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. Mused icon
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    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...

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

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

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Publish0x icon
     6 likes

    Earn Crypto for Publishing AND for Reading or Watching quality stuff! Publish0x is a Crypto agnostic platform where both authors and readers earn in Crypto.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Symphony CMS icon
     16 likes

    Symphony is an XSLT-powered open source content management system

    It's a web-based content management system (CMS) that enables users to create and manage websites and web applications of all shapes and sizes—from the simplest of blogs to bustling news sites and feature-pack.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • 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. Chyrp icon
     16 likes

    Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is powered by PHP and has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  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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