Grain AlternativesWebsite Builders & Static Site Generators like Grain

Grain is described as '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' and is a Website Builder in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Grain for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Windows, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Grain alternative is Ghost. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Ghost or Hugo. Other great apps like Grain are Vivaldi Community, Mozello, Zola and Pelican.

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  1. Ghost icon
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    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    271 Ghost alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
     
    • Ghost is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Grain.

    • Ghost is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Grain.

    • Ghost is Free Personal and Open SourceGrain is Free and Open Source
    • Ghost is Privacy focusedGrain is not according to our users
  2. Hugo icon
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    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.

    103 Hugo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Hugo is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Grain.

    • Hugo is Free and Open SourceGrain is also Free and Open Source
    • Hugo is LightweightGrain is not according to our users
  3. Blogger icon
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    Publish blogs with free hosting on a customizable platform offering a choice of templates, flexible layouts, custom or blogspot.com domains, built-in analytics and AdSense monetization, unlimited storage for posts and images, and secure Google service integration.

    198 Blogger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
     
    • Blogger is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Grain.

    • Blogger is Free and ProprietaryGrain is Free and Open Source
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    Use a free (and ad-free) blogging platform to publish your ideas, share them with the Community and the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Mozello icon
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    User-friendly platform for creating mobile-friendly sites, blogs, and stores quickly. Features include SEO tools, multilingual support, and complete hosting management with no tech skills needed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Mozello is the most popular SaaS alternative to Grain.

    • Mozello is Freemium and ProprietaryGrain is Free and Open Source
  6. Zola icon
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    Everything you need to make a static site engine in one binary.

    48 Zola alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Pelican icon
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    Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  8. ZeroBlog icon
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    ZeroBlog - For a distributed, self publishing blogging platform ( and centralized authentication ).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • NameCoin
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
    • CoffeeScript
     
  9. Octopress icon
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    Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration.

    80 Octopress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
     
  10. Ucraft icon
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    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 (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Hakyll icon
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    Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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