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Ghost is a powerful app built for new media creators to help them share, publish, and grow their businesses. The platform leverages the users' ability to build original content and comes with a slew of functional tools and features that let users build websites, publish content, send newsletters, and facilitate paid subscriptions to members.

Company Ghost Foundation
Year founded 2013
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Singapore
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38 Ghost Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 31, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
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James H.
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"Outstanding for what it is"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Beautiful editor - so much better than WordPress.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

It's strictly a blogging platform. Difficult to do any kind of page design outside the templates, at least in my experience. The updating process is also a bit funky, if you ask me.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

For me, they solved the problems of having to deal with WordPress add-ons, themes, etc. They are adding a lot of features but most don't directly help me.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 28, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"All-in-One Solution for Your Business Blogs"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is the perfect solution for businesses looking to create a professional blog. With easy setup and maintenance, great uptime, and lightning-fast speed, Ghost provides a seamless experience for its users. The editor is clean and easy to use, with lots of embeddable content blocks, while the admin panel provides a clean overview of scheduled, published, and drafted articles. With a range of free and paid themes available, Ghost is the perfect choice for any business looking to create a powerful, professional blog.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

The only thing I don't like about Ghost is you've to remember keyboard shortcuts for formatting your blog. There aren't many direct options to add bullets, highlights and other formatting stuff.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were looking for a CMS and we found Ghost to be a perfect fit for it. We've been using it since the day we started adding blogs on our site.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 20, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy to use with all the features we need"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Simple, clean interface, easy to use and set up, has pretty much all the features we need, and the API is well documented.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

It would be great if you could upload multiple feature images for different situations. If you can do this, we haven't been able to work out how to so far.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our website uses a headless approach to load content, so we wanted a blogging platform that would fit with that. Ghost did precisely that, allowing us to manage our blog posts on the platform and pull them onto our website using its API. The API is easy to integrate with and well documented and getting or website integrating with Ghost in this way took far less time than expected.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 17, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Effective solution for content management "
What do you like best about Ghost?

Very organized and easy to use. It helps filter contents to easily segregate important data to spam or just random data. Streaming is easy to customize, easy to understand you just have to watch the raw data streaming and clicking on to choose the information needed.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Sometimes it freezes but I understand that it is due to high volume of feeds coming in. You just have to refresh your page when that happens so it can go back to normal. Sometimes the stream stops due to some maintenance on the product but we are informed ahead of time.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes filtering important content easier and organized. Because it is so easy to use, the company can outsource the job to trained and highly skilled people to lessen the load of other personnel.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 01, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"I Like it but a bit difficult to learn "
What do you like best about Ghost?

What I like best about Ghost is the sophistication. It is easy to use once you get the hang of it, but there’s a lot of learning to do before. What I love about Ghost is the Pro subscription of it. It is very difficult to update your Ghost if you are on your own server, but if you’re a Pro subscriber, it is very easy.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I dislike that there aren’t really many templates out there or plugins. At least not that I know of.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to successfully build a website

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 20, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Grateful for Ghost"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I love the simplicity of the ghost platform, it's literally exactly what I need and want. Something simple, elegant, and the integrated email feature is f$#$%^* stellar. I'm grateful for ghost, the simplicity, yet depth of possibility (for example with zapier integration) feels quite refreshing. The platform appears to be unlimited in possibility.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I wish I could more easily resize images, but after learning some basic markdown that's no longer an issue.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I transferred the content off my squarespace site and moved my content from medium over to my new ghost site. This is huge for me.. as I was wanting to do this for several years, ghost provided the structure to allow me to do that in a way that felt resonant with what I was envisioning creating.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 05, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great tool for tech content"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is very fast - I have zero trouble navigating the CMS backoffice. It's SEO-ready and the editing interface works quite well overall.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There are some annoying UI behaviors here and there. Using the editing interface exclusively for markdown can be a pain.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a fantastic tool to maintain a technical blog.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Easy to use, visually compelling, safe with auto-save!"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is a great platform for either HTML savvy or technophobic users. It's hard to go wrong and with the auto-save and support of CRTL-Z you never feel like you're going to mess something up! The new update is better to visually understand the end result as you're going along (which saves time) and the highlight/change functions are great for easily updating headings or formatting.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There is a drawback with the most recent update, in that it feels like there's less easily accessible control. Whilst this is in some ways 'safe' and makes life easier in the first instance, when there's something you really want to customise (e.g. more than just two heading sizes, or varying/embedded imagery) it becomes a difficult task.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business benefits for ghost are a clean, safe and intuitive blog platform that can be hosted separately to our site, but via the same domain.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 15, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Good Open Source All in one Blogging Tool."
What do you like best about Ghost?

I like that it is open source and has both versions available where you can self-host or just sign up for their cloud service. Also, I like that it is an all in one solution for bloggers which comprises a publishing platform, a newsletter management system and many other essential integrations required for a modern blog.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There isn't much to dislike about this tool. But I still believe that if you want advanced customizations you need to get a bit technical which isn't the case for WordPress. Also, there are a lot of important integrations which are available but those can't be compared to the millions of plugins available for Wordpress.org users.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Very lightweight blogging platform which is available out of the box with essential integrations which are required to run a blog or a website these days. Backend is very quick and responsive too.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 07, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Ghost is the CMS you should go for"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is excellent if you're thinking of starting on the JAM stack. It's fast, reliable and the best part is the admin UX it offers.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

You cannot customize much if you're thinking of using Ghost as a full-fledged CMS to design APIs specific to your web content.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ghost is fast, easy to use, and offers a simple interface that solved the problem of generating a brochureware website for us.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jan 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Review on Ghost"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is a free publishing platform which has JavaScript programming language flexibility. It's easy to use, files could be downloaded and great for content writing. It's hassle free and user friendly for beginners.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

It does not provide plug ins which is handy with other publishing platforms (e.g., Wordpress). The version is still in beta phase which is actually because it's still new.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can perform content writing with Ghost. It helps creating new websites for my academic institutions since it has user friendly interface.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 29, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Best publishing platform for writers"
What do you like best about Ghost?

The overall system is fast and beautiful. It gets out of the way for those who love to write.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

how expensive it is and difficult it is to maintain on your own.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Publishing your own content on the best web technologies.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 29, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"A great alternative to Wordpress"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I've used ghost for a few months now after converting mine and a couple of my casual clients websites from wordpress into it. The biggest complaint I got with wordpress is that it was too complicated to use and there were too many options they were afraid of breaking something. They also didn't need all the customization options provided. I switched to ghost as it's a free lightweight alternate. It provides simple blogging and page features, basic contact forms, but unlimited plugin possibilities for more advanced users. The back-end interface is easy to use, sleek and perfect for casual users.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Although it's been around a few years, the adoption of ghost is still slow and steady, meaning things like plugins are still being introduced at a slow rate, making it hard to find specific plugins.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating great websites for clients who need basic blogging and portfolio style features. It's cheap and easy to host yourself using digital ocean and easy to set up.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 20, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Simple and Functional"
What do you like best about Ghost?

Ghost is a no nonsense markdown editor that's easy to use without interfering with the overall site.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

I don't understand why they don't use a rich text editor. Maybe I'm just not their niche target market, but the markdown seems antiquated and unnecessary.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

A blog software that is customizable using html and css.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 14, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Better than wordpress!"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I find this extremely easy to use. Yes, you need to know HTML, but once you do you're ready to hit the ground running!

What do you dislike about Ghost?

There are a few things that are not super easy to customize.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's easy to use for blogging. A better alternative than some others.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 12, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Simple yet powerful publishing platform to build static sites quickly"
What do you like best about Ghost?

- Ease of setup - Less clutter when compared to other CMSes, especially Wordpress - Open source - Easy to create static pages sites - Content authoring and managing is easy

What do you dislike about Ghost?

- Expensive hosting on ghost.org - Unavailability of websites templates - Adding new themes are not easy

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Developed simple, static page websites for some of our customers. Was easy to get started and roll up a site with blog features, was easy and saved lot of developer time to get started quickly. Also helped customers' go-t- market time.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 20, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"The worst platform if you're switching from Wordpress"
What do you like best about Ghost?

The editor is clean but again, not if you are writing blogs with a lot of content on a daily basis.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

Absolutely no plugins, no developers working on making it better. I've used Wordpress before and how much would I pay to just go back to it. The plugin support, the developer community is great. Ghost is the absolute worst. If you're a non coder like me, looking to make your blogs look better, say goodbye to your sleep!

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

Nothing. Literally nothing. I could not emphasize it enough how much I hate this platform.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 19, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Confusing"
What do you like best about Ghost?

I like that it's a free service and that it's fully customizable. However, you need to be able to code to customize the product.

What do you dislike about Ghost?

It's very complicated and the UI is not helpful. I would prefer some guidance and tutorials.

What problems is Ghost solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it for blogging but I haven't really found many benefits.