AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to OpenPress Hub

News without paywalls - 100% free articles

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 5 we have checked on their own sites, 5 of them free or with a free tier.

1
Otherweb▲162
All the news without the noise
2022 · otherweb.com · its alternatives →
2
Hacker News, without AIfree▲207
A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.
Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
3
Hey Press▲584
Free searchable database finds journalists for your startup
2015 · hey.press · its alternatives →
4
Newspack▲189
A new publishing solution for news orgs by WordPress
2019 · newspack.blog · its alternatives →
5
Hacker News, Without AIfree▲197
Source: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai
Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →
6
Post News▲95
Everything you love about social media without the trolls
2023 · its alternatives →
7
HubSpot Free CMS▲175
Build and scale your business website for free on HubSpot
2022 · hubspot.com · its alternatives →
8
NetNewsWire 7▲108
Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Jan 2026 · netnewswire.com · its alternatives →
9
Botpress▲190
The WordPress of Bots
2017 · botpress.io · its alternatives →
10
WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacementfree▲287
wallhop is a free paywall bypass. Paste any article link to read it without paywall popups, ads or clutter. No signup, no extension. A simple 12ft.io alternative.
13d ago · wallhop.io · its alternatives →
11
RemovePaywallfree▲170
Read articles without annoying paywalls
2022 · removepaywall.com · its alternatives →
12HN
Hacker News Without News▲146
Hacker News Without News: A curated newsletter of interesting things.
2023 · hn.build-your-own.org · its alternatives →
13
HubPress▲124
A web application to build your blog on GitHub
2015 · its alternatives →
14
Paywall Removersfree▲132
Remove paywalls on any article for free
2024 · archivebuttons.com · its alternatives →
15
DiggBot for Slack▲140
Discover the best of the web, right in Slack
2016 · digg.com · its alternatives →
16
Disco Free by Headliner▲123
Convert your web traffic into podcast listens
2023 · headliner.app · its alternatives →
17AA
An ad-free news website with crowdsourced summaries▲154
2019 · news.hoxly.com · its alternatives →
18IB
I built a tool to remove news articles from HN▲131
2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
19
Slack-News▲116
Read news from multiple sources within Slack by just typing
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
20AB
A bookmarklet to remove clickgates on New York Times, Medium, etc.▲71
Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…
2019 · its alternatives →
21
Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.▲66
💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
22
Binpress▲100
The Marketplace For Commercial and Open-Source Projects
2014 · binpress.com · its alternatives →
23
8bitnews.io▲85
The finest of 8bit news, effortless in your inbox
2021 · 8bitnews.io · its alternatives →
24
Slack-HN▲99
Read Hacker News right from Slack
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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