Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted


Mambo is described as 'The home of the Mambo, one of the worlds most popular open source content management systems' and is a CMS tool in the business & commerce category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Mambo for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Linux, Windows and Mac apps. The best Mambo alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Mambo are Ghost, Drupal, Joomla and Directus.


Symphony is an XSLT-powered open source content management system
It's a web-based content management system (CMS) that enables users to create and manage websites and web applications of all shapes and sizes—from the simplest of blogs to bustling news sites and feature-pack.



blogstrap.py is a simple, no frills blog content management system powered by Twitter's Bootstrap and web.py. It features most things you would come to expect from a simple blogging platform. You can browse posts by category or subcategory, see recent posts, and mark...



e107 is a portal or content management system powered by PHP and MySQL that gives you a totally dynamic and professional website out of the box. Its simple wizard type install process will have you up and running in 5 minutes, and its...



With no knowledge of PHP required at all you can make any static web-page editable by your clients.
Free open-source platform supporting multiple blogs, forums, newsletters, photo galleries, structured content, permissions management, multi-language support, analytics, responsive design, WYSIWYG editor, and tools for creating community-driven or documentation sites.




SPIP is a publishing system for the Internet in which great importance is attached to collaborative working, to multilingual environments, and to simplicity of use for web authors. It is free software, distributed under the GNU/GPL licence.




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.



Pebble is a Java-based server blogging software such as MovableType and WordPress. It does not require a database, but rather stores the blog entries in plain files.




Movable Type Pro is designed for bloggers, design and development firms, and small and medium-sized businesses, and has all of the features of Movable Type plus social networking features, custom fields for extending your content management system, and new Professional Templates...

phpSQLiteCMS is a simple and lightweight open source web content management system (CMS) based on PHP and SQLite. It's licensed under the GNU General Public License.
