The End of
Rented Land.
Buffer, Hootsuite, Typefully, and friends charge you monthly for a glorified queue. Blurt is open-source, self-hosted, and yours forever. Your content, your servers, your rules.
$ blurt post --file launch.md
> parsing frontmatter... [DONE]
> publishing to 6 platforms...
> status: SOVEREIGN
Feature Matrix
| BLURT | POSTIZ | BUFFER | MIXPOST | TYPEFULLY | PUBLER | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own your data (files) | Yes (markdown) | No (Postgres) | No | No (MySQL) | No | No |
| Blog platforms | Medium, Dev.to, Substack | No | No | No | No | Partial |
| System of record | Yes (files + permalinks) | Partial (DB) | No | Partial (DB) | No | No |
| Open source | MIT | AGPL-3.0 | Closed | MIT | Closed | Closed |
| Self-hosting infra | 1 folder, 1 process | PG + Redis + Temporal | N/A | Laravel + MySQL | N/A | N/A |
| CLI / API / MCP | All three | CLI + API | API only | API only | No | API (paid) |
| No database required | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Markdown native | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Pricing | Free (open source) | $29-99/mo (400 post cap) | $6/ch/mo | One-time | $8-39/mo | $5-22/mo |
Markdown Native
Your content is plain text. Write in Vim, VS Code, Obsidian, or whatever you want. Push to Git and Blurt handles the rest. No web UI required.
platforms: [bluesky, mastodon, linkedin]
scheduledAt: "2026-04-21T08:00:00Z"
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Your post content goes here. Just markdown.
CLI_First
No browser needed. Publish, schedule, and manage posts from the terminal. Pipe it, script it, cron it.
Zero Lock-in
Your database is a folder of markdown files. If Blurt disappeared tomorrow, your content still exists. Complete portability.
System of Record
After publishing, Blurt writes permalinks back into your frontmatter. Your markdown becomes the canonical source of truth. Search your posts with grep, track history with git log.
Why Not Just Use X?
HONEST ANSWERS TO HONEST QUESTIONS
AGPL license, requires Postgres + Redis + Temporal, $29/mo cloud with a 400-post cap, no blog platforms. Blurt: MIT, one folder, free forever.
Your content lives in their database. They shut down, your history is gone. $6/channel/month. Trustpilot: 2.1/5. Blurt keeps your posts as files on your machine.
Self-hosted, great UI, but Laravel + MySQL. No CLI, no API, no MCP. Posts are database rows, not files you own.
Best writing UX in the category. But only 4 platforms — no Bluesky, no Mastodon, no blog platforms. Drafts live in their cloud, not yours.
13 platforms, G2 4.7/5. But closed-source, cloud-only, API paywalled at $22/mo. No CLI, no MCP, no file ownership.
That's how Blurt started. Works until you need publishing history, a UI, or you're tired of refreshing OAuth tokens every 60 days.
"This is a solved problem"
Scheduling is solved. Ownership is not. Name one tool where your social posts are markdown files you own, with platform permalinks, that you can self-host with zero database — and also has a CLI, API, MCP server, and web dashboard.
Nobody occupies this lane.