The great list of all the blog platforms

Pretentious title, I know. It’s obviously tongue-in-cheek but it’s at least partly what I’m gonna try to do with this post. Blogs are back. They never went anywhere but still, they’re back. Many people will—hopefully—ditch social media and start a blog in the near future. Almost as many people will ask themselves which tool/platform/incantation they should use to start said blog. I’m gonna do my part and try to collect here all the possible alternatives. I am 100% certain that this list won’t be exhaustive but it’s a start. If you have suggestions to improve it, email me.

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The following is a list of tools and platforms that are primarily designed to run blogs. Now, it goes without saying that you can build a blog using pretty much every CMS out there. Hell, you can make a blog without a CMS and just upload html files on a server. This is not going to be a list of all the possible ways you can make a blog, it’s a list of tools and services designed with blogs in mind. The list is in no particular order.

A note on the prices: most services usually offer a limited free plan. I decided to ignore those and list the price for the lowest tier available, paid monthly.

Micro.blog

Ghost

I’m linking to the GitHub repo because even though Ghost does have a self-hosted version the official site is heavily focused on the Pro, hosted version so things are a bit confusing.

Ghost(Pro)

Wordpress

Wordpress.com

Substack

Write.as

WriteFreely

Bear Blog

Pika

Mataroa

Smol Pub

Blogger

Medium

Tumblr

Prose.sh

Svbtle

Blogkit

Blot

Hey

Hey is a bit of an odd product because it’s primarily an email service but it also comes with a blog so it’s worth mentioning here.

Scribbles

Movable Type

Montaigne

Haven

Haven (Hosted)

weblog.lol

Known

Hashnode

Hashnode Pro

Textpattern

Obsidian Publish

Obsidian is not a blog platform. It's not even a web oriented platform but they do have an option to convert your notes into a website.

Quotion

This is all I have for now. Again, if you have suggestions send me an email and I'll happily update this list.

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