#What is Emailcn?

Emailcn is an open-source email component library for developers who want a shadcn-style workflow for building transactional, authentication, notification, marketing, and product emails. Instead of designing every email from scratch, developers can add reusable components directly into their projects and customize the source code. Emailcn works with React Email, MJML React, and JSX Email while following the same registry-based installation approach developers already know from shadcn/ui.

#Features ⚡

• Shadcn-Compatible Workflow: Emailcn uses the same registry format and CLI-style workflow as shadcn/ui, making it familiar for developers already working in the shadcn ecosystem.

• Three Email Renderers: Components are designed to work with React Email, MJML React, and JSX Email.

• Zero Configuration: Emailcn is designed to work out of the box with sensible defaults and minimal setup.

• Theme-Aware Components: Built-in styles include themes inspired by Vercel, Linear, Stripe, GitHub, Notion, Raycast, Twitch, Airbnb, and Slack.

• Composable Architecture: Smaller email components can be combined to create more complex transactional or marketing email layouts.

• Responsive Emails: Components are designed to adapt across screen sizes and email clients.

• Source-Code Ownership: Like the shadcn approach, components become part of your project, allowing developers to modify their implementation and styling.

• Developer-Friendly Structure: The repository includes a component registry, documentation, examples, reusable components, hooks, utilities, and supporting tooling.

• Open Contribution Model: Developers can fork the project, create new features, and submit pull requests.

#Pro and cons

Pro ✅:

• Completely free and open source

• MIT licensed

• Familiar workflow for shadcn/ui developers

• Supports three popular React-based email approaches

• No vendor lock-in for component source code

• Multiple built-in visual themes

• Easy to customize for your own brand

• Suitable for transactional and product emails

• Composable component architecture

Cons ⚠️:

• Requires React or a compatible React-based email workflow

• Developers still need an email delivery provider such as Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, SES, or similar

• Email client rendering differences can still require testing

• Smaller and newer ecosystem compared with established email frameworks

• Developers unfamiliar with component-based email development may face some initial learning

#Included Components/Templates

Emailcn provides reusable resources for constructing complete email interfaces rather than requiring developers to hand-code every layout. The repository includes a component registry alongside examples, components, documentation, hooks, themes, and supporting utilities.

• Reusable email layout components

• Content and typography components

• Email-friendly calls to action

• Structured email sections

• Responsive email layouts

• React Email-compatible components

• MJML React-compatible components

• JSX Email-compatible components

• Example email implementations

• Theme presets

• Vercel-inspired theme

• Linear-inspired theme

• Stripe-inspired theme

• GitHub-inspired theme

• Notion-inspired theme

• Raycast-inspired theme

• Twitch-inspired theme

• Airbnb-inspired theme

• Slack-inspired theme

• Shadcn-compatible component registry

#Pricing 💸

Emailcn is completely free and open source. The project is released under the MIT License, so developers can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and commercially use the software while retaining the required copyright and license notice.

• Free: $0

• No Pro subscription

• No paid component tier

• No per-project pricing

• Commercial usage permitted under the MIT License

• Source code can be modified for your own applications

#Integrations 🧰

Emailcn is particularly useful for React and shadcn-oriented development stacks.

• React

• React Email

• MJML React

• JSX Email

• shadcn/ui

• shadcn registry

• TypeScript

• Next.js

• Modern React applications

• Email delivery platforms such as Resend can be paired with the generated emails