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Best Offline-First Blogging Platforms for self-hosting

The 12 best Offline-First blogging platforms you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Quartz

Blogging Platforms

Publish a digital garden from Markdown notes

Replaces Notion, Medium

★ 13k Easy setup MIT

Publii

Blogging Platforms

Desktop CMS for building static blogs and sites

Replaces WordPress, Squarespace

★ 7.3k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Bashblog

Blogging Platforms

A single Bash script for a minimalist blog

Replaces WordPress, Blogger

★ 1.9k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Cobalt

Blogging Platforms

Static site generator written in Rust

Replaces Jekyll, Hugo

★ 1.5k Easy setup MIT

JBake

Blogging Platforms

Java-based static site and blog generator

Replaces Jekyll, WordPress

★ 1.2k Medium setup MIT

Franklin

Blogging Platforms

Static site generator written in Julia

Replaces Jekyll, Hugo

★ 1.1k Medium setup MIT

Haunt

Blogging Platforms

Programmable static site and blog generator in Scheme

Replaces Jekyll

★ 400 Medium setup GPL-3.0

Acrylamid

Blogging Platforms

Static blog generator with incremental rebuilds

Replaces WordPress, Blogger

★ 280 Medium setup BSD-2-Clause

blogc

Blogging Platforms

Compiler for static blogs and websites written in C

Replaces Jekyll, Hugo

★ 192 Medium setup BSD-3-Clause

Poole

Blogging Platforms

Minimalist static website generator in a single file

Replaces Jekyll

★ 31 Medium setup MIT

Publican

Blogging Platforms

Lightweight JavaScript static site and blog generator

Replaces Jekyll, Hugo

★ 20 Easy setup MIT

Pencil

Blogging Platforms

Static site generator library built in Haskell

Replaces Jekyll

★ 5 Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the blogging platforms category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.