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Open source alternatives to Substack[007]
Substack hosts newsletters and blogs with paid subscriptions, an audience list and built-in payments and discovery. Below are 7 self-hostable open source alternatives, ranked by GitHub popularity.
Ghost
Independent technology for modern publishing
★ STARS
52.8k
⑂ FORKS
10.1k
WordPress
WordPress, Git-ified. This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please do not send pull requests. Submit pull requests to and patches to instead.
★ STARS
21.1k
⑂ FORKS
12.9k
Listmonk
High performance, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard. Single binary app.
★ STARS
20.0k
⑂ FORKS
2.0k
Keila
Open Source Newsletter Tool.
★ STARS
2.1k
⑂ FORKS
147
Notifuse
Notifuse is an open-source & modern emailing platform
★ STARS
1.9k
⑂ FORKS
192
Sigle
Open-source Web3 writing platform for Web3 writers
★ STARS
484
⑂ FORKS
85
Zenblog
A tiny blogging CMS
★ STARS
249
⑂ FORKS
18
// EDITOR'S TAKE
Ghost is the obvious answer: it bundles the site, the newsletter and paid memberships with Stripe, which is Substack's package minus the built-in audience. WordPress can match it with plugins if you already run one, while Listmonk and Keila only handle sending and leave publishing and payments to you.
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What is the best open source Substack alternative?
Ghost is the most popular open source Substack alternative by GitHub stars (52,761 stars). The other 6 options are ranked above.
Are these Substack alternatives self-hostable?
Yes — every project listed here is open source and runs on your own infrastructure. Click into a project to see its license, stars, language, and current health status.
Are they free?
All projects shown are free and open source. Check each project's license page for the terms — most are MIT, Apache 2.0, or AGPL.
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