Jekyll Alternatives

Apps similar to Jekyll include WordPress, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Ghost, Drupal, Astro and Hugo. Website Builders like Jekyll are a crowded field, with more than 100 alternatives for self-hosting, the web, Windows, Linux and Mac.

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  1. Markdown Ninja is the easiest way to publish Markdown-based websites and newsletters. The days of hacking a static site generator, a broken theme, a complex CI/CD pipeline and a cloud platform with unlimited billing to publish a website are long gone!

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    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  2. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Typehut icon
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    Typehut is a super simple publishing platform for any kind of content: blogs, newsletters, changelogs, announcements, events, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Glyph is a static site generator that uses Github issues and GitHub Pages. It essentially converts Issues into full-fledged blog posts which yields an advanced but accessible comment system hosted through GitHub with posts created using the very popular .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. 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 type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Handlebars
    • PHP
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  7. BlogMaker icon
     3 likes

    Blogmaker is a hosted blogging platform with built-in SEO, newsletters, analytics, APIs, and AI-assisted publishing through MCP.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Flexible, minimalistic, multi-platform static site generator built on top of node.js.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Webnode icon
     9 likes

    A cloud-based website builder that empowers users to create professional websites and online stores without technical skills. Utilize templates, secure hosting, domain management, and inclusive tools for blogs, photo galleries, and forms. Supports 24 languages with responsive design.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Lego is a fast Static Site Generator that generates optimised, performant websites. Build your site with a boringly simple stack, yet get amazing performance. Transpiles and minifies JS using Terser, autoprefixes and minifies CSS with PostCSS, inlines critical styles using...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. FlatlyPage is a next-generation, self-hosted flat-file CMS engineered to build lightning-fast business and personal landing pages without heavy databases or bloated code. Created by the WebOrbiton team in Poland, it combines a lightweight architecture with an intuitive...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Source Available

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Zox icon
     1 like

    Zox.js is a web framework for static sites and GraphQL API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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