Content Management Tools

Best Content Management tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Best overallGhost100 score License-safe pickGhostOSI-approved OSS Fastest shippingGhost100 shipping

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.

#	Tool	Health	Shipping	Openness	Stars	Score	Status
01	Ghost Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.	100	100	OSI-approved OSS	54.6k	100	Active
02	EmDash CMS EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress	95	100	OSI-approved OSS	11.5k	98	Active
03	Grav Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony	90	98	OSI-approved OSS	15.6k	95	Active
04	ExpressionEngine Open-source content management platform for building and managing websites.	85	95	OSI-approved OSS	504	92	Active
05	Halo Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具，从个人博客、知识库，到企业官网、在线商城，Halo 都能助您轻松实现，一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。	89	78	OSI-approved OSS	39.4k	88	Active
06	E107 e107 Bootstrap CMS (Content Management System) v2 with PHP, MySQL, HTML5, jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap. Issue Discussion Room: https://gitter.im/e107inc/e107	79	87	OSI-approved OSS	330	87	Active
07	OctoberCMS Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework.	80	64	License unknown	11.1k	80	Active
08	Umono CMS focused on avoiding vendor lock-in.	74	71	OSI-approved OSS	22	77	Warning
09	camaleon-cms Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails	72	65	OSI-approved OSS	1.2k	75	Warning
10	Conrete CMS Open source content management system and framework.	73	42	OSI-approved OSS	850	69	Warning
11	PrettyBlocks Open source page builder for PrestaShop.	63	40	OSI-approved OSS	94	64	Warning
12	Vvveb Powerful and easy to use cms to build websites, blogs or ecommerce stores.	57	43	OSI-approved OSS	1.2k	64	Warning
13	BlogBowl Open-source plug-and-play blogging platform. Launch SEO-friendly blogs, changelogs, and write newsletters without coding. 🔥	53	16	OSI-approved OSS	155	52	Warning
14	Mecha CMS Minimalist content management system.	44	11	OSI-approved OSS	189	43	Critical
15	Markdown Site An open-source publishing framework built for AI agents and developers to ship websites, docs, or blogs. Write markdown, sync from the terminal. Your content is instantly available to browsers, LLMs, and AI agents. Built on Convex and Netlify.	41	7	OSI-approved OSS	623	42	Critical
16	StartupEngine Open-source startup platform with integrated CMS, analytics, and A/B testing.	28	0	OSI-approved OSS	140	31	Critical
17	Platformus Platformus is free, open source, and cross-platform developer-friendly CMS based on ASP.NET Core, ExtCore framework, and Magicalizer	28	0	OSI-approved OSS	484	31	Critical
18	Puck CMS Open-source cross-platform .NET CMS with code-first content modeling and Lucene search.	28	0	OSI-approved OSS	169	31	Critical