Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to Substack

Product categories

Blogging Blogging Platform Brand Management CMS Contact Management Email API Email Management Email Marketing Email Marketing Platforms Email Newsletters Newsletter Marketing Website Builder

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Substack are Ghost, Medium, and WordPress. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Ghost Landing Page
1

Ghost

Ghost is a fully open source, adaptable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Monthly (100k views/month, 2 users)
#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 173 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
2

Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2190 social mentions
WordPress Landing Page
3

WordPress

WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 764 social mentions
Listmonk Landing Page
4

Listmonk

Send e-mail campaigns from a powerful dashboard. High performance and features packed into one app.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Newsletter Marketing #Self-Hosted Newsletter #Email Marketing 24 social mentions
Mailtrain Landing Page
5

Mailtrain

Self-hosted open-source Mailchimp clone
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Email Marketing #Newsletter Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms 2 social mentions
Pico Landing Page
6

P

Pico

A stupidly simple and blazing fast, flat file CMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 9 social mentions
Publii Landing Page
7

Publii

Open Source CMS for Static Websites
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 59 social mentions
Neocities Landing Page
8

Neocities

Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Website Builder #CMS #Blogging 162 social mentions
WriteFreely Landing Page
9

WriteFreely

Write Freely is free and open source software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 33 social mentions
Cakemail Landing Page
10

Cakemail

Email marketing and transactional emails that deliver. Try it for FREE!
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $8.0 / Monthly (Growth)
#Marketing Automation #Email Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms
Jigsaw (Tighten) Landing Page
11

Jigsaw (Tighten)

Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 8 social mentions