The Best 17 Grain Alternatives

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    Blogger

    Blogger is a blog publishing service. Create your blog. Share your thoughts, photos, and more with your friends and the world. Easy to use. It’s easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone. Flexible.

    Freemium Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Chrome OS Web

  • Ghost icon

    Ghost

    Ghost is a fully open source, hackable platform for building and running a modern online publication. We power blogs, magazines and journalists from Zappos to Sky News.

    Commercial Open Source

  • Hugo

    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Octopress

    Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted Ruby Jekyll

  • Pelican

    Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • Ucraft

    An easy-to-use website builder that makes it possible for everyone to create a stunning site.

    Freemium Web

  • Hakyll

    Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • DocPad

    DocPad is a dynamic static-site generator. That is a content management system that takes content from several sources, like files on your computer, and renders them...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • StaticGen

    StaticGen is a leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators. Promoting a static approach to building websites.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Appernetic

    Appernetic is a web service for managing and generating static content for GitHub Pages. Static content is generated with Hugo and provides a robust theming system that...

    Freemium Web

  • PhrasePress

    PhrasePress lets you create a professional blog in minutes for free. Unlike other Blogging platforms, Phrasepress is an easy to use, turn-key solution that comes bundled...

    Freemium Web

  • Winkl

    Winkl helps lifestyle bloggers become influencers. It helps them setup a beautiful blog in minutes, get more traffic, work with brands & make money.

    Freemium Web

  • ApPHP MicroBlog

    Lightweight, simple and very easy-to-use personal blog script. It provides all essential blog features including categories, archives and comments.

    Freemium