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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, WriteFreely, Blot and Hashnode.

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  1. WordPress icon

    WordPress

     1664 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.

    106 WordPress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application types

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
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    WordPress is free and doesn't nag you with annoying, half-the-screen covering bars of ads, registration and app downloads.

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    • Most users think WordPress is a great Medium alternative.

    • WordPress is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Android & Mac alternative to Medium.

    • WordPress is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Medium.

    • WordPress is Freemium and Open SourceMedium is Freemium and Proprietary
    • WordPress is CustomizableMedium is not according to our users
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    Ghost

     251 likes

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

    271 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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    WriteFreely

     49 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.

    48 WriteFreely alternatives

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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    WordPress

    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.

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    Blot

     13 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.

    84 Blot alternatives

    Cost / License

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Hashnode icon

    Hashnode

     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 (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Typehut

     6 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Homepage
     
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    HubPages

     12 likes

    DISCOVER a wealth of genuine, unique information CREATE original, in-depth, useful, media-rich Hubs CONNECT with a passionate community of writers and enthusiasts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Hyvor Blogs

     4 likes

    Hyvor Blogs is a simple and powerful blogging platform with custom domains, custom themes, multi-language support, in-built SEO, and developer-friendly APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Sigle

     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 (Subscription)
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. Vvveb icon

    Vvveb

     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
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    Quaily

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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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    Platforms

    • Online
    Home Page
     
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    Lavalite

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    Home page
     
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