Locomotive AlternativesCMS Tools and other similar apps like Locomotive

Locomotive is described as 'LOCOMOTIVE is an open source CMS for Rails. It's super flexible and integrates with Heroku and Amazon S3' and is a CMS tool in the business & commerce category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Locomotive, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Locomotive alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Locomotive are Ghost, Drupal, Joomla and Grav.

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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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    • Cloudron
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  2. 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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    • Open Source (MIT)

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  3. Drupal icon
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    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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  4. Joomla icon
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    Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular web site software available.

    215 Joomla alternatives

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    Home Dashboard
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  5. Grav icon
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    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
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    • Cloudron
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  6. Directus icon
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    Directus, with over 20 million downloads, is the world's first Open Data Platform. It can transform any SQL database into an API and a no-code application instantly, providing equal data and digital file asset management access to all team members.

    226 Directus alternatives

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    • DigitalOcean
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  7. ProcessWire icon
     166 likes

    ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation. With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.

    110 ProcessWire alternatives

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  8. Automad icon
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    Automad is a file-based flat CMS and template engine. It is designed to be fully portable without any dependencies on databases or fixed locations and doesn't require any complicated setup process. All data gets stored in a human readable form.

    86 Automad alternatives

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    • Free
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  9. 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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  10. Textpattern icon
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    Textpattern is an elegant content management system that is free, open source software with privacy and separation of content/design at its foundation.

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  11. Share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and seamlessly collaborate across the organization.

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  12. MODX icon
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    The MODX Digital Experience Platform gives you everything you need to build, host, and maintain amazing websites your way. Gain complete control over your creative vision without restriction or compromise.

    116 MODX alternatives

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