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 Hugo.

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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. Bridgetown icon
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    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
     
  2. Locomotive icon
     4 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Postleaf icon
     9 likes

    Postleaf is an open source blogging platform with WYSIWYG inline editing, handlebar templates, and a beautiful user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Handlebars
    • PHP
     
  5. 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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Nucleus CMS icon
     3 likes

    maintenance of one or more webligs multiple authors runs on your own server drafts & future posts extensible through plugins.

    85 Nucleus CMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Pulse CMS icon
     6 likes

    Pulse CMS is the easiest way to build and deploy a responsive, content managed website. Since it's a flat file CMS there is no complicated database setup, just copy it to your server and go.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. CMS Made Simple icon
     29 likes

    CMS Made Simple - the open source content management system for the rest of us. CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  9. Grain icon
     2 likes

    Grain is a wide-purpose static site generator, designed for websites of any complexity and structure. Grain utilizes the full power of Groovy for page templates and supports a variety of markups, everything you need to create a company website, a project documentation, or a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. CMS.js icon
     2 likes

    CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Facet icon
     2 likes

    Facet is a modern publishing platform where writers can create and share their work while offering readers a beautiful, distraction-free reading experience – no clunky PDFs, just great writing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. jekyll SEO template is the best alternative to blogging on Medium. It has been highly optimized for SEO and could seriously increase the organic traffic to your blog.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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