🆚 Ghost vs. MemberPress
- 📈 MemberPress is noticeably more popular than Ghost.
- 🌎 MemberPress is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Ghost is more popular in Germany, India, and Sweden.
Ghost
MemberPressType
About
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.
MemberPress is a commercial 
WordPress plugin for paywalls, memberships, subscriptions, and learning management that lets site owners control access and monetize content on their WordPress sites.
It supports unlimited membership levels with fine-grained content restriction rules, automated recurring billing through Stripe, 
PayPal and other gateways, built-in LMS course creation with scheduling, coupon codes and promotions, member self-service portals, and community forums and directories.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1K+ members)$18+/month
(3 staff users, 1K+ members)$35+/month
(15 staff users, 10K+ members)$239+/month
(Essential LMS Features, Stripe)$199.50/year
(Community Forums, Advanced LMS, PayPal, Square)$349.50/year
(API, Zapier, Authorize.net)$499.50/year
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.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in India in the Subscriptions category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Subscriptions category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the LMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the LMS category.
- 🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the LMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the LMS category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the LMS 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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Formidable Forms🗃️ 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 3,531,905 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.