Pimcore
A security-hardening train: nine advisories across six patch releases, no feature work in sight.
Comparison · Mkt Auto
Mautic vs Pushwoosh
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mautic and Pushwoosh — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mautic vs Pushwoosh: at a glance
What is Mautic?
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
What is Pushwoosh?
Pushwoosh journeys can now read what a webhook says back and act on it mid-run.
The current release batch is broad but coherent. Journeys gained the ability to consume webhook response data and use returned values to personalize later steps in the same run. Messaging coverage evened out across channels, with PW_SMSSent and PW_WhatsAppSent events matching what email already emitted, and one-time WhatsApp sends no longer requiring a journey. On the web side, subscription forms can be dropped into any popup as lead capture, form field labels are editable without code, and the popup editor and targeting both got more room to work.
Mautic vs Pushwoosh: editorial side-by-side
Mautic
5.0MKT AUTO
Mautic is patching three supported branches at once while 7.2 grinds through release candidates.
◆ Current state
The project maintains 5.2, 6.0, and 7.1 simultaneously, and it showed: one coordinated security release patched SQL injection, SSRF, and server-side template injection across all three branches on the same day. Since then the visible work has been a 7.1.3 bugfix rollup — campaign restart and infinite email-resend loops, GrapesJS builder regressions — and a 7.2 release candidate line now on its second RC, tagged in late July with no compiled release notes.
◆ Where it's heading
This is maintenance-shaped output from a community project carrying a wide support matrix. The 7.2 RC notes are dominated by dependency bumps, refactoring, and developer-experience work rather than new marketing automation capability, and the campaign engine keeps surfacing scheduling bugs that suggest that subsystem is where the complexity sits. A second RC without notes points to stabilisation rather than late feature additions.
◆ Prediction
Expect 7.2.0 to reach stable off the current RC line, and expect any further fixes to be backported across all three supported branches as the coordinated May security release was.
Pushwoosh
6.3MKT AUTO
Pushwoosh journeys can now read what a webhook says back and act on it mid-run.
◆ Current state
The current release batch is broad but coherent. Journeys gained the ability to consume webhook response data and use returned values to personalize later steps in the same run. Messaging coverage evened out across channels, with PW_SMSSent and PW_WhatsAppSent events matching what email already emitted, and one-time WhatsApp sends no longer requiring a journey. On the web side, subscription forms can be dropped into any popup as lead capture, form field labels are editable without code, and the popup editor and targeting both got more room to work.
◆ Where it's heading
Two things are being closed at once. The channel gap is narrowing — SMS and WhatsApp are being given the same event surface and standalone send path email has had, which makes them first-class for segmentation and triggering rather than journey-only endpoints. The bigger change is that journeys are becoming stateful against the outside world: a webhook step that can return a value into the run turns the journey builder from a sequencer into something closer to orchestration.
◆ Prediction
Now that webhook responses can feed a running journey, the natural extension is branching on those values and handling failure paths when the external call does not answer as expected. Expect the remaining email-only capabilities to keep arriving for SMS and WhatsApp until channel parity is complete.
Alternatives to Mautic and Pushwoosh
Other Mkt Auto products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Mautic or Pushwoosh.
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AWeber
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SalesBlink
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Recent activity from Mautic and Pushwoosh
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 8d agoPushwooshRename subscription form field labels
- 8d agoPushwooshNew send events for SMS and WhatsApp
- 8d agoPushwooshAnimation timing for modal Rich Media
- 8d agoPushwooshBring webhook response data into a journey ⚡
- 8d agoPushwooshUse a subscription form as your Web popup content
- 8d agoPushwooshSend one-time WhatsApp messages
- 14d agoMautic7.2.0-rc2: second release candidate on the 7.2 line
- 1mo agoMautic7.1.3 fixes campaign resend loops, restores GrapesJS typography
- 2mo agoMautic7.2.0 RC: dependency cleanup and configurable campaign cache TTL
- 2mo agoMautic7.1.2 security release patches SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI
- 2mo agoMautic6.0.9 backports the SQL injection, SSRF, and SSTI fixes
- 2mo agoMautic5.2.11 backports the same three security advisories
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Mautic and Pushwoosh?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Pushwoosh is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Mautic better than Pushwoosh?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Pushwoosh is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Mkt Auto products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Mautic?
Top Mautic alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mautic alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mautic for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Pushwoosh?
Top Pushwoosh alternatives in Mkt Auto are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Pushwoosh alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/pushwoosh for the full list with editorial commentary on each.