🆚 Apostrophe vs. Ghost
- 📈 Ghost is much more popular than Apostrophe.
- 🌎 Ghost is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Apostrophe is more popular in Lithuania.
Apostrophe
GhostType
About
ApostropheCMS is an open-source full-stack content management system built with 
Node.js and 
MongoDB that can be used both as a traditional and headless CMS.
It offers in-context editing, reusable "piece types" for structured content, REST APIs, custom schema field types, localization support, and modular extensions to extend functionality.
Ghost is an open-source content management system built on Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites.
It includes a block-based editor, built-in email newsletter delivery, and native memberships with paid subscriptions via 
Stripe, along with SEO features, themes, and role-based access.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1K+ members) $18+/month
(3 staff users, 1K+ members) $35+/month
(15 staff users, 10K+ members) $239+/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Subscriptions category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in France in the CMS category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in the United Kingdom in the CMS category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Clay🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.