Ghost 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.

Ghost scores 98 against WriteFreely's 71, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — WriteFreely may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Ghost	WriteFreely
Health score	98/100	71/100
Commits (11 mo)	4802	210
Commits (last 3 mo)	2123	115
Stars	55k	5.3k
Latest release	22 Sept 2026	10 Aug 2026
Licence	MIT	AGPL-3.0
Built with	Nodejs	Go
Typical RAM	2 GB	1 GB

Ghost

Just a blogging platform.

98/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40

Releases 25/25

Community 19/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 96% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. 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.

See every option in this category: self-hosted blogging platforms.