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, Steemit and EmDash CMS.

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  1. WordPress icon
     1679 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.

    128 WordPress alternatives

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    Platforms

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

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

    280 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
  3. WriteFreely icon
     48 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. Steemit icon
     107 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.

    107 Steemit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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  5. EmDash CMS icon
     12 likes

    Full-stack TypeScript CMS built on Astro and Cloudflare featuring extensible architecture, sandboxed plugins in Worker isolates, WordPress migration, visual schema builder, role-based access, rich text editing, AI integration, media management, and open source deployment.

    53 EmDash CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
     
  6. 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.

    292 DEV Community alternatives

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

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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Scribe.rip icon
     19 likes

    An alternative frontend to Medium.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. 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.

    41 Plume alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Wafrn icon
     13 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

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • F-Droid
     
  11. Hive Blog icon
     4 likes

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

    17 Hive Blog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Mataroa Blog icon
     9 likes

    Blogging platform for minimalists.

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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