Ghost Alternatives

Ghost is described as 'The world's most popular modern publishing platform for creating a new media platform' and is a very popular Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Ghost for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Ghost alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Ghost are Drupal, Jekyll, Joomla and Blogger.

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  1. Chyrp Lite icon
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    Chyrp Lite makes it possible to host a blog on your own web server with minimal fuss. You can have a traditional blog, a tumbleblog, or you can add oodles of customisation and build a web publishing platform with blogging features on the side.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  2. Pixelesq icon
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    Pixelesq is a radical new approach to website management. It’s the first AI-driven platform that puts the power of LLMs at your fingertips, enabling your team to create effortlessly, publish confidently, and grow exponentially.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Simvoly icon
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    Simvoly is all-in-one platform with free hosting, amazing designs, a place to control your online identity. You don't need coding skills, one place to help you grow your business. You can create pages, blogs, galleries, sell online, collect emails and so much more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Umbraco icon
     12 likes

    Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
    • .NET Framework
     
  5. b2evolution icon
     9 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Hashnode icon
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    Personal blog for developers with free CNAME pointing, custom domain, SSL and more [not in the free tier only in the paid tier].

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    It has a really good editor.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Hashnode is Freemium and ProprietaryGhost is Free Personal and Open Source
  7. Xoops icon
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    XOOPS CMS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system (CMS) written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
     
  8. 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...

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Lavalite icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
     
  10. Orchard icon
     5 likes

    Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework
     
  11. Svbtle icon
     17 likes

    Svbtle, a new kind of magazine. An extremely simple platform for collecting and developing ideas, sharing them with the world, and reading them. The developers have focused their energy into building the simplest interface for accomplishing these goals.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  12. Pillowfort icon
     9 likes

    [Pillowfort is currently in closed beta with over 40,000 users. Everyone who donates $5 or more will get a registration key (or keys) to create an account on the site]

    108 Pillowfort alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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