Medium is a hosted publishing platform that puts many posts behind a paywall and controls how readers discover them. Self-hosted blogging platforms let you publish in a clean editor on your own domain, keep subscribers, and own the archive outright.
7 open-source alternatives to Medium you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
TryGhost/Ghost
|
Blogging Platforms | 55,785 | TypeScript | today |
| 2 |
writefreely/writefreely
|
Blogging Platforms | 5,289 | Go | today |
| 3 |
Plume-org/Plume
|
Blogging Platforms | 2,222 | Rust | 1y |
| 4 |
havenweb/haven
|
Blogging Platforms | 819 | Ruby | today |
| 5 |
michelson/dante-stories
|
Blogging Platforms | 385 | Ruby | 6y |
| 6 |
mataroablog/mataroa
|
Blogging Platforms | 376 | Python | 9d |
| 7 |
realaravinth/libmedium
|
Privacy Frontends | 96 | HTML | 2y |