Backdrop CMS Alternatives

Backdrop CMS is described as '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' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Backdrop CMS for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Mac apps. The best Backdrop CMS alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Backdrop CMS are Ghost, Drupal, Jekyll and Blogger.

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  1. postach.io icon
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    Postach.io helps you instantly create custom sites by converting your notes to blog posts and pages.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Evernote
    • Dropbox
     
  2. ALLYOU icon
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    A modern website builder for creatives to create professional portfolio websites with a visual editor, responsive templates, and no coding required.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
     
  4. CMS Made Simple icon
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    CMS Made Simple - the open source content management system for the rest of us. CMS Made Simple helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding and allowing your clients to update their...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  5. Fork CMS icon
     36 likes

    Fork CMS is dedicated to creating a user friendly environment to build, monitor and update your website. We take great pride in being the Content Management System of choice for beginners and professionals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  6.  14 likes

    Index + Exhibit. A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound. A great CMS for portfolio management and artwork presentation.

    22 Indexhibit alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. CakePHP  icon
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    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  8. Agile Toolkit icon
     25 likes

    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software. Agile Toolkit is notable for it's simple of use and development efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Redaxscript icon
     48 likes

    Redaxscript is a modern, ultra lightweight and rocket fast Content Management System for SQLite, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

    56 Redaxscript alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
     
  10. Chyrp icon
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    Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is powered by PHP and has very powerful theme and extension engines, so you can personalize it however you want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  11. YouDoCMS icon
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    A website builder, headless CMS and static site generator running as a dektop application for Windows and Mac. Manage your content just like WordPress and deploy static sites direct to S3, Cloudfront, Cloudflare, Firebase, Github Pages and Azure.

    8 YouDoCMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  12. ViUR.is icon
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    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web applications running on Google's infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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