Canvas AlternativesCMS & Blog Publishing Tools like Canvas

Canvas is described as 'Create your own blog with unparalleled speed and efficiency and share your stories with the world on a beautiful template that didn't take 67 plugins to create' and is a CMS tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Canvas for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Canvas alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Canvas are Drupal, DEV Community, Apostrophe CMS and OverBlog.

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  1. WordPress icon
     1699 likes

    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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
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  2. Drupal icon
     496 likes

    Open source CMS with modular architecture, structured content support, and thousands of modules for extensibility. Offers custom themes, robust security, integration capabilities, starter distributions, active community support, and is free under the GPL license with no vendor lock-in.

    214 Drupal alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • US flagUnited States
    Drupal screenshot 1
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  3. 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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  4. Apostrophe CMS icon
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    Apostrophe is a powerful website builder platform built on an enterprise open source CMS, offering in-context live editing, visual design tools, and multisite enablement in a full stack JS environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • MongoDB
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
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  5. OverBlog icon
     7 likes

    OverBlog is a blogging platform, active and evolving. Create a blog, without any technical knowledge, and find everything you post ! Create your blog has never been easier.

    310 OverBlog alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  6. Symphony CMS icon
     15 likes

    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.

    128 Symphony CMS alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Portal CMS icon
     8 likes

    Portal CMS is a free and open source content management system with a powerful integrated page builder built in .NET MVC.

    211 Portal CMS alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. 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
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  9. Batflat icon
     3 likes

    Bootstrap ready CMS for free. Just download and create kick-ass website in a few minutes.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Apache HTTP Server
    • PHP
    • SQLite
    • Bootstrap
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  10. Lavalite icon
     6 likes

    LavaLite is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB and PostgreSQL for the database backend.

    245 Lavalite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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  11. Anymod icon
     6 likes

    Easily add CMS features to any website, on any platform.

    175 Anymod alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • US flagUnited States
    Dashboard
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