Remark42 is a self-hosted, lightweight, and simple (yet functional) commenting system, which doesn't spy on users. It can be embedded into blogs, articles or any other place where readers add comments.

Check out our demo.

Social login via Google, Twitter, Facebook, GitHub and Yandex

Login via email

Optional anonymous access

Multi-level nested comments with both tree and plain presentations

Markdown support with friendly formatter toolbar

Privacy-focused

Import from Disqus

Moderator can remove comments and block users

Voting, pinning and verification system

Sortable comments

Images upload with drag-and-drop and clipboard

List of recent comments from all posts

Export comments to json and automatic backups

RSS for all comments, each post and replies

Telegram notifications

No external databases, everything embedded in a single data file

Fully dockerized and can be deployed in a single command

Self-contained executable can be deployed directly to Linux, Windows and MacOS

Clean, lightweight and customizable UI with white and dark themes

Multi-site mode from a single instance

Integration with automatic SSL

Open source

— The Remark42 Team