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The best CMS alternative to Medium is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Medium and many of them are CMS Tools so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting CMS Tool alternatives to Medium are Ghost, EmDash CMS, WriteFreely and Blot.

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  1. WordPress icon
     1700 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.

    160 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
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  2. Ghost icon
     264 likes

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

    294 Ghost alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
    • US flagUnited States
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  3. EmDash CMS icon
     14 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Typescript
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  4. 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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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Blot icon
     14 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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • GB flagUnited Kingdom
    Blot screenshot 1
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  6. Typehut icon
     6 likes

    Typehut is a super simple publishing platform for any kind of content: blogs, newsletters, changelogs, announcements, events, etc.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Hashnode icon
     10 likes

    Personal blog for developers with free CNAME pointing, custom domain, SSL and more [not in the free tier only in the paid tier].

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Vvveb icon
     6 likes

    Powerful and easy to use CMS with page builder to build websites, blogs or ecommerce stores.

    226 Vvveb alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Hyvor Blogs icon
     3 likes

    An open-source, bloat-free blogging platform designed for total simplicity. Hyvor Blogs includes everything natively, including comments, newsletters, zero-config SEO, and automated link analysis. You can publish on a custom domain, run as a sub-directory, or go fully headless.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  10. Sigle icon
     6 likes

    Sigle is a secured and open-source writing platform for web3 content creators, NFT projects, crypto analysts and more. Write your stories, create newsletters, analyse, discover other Web3 creators and brands... Sigle is the best Web3 alternative to Substack and Medium.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  11. Quaily icon
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    A newsletter service which build a membership community that connects with your followers and funds your best creative work.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  12. Lavalite icon
     6 likes

    LavaLite is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for the database backend.

    246 Lavalite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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