed; subscriber behaviour leaves the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option or for storage only, while sending, tracking or support access remains non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — sending infrastructure, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, sending and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and no transfer that needs a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The Data Protection Officer

The contracting entity is named as Smaily OÜ, which reads as an Estonian company and not a US one, yet there are no sovereignty attributes on record: I found no public information on hosting location, the subprocessor list, certification, or where behavioural tracking data is processed. This buyer weighs that silence heavily, so I hold it near the floor. 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a sender can compute the real invoice for their list size and send volume — including overage, extra domains and automation limits — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline price per contact tier exists, but send limits, overage rates or the tier where automation begins are not stated.

5 — Contact-tier prices public with the billing period stated and send limits given, but at least one commonly needed capability sits in an unpriced tier or add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, overage rates, feature boundaries and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom volume lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given list size and send frequency, including overage, additional domains and dedicated IPs.

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The Data Protection Officer

I found no public prices, tiers, contact limits or send limits in the captured pages; the only commercial element visible is a free video consultation. A sender cannot compute any invoice from what is published. 1

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Questions about Smaily

Is Smaily European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Smaily is based.

Where does Smaily store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does Smaily have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Smaily?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Brevo (3/5), CleverReach (3/5) and Mailchimp (3/5) highest among the other 27 Email Marketing & Newsletter products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Brevo (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Smaily alternatives.

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