Open Source Bear Blog AlternativesBlog Publishing Tools and other similar apps like Bear Blog

The best open source alternative to Bear Blog is WordPress. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bear Blog and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Bear Blog are Ghost, Neocities, Hubzilla and WriteFreely.

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  1. WordPress icon

    WordPress

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    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    104 WordPress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
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    • WordPress is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to Bear Blog.

    • WordPress is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Bear Blog.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceBear Blog is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WordPress is CustomizableBear Blog is not according to our users
  2. Ghost icon

    Ghost

     251 likes
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    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    270 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  4. Neocities icon

    Neocities

     79 likes
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    Create your own free website, and connect with others you by following their sites. You get 1 GB of space to make whatever you’d like with HTML, CSS, JS, image, text, and web font files.

    101 Neocities alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
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    WordPress

    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

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    Hubzilla

     87 likes
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    Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected based websites featuring a decentralised identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology. Hubzilla is very suitable for communities (of any size).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    Channel
     
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    WriteFreely

     49 likes
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    WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.

    47 WriteFreely alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Plume icon

    Plume

     24 likes
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    Plume is not a single website, but an entire interconnected, yet independent network of what we call instances. You write content from your own instance, but anyone else on any other Plume instance can enjoy your stories too.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Blot icon

    Blot

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    Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside. The point of all this?—?the reason Blot exists?—?is so you can use your favorite tools to create whatever you publish.

    83 Blot alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Bludit

     17 likes
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    Bludit is a web application to build your own website or blog in seconds, it's completely free and open source. A PRO version is available for those who want to support the software developer. The software seems almost the same between the versions.

    38 Bludit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    Listed

     8 likes
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    Listed is a free blogging platform that allows you to create a public journal published directly from your notes. This unique approach to keeping a public blog on the internet using just a notes app yields two surprising effects:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Mataroa Blog

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    Blogging platform for minimalists.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Its exactly the same as bearblog just without css theming

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    • Mataroa Blog is Freemium and Open SourceBear Blog is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Void Writer

     3 likes
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    A portable distraction-free writer with customizable themes, auto-save, and overwrite protection. Made with minimalism in mind.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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