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Ghost

Open source alternative to Substack, WordPress.com and Beehiiv

Ghost is an open source blogging and publishing platform for independent creators who want to run newsletters, paid memberships, and websites on their own terms. MIT licensed; self-host with Docker or Ghost CLI.

53K starsJavaScriptMITActive this week
Visit websiteGitHub repo
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Contents
  1. 01What Ghost does
  2. 02Tech stack
  3. 03Similar open-source tools
TL;DR

Ghost is an open source blogging and publishing platform for independent creators who want to run newsletters, paid memberships, and websites on their own terms. MIT licensed; self-host with Docker or Ghost CLI.MIT · JavaScript · 53K stars · Active this week

what it does

What Ghost does#

Ghost is an open source blogging platform built for professional publishers and independent creators who want full control over their audience, content, and revenue.

tech stack · detected from GitHub

What it's built on#

Languages
JavaScriptTypeScript
Frameworks
ExpressReact
Databases
MySQL
Runtimes
Node.js
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Repository

Stars
53K
Forks
11.6K
License
MIT
Latest
v6.39.0
Last commit
today
Last verified
May 17, 2026
Repo
TryGhost/Ghost ↗

Additional details

Language
JavaScript
Open issues
279
Contributors
809
First release
2013

Categories

Web DevelopmentMarketing & GrowthBusiness & Productivity

Tags

BloggingCMSHeadless CMSWebsite BuilderSelf HostedEmailPayment InfrastructureOpen Core