| What it does | Write, read, and reflect in one calm space
| Free, open-source desktop CMS for creating static websites locally and publishing them anywhere
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| Stage | Startup
| Established
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| Founded | 2025
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| Based in | SE
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| Pricing model | Freemium
| Open source
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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%.
| The Publii core application is free and open-source under the GPL-3.0 license. Free and premium themes and plugins are available in the Marketplace; hosting, domains, and third-party services may involve additional costs.
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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
| - Block, WYSIWYG, and Markdown editors
- Responsive images with lazy loading and WebP conversion
- SEO settings and structured data support
- Automatic XML sitemap generation
- Multiple publishing destinations
- HTML and CSS minification
- Handlebars theme system
- Multiple author profiles
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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
| - No database, PHP, or public admin panel required on hosting
- Privacy-first with no tracking by default
- Write and publish offline, sync to any host
- Smaller attack surface than dynamic CMSs
- Trusted by creators and developers for over a decade
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 10 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | 75 ▲ +1 (up) since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 6 | 30 |
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| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 17 | 41 |
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| Referring domains (Majestic) | 3 | 1754 |
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