Open Source Blogger AlternativesTop Blog Publishing Tools and other similar apps like Blogger

The best open source alternative to Blogger is WordPress. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Blogger and loads of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Blogger are Ghost, Neocities, Grav and WriteFreely.

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Blogger alternatives are mainly Blog Publishing Tools, but if you're looking for CMS Tools or Website Builders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free + Blog Publishing, Free and Free + US. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Blogger.
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  1. WordPress icon
     1670 likes

    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.

    119 WordPress alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
     
  2. Ghost icon
     256 likes

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

    275 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  3. Neocities icon
     84 likes

    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.

    105 Neocities alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Grav icon
     137 likes

    Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance.

    187 Grav alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  5. DEV Community icon
     30 likes

    Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. It is an online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends. Anyone can share articles, questions, discussions, etc. as long as they have the rights to the words they are sharing.

    291 DEV Community alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  6. Comma icon
     12 likes

    Comma is an open source blogging platform with a minimal and beautiful page.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Plume icon
     24 likes

    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
     
  8. Scribe.rip icon
     16 likes

    An alternative frontend to Medium.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Wafrn icon
     12 likes

    Wafrn is a social network inspired by tumblr, that also can connect with other wafrn instances, or with mastodon, pleroma, firefish and other platforms that use activitypub.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • F-Droid
     
  10. Apostrophe CMS icon
     11 likes

    Apostrophe is a powerful website builder platform built on an enterprise open source CMS, offering in-context live editing, visual design tools, and multisite enablement in a full stack JS environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • MongoDB
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
     
  11. Blot icon
     13 likes

    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.

    82 Blot alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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