TinyCourier

What TinyCourier is

TinyCourier is a newsletter platform for writers, authors and founders who want to write to their readers and send, without a marketing suite around it. Its tagline is "Newsletters, the way they used to be", and the footer says it is "Made in Switzerland", while the data sits on EU servers in Finland. The homepage opens on a complaint about the rest of the market: "Email marketing apps got greedy. We didn't." TinyCourier describes itself as "the other thing: the newsletter, minus everything it never needed."

The pitch is aimed at people whose last tool changed or closed. A banner across the site notes that MailerLite Classic closed signups and free accounts and points to a migration guide, and a dedicated page speaks to former TinyLetter users, promising "a list, an editor, a send button, and nothing in the way." The site is available in English, German and Spanish.

What a sender gets

The editor. TinyCourier's editor is "Write-first, not builder-first": "Open the editor and type. No template gallery to fight, no blocks to drag." The homepage describes clean editing, a real preview and the words front and center, with the result turned into tidy email that looks right in every inbox. The three-step walkthrough on the homepage is short: bring your readers, write the thing (type it out, drop in an image, hit preview), and send it with one click. The site says most people are up and running the same afternoon, with no setup wizard and no onboarding call.

The list and signup forms. Subscribers are imported or collected through embedded signup forms, and the homepage says double opt-in and spam protection are already on. The list stays deliberately plain: "A list, not a CRM. Subscribers stay simple. Import, tag if you want, send. No lead scores, no pipelines, no jargon." The API and the automation answer both mention segments, so a sender can still split the list when needed.

Automations. The FAQ answers the question directly. Automations exist, "the simple kind: triggers, actions, delays and webhooks, enough to welcome new subscribers or run a short sequence without babysitting it." Funnels and AI subject lines are left out on purpose, because TinyCourier "is for people who want to write and send, not run a marketing machine."

Reporting. Opens, clicks and unsubscribes appear "on one plain screen", which the homepage frames as enough to see what landed before closing the tab and getting back to writing.

Deliverability. The sending side is handled for the user. The FAQ says TinyCourier "handles SPF, DKIM, custom MAIL FROM, bounce and complaint processing, and one-click unsubscribe for you", and that landing in the inbox is the default, not a paid extra. The TinyLetter page adds custom sending domains, and the walkthrough says the sending domain is verified in the background.

Vetted senders. Sending is approval-based. Anyone can sign up and explore the platform right away, but every new sender goes through a quick manual review before the first send, and the company says it gets back within a day. The stated reason is reputation: keeping spammers off keeps the shared sending reputation clean, which the site says is why newsletters reach the inbox. TinyCourier calls itself made for writers, authors and founders, "not blast-and-pray marketers."

API. The homepage describes TinyCourier as API-first: "The whole app is just a wrapper over our API, so everything it can do, your tools can do too." Every action is available over a REST API with one API token, and the site suggests handing an AI agent an account and a token so it can run subscribers, segments, writing and sending. The sample shows the calls for importing subscribers, creating a segment, creating a campaign and sending it, authorized with a bearer token.

Migration

The homepage promises that people coming from another tool can bring subscribers, groups and past sends across in minutes and keep their unsubscribe links working. For MailerLite Classic there is a dedicated importer: the FAQ says to paste the MailerLite Classic API key into the import tool and the subscribers and groups come across in a few minutes. From anywhere else, the TinyLetter page says to upload a CSV of the existing list.

Pricing

TinyCourier sells "One plan, priced by list size", under the heading "Pay for who you email, not who you store." The free tier covers up to 500 subscribers and 1,000 emails a month, free forever and with no credit card. Beyond that, the TinyLetter page gives "honest subscriber-based pricing from $6/mo." The homepage's pricing block asks "How many do you email a month?" on a slider running from 500 to 100k+, notes that it only counts subscribers you email, and offers monthly or annual billing with two months free on annual. Within the plan's subscriber and send limits there is "no metering, no overages", and every feature is available at any size rather than gated by tier. Payments are processed by Stripe and billed in the customer's local currency, and plans can be canceled anytime.

The pledge

A section headed "The greed stops here. In writing." sets out four promises. Data is yours: one click exports every subscriber and every send to CSV or JSON, with no "contact us to cancel". The product stays simple on purpose rather than adding features to chase new markets. Prices stay honest, with no add-ons, overage traps or limited-time hikes. And the service is monitored, with the company naming Sentry, while saying there are no hidden marketing trackers. The TinyLetter page adds a no-sunset pledge, and the FAQ says TinyCourier is "100% bootstrapped, no investors, no acquirer, no third party pulling the strings."

Data, privacy and support

Data is stored on EU servers in Finland. The FAQ calls the service GDPR-first, says subprocessors are listed openly, and repeats that everything can be exported to CSV or JSON at any time. The footer links to a DPA and a subprocessors page alongside the privacy policy and terms, and to a status page that read "All systems operational."

Support comes from people rather than bots. Email support is free for every plan in a low-priority queue, and as a launch promotion live chat is open to every plan, including Free, "staffed by the same industry veterans who handle paid support, not a script." The company says chat stays open to free accounts for as long as its team can keep up, after which it moves to paid plans only. Demos can be booked from the site.

Who it suits

TinyCourier suits writers, authors, founders and solo newsletter senders who want to open an editor, type and send to their readers without learning a marketing platform. The free tier covers a first list of 500, the paid plan grows with the number of subscribers emailed, and the pledge and full export suit anyone burned by a tool that shut down. The API suits a technical sender who wants to script the whole thing or hand it to an agent, and EU hosting in Finland suits a sender who wants the data in Europe.

It is not built for a marketer who wants funnels, AI subject lines, a template gallery or a drag-and-drop builder; the company says it turned those down on purpose. Every new sender also waits for a manual review, usually within a day, before the first send.