Ghost Alternatives

Ghost is described as 'The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform' and is a very popular Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Ghost for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Ghost alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghost are Drupal, Jekyll, Hugo and Blogger.

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Ghost alternatives are mainly CMS Tools, but if you're looking for Blog Publishing Tools or Website Builders you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Ghost.
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  1. Gila CMS icon
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    Gila CMS is an open source content management system. Made with PHP7 and MySQL. You can use it for your blog, web store and personalise it for your business needs.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Nikola icon
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    Nikola is a static website and blog generator. Its original goal is to create blogs, but it supports most kind of sites and can be used as a CMS, as long as what you present to the user is your own content instead of something the user generates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. uCoz icon
     22 likes

    uCoz is a free website-builder that includes hosting and a website management system. uCoz works according to the principles of Web 2.0 and allows creating of the most complicated projects with extraordinary simplicity and speed.

    283 uCoz alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Blades icon
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    Blades is made to do one job and do it well - generate HTML files from the provided content using the provided templates. Blades renders the whole site in milliseconds, possibly up to 10 times faster than other generators like Hugo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. CasperEngine icon
     3 likes

    Ghost Hosting Made Simple: The leading managed Ghost hosting service. We handle of all your needs so you can effortlessly have the most modern publication to bring your vision to life.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Yellow is for people who make websites. It's a flat-file content management system. Everything is made of files and folders. You can create web pages, blogs, wikis. There's support for Dropbox, Markdown and static content generation.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. Flatpress icon
     5 likes

    FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work. You don’t need MySQL because FlatPress stores all of its content on text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Softaculous
     
  8. Winter CMS icon
     4 likes

    Winter CMS is a free, open-source content management system based on the Laravel PHP framework. An open source fork of October CMS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. ALLYOU icon
     15 likes

    Create a simple photo gallery, a professional online portfolio or a unique website. With ALLYOU you can create an online portfolio in minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Writizzy icon
     5 likes

    A blogging platform designed for writing and publishing without friction. Writizzy integrates essential tools into a simple interface. For those who want a complete blog without getting lost in settings.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Advanced Web Tools is a PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) project with a clear mission—to evolve into the fastest, most feature-rich, and developer-friendly CMS available.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Kentico CMS icon
     12 likes

    The only fully integrated ASP.NET CMS, E-commerce, and Online Marketing platform allowing you to create truly optimized digital customer experiences across multiple channels, with GDPR compliance and MVC development fully supported.

    66 Kentico CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
     
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