Medium Alternatives

Medium is described as 'New place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world' and is a very popular Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Medium for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, Windows and Mac apps. The best Medium alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Medium are Ghost, Write.as, Tumblr and Blogger.

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Medium alternatives are mainly Blog Publishing Tools, but if you're looking for CMS Tools or Website Builders you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Self-Hosted. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Medium.
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  1. Clevada icon
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    Clevada is an All-In-One Cloud Software Suite with Website Builder, Community Forum, Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Internal Communication and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. Antville icon
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    Antville is an open source project aimed at the development of a high performance, feature rich weblog hosting software. It can easily host up to several thousands of sites.

    58 Antville alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3.  1 like

    More or less a small clone of exposure.co in form of a static generator. For those of you who don't know what exposure.co is, this allows you to tell a story with your pictures.

    Prosopopee. Static site generator for your story.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4.  3 likes

    Tinysite is an attempt to create minimalistic secure blog engine for running a darknet blog site. It has only some basic features yet, e.g. adding and displaying posts, categories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  5. Megazine3 icon
     3 likes

    Home of MegaZine3, a powerful, userfriendly, open source ActionScript3 based page flip engine.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  6. Sitecake icon
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    If Wordpress is overkill for you, try Sitecake drag and drop editing. Edit static HTML or PHP websites. Database is not required.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Give your customers access to your publications whenever they want and on the platform they prefer.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. MacyHTML icon
     1 like

    MacyHTML is a powerful web-based tool for designing and customizing web pages with a drag-and-drop interface. It provides an interactive workspace where users can add, edit, and arrange elements like text, buttons, images, audio, and videos.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. jekyll SEO template is the best alternative to blogging on Medium. It has been highly optimized for SEO and could seriously increase the organic traffic to your blog.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. SiteMaker icon
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    SiteMaker by EatMe runs live as webpage on your own computer. SiteMaker outputs a single .html file 4 content pages webpage for artists with embeddable YouTube, BandCamp, SoundCloud content.

    EatMe/sitemaker

    To run live in the web browser : http://eatme.pro/sitemaker Source code.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Pivlu icon
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    Pivlu - Open source CMS and Website Builder. Pivlu is an WordPress alternative, written in PHP and using the Laravel framework.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
     
  12. Sleeve icon
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    Sleeve is a direct-to-fan platform that helps artists build a fan home, share releases, and monetize relationships through memberships, posts, and live moments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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