Nikola AlternativesStatic Site Generators and other similar apps like Nikola

Nikola is described as 'Static website and blog generator. Its original goal is to create blogs, but it supports most kind of sites and can be used as a CMS, as long as what you present to the user is your own content instead of something the user generates' and is a static site generator in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Nikola for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows, Linux and Cloudron apps. The best Nikola alternative is Ghost, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Nikola are Jekyll, Hugo, Grav and Pelican.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    • Node.JS
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  2. Jekyll icon
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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  3. Hugo icon
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    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
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  5. Pelican icon
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    Static site generator, written in Python, that requires no database or server-side logic

    Cost / License

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  6. Hexo icon
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    Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework powered by Node.js which have extensive plugins selections for a Static Site Generator and a great communities.

    42 Hexo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
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  7. shokunin icon
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    A Fast and Flexible Static Site Generator written in Rust 🦀.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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  8. Bridgetown icon
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    In a nutshell, Bridgetown is a static site generator. You give it text written in an author-friendly markup language like Markdown, and it uses layouts and templates to build a website and save the compiled HTML, CSS, and Javascript to an output folder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • RubyGems
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  9. Hakyll icon
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    Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.

    92 Hakyll alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10.  1 like

    Teeny is a super simple static site generator built to suit my needs and my needs only.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Outstatic icon
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    Outstatic is a static site CMS that lives inside your Next.js install. No need for databases, external services or complicated setups. It allows you to create, edit and save content that is automatically commited to your repository and deployed to your live website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Soupault icon
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    Soupault is a static website generator that actually understands HTML and automatically manipulates it rather than just generating it from a template.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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