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What is Ghost?

Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.
Ghost is a tool in the Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS category of a tech stack.
Ghost is an open source tool with 45.4K GitHub stars and 9.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Ghost's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Ghost?

Companies
216 companies reportedly use Ghost in their tech stacks, including Accenture, Pier, and Better.

Developers
265 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Ghost.

Ghost Integrations

Mailgun, Crowdin, mailerlite, NoCodeAPI, and ContainerShip are some of the popular tools that integrate with Ghost. Here's a list of all 14 tools that integrate with Ghost.
Pros of Ghost
45
Beautiful
35
Fast
29
Quick/simple post styling
20
Live Post Preview
20
Open source
19
Non-profit
16
Seamless writing
6
Node.js
5
Fast and Performatic
5
Javascript
4
Simplest
3
Wonderful UI
3
Handlebars
3
Full Control
2
Magic
2
Clean
1
Headless CMS
1
Self-hostable

Ghost's Features

  • An intuitive, minimal editor
  • Ultra-fast content management
  • All SEO features built-in natively
  • Native desktop & mobile apps
  • Publish once, distribute everywhere
  • Headless CMS with Node.js REST APIs
  • Over 19x faster than WordPress
  • Secure & independently audited
  • Custom theme or any JAMstack front-end

Ghost Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Ghost?
Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
Drupal
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Joomla!
Joomla is a simple and powerful web server application and it requires a server with PHP and either MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server to run it.
Adobe Experience Manager
It is a Web Content Management System that allows companies to manage their web content (Web pages, digital assets, forms, etc) and also create digital experiences with this content on any platform web, mobile or IoT.
See all alternatives

Ghost's Followers
499 developers follow Ghost to keep up with related blogs and decisions.