Ko-fi on new websites

1. Ko-fi appeared on about 120 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. It is unusually common among game launches: 27%, against 6.4% across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Ko-fi, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	▲5	Piano	<0.1%	33.0%
2	▲2	Subscribe with Google	<0.1%	17.7%
3	▼2	Polar	<0.1%	13.7%
4	▼2	Ko-fi	<0.1%	11.4%
5	▼3	Buy Me a Coffee	<0.1%	10.4%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Monetisation tool. Among September launches it ranked #3 in Monetisation, down from #1 in August. All 51 in Monetisation

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Google Analytics	122	2.0x

Tools that turn up far more often on Ko-fi sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

306 of the 582 sites using Ko-fi are product launches we list individually. The other 276 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Python Quest • Learn, Explore, Build northstarlearning.fun · Education	Oct 19
Tower of Scherbenmark | Scherbenmark scherbenmark.com · Games	Oct 19
GameOrbit — Interactive Steam Game Cosmos & Editorial Discovery Radar playgameorbit.com · Games	Oct 17
SetupKit — a free guide to working with AI setupkit.ai	Oct 17
RankedChoice — Fair Voting, Made Simple rankedchoicevote.app	Oct 17
Thocko · typing coach thocko.com	Oct 16
papercase - Find your first 10 papers. papercase.dev	Oct 16
Play Martin: No Filter Fighters Online nofilterfighters.org · Games	Oct 16
AI Window Deck ai-window-deck.vercel.app · AI	Oct 16
Independent games | ROFNOM Games rofnom.com · Games	Oct 15
asheee ashee.me · Developer Tools	Oct 15
Craton — Moderación y seguridad para Discord cratonbot.com · Social	Oct 14

Showing the most recent 12 of 306.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 582 sites using Ko-fi, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
3. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.