Gridea
Desktop client for writing Markdown blog posts and building them into a static website.
Gridea is a desktop client for writing blog posts in Markdown and building them into a static website. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. Posts live as files in a local source folder, which the FAQ says can be synced between devices with a file-sync service.
The quick start describes publishing the built site to GitHub Pages, Coding Pages or a server over SFTP. For GitHub Pages it needs an access token and a repository for the built files.
Worth knowing
Hexo posts are imported by copying the Markdown files into the posts folder by hand. The categories Hexo used are dropped, because Gridea has only tags.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Dev only, Static files15
- Rendering
- Static output1
- Install with
- binary download5
Releases
Adoption
Sources
- 2026-10-22: links, Categories, Runs as, Rendering
open.gridea.dev - 2026-10-22: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/getgridea/gridea - 2026-10-22: links
open.gridea.dev/docs - 2026-10-22: Maintainer, License model
raw.githubusercontent.com/getgridea/gridea/master/LICENSE - 2026-10-22: Install with, Runs as
raw.githubusercontent.com/getgridea/gridea/master/README.md - 2026-10-22: Content storage
open.gridea.dev/faq/ - 2026-10-22: First release, Current major version, Last release
api.github.com/repos/getgridea/gridea/releases - 2026-10-22: Contributors
api.github.com/repos/getgridea/gridea/contributors