FlatPress vs WriteFreely

Both are self-hosted blogging platforms projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

WriteFreely scores 71 against FlatPress's 57, putting it ahead on the strength of more recent releases and a stronger recent trend. That measures project health, not feature fit — FlatPress may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	FlatPress	WriteFreely
Health score	57/100	71/100
Commits (11 mo)	824	210
Commits (last 3 mo)	140	115
Stars	215	5.3k
Latest release	24 Mar 2026	10 Aug 2026
Licence	GPL-2.0	AGPL-3.0
Built with	PHP	Go
Typical RAM	1 GB	1 GB

FlatPress

A lightweight, easy-to-set-up flat-file blogging engine.

57/100

Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 30/40

Releases 16/25

Community 2/20

Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 76% of tracked projects; popularity more than 12%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

WriteFreely

Writing software for starting a minimalist, federated blog — or an entire community.

71/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 18/40

Releases 25/25

Community 13/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 44% of tracked projects; popularity more than 67%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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