Known
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Known, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Known's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Basic service | Free | Basic service; specific limits not stated |
| Known | Priced on request | Unlimited space · up to 200 authors · unlimited accounts |
The facts
Each one read from Known's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Known documentation says every page is also an API endpoint and describes API calls authenticated with an HMAC signature using the user's API key.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Known says its community includes broadcasters, universities, individual creators, technical early adopters, educators, and learners.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Author limit
- 200checked 20 Sep 2026
- Blog analytics
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Customization
- Users can add a custom domain, CSS, JavaScript, static pages, analytics, and plugins.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data and APIs
- The group product lists full data export and APIs, and says users can move between hosted and self-hosted sites with help from Known.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Feeds
- Known provides updates via RSS, XML, JSON, or KML feeds.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The hosted group product lists connections to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Soundcloud, LinkedIn, and webhooks.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source
- Known describes its framework as open source and suitable for community sites or a single-user blog.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The feature list says users can make their site private for personal thoughts or private group discussion.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy policy
- Known's privacy policy says it takes measures reasonably necessary to protect personal information and says customer-site privacy practices are the responsibility of those customers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Publishing
- The product supports photos, notes, stories, songs, hashtags, and an HTML or rich-text editor.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Known lets any number of users publish posts, status updates, photographs, and other content to a shared site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Responsive web
- Known says its web interface is responsive and works on any device.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- Known can be installed on a web server; its documentation lists PHP 8.1 or above and MySQL, MariaDB, or MongoDB requirements.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- Known's guides direct self-hosted users to the developer mailing list, GitHub comments, or the #knownchat IRC channel.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Theme customization
- custom codechecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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