Grav vs Wagtail: What are the differences?

Developers describe Grav as "A modern open source flat-file CMS". It is a free, open-source and self-hosted content management system (CMS) based on the PHP programming language and Symfony web application framework. It uses a flat file database for both backend and frontend. It is more widely used, and growing at a faster rate, than other leading flat-file CMS competitors. On the other hand, Wagtail is detailed as "A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience". Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on flexibility and user experience.

Grav and Wagtail can be categorized as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.

Some of the features offered by Grav are:

• Twig
• YAML
• Markdown

On the other hand, Wagtail provides the following key features:

• A fast, attractive editor interface
• Complete control over design with standard Django templates
• Configure content types through standard Django models

Grav and Wagtail are both open source tools. It seems that Grav with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.13K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Wagtail with 7.67K GitHub stars and 1.67K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Wagtail has a broader approval, being mentioned in 12 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Grav, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.