Woodpecker vs Yet Another Mail Merge (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Woodpecker if

• Fits if you want the whole team on one account with no seat fees
• Works for small senders starting at $35 a month for 500 contacted prospects

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you want LinkedIn too, at $29 a month for each LinkedIn account
• Tight if you contact the same person in two campaigns, as each one counts toward the limit
• Skip it if you need the API or CRM sync and don't want a $20 a month add-on
• Watch out: warm-ups past the plan's 2 cost $5 per email account a month
• Pricey if you're an agency, at $27 a month per active client plus $5 each for white labeling

Pick Yet Another Mail Merge if

• Fits if your mailing list already lives in a Google Sheet and you send from Gmail
• Works for one person sending a few hundred personal emails a day

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you use Outlook or any non-Google mailbox, because there is no support for one
• Tight if you stay on the free plan: 20 recipients a day and no scheduling
• Watch out: daily volume is Google's cap, 400 recipients on @gmail.com and 1,500 on Workspace, and each account needs its own license
• Watch out: Pro is billed once a year with no prorated refunds and none after 90 days

Woodpecker

• A prospect counts once a month per campaign, but contacting the same person in two campaigns counts twice toward the limit.
• The API, webhooks, MCP and the HubSpot and Pipedrive syncs are a $20 a month add-on rather than part of the plan.
• LinkedIn steps cost $29 a month per connected LinkedIn account, and warm-ups beyond the plan's allowance cost $5 per email account a month.
• The Agency Panel costs $27 a month per active client, plus $5 per client for white labeling.

Yet Another Mail Merge

• It works only with Gmail and Google Workspace accounts, inside Google Sheets; there is no Outlook or other mailbox support.
• Daily volume is set by Google's sending limits: 400 recipients a day on @gmail.com and 1,500 on a Workspace account, so large lists need several accounts.
• Each license covers one Google account; every additional account needs its own.
• Pro is billed once a year, with no prorated refunds and no refunds on subscriptions older than 90 days.

Woodpecker

Condition-based campaigns

Campaigns of up to 16 steps branch on conditions, with A/B tests of up to 5 versions, spintax, snippets and sending in each prospect's time zone.

Deliverability tools

Free warm-up, inbox rotation, adaptive sending, matching of Google and Microsoft senders to recipients, a deliverability monitor and an SPF and DKIM audit.

Free email verification

Prospect addresses are checked for expired, fake and misspelled emails, catch-all addresses included, through Bouncer at no extra cost.

Centralized inbox

Replies from every mailbox land in one inbox, sorted by AI-detected interest level, with out-of-office replies filtered out.

Lead Finder

A built-in lead and company database paid for with credits. Each plan step includes some free credits, and more start at 500 credits for $10.

LinkedIn and call steps

With the LinkedIn add-on, campaigns mix emails with cloud-run LinkedIn invites, messages and profile visits, plus manual call and SMS tasks.

Yet Another Mail Merge

Gmail drafts as templates

The message is written as a Gmail draft, with merge markers that match the column names in the Google Sheet.

Tracking in the sheet

Opens, clicks, replies, bounces and unsubscribes are tracked and shown in the spreadsheet next to each recipient.

Follow-ups

Follow-up campaigns can be sent in bulk, filtered by who has or has not responded, and in the same Gmail thread.

Scheduling

A merge can be scheduled for later. Scheduling is on the paid plans only.

Personalized attachments

Each recipient can get their own attachment, along with personalized links, images, CC and BCC addresses.

Over-quota splitting

When a list exceeds the daily quota, the merge is split over several days automatically.

Woodpecker

• Cold Email$35

  per month for 500 contacted prospects, billed monthly

  8,000 emails a month, 2,000 stored prospects, 2 free warm-ups and 100 Lead Finder credits. Price rises with volume: $188 a month at 10,000 prospects.

Yet Another Mail Merge

• Free$0

  Up to 20 recipients a day on a @gmail.com or Workspace account, with open, click and response tracking and follow-ups. Scheduling is not included.

• Pro gmail.com$6

  per month, billed annually at $72, for one @gmail.com account

  Up to 400 recipients a day, plus scheduling. The page shows this price for billing countries such as the US, UK, Canada and Australia; other countries pay $3.

• Pro Google Workspace$12

  per month, billed annually at $144, for one Workspace account

  Up to 1,500 recipients a day for one Google Workspace account, plus scheduling. The Team plan uses the same per-user price and covers up to 100 users.

• UnlimitedCustom

  Quoted on request for more than 100 users.

Woodpecker

• Annual discount

  Save 33% with annual billing

  Paid annually, the 500-prospect step costs $280 a year instead of $35 a month; the pricing page puts the saving at 33%.

Yet Another Mail Merge

• Education

  Discounts for schools and non-profits

  Schools, universities and non-profits with 25 or more users can contact sales for a discount.