Pika
Pika is a personal blogging and newsletter platform for publishing on your own site without coding or server management.
What Pika is
Pika is a personal blogging and newsletter platform for publishing on your own site without coding or server management. Its editor creates posts and pages, while customization covers fonts, colors, themes, CSS, and the homepage. Custom domains, post scheduling, and blog analytics are supported. Authors can let readers subscribe and email posts to subscribers, and readers can leave drawings or messages in a guestbook. Publishing tools include automatic feeds and sitemaps, tagging, exports, and a Micropub API, with publishing support from apps such as iA Writer and Drafts. Embeds are available for services including Apple Music, Bandcamp, Loom, SoundCloud, Spotify, Vimeo, and YouTube. Pika Pro costs $6 a month when billed monthly or $60 a year when billed annually, with 1,000 newsletter subscribers and unlimited posts, pages, and guestbook entries. There is no mobile app, although sites work on mobile devices and can be installed as home-screen apps.
Good
- Custom domains and custom-code theme styling
- Post scheduling and blog analytics included
- Newsletter subscriptions and emailed posts
- Micropub publishing from third-party apps
- Free plan available
Watch out
- No native mobile app
- Does not directly cross-post to social networks
- No automated import tools
- Most product data is not database-encrypted
Who it suits
Pika suits writers who want a customizable blog and newsletter without managing servers. It also fits publishers using browser-based sites or Micropub apps.
Verdict
Pika combines site publishing, newsletters, customization, scheduling, and analytics in one platform. The free plan offers an entry point, while paid plans add newsletter capacity; users should note the missing native app and social cross-posting.
Plans and prices
From Pika's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pika Pro | $6 a month | 1,000 newsletter subscribers · billed monthly |
| Pika Pup | Free | 50 blog posts · 3 pages · 50 guestbook entries · 0 newsletter subscribers |
| Pika Pro (monthly) | $6 a month | Unlimited posts, pages, and guestbook entries · 1,000 newsletter subscribers · billed monthly |
| Pika Pro (annual) | $60 a year | Unlimited posts, pages, and guestbook entries · 1,000 newsletter subscribers · billed annually ($60/year) |
The facts
Each one read from Pika's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Blog analytics
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Custom domain
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Embeds
- The manual lists embeds for services including Apple Music, Bandcamp, Loom, SoundCloud, Spotify, Vimeo, and YouTube.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Guestbook
- Readers can sign a blog’s guestbook with a drawing or a message.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Pika supports Micropub publishing from third-party apps including iA Writer and Drafts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Mobile access
- Pika has no mobile app, but its sites work on mobile devices and can be installed as a home screen app; third-party Micropub apps can publish to it.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Newsletter
- Pika lets readers subscribe to a blog and lets authors email posts to subscribers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Notable limits
- Pika does not offer automated import tools, though the team says it may help migrate blogs of significant size.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 5checked 22 Sep 2026
- Post scheduling
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Privacy and data location
- Good Enough says its products operate in the United States and information provided by users outside the country is transferred to and stored there.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Pika is a personal blogging and newsletter platform built for people who want to write on their own site without writing code or managing servers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Publishing features
- Pika provides automatic feeds and sitemaps, post tagging, exports, and a Micropub API.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security and data
- The maker says it will not sell customer data or let AI train on it; its privacy policy says browser transmissions use SSL/TLS and database backups are encrypted.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security detail
- The privacy policy states that most product data is not stored encrypted in the database.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Social sharing limit
- Pika does not directly cross-post to social networks and says it does not intend to add that feature.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Pika directs users with questions or bugs to contact its team by email.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Theme customization
- custom codechecked 22 Sep 2026
- Writing and design
- Its editor creates posts and pages, and users can customize fonts, colors, themes, CSS, and their homepage.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- Pika is built and run by Good Enough, identified on its site as We Are Good Enough LLC.checked 8 Oct 2026
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