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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.
1 of the 60 sites closest to Ghost matches.
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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 and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
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