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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.
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.
Pros of Ghost
- Beautiful45
- Fast35
- Quick/simple post styling29
- Live Post Preview20
- Open source20
- Non-profit19
- Seamless writing16
- Node.js6
- Fast and Performatic5
- Javascript5
- Simplest4
- Wonderful UI3
- Handlebars3
- Full Control3
- Magic2
- Clean2
- Headless CMS1
- Self-hostable1
Pros of Twill
- Amazing visual editor with drag & drop13
- Powerful and customisable admin console12
- Beautiful UI and easy to use10
- A CMS that I actually *like* to use!8
- Easy for publishers to create media-rich narratives7
- Ensures the integrity of your design system7
- Flexible with easy to use editors7
- Flexible and Powerful CMS. Easy to setup6
- Scaleable and easy to maintain5
- Incredibly simple and beautiful interface4
- Ensures the integrity of the design system3
- Scaleable and easy to maintain3