The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.
Cost / License
- Free Personal
- Open Source (MIT)
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
- Node.JS




Grain is described as 'Wide-purpose static site generator, designed for websites of any complexity and structure. Grain utilizes the full power of Groovy for page templates and supports a variety of markups, everything you need to create a company website, a project documentation, or a' and is a Website Builder in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Grain for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Windows, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Grain alternative is Ghost. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Ghost or Blogger. Other great apps like Grain are Vivaldi Community, Pelican, Mozello and Zola.
The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.




Publish blogs with free hosting on a customizable platform offering a choice of templates, flexible layouts, custom or blogspot.com domains, built-in analytics and AdSense monetization, unlimited storage for posts and images, and secure Google service integration.




Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.



Use a free (and ad-free) blogging platform to publish your ideas, share them with the Community and the world.

Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic

User-friendly platform for creating mobile-friendly sites, blogs, and stores quickly. Features include SEO tools, multilingual support, and complete hosting management with no tech skills needed.








ZeroBlog - For a distributed, self publishing blogging platform ( and centralized authentication ).

Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration.


Drag-and-drop editor offers customizable templates, free cloud hosting, and responsive design. Suited for landing pages, portfolios, blogs, or stores, it features e-commerce, media support, third-party integrations, SEO tools, SSL, and collaboration tools.



Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.