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Self-hosted alternatives to Rentry

Rentry is a hosted paste service for Markdown pages with live preview, custom URLs and edit codes. One listed app does its main job and runs in your own Cloudflare account.

Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Rentry describes on its own site.

  • CloudPaste Mount Explorer in gallery view, showing photo thumbnails from a Backblaze B2 folder

    Markdown pastebin and multi-storage file manager on Cloudflare Workers, mountable as a WebDAV drive

    Deploy
    Manual
    License
    Apache-2.0
    GitHub stars
    2.7k stars
    Last commit

Rentry features, app by app

FeatureCloudPaste
Markdown editor with live previewYes
Custom URL or a random oneYes
Edit code to edit or delete an entry laterPartly
Page title, share preview and visibility optionsPartly
API and command line clientPartly

Markdown pastebin and multi-storage file manager on Cloudflare Workers, mountable as a WebDAV drive

What a Rentry user would miss
It has no per-page edit codes, share-preview options or CLI, and posting needs an admin login or key.
  • Yes Markdown editor with live preview. Vditor editor with GitHub-style Markdown and math.
  • Yes Custom URL or a random one. Customizable short link slug.
  • Partly Edit code to edit or delete an entry later. The admin or an API key edits and deletes; no per-page edit code.
  • Partly Page title, share preview and visibility options. Public or private setting; no share-preview metadata.
  • Partly API and command line client. REST endpoints with API keys; no CLI.

Sources:github.com/ling-drag0n/cloudpaste#readme