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, Blogger and Medium.

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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. e107 icon
     23 likes

    e107 is a portal or content management system powered by PHP and MySQL that gives you a totally dynamic and professional website out of the box. Its simple wizard type install process will have you up and running in 5 minutes, and its...

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Bootstrap CMS icon
     5 likes

    Modern, open source, fast and secure content management system based on Bootstrap 3 using the latest technology. CMS has been build from Scratch and uses the latest bootstrap framework, jQuery and technology like HTML5, CSS3, PHP5 and MySQL5.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. BlogEngine.NET icon
     13 likes

    BlogEngine.NET is an open source .NET blogging project that was born out of desire for a better blog platform. A blog platform with less complexity, easy customization, and one that takes advantage of the latest .NET features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
     
  4. Rocketspark icon
     1 like

    Create a beautiful website with no design or IT skills using the Rocketspark website builder. Enjoyably easy DIY web editing and ecommerce. Great for Designers and Graphic designers, manage your clients with the Rocketspark Studio.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Ucraft icon
     12 likes

    Drag-and-drop editor offers customizable templates, free cloud hosting, and responsive design. Suited for landing pages, portfolios, blogs, or stores, it features e-commerce, media support, third-party integrations, SEO tools, SSL, and collaboration tools.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. BardCanvas icon
     2 likes

    BardCanvas is an Open Source CMS that fits perfectly for blogs/forums/social networks. It is fast (through several cache levels), heavily optimized (it wont collapse the server in high traffic conditions) and constantly improved.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Exposure icon
     2 likes

    Exposure is for publishing photos online.

    Exposure is for photographers who want a more meaningful way to publish their work. Instead of a boring slideshow or a single photo sitting alone, we help you tell a great story with your photography front and center.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Mused icon
     4 likes

    Mused enables museums and heritage sites around the world to publish professional digital exhibitions to engage with their communities. They integrate with virtual tours to create guided tour experiences for member-only benefits and enable heritage institutions to reach goals...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. Bridgetown icon
     2 likes

    In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
     
  10. Portal CMS icon
     8 likes

    Portal CMS is a free and open source content management system with a powerful integrated page builder built in .NET MVC.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. MiddleMan icon
     2 likes

    Middleman is a static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Check out middlemanapp.com for detailed tutorials, including a getting started guide. You can also follow @middlemanapp for updates.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
     
  12. Locomotive icon
     4 likes

    LOCOMOTIVE is an open source CMS for Rails. It's super flexible and integrates with Heroku and Amazon S3.

    93 Locomotive alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
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