Substack
Newsletter platform that takes 10 percent of paid subscriptions and owns the reader relationship surface.
3 self-hosted replacements in this index, ranked by GitHub stars in the dataset.
Replacements
Ghost
Just a blogging platform.
55,651 stars Active
1 Nov 2026 v6.73.0
Listmonk
High performance newsletter and mailing list manager with a modern dashboard.
24,112 stars Active
1 Nov 2026 nightly
WriteFreely
Writing software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.
5,283 stars Active
28 Sep 2026 v0.17.2
Popular comparisons
The most-starred pairings among these replacements, ranked by combined GitHub stars in the dataset.