Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CommentBox.io – a responsible alternative to Disqus
Hosted commenting that's painless to embed, a pleasure to use, and a breeze to moderate.
CommentBox.io is a hosted commenting system designed as an alternative to Disqus. It allows website owners to embed a comment section that requires minimal setup and provides moderation tools including granular filters… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. CommentBox.io – a responsible alternative to Disqus launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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CommentBox.io▲120A beautiful, ad-free alternative to Disqus.
2018 · commentbox.io · its alternatives →
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2019 · commento.io · its alternatives →
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2021 · remarkbox.com · its alternatives →
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A fast, bloat-free comments platform (Github mirror) - adtac/commento
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
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Commentblocks▲101Hey HN, I'm a freelance web developer and got tired of the endless email chains during website QA. Clients would send screenshots with red circles, or worse, Word docs with "the button on the page with the thing." I'd spend more time decoding feedback than actually fixing stuff. So I built Commentblocks. You add a script to your staging site, send clients a link, and they click anywhere on the page to leave a comment. That's it. No signup for them, no explaining how to use it. Each comment captures the exact element, viewport size, browser, and URL. Comments show up in a dashboard or can go…
Feb 2026 · commentblocks.com · its alternatives →
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Replyke▲346APIs for user content, social graphs, and moderation tools
2025 · sublay.io · its alternatives →
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Comment without any sign-up process
2024 · commented.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · adtac.pw · its alternatives →
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Commented▲766Simplify feedback, keep your team aligned, no live meetings
2023 · commented.io · its alternatives →
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2017 · dmitri.shuralyov.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · cusdis.com · its alternatives →
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Disqus alternative. License: AGPL. Uses a bit much memory (2 GB min, 4 better), should be possible to get below 0.5 GB if pre-compiling JVM stuff. There's SaaS hosting. Long term (2027+ ?), the idea is that inactive blogs (those that don't get comments) pay 1? 2? EUR / month. Then, one wouldn't need to feel stressed up about having an inactive blog — it'd cost about the same as the domain name. Previously on HN: (as you can see, I've been working on this for a while — had another job in between, and, sleepiness health problems, making things take longer, plus, being generally clueless…
2025 · blog-comments.talkyard.io · its alternatives →
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remark42▲72Remark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight commenting system
2021 · remark42.com · its alternatives →
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Commento▲8A lightweight, privacy-focussed alternative to Disqus.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple Commenter▲212Hey HN, I'm Aleksander, and I built Simple Commenter to solve a problem I faced as a freelance web developer. This tool simplifies client feedback by allowing comments directly on your website with just one line of code. It works seamlessly with platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and Webflow. The backend is user-friendly, making comment management easy. If you're dealing with similar challenges, check it out!
2024 · simplecommenter.com · its alternatives →
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Eden▲531One-click create comments on any webpages with AI
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I made a commenting system that accepts submissions via email, instead of requiring a login. The back story is I wanted some interactivity for my site/blog, but I felt like requiring a signup wouldn't be a good UX. I'm looking to get feedback on it from the HN community. Please feel free to ask questions and let me know your thoughts, especially what you don't like about it. If it's a decent UX then I would like to make it OSS, as I feel that it could potentially fill a void, especially for beautiful small websites. Here's the basic flow of data: 1. When the site is…
2023 · r3ply.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · demo.souradip.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · posativ.org · its alternatives →
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External comments for static HTML pages, a lightweight self-hosted disqus alternative. - skx/e-comments
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FastComments▲111FastComments is a live commenting system and Disqus alternative for static sites, WordPress, and any web application. Frontend and backend SDKs for building commenting and chat features into your existing applications.
2020 · fastcomments.com · its alternatives →
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