The Best Open Source Medium AlternativesTop Blog Publishing Tools & Social Networks like Medium

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

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  1. WordPress icon
     1666 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.

    108 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
     
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    WordPress vs Medium Comments
    Soul Rain
    Positive
    2

    WordPress is free and doesn't nag you with annoying, half-the-screen covering bars of ads, registration and app downloads.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WordPress is CustomizableMedium is not according to our users
  2. Ghost icon
     253 likes

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

    274 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  3. WriteFreely icon
     49 likes

    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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  4. 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.

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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    DEV Community vs Medium Comments
    Marco Alzeri
    Positive
    0

    dev.to - is very and very live community and dedicated to actual IT topics.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • DEV Community is Free and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
    • DEV Community is CustomizableMedium is not according to our users
  5. Steemit icon
     104 likes

    A non-censored social platform where users are incentivized to contribute and curate content. The users decide what is valuable by voting, and content regarded valuable is rewarded with money.

    110 Steemit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    Steemit vs Medium Comments
    Aleksandr Dikov
    Positive
    1

    Steemit works with Markdown. It's useful if you write posts for multiple platforms - Markdown is widespread.

    • Steemit is Free and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. Comma icon
     12 likes

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

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    • 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.

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Wafrn icon
     11 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.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • F-Droid
     
  9. 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.

    84 Blot alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Hive Blog icon
     3 likes

    Communities without borders. A social network owned and operated by its users, powered by Hive.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. btw icon
     1 like

    Open source Medium alternative- set up your personal blog in minutes.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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