#1
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with built-in newsletters, membership management, and paid subscriptions.
55.1k stars11.9k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
4 self-hosted beehiiv alternatives
beehiiv is a newsletter publishing platform for creating, sending, and monetizing email newsletters. It provides email delivery, templates, subscriber management, paid subscriptions, automation, audience analytics, and growth/monetization tools.
Alternatives to beehiiv
WriteFreely is a clean, Markdown-based publishing platform for creating minimalist blogs and communities, with ActivityPub federation and low-resource Go deployment.
5.2k stars392 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#3
Minimal Django-based blogging platform focused on writing. Markdown posts, per-user subdomains, RSS/email subscriptions, Hugo/Zola/EPUB exports, image hosting and API.
367 stars29 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Dockerized email campaign manager for creating templates, managing contacts, and sending HTML emails via configurable SMTP; built with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and MySQL.
32 stars1 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
What replacing beehiiv actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 3 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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