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. Site.pro icon
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    White label tool for hosting providers and site owners featuring multilingual editing in 40+ languages, website import, modern templates, responsive layouts, drag-and-drop editor, billing panel support, blog and store builder, and direct publishing capabilities.

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    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Aegea icon
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    Aegea is a beautiful blogging engine with front-end editing, beautiful typography, and easy-to-use media management.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  3.  1 like

    PieCrust is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • PHP
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  4. Clevada icon
     1 like

    Clevada is an All-In-One Cloud Software Suite with Website Builder, Community Forum, Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Internal Communication and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Backdrop CMS icon
     11 likes

    Backdrop CMS is a simple, lightweight, and easy to use Content Management System used to build attractive, professional websites. Use it for everything from a single-administrator's personal blog site, to a complex, multi-role, business e-commerce platform.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Moopato Website Builder is an Offline Content Management System (CMS). It runs on your local machine and not on a server. You create your content locally, build the whole site with the push of a button and then you can upload it to your hosting provider.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. Awestruct icon
     1 like

    Awestruct makes it trivially easy to create non-trivial static websites using lightweight markup languages such as AsciiDoc, Markdown, and Textile, templating languages such as Slim, Haml, and Compass (Sass), as well as UI frameworks like Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Staticman icon
     3 likes

    Static sites with superpowers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Flatpress icon
     7 likes

    FlatPress is an open-source standard-compliant multi-lingual extensible blogging engine which does not require a DataBase Management System to work. You don’t need MySQL because FlatPress stores all of its content on text files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Softaculous
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  10. Ionize icon
     4 likes

    Ionize is a free professional multilingual and user-friendly PHP Content Management System (CMS) based on CodeIgniter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
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  11. SkunkHTML icon
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    Easily set up a simple blog with plain Markdown and host it for free on GitHub. SkunkHTML allows you to automatically generate a website hosted on GitHub Pages using Markdown files as the source.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Markdown
    • GitHub Pages
    Good alternative?
     
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