ButterCMS AlternativesBlog Publishing & CMS Tools like ButterCMS

ButterCMS is described as 'Butter is a headless CMS and Blog Engine built for developers. Add to your app in minutes' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ButterCMS for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, SaaS, Linux and Windows apps. The best ButterCMS alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ButterCMS are Ghost, Jekyll, Grav and Strapi.

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  1. WordPress icon
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    Create a website or blog with open-source software focused on accessibility, ease of use, performance, and security. Minimal setup, powerful growth features, and a large community supporting democratization of publishing.

    154 WordPress alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
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    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
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  2. Ghost icon
     263 likes

    The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform.

    291 Ghost alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  3. Jekyll icon
     128 likes

    Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server.

    141 Jekyll alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Grav icon
     139 likes

    Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, opensource CMS that requires no database. In a nutshell, installing Grav is a matter of unzipping the file. It is fast, has sophisticated caching, and a light footprint for optimal performance.

    197 Grav alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  5. Strapi icon
     39 likes

    Strapi enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use their favorite tools. Content teams use Strapi to autonomously manage all types of content and distribute it from one CMS to any channel be it...

    88 Strapi alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  6. DEV Community icon
     30 likes

    Where programmers share ideas and help each other grow. It is an online community for sharing and discovering great ideas, having debates, and making friends. Anyone can share articles, questions, discussions, etc. as long as they have the rights to the words they are sharing.

    293 DEV Community alternatives

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  7. Alinea CMS icon
     4 likes

    Open source headless CMS with minimal setup. Alinea CMS is a feature rich Git based CMS with a focus on user and developer experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
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  8. Gatsby icon
     17 likes

    Gatsby provides development teams an open source frontend framework for creating dynamic, optimized websites and a cloud platform for delivering them on a blazing fast edge network.

    112 Gatsby alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • React
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Wagtail CMS icon
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    Wagtail is a content management system built on Django. It's focused on user experience, and offers precise control for designers and developers.

    38 Wagtail CMS alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Django
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  10. 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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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Pelican icon
     25 likes

    Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  12. Cockpit icon
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    Cockpit was born out of the need of building a simple dynamic site. Sure, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and all the other full-stack content management systems are possible solutions for that task ... but let's be honest, often they are just too bloated and too time consuming to...

    57 Cockpit alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • SQLite
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