The Best 65 Metalsmith Alternatives

  • Directus icon

    Directus

    A headless CMS that manages your content, not your workflow. Directus is an API-driven content management framework for custom databases. It decouples content for use in apps, websites, or any other data-driven projects.

    Commercial

  • Hakyll icon

    Hakyll

    Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Portal CMS icon

    Portal CMS

    Portal CMS is a free and open source content management system with a powerful integrated page builder built in .NET MVC.

    Free Open Source Windows Web Self-Hosted

  • BlazeBlogger icon

    BlazeBlogger

    BlazeBlogger is a simple to use but capable CMS for the command line. Being written in Perl as a cross-platform application, and producing static content without the...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ionize icon

    Ionize

    Ionize is a free professional multilingual and user-friendly PHP Content Management System (CMS) based on CodeIgniter. Ionize it is a CMS multilingual, MVC plugin and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome OS

  • BigPress CMS icon

    BigPress CMS

    BigPress CMS is an SaaS (software as a service) CMS focused in online newspapers and magazines. Among all the features typical in other software includes a visual editor for front pages and integration with external contents and services.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Apostrophe icon

    Apostrophe

    Apostrophe is a design-driven, in-context CMS built on Node.js and MongoDB. It provides the tools to develop both simple and complex content-driven websites through...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted Node.JS MongoDB

  • CSZ CMS icon

    CSZ CMS

    CSZ CMS is an open source web application that allows to manage all content and settings on the websites. CSZ CMS was built on the basis of Codeigniter and design the...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Web

  • LightCMS icon

    LightCMS

    Easily Create Fantastic Websites with Highly Customizable Templates & Intuitive Tools for Adding & Editing Rich, Pre Integrated Website Features – Free...

    Commercial Web

  • Free Website Builder Script icon

    Free Website Builder Script

    Free Website Builder Script is an open source website builder script allowing the administrator to create, run and manage multiple websites through one single multisite...

    Free Web

  • Olai icon

    Olai

    Have you ever felt sick and tired of your blog loading extremely slow? Or maybe you are sick of your database crapping out after too many visitors come to your website?...

    Commercial Web

  • Lavalite icon

    Lavalite

    LavaLite is an open source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and Laravel web application framework. It currently supports MySQL, SQLite, MariaDB and...

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted PHP

    Customizable Based on Laravel
  • ORCHID icon

    ORCHID

    Platform is a flexible, business application development tool to quickly create web business applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted Laravel

  • valME.io icon

    valME.io

    Customizable Content Management System where users financially reward each other for content via upvotes and tips. Offers custom domain support with SSL.

    Free Web

  • ApPHP MicroBlog icon

    ApPHP MicroBlog

    Lightweight, simple and very easy-to-use personal blog script. It provides all essential blog features including categories, archives and comments.

    Freemium