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Ghost vs Twill

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Overview

Ghost
Ghost
Stacks518
Followers506
Votes219
GitHub Stars51.1K
Forks11.1K
Twill
Twill
Stacks46
Followers80
Votes85
GitHub Stars3.9K
Forks591

Ghost vs Twill: What are the differences?

Ghost: Just a blogging platform. 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; Twill: An open source CMS toolkit for Laravel. Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

Ghost and Twill belong to "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" category of the tech stack.

"Beautiful" is the top reason why over 40 developers like Ghost, while over 8 developers mention "Amazing visual editor with drag & drop" as the leading cause for choosing Twill.

Ghost and Twill are both open source tools. It seems that Ghost with 30.3K GitHub stars and 6.55K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Twill with 1.33K GitHub stars and 128 GitHub forks.

Ghost, Deveo, and Flat are some of the popular companies that use Ghost, whereas Twill is used by AREA 17, Art Institute of Chicago, and Pentagram. Ghost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 60 company stacks & 39 developers stacks; compared to Twill, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Advice on Ghost, Twill

Xander
Xander

Founder at Rate My Meeting

Mar 30, 2020

Decided

So many choices for CMSs these days. So then what do you choose if speed, security and customization are key? Headless for one. Consuming your own APIs for content is absolute key. It makes designing pages in the front-end a breeze. Leaving Ghost and Cockpit. If I then looked at the footprint and impact on server load, Cockpit definitely wins that battle.

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Detailed Comparison

Ghost
Ghost
Twill
Twill

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.

Twill is an open source CMS toolkit for Laravel that helps developers rapidly create a custom admin console that is intuitive, powerful and flexible.

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
Visual editor; Responsive previewing; Hi-res media library; Smart cropping; Drag & drop featuring; Design controls; Activity dashboard; Quick-access search; Permissions levels; Track & compare changes; Multi-language; Content scheduling; No data lock-in; Headed or headless; Vue.js UI; Simple form helpers; CLI generator; Extend as you see fit
Statistics
GitHub Stars
51.1K
GitHub Stars
3.9K
GitHub Forks
11.1K
GitHub Forks
591
Stacks
518
Stacks
46
Followers
506
Followers
80
Votes
219
Votes
85
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 45
    Beautiful
  • 35
    Fast
  • 29
    Quick/simple post styling
  • 20
    Live Post Preview
  • 20
    Open source
Pros
  • 13
    Amazing visual editor with drag & drop
  • 12
    Powerful and customisable admin console
  • 10
    Beautiful UI and easy to use
  • 8
    A CMS that I actually *like* to use!
  • 7
    Easy for publishers to create media-rich narratives
Integrations
No integrations available
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Vue.js
Vue.js
Cloudinary
Cloudinary
imgix
imgix
Laravel
Laravel
Laravel Homestead
Laravel Homestead
Laravel Forge
Laravel Forge
Envoyer
Envoyer

What are some alternatives to Ghost, Twill?

WordPress

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

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.

Strapi

Strapi

Strapi is100% JavaScript, extensible, and fully customizable. It enables developers to build projects faster by providing a customizable API out of the box and giving them the freedom to use the their favorite tools.

Wagtail

Wagtail

Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

OctoberCMS

OctoberCMS

It is a Laravel-based CMS engineered for simplicity. It has a simple and intuitive interface. It provides a consistent structure with an emphasis on reusability so you can focus on building something unique while we handle the boring bits.

ProcessWire

ProcessWire

ProcessWire is an open source content management system (CMS) and web application framework aimed at the needs of designers, developers and their clients. ProcessWire gives you more control over your fields, templates and markup than other platforms, and provides a powerful template system that works the way you do

Typo3

Typo3

It is a free and open-source Web content management system written in PHP. It can run on several web servers, such as Apache or IIS, on top of many operating systems, among them Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, macOS and OS/2.

Directus

Directus

Let's say you're planning on managing content for a website, native app, and widget. Instead of using a CMS that's baked into the website client, it makes more sense to decouple your content entirely and access it through an API or SDK. That's a headless CMS. That's Directus.

Joomla!

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.

Craft

Craft

Craft is a content management system (CMS) that’s laser-focused on doing one thing really, really well: managing content.

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