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 Joomla.

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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. Communifire icon
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    Communifire is social business software that drives business growth. You can collaborate with anyone, provide better customer support, power your company intranet, build a knowledge base, and launch online communities for anything -- and more -- all in one integrated platform.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Online
    • Windows Mobile
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Blackberry
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Blackberry 10
     
  2. JoomBlog icon
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    JoomBlog is Joomla CMS blog component that allow to create personal/team blog with smart navigation, comments and social share options. Advanced SEO features like Facebook meta tags and SEO score are also included.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Joomla
     
  3. CiiMS icon
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    CiiMS is a fast, simple, and easy to use, full feature blogging platform and content management system built in Yii.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • PHP
    • Yii Framework
     
  4. Hydejack icon
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    Hydejack is a Jekyll theme with JavaScript powers, combining the best of static sites and modern web apps. It features a suite of JavaScript that makes the page feel like an app, without sacrificing backwards-compatibility, page-load speed or SEO.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
     
  5. Baun icon
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    A modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. VINTCER icon
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    VINTCER is a powerful drag and drop website builder that lets you create amazing websites in no time. No technical skills are required to create your website. Choose from thousands of templates, connect your custom domains, get free business emails and a free SSL certificate.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. Ionize icon
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    Ionize is a free professional multilingual and user-friendly PHP Content Management System (CMS) based on CodeIgniter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  8. Refinery CMS icon
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    Refinery is the most popular Ruby on Rails CMS and supports Rails 4.2. It's easy to extend and sticks to 'the Rails way' where possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
     
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    LiveStreet is a free (GPLv2) engine for blog and social networks.

    The project has been implemented with the OOP on PHP5 + MySQL5 and is built on the principle of the MVC model, which makes it possible to change both the logic engine, and appearance with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
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    Typo has been around since March of 2005 making it one of the oldest blogging platforms in Rails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Nift icon
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    It's lightning fast, developed from the ground up in C++, and released for free under the MIT license, use it for any of your personal or commercial projects – just be sure to preserve copyright and license notices!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. BlogHunch icon
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    BlogHunch is an SEO-optimized, flexible No-Code blogging platform that lets you build and manage your blog without worrying about servers, developers, branding, and SEO.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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