Compose.ly vs. Ghost

Compose.ly

Compose.ly

0 Reviews and Ratings

Ghost

Ghost

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Compose.ly	Score 0.0 out of 10	N/A	Compose.ly is a content marketplace, from the company of the same name headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Compose.ly focuses on storytelling for business, and states that every business has a story to tell. The problem is that many businesses struggle to share theirs in an authentic way. So Compose.ly helps businesses, big and small, tell their stories to the world. They offer writers who they state know how to artfully share a business’s unique story in a way which motivates audiences…	N/A
Ghost	Score 6.6 out of 10	N/A	Ghost is a CMS for new-media creators to publish, share, and grow a business around their content. Available open source and free (e.g. for blogging), it can also come with tools for business' content marketing.	$0

Pricing

Compose.ly

Ghost

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Ghost (community): $0
Starter: $11
per month 1 staff user, 500 members
Creator: $31
per month 2 staff users, 1000 members
Team: $63
per month 5 staff users, 1000 members
Business: $249
per month unlimited staff users, 10,000 members

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Compose.ly	Ghost
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

The Content Writer Marketplace is pay-per-project.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Compose.ly	Ghost
Considered Both Products	Compose.ly No answer on this topic	Ghost MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Chose Ghost It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities. Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Compose.ly	Ghost
Small Businesses	Contently Score 9.9 out of 10	ManageWP Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Contently Score 9.9 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	Contently Score 9.9 out of 10	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Compose.ly	Ghost
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Compose.ly	Ghost
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Creating a newsletter for web and email simultaneously Allowing for paid subscriptions Allowing content to be segmented by subscription type Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	They wysiwig editor is missing critical functions like superscript and subscript The markdown complement has those features but it doesn’t integrate well with the wysiwig editor Footnoting is hard to do Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	It is simpler, headless, faster than WordPress. The core functionality is focused on subscription membership which is a bloated add on for WordPress. The simplicity has a cost as WordPress, while complicated, offers more expansion opportunities. Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Our business is totally built around this product It has allowed us to easily and quickly scale our free and (soon) our paywalled content Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review
ScreenShots		Ghost Screenshots