Grain AlternativesWebsite Builders & Static Site Generators like Grain

Grain is described as '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' and is a Website Builder in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Grain for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Linux, Windows, Mac and Web-based apps. The best Grain alternative is Ghost, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Grain are Blogger, Hugo, Mataroa Blog and Vivaldi Community.

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  1. Ghost icon
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    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
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  2. Blogger icon
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    Publish blogs with free hosting on a customizable platform offering a choice of templates, flexible layouts, custom or blogspot.com domains, built-in analytics and AdSense monetization, unlimited storage for posts and images, and secure Google service integration.

    207 Blogger alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
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  3. Hugo icon
     95 likes

    Hugo is a general-purpose website framework for generating static web pages. Hugo flexibly works with many formats and is ideal for blogs, docs, portfolios and much more.

    118 Hugo alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Mataroa Blog icon
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    Blogging platform for minimalists.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Use a free (and ad-free) blogging platform to publish your ideas, share them with the Community and the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. Pelican icon
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    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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  7. Mozello icon
     6 likes

    User-friendly platform for creating mobile-friendly sites, blogs, and stores quickly. Features include SEO tools, multilingual support, and complete hosting management with no tech skills needed.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Zola icon
     5 likes

    Everything you need to make a static site engine in one binary.

    53 Zola alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
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  9. ZeroBlog icon
     14 likes

    ZeroBlog - For a distributed, self publishing blogging platform ( and centralized authentication ).

    80 ZeroBlog alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Self-Hosted
    • NameCoin
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • ZeroNet
    • CoffeeScript
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  10. 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.

    80 Octopress alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Jekyll
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  11. Ucraft icon
     12 likes

    Drag-and-drop editor offers customizable templates, free cloud hosting, and responsive design. Suited for landing pages, portfolios, blogs, or stores, it features e-commerce, media support, third-party integrations, SEO tools, SSL, and collaboration tools.

    143 Ucraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. DocPad icon
     5 likes

    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.

    115 DocPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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