Ghost vs. Jekyll

Ghost

9 Reviews and Ratings

Jekyll

9 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Ghost	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Ghost is a free blogging platform supported by a UK-based non-profit, the Ghost Foundation.	N/A
Jekyll	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.	N/A

Pricing

Ghost

Jekyll

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Ghost	Jekyll
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Ghost	Jekyll
Top Pros	Pro Hard drives Pro Back up	Pro Ability to check Pro Support documentation Pro Entire site
Top Cons	Minus New updates Minus Integrate well	Minus Set up Minus Server side Minus Annoying at times

Best Alternatives
	Ghost	Jekyll
Small Businesses	Medium Score 9.5 out of 10	Medium Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Medium Score 9.5 out of 10	Medium Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises	Quora Blogs Score 8.4 out of 10	Quora Blogs Score 8.4 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Ghost	Jekyll
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.7 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Ghost	Jekyll
Likelihood to Recommend	Ghost Foundation It is well suited for distributed writing and publishing with a subscription component Incentivized MB Mike Blumenthal Co-founder Read full review	Open Source Jekyll is great for people who aren't intimidated by editing HTML, CSS, and Markdown files, people who are on a shoestring budget, and people who want a blazing fast website. Jekyll may not be the best option for people who aren't interested in editing their websites in a text file and would rather have a WordPress-esque back-end from the beginning. Incentivized Nathan Arthur Programmer Read full review
Pros	Ghost Foundation 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	Open Source Content stored in Git with the website code Free to use Easy to deploy to cheap/free hosting solutions Produces super fast static websites Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Ghost Foundation 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	Open Source Complicated for non-technical users Can be difficult to enter in new content Implementing dynamic components can be challenging Incentivized Kyle Taylor Senior Drupal Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Ghost Foundation 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	Open Source Jekyll is integrated into GitHub Pages, which made it an easy choice. Using Jekyll was also easier as there's not really a server or a database to configure and you can just get things started from day one. Running and verifying content changes locally for developers is super efficient as Jekyll runs locally, too. Incentivized Eric Mann Tekton Read full review
Return on Investment	Ghost Foundation 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	Open Source Jekyll has kept our costs low, very low, on all the projects I've used on it. Think $10 a year low. Incentivized Nathan Arthur Programmer Read full review
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