Free and open source (AGPL) · Plain PHP + one SQLite file · Runs on cheap shared hosting.
How it works?
Three steps. About 30 seconds.
📸 Take a photo Right from your phone. JotKite shrinks it in the browser before uploading, so it goes up fast even on one bar of signal.
✏️ Add a line A title is optional. Photo posts without one are titled automatically, like "Post published on 28/09/2026 @ 10.50".
🚀 Publish It's live on your own website, not in someone else's feed.
No app to download. Add JotKite to your home screen, and stay signed in for 180 days.
Why your own blog?
Your posts deserve more than a feed.
A social post reaches a few followers and is gone by tomorrow. A post on your own website stays there, on your own domain, where customers can find it in search.
"I've built websites for local businesses for 20 years. The hardest part for them isn't design or SEO. It's posting. A local business owner had 38 Instagram followers and was asking his friends on WhatsApp to like his posts. 7 years later, he has only 53 followers. So I built the tool I wished they had." — The developer, Unnati Digi Services
A photo speaks a thousand words.
Stop writing 1,500 to 3,000-word articles to describe your local business and what you offer.
Real photos, from a real place. JotKite keeps your photo's date and location data (EXIF) on purpose. A stream of genuine photos taken at your shop is honest content that ages well. It's a small signal, not a ranking trick, and you can switch it off with one setting.
If your restaurant offers 2 km free delivery, you don't need to write a 1,000-word article or a 500-word FAQ. Just take a pic of the dispatch and a pic at the delivery spot. That alone will impress your potential customers.
JotKite: one product for two kinds of people
For business owners
Post from the shop floor in under a minute.
Staff write drafts, and you approve them.
Readers comment, like and share. You approve visitors' comments right from your phone.
Pin your best posts, add pages like About and Contact, or use a static homepage.
Your blog lives at yoursite.com/blog/, right next to your existing website.
For developers and hosts
Plain PHP 7.4+, no framework, no build step, no Node.
One SQLite file: zero setup, and a backup is one file copy.
Upload and go: FTP, a zip in the file manager, or your hosting panel's Git deploy. Upgrades run themselves on the next request.
Clean URLs with Apache mod_rewrite, and a ?p= fallback when it isn't available.
Small, readable, procedural code, with a simple hook system for themes and addons.
Features
Everything a small blog needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Write anywhere, post here. Paste from Word, Google Docs, WordPress (Gutenberg) or Markdown, and the formatting survives. Images pasted from other sites are copied safely into your blog, so they never break.
Built for phones A home-screen app, 180-day sign-in, photos resized in the browser, and the photo tools right at the top of the toolbar.
Team workflow Contributor, Author, Editor and Admin roles. Contributors submit for review, Authors publish their own posts, and Editors approve, schedule or send back with notes. Every status change is logged.
Media Manager Every upload in one place, with a picker right inside the editor.
Search-ready RSS, a sitemap and JSON-LD built in, plus your own header and footer code.
Themes and addons Starts with the JotKite M1 theme. Extend it with simple hooks.
Smart editor A link popup that searches your own posts and pages (Ctrl+K), and a default category for each writer.
Safe by default Server-side cleaning of everything you paste, protected data folders, and uploads that can never run as code.
Photo galleries Pick or upload a batch of photos at once. They become a neat grid with a full-screen viewer: swipe on phones, arrow keys on desktop.
Comments, likes and sharing Readers comment, like with one tap, and share to WhatsApp and more. Visitors' comments are plain text, spam-trapped and approved by you, with no CAPTCHA. How it works
Author pages Every writer gets a profile page with a photo and bio, and privacy switches to keep it private.
Pricing
Free for everyone. Licensed for business.
JotKite is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0. If you can't use the AGPL (for example, you're an agency or host that can't publish its changes), a commercial license is available.
Plan
Price
For
Open source
Free
Everyone, under the AGPL-3.0
Single site
$17/year, or $97 permanent
One website, with the footer credit removed. The $97 permanent license includes custom design and CMS integration.
White-label SaaS
$197/year
Offer JotKite under your own brand
Hosting companies
$297/year
Offer JotKite to your hosting customers
Permanent Sponsor
$497 one-time
A dedicated thank-you post about your product or service, plus a permanent listing on the Sponsors page
Is it really free? Yes. JotKite is open source under the AGPL-3.0. A commercial license is only for businesses that can't meet the AGPL's terms.
Do I need a database server? No. Everything is in a single SQLite file, and PHP's SQLite support is on virtually every host.
Can I add it to my existing website? Yes. Install it at /blog/, next to your current site. It doesn't touch the rest of your website.
Is there an app to install? No. Open your blog's admin on your phone and add it to your home screen. It then opens like an app.
What happens to my photos' location data? JotKite keeps it by default, because real photos from a real place are useful, honest content. If you photograph at home, turn it off with one setting.
Can readers comment? Yes. Your team's comments appear straight away, and visitors' comments wait for your approval. They're plain text only, so spam links never reach your pages. Readers can also like and share posts.
Who makes JotKite? Unnati Digi Services, a web studio in India that builds sites for small and local businesses. It started as the blog for our GeoRank & LiteCommerce clients' websites.
