| What it does | Write, read, and reflect in one calm space
| Edit your website by clicking it
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| Stage | Startup
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| Founded | 2025
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| Based in | SE
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Free: Read, write, and publish stories at no cost. Plus: $8.99/month for unlimited publishing, full personal tools, and monetization. Pro: $14.99/month for everything in Plus with reduced 5% fees instead of 10%.
| Open source: $0. Kiln Cloud: $4.99 a month per site. Kiln Cloud + hosting: $14.99 a month per site. All paid plans include 7 days free with no card required.
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| Key features | - 16 content types: novels, novellas, short stories, flash fiction, comics, webtoons, poems, haiku, screenplays, essays, speeches, quotes, and more
- Private journal with mood tracking and gratitude practice
- Digital pen-pal letter writing
- Daily habit tracker with streaks and calendar visualization
- Three specialized readers for novels, comics, and webtoons
- Author earnings with majority revenue share
- Personalized recommendations and discovery
- Scheduled publishing and series support
- Circles for reading and writing together
- Over 67,000 public-domain classics in free library
| - Click-to-edit text on any page
- Image swap and description editing
- Photo galleries with full-screen viewer
- Event calendar and list editor
- Team member management
- Draft and schedule changes
- Full version history and undo
- Mobile-responsive editor
- Works without PHP or database
- API for custom integrations
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| What makes it different | - Algorithm-free discovery—readers choose what to read with no ranking or boosting
- Authors keep 90–95% of earnings, not algorithm-driven promotion
- Never trains AI on user work—standing pledge to protect author rights
- One platform for writing, reading, journaling, letters, and habits
- Calm, distraction-free design focused on the work, not metrics
| - Files stay in your own GitHub repository; nothing is locked in Kiln
- Open source and free to run on your own accounts
- No PHP, database or plugins means no security vulnerabilities to patch
- Simple exit: delete two script tags and the site keeps working
- Editors sign in with Google; they don't need GitHub accounts
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 11 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | Not checked yet ● no change since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 6 | 0 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 17 | 23 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 3 | 5 |
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