Comparing Waline to Gitalk
Compare Waline with Gitalk for adding comments to your static site.
- Open source
- multiple deployment options
- email notifications
- spam protection
- Markdown support
- reactions
- page views
- Moderate setup complexity
- requires Node.js knowledge for self-hosting
- free tier relies on Vercel
- Open source
- uses GitHub Issues
- Markdown support
- multiple themes
- notifications
- Requires GitHub login
- no responses display widget
- only works with GitHub
- older project
Waline
A simple and cute comment system with backend
Partial free
Overview
Fork of Valine with significant improvements; GDPR-compliant storage options
+ Pros
− Cons
Gitalk
A comment system based on GitHub Issues
Overview
Last updated 2021; similar to Utterances but uses the older Issues API; development stalled