Medium Alternatives

Apps similar to Medium include WordPress, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ghost, Tumblr, Blogger and Bear Blog. There's no shortage of Blog Publishing Tools like Medium, with more than 100 alternatives for the web, self-hosting, Windows, Mac and Android.

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    Yoogo is a publishing and discovery platform where people, creators, professionals, and businesses publish diverse content and connect it to their profiles, work, products, services, and opportunities.

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Long-form story publishing with author profile, follow and engagement tools, rich text formatting, images, and structured article content.
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  2. Radius is an open-source, self-hosted CMS built on Laravel. It ships as a modular system - pages, blog, an eCommerce module with cart/checkout/coupons, multi-gateway payments (Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, Wise), theming, SEO, media/CDN, and an optional JSON API for...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    Everything your business needs, in one platform. Website, online store, bookings, team collaboration, analytics, and CRM — built to work together from day one. Simple to start. Powerful as you scale.

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Texttile is a blog engine for more than one writer. Everyone on the blog can be in the same entry at the same time, gallery of photos and videos included. One Docker container, SQLite, no other service.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  5. TikTok-style learning app that turns doomscrolling into knowledge with bite-sized lessons in psychology, spycraft, quantum physics, and 30+ other categories.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. Waldi icon
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    Waldi is a blogging platform, but not another minimalistic blogging engine. Every post delivers to at least 100 readers before any black-box algorithm judges it, and every registered reader will get a random stranger post each morning in their inbox.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Finnish for one thousand is a platform for long-form writing. No threads, no microblogging, no hot takes. Originally posts had to be at least 1,000 words to be posted, although as new languages were added and use cases considered that was eventually dropped.

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    • Online
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    Sleeve is a direct-to-fan platform that helps artists build a fan home, share releases, and monetize relationships through memberships, posts, and live moments.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  9. Leaflet is a tool for shared writing and social publishing.

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Docker
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. jekyll SEO template is the best alternative to blogging on Medium. It has been highly optimized for SEO and could seriously increase the organic traffic to your blog.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Flipbooks + HTML5 + Cloud = Zyyne

    Zyyne is an online platform that boosts your publications : they are more vivid, easier to disseminate and can be read on any medium. A powerful analysis tool allows you to see who has read them and how.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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