LiveJournal Alternatives

LiveJournal is described as 'Online blogging software - free for basic users! Personal publishing, community involvement and individual expression' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to LiveJournal for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best LiveJournal alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LiveJournal are Tumblr, Ghost, Neocities and Blogger.

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    Much like tumblr but bare-boned. Still being developed. Quick log in, clean dash. Allows sideblogs and ask boxes. Allows reblogs, posting, image sharing and nsfw material.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
     
  2. Quotev icon
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    Quotev is a creative platform for quizzes, stories, surveys, and polls, which was founded in 2008.

    2 Quotev alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
  3. valME.io icon
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    Customizable Content Management System where users financially reward each other for content via upvotes and tips. Offers custom domain support with SSL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Craft CMS icon
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    Content management system built on Yii PHP Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Exposure icon
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    Exposure is for publishing photos online.

    Exposure is for photographers who want a more meaningful way to publish their work. Instead of a boring slideshow or a single photo sitting alone, we help you tell a great story with your photography front and center.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • NameCoin
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
    • CoffeeScript
     
  7. CSZ CMS icon
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    CSZ CMS is an open source web application that allows to manage all content and settings on the websites. CSZ CMS was built on the basis of Codeigniter and design the structure of Bootstrap, this should make your website fully responsive with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. ORCHID icon
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    ORCHID is a tool that allows you to quickly write simple but powerful websites and applications. Provided as a package for Laravel, you can easily integrate it as a third-party component using Composer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Laravel
    • PHP
     
  9. Gila CMS icon
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    Gila CMS is an open source content management system. Made with PHP7 and MySQL. You can use it for your blog, web store and personalise it for your business needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Hakyll icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Pebble is a Java-based server blogging software such as MovableType and WordPress. It does not require a database, but rather stores the blog entries in plain files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. DocPad icon
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    DocPad is a dynamic static-site generator. That is a content management system that takes content from several sources, like files on your computer, and renders them into incredibly fast static output.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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