Octopress is described as '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' and is a Blog Publishing tool in the social & communications category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Octopress for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Mac apps. The best Octopress alternative is WordPress, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Octopress are Ghost, Jekyll, Blogger and Grav.