Ghost
VerifiedOpen-source platform for publishing, email newsletters, and paid membership subscriptions.
See all screenshots - Deployment Cloud Based, On Premises
- Starting price $18
- Free trial Available
- Best for Freelancers, Startups, SMEs
What is Ghost?
Ghost is an open-source content management platform focused on publishing, email newsletters, and paid membership subscriptions rather than general-purpose website building. It is developed by the Ghost Foundation, a non-profit organization registered in Singapore that has no outside investors and reinvests all revenue into the product. The software can be self-hosted for free or run on Ghost(Pro), the Foundation's official managed hosting service.
Ghost(Pro) plans start at 18 dollars per month billed yearly and add features such as custom themes, paid subscriptions and tips through Stripe, multiple newsletters, and priority support at higher tiers. Ghost includes a built-in editor, native analytics, native ActivityPub syndication, and thousands of third-party integrations available through its directory.
Key Features of Ghost
Ghost lists 10 documented features, including Native newsletter creation and email delivery, Built-in paid membership and subscription management with Stripe and Professional rich-content editor with cards for galleries, video, audio, and embeds. The list below covers what the product does rather than how it is marketed.
- Native newsletter creation and email delivery
- Built-in paid membership and subscription management with Stripe
- Professional rich-content editor with cards for galleries, video, audio, and embeds
- Native analytics dashboard for posts, newsletters, and growth
- Custom themes and a theme marketplace
- Promotional offers, discounts, and tiered membership pricing
- Open-source, self-hostable codebase
- Native Social Web (ActivityPub) syndication (Ghost 6.0)
- Content API and Admin API for headless use
- 8,000+ third-party integrations, including Zapier and native apps
Ghost Pricing
Ghost lists 3 plans, from $18 to $199.
Starter
$18
per month
USD per month billed yearly for solo blogs and newsletters, with a free custom domain and 1,000 members.
Publisher
$29
per month
USD per month billed yearly for custom publications, with 3 staff users, custom themes and paid subscriptions.
Business
$199
per month
USD per month billed yearly for teams scaling up, with 15 staff users, priority support and higher usage limits.
Ghost Specifications
Ghost is available on web app. It offers an API, has a free trial and has a free plan.
- Deployment
- Cloud Based
- On Premises
- Billing cycle
- Yearly
- Desktop
- Web App
- Languages
- English
- Built for
- Freelancers
- Startups
- SMEs
- Support
- Tickets
- Integrations
- Stripe, Zapier, Slack, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom Analytics, Discord, and 8,000+ integrations via the Ghost integrations directory
- Public API
- Yes
- Free trial
- Yes
- Free plan
- Yes
- Runs in browser
- Yes
- Customisable
- Yes
- Website
- ghost.org
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