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QuireInk

QuireInk is a self-hosted, single-container blog for writers who want a dependency-light personal site, newsletters, and Markdown publishing.

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QuireInk is a self-hosted, single-container blog for writers who want a dependency-light personal site, newsletters, and Markdown publishing. It provides a Markdown editor with tables, footnotes, mathematics, and video; scheduled publishing; newsletters through your own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server; no-account comments with spam filtering; cookie-free analytics; full-text search; and a two-column book mode. Readers receive only 3.8-8.7 KB of JavaScript and no third-party scripts. It supports eleven interface languages, importers for WordPress, Ghost, Substack, and Medium, and an artificial-intelligence agent interface through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). All data remains in two SQLite files and one uploads folder, with no separate database container.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

64/100 Good

Maintained
100last commit 14 days ago
Popular
3135 GitHub stars
Easy to install
351 install platform, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 17 days ago

GitHub stars
35
Open issues
1
Last commit
2026-09-30
Latest release
v2.2.16
Activity
rising

Checked 13 days ago - source: GitHub (joiha-steven/quireink)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • First run Open the container log immediately after startup, copy the one-time claim link, open that link in a browser, and create the owner account. source

Fetched 13 days ago - each note links to its source

Alternatives

No alternatives collected yet.

Common questions

How do I complete initial setup and create the owner account?

Open the container log immediately after startup, copy the one-time claim link, open it in a browser, and create the owner account.

How do I upgrade QuireInk in Docker?

The upgrade path is to run docker compose pull.

Do I need to configure TLS separately for the Docker/VPS route?

No, the Docker route uses one command that sets up Docker, the blog, and its certificate.

What data should I back up, and can a fresh install restore it?

A fresh install can start from a backup at any size, and the state is held in two SQLite files.

Can I host it on Cloudflare instead of my own server?

Yes, Cloudflare is available as a beta on Workers Paid. One button creates a new blog there, and an existing blog can move itself from Settings.

Answers sourced from quireink.com, quireink.com

Community

Collected 3 days ago - public community threads