Best self-hosted Blogging Platforms apps

Ghost

★ 54,083

Ghost is a publishing and newsletter platform built for creators, with paid subscriptions built in. Self-hosted, it's the alternative to Medium and Substack with no cut taken from your subscribers.

WriteFreely

★ 5,187

Writing software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.

Ech0

★ 2,007

Lightweight federated publishing platform focused on personal idea sharing (documentation in Chinese).

HTMLy

★ 1,344

Databaseless PHP blogging platform. A flat-file CMS that allows you to create a fast, secure, and powerful website or blog in seconds.

Known

★ 1,120

Collaborative social publishing platform.

Haven

★ 791

Private blogging system with markdown editing and built in RSS reader.

Chyrp Lite

★ 486

Extra-awesome, extra-lightweight blog engine.

Mataroa

★ 354

Naked blogging platform for minimalists.

fx

★ 316

Micro-blog tool offering built-in syntax highlighting, mobile publishing and more (alternative to Twitter, Bluesky).

PluXml

★ 233

XML-based blog/CMS platform.

Serendipity

★ 226

Serendipity (s9y) is a highly extensible and customizable PHP blog engine using Smarty templating.

FlatPress

★ 210

A lightweight, easy-to-set-up flat-file blogging engine.

Antville

★ 89

Free, open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software.

Castopod

Podcast management hosting platform that includes the latest podcast 2.0 standards, an automated Fediverse feed, analytics, an embeddable player, and more.

Dotclear

Take control over your blog.