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. Frog icon
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    Frog is a static web site generator written in Racket.

    You write content in Markdown or Scribble. You generate files. To deploy, you push them to a GitHub Pages repo (or copy them to Amazon S3, or whatever).

    Posts get a variety of automatic blog features.

    You can also create n.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2.  2 likes

    This is a simple self-hosted, lightweight, singe-user PHP blog, where you can create your own Facebook-like feed. Give read access to other people, and you can share rich text with photos including highlighted code or links.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Sitecake icon
     5 likes

    A simple drag-and-drop CMS for static HTML and PHP websites. No database required. Just upload to your hosting and start editing. Perfect for small business websites, portfolios, and landing pages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • NGINX
     
  4.  3 likes

    Skyline CMS Ruby on Rails.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Arcadina icon
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    Create a website for photographer or creative. The all-in-one solution: website + blog + custom domain + email accounts + photo proofing galleries + sell photos and videos. Show your photos, videos and creations in an elegant website.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6.  3 likes

    Tinysite is an attempt to create minimalistic secure blog engine for running a darknet blog site. It has only some basic features yet, e.g. adding and displaying posts, categories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Hotspot JVM
     
  7. Foboko icon
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    Be a published author quickly and easily. How to write a book with Foboko social publishing community. Plus download eBooks from thousands of indie authors for FREE.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8.  1 like

    Teeny is a super simple static site generator built to suit my needs and my needs only.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9.  1 like

    More or less a small clone of exposure.co in form of a static generator. For those of you who don't know what exposure.co is, this allows you to tell a story with your pictures.

    Prosopopee. Static site generator for your story.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. ZCMS icon
     9 likes

    ZCMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, simple user management and permissions. We keep the core CMS as light, fast and flexible as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Open DevOps icon
     1 like

    Open DevOps - WildFly, Docker, Kubernetes, Firebase & more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
     
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