Content Management

Alternatives to Halo

Compare healthier or more active tools in the same use case using ToolVitals public evidence.

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Signals behind this alternatives page

Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
Health score: 89/100.
Shipping score: 78/100.

Switching guide

Best alternatives by need

Best overallGhost

Highest organic ToolVitals fit for this use case.

Healthier optionsGhost, Wagtail, Grav, EmDash CMS

Stronger current public-health signal than Halo.

Verified open/source-visibleGhost, Wagtail, Grav, EmDash CMS

Useful when portability and inspectability matter.

License unknown, source-visible signalsKirby, OctoberCMS

Public source signals exist, but ToolVitals has not verified the license class.

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Ranked alternatives

Best-fit content management options

12 tools

Ghost

Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.

Active

Health100

Shipping100

Score100

Confidence100

Stars54.6k

ModeSource-visible project

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Wagtail

A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

Active

Health93

Shipping95

Score95

Confidence100

Stars20.4k

ModeLibrary / Framework

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Grav

Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony

Active

Health90

Shipping98

Score95

Confidence99

Stars15.6k

ModeSource-visible project

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EmDash CMS

EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress

Active

Health95

Shipping100

Score98

Confidence100

Stars11.5k

ModeSource-visible project

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Ech0

Ech0 – An open-source, self-hosted lightweight publishing platform for personal idea sharing.

Active

Health87

Shipping95

Score90

Confidence82

Stars2k

ModeSource-visible project

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Kirby

Flat-file CMS and CMS framework for websites.

Active

Health92

Shipping89

Score93

Confidence100

Stars1.5k

ModeLibrary / Framework

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Alchemy CMS

Alchemy is the Open Source Rails CMS framework for the component based web that can be used as classic server side rendered or headless CMS.

Active

Health85

Shipping98

Score93

Confidence100

Stars903

ModeSource-visible project

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ExpressionEngine

Open-source content management platform for building and managing websites.

Active

Health85

Shipping95

Score92

Confidence99

Stars504

ModeSource-visible project

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Ycode

Open source visual website builder and CMS.

Active

Health86

Shipping95

Score93

Confidence100

Stars247

ModeSource-visible project

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Orchard Core

Open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework with content management.

Active

Health84

Shipping83

Score88

Confidence100

Stars8.1k

ModeLibrary / Framework

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E107

e107 Bootstrap CMS (Content Management System) v2 with PHP, MySQL, HTML5, jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap. Issue Discussion Room: https://gitter.im/e107inc/e107

Active

Health79

Shipping87

Score87

Confidence97

Stars330

ModeSource-visible project

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OctoberCMS

Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

Active

Health80

Shipping64

Score80

Confidence100

Stars11.1k

ModeLibrary / Framework

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