#1
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform for blogs and websites with built-in newsletters, membership management, and paid subscriptions.
55.1k stars11.9k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
12 self-hosted Webflow alternatives
Webflow is a hosted no-code visual website builder and CMS for designing, building, and publishing responsive websites and landing pages. It includes hosting, content management, SEO tools, integrations, and APIs for deployment and team collaboration.
Alternatives to Webflow
WordPress is an open-source CMS for building and managing websites and blogs with themes, a block editor, and a large plugin ecosystem.
21.4k stars13k forkslast commit Actively maintained
#3
Open-source flat-file CMS for PHP that uses Markdown, Twig templates and YAML configs with a package manager for fast, flexible sites.
15.7k stars1.4k forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
Microweber is a drag-and-drop CMS and website builder for creating pages, blogs, and online stores with live editing, modules, and template-based design.
3.4k stars936 forksMITlast commit Slowing down
#5
Open-source no-code website builder to visually create fast static websites, with optional HTML/CSS/JavaScript editing and integrations for CMS and APIs.
2.9k stars668 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#6
Bludit is a simple, fast flat-file CMS that stores content as JSON, enabling database-free websites and blogs with themes, plugins, and Markdown/HTML editing.
1.5k stars334 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
A PHP-based CMS with a visual page builder, multi-site, localization, ecommerce, and GraphQL/REST APIs.
1.2k stars211 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#8
Automad is a fast, lightweight flat-file CMS with an admin dashboard, block editor, in-page editing, theme/package support, and an optional headless JSON API.
927 stars55 forkslast commit Actively maintained
#9
Contao is an open-source PHP CMS for building professional, accessible, SEO-friendly and performant websites and web applications; extensible via Symfony bundles and Composer.
436 stars172 forksLGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
#10
CouchCMS is a PHP-based lightweight CMS that converts static HTML/CSS templates into editable sites with cloned pages, forms, comments and RSS.
376 stars86 forkslast commit Actively maintained
#11
A lightweight PHP CMS focused on photo, video and audio galleries with integrated blogging (Zenpage), theme support and extensible plugins.
319 stars129 forkslast commit Actively maintained
CMS Made Simple is an open source CMS focused on easy website management, flexible design with Smarty templates, extensibility via modules, and a developer-friendly API.
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What replacing Webflow actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 10 of 12 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: MIT, AGPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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