Pagecord: A Better HEY World Alternative
HEY World requires you to use HEY email ($99/year). That's it. One email provider, take it or leave it.
Pagecord works with any email provider—Gmail, Fastmail, iCloud, ProtonMail, whatever you've got. Same email-to-blog magic, but with themes, custom domains, standalone pages, tags, analytics, and a lot more flexibility.
Open source. Classic plan is free forever. Premium is $29/year.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Pagecord | HEY World |
|---|---|---|
| Create blog posts by email | ✅ | ✅ |
| Beautifully simple, mobile-friendly blog themes | ✅ | ✅ |
| Email subscribers | ✅ | ✅ |
| RSS feeds | ✅ | ✅ |
| Use any email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Fastmail, etc.) | ✅ | ❌ (HEY only) |
| Free version | ✅ | ❌ |
| Colour themes and fonts | ✅ | ❌ |
| Standalone pages (About, Now, Contact, etc.) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom home pages | ✅ | ❌ |
| Social links | ✅ | ❌ |
| Tags | ✅ | ❌ |
| Privacy-respecting analytics | ✅ | ❌ |
| Post likes | ✅ | ❌ |
| Embed Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, YouTube, GitHub, Strava | ✅ | ❌ |
| Micro-blog posts without titles | ✅ | ❌ |
| Multi-language support | ✅ | ❌ |
| Full site HTML export | ✅ | ❌ |
| Custom domains | ✅ | ❌ |
| Open source | ✅ | ❌ |
| Premium version | $29/year | $99/year |