Experience with alternatives for Refined?

Question

We are considering migrating our internal Confluence knowledge base (single admin user and read-only access for colleagues) from a locally hosted server to a Confluence Cloud site. However, our current Confluence site is built on Refined and we are somewhat put off by the new pricing of Refined for Confluence Cloud, which would cost us almost 3 times more (flat fee of 30 USD / month) than Confluence itself (12.30 USD / month for a single Premium user).

So we are looking at alternatives for Refined. Anyone any suggestions for such alternatives or experience with migrating from Refined to an alternative? We are looking into Mantra / Aura / Karma, for example, but are not sure whether it provides the same site builder options as Refined does.

Maksym Babenko_TypeSwitch_ · Answer

I’m the vendor of Public Pages for Confluence, so take this as a suggestion rather than a neutral recommendation.

If your main need is to publish selected Confluence pages as a public knowledge base or documentation site, our app may be worth checking out. It is not a full Refined-style site builder, but it focuses on simple public publishing, branding, SEO settings, and custom domain support.

We also recently updated pricing: for teams up to 10 users, it is $0.

Might be a good fit if you want something lighter and more affordable than Refined for a small Confluence setup.

Zoriana Bogutska_Kolekti · Answer

Hi @Lieven Lannoo

If you’re looking for an alternative to the Refined site-building app, Scroll Sites might be a good solution. If you need a replacement for the Refined toolkit used for formatting Confluence content, Mosaic could be a suitable option. My team developed this app to provide users with all the key formatting features in one place, giving them more flexibility in their work. It also includes templates and automated formatting tools to make the process faster and easier. I've attached a few examples of what is possible to achive with Mosaic for Confluence

Patricia Modispacher (K15t) · Answer

Heya @Lieven Lannoo,

I recently switched companies and at K15t, we're using Scroll Sites (Viewport) - our own app.

I have to say, as a copywriter, it's super easy to use to make your pages beautiful.

It builds a doc site from a private Confluence space, and you can restrict the site access by your company's SSO. That means that even your employees without a Confluence seat will be able to access your documentation site.

You can also make the site public.