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Compare the most popular tools schools use to create newsletters, from Word and Canva to dedicated digital options like Ecko, Schoolzine and e4education. This guide looks at the strengths, drawbacks and pricing of each, with a clear focus on what matters most to schools: saving staff time, improving readability for families and choosing the right tool for the job.

Ecko started with a simple frustration at a real school: the newsletter was taking a lot of effort to produce, but too many parents still were not reading it properly. This post tells the story of how that led to Ecko being built in collaboration with a school to make newsletters easier to create and far easier for families to read.