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Ghost
Who runs Ghost, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Newsletter and blogging platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Substack
Measured from Ghost’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Ghost01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Ghost
Ghost ghost.org
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Wikidata: free and open-source blogging platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Ghost tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Ghost’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Ghost
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ghost, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 02
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 03
online publishing platform
Very close - 04
WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Very close - 05
Newsletter Platform: Create Newsletters and Websites - beehiiv
beehiiv is the newsletter platform built for creators, publishers, and businesses. Grow, publish, and monetize your audience in one place.
Very close - 06
Buttondown — Newsletter software for people like you
Buttondown is the last email platform you'll migrate to. We're focused on your success, not on bleeding you dry.
Very close - 07
Write.as — A place for focused writing.
Type words, put them on the internet. Reach friends and family no matter where they live online.
Very close - 08
Hashnode: a blog that gets cited by ChatGPT, Google and Perplexity
Get cited by AI. Start a blog on your own domain, written by you or your agents, and built so Google, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read it and cite it. Free to start.
Very close - 09
Blogger.com - Create a unique and beautiful blog easily.
Publish your passions your way. Whether you’d like to share your knowledge, experiences or the latest news, create a unique and beautiful blog.
Very close - 10
HYVOR® - Independent Software Foundry
Privacy-first website tools, crafted with care. Trusted by millions, from indie makers to enterprises.
Very close - 11
Memberful | Build a membership that’s truly yours
Sell subscriptions, share content, and connect with your audience, all on your own website or app.
Very close - 12
Where Creator Communities Thrive — Patreon
Build a community, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a thriving business with Patreon. Get started today!
Very close - 13
MyBB - Free and Open Source Forum Software
The official homepage for MyBB, a free and open source PHP forum software.
Very close - 14
Discourse | One platform. Any community.
Discourse is the customizable, scalable community platform powering more than 22,000 communities that create knowledge through conversation.
Very close - 15
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
Very close - 16
online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks
Very close - 17 Kajabi kajabi.com
California-based SaaS technology company that develops a platform for creators and entrepreneurs to create, market and sell digital content
Very close - 18
Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents
Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.
Very close - 19
Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name.
Very close - 20
Circle | The complete community platform
Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Ghost’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Ghost uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ghost adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ghost’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Hosting
- Netlify header x-nf-request-id: 01M6R3D53G8QQMEA0FERGK6GZ0
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:cmail1.com include:spf.mandril…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sara.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=jiNntnl7jd5HxJ2W
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5Ate8bq8VfHBYziHQlc1d2tkv_SFwQJseqXkX6hg2D4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Cloudflare DNS 12/20
- Cloudflare · not on ghost.org 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ghost.org 9/20
- Zendesk · not on ghost.org 9/20
- Next.js · not on ghost.org 7/20
- React · not on ghost.org 7/20
- OpenAI · not on ghost.org 6/20
- HubSpot · not on ghost.org 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ghost.org 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on ghost.org 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Atlassian · not on ghost.org 5/20
- Vercel · not on ghost.org 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ghost.org 4/20