Comparing Valine to Waline
Compare Valine with Waline for adding forms to your static site.
Valine
A fast, simple and efficient comment system without back-end
Overview
LeanCloud free tier is limited; requires configuration; Chinese-developed
+ Pros
- No backend required
- fast
- lightweight
- Markdown support
- emoji support
- visitor count feature
− Cons
- Relies on third-party services (LeanCloud) for storage
- privacy concerns with data stored externally
- development paused
Waline
A simple and cute comment system with backend
Partial free
Overview
Fork of Valine with significant improvements; GDPR-compliant storage options
+ Pros
- Open source
- multiple deployment options
- email notifications
- spam protection
- Markdown support
- reactions
- page views
− Cons
- Moderate setup complexity
- requires Node.js knowledge for self-hosting
- free tier relies on Vercel