Nift Alternatives
Nift is described as 'It's lightning fast, developed from the ground up in C++, and released for free under the MIT license, use it for any of your personal or commercial projects – just be sure to preserve copyright and license notices!' and is a static site generator in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Nift for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows, Linux and Web-based apps. The best Nift alternative is Ghost. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Ghost or Jekyll. Other great apps like Nift are Grav, Gatsby, Zola and Mozello.
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In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- Ruby
- RubyGems

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.


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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
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
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
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted

DocPad is a dynamic static-site generator. That is a content management system that takes content from several sources, like files on your computer, and renders them into incredibly fast static output.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Grain is a 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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

CMS.js is fully client-side, Javascript site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and Javascript to generate your website.

verless (pronounced like serverless) is a Static Site Generator designed for Markdown-based content with focus on simplicity and performance. It reads your Markdown files, applies your HTML templates and renders them as a website.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
Blades is made to do one job and do it well - generate HTML files from the provided content using the provided templates. Blades renders the whole site in milliseconds, possibly up to 10 times faster than other generators like Hugo.

- 146 UXWeb alternatives
Create, design and publish your website in minutes. UXWeb is a cloud-based website builder for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - made easy with a vast library of templates, live page editing and draggable blocks that snap to the Grid in real-time.


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UXWeb is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Nift.
UXWeb is the most popular commercial alternative to Nift.
- UXWeb is Paid and Proprietary
























