Headless CMS platforms and visual website builders for structured content and marketing sites.
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Builder.ioCMS & Website BuildersBuilder.io is a hosted visual editor and headless CMS that lets teams build pages from their own components. The MIT-licensed repository holds the SDKs for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Qwik, Angular and React Native, plus examples and plugins.Open sourceWeb platformFreemium
CourseLitTutorials & CoursesAGPL-licensed course platform with a page builder, quizzes, SCORM, certificates, drip content, Stripe and Razorpay payments, communities and email. Run it yourself with Docker Compose and MongoDB or use courselit.app.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
DirectusCMS & Website BuildersDirectus wraps any SQL database with REST and GraphQL APIs, a visual Studio and an MCP server, self-hosted or on Directus Cloud.CommercialSelf-hostedFreemium
FramerCMS & Website BuildersFramer is a website builder combining freeform visual design with a built-in CMS, animations and one-click publishing, plus the option to extend pages with custom React code components.CommercialSoftwareFreemium
Frappe BuilderCMS & Website BuildersOpen-source visual website builder for the Frappe Framework: a Figma-like canvas, responsive views, components, pages filled from your Frappe database, the Bob AI assistant and one-click publishing to plain HTML. Self-host or use Frappe Cloud.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
FrontmanAI Coding Assistants & Agent ToolingFrontman adds an AI agent beside a live preview of your app: click an element, describe the change, and it edits the source files or WordPress content. Bring your own model; hosted plan or self-hosted Phoenix server.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
GhostCMS & Website BuildersGhost is an open source publishing platform for building a website, sending email newsletters and selling paid memberships, self-hosted or on Ghost(Pro).Open sourceSelf-hosted
GumroadPayments & FintechGumroad lets creators sell digital products, memberships and courses with built-in checkout, affiliates, payouts and a v2 API. The web application source is MIT licensed; selling runs on gumroad.com, not on a documented self-host path.Open sourceWeb platformPaid
LearnHouseTutorials & CoursesLearnHouse is an AGPL-3.0 learning platform with a block course editor, assignments, Judge0 code exercises, boards and AI features. Self-host it with a Docker-based CLI or use LearnHouse Cloud; SSO, SCORM, LTI and payments need Enterprise.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
LinkStackCMS & Website BuildersAGPL-licensed, self-hosted PHP and Laravel app for a Linktree-style profile page, with multi-user registration, themes, analytics, a one-click updater, a Docker image and optional hosted plans.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
LinkyCMS & Website BuildersLinky is an MIT-licensed link-in-bio builder. Claim a lin.ky handle, drag in link, media, form and live blocks from Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and GitHub, pick one of 22 templates, or self-host it on Postgres and Cloudflare Workers.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
LittleLinkCMS & Website BuildersLittleLink is an MIT-licensed, do-it-yourself Linktree alternative: one static HTML page with more than 100 branded buttons, auto, light and dark themes and one-click deploys to Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify and more.Open sourceSelf-hosted
NonographCMS & Website BuildersNonograph is a public-domain Telegraph alternative written in Rust. Anyone can publish a formatted page without an account; posts are stored as flat Markdown files, and the Docker image creates its own Tor onion address.Open sourceSelf-hosted
NordcraftCMS & Website BuildersNordcraft is a visual web builder with a canvas editor, components, formulas, SSR, branches, an AI assistant and an MCP server. The runtime and backend are Apache-2.0; hosting is free, Pro from $9 per project.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
Payload CMSCMS & Website BuildersOpen-source, code-first CMS and application framework for Next.js and TypeScript. One config generates an admin panel, REST and GraphQL APIs, auth and access control on MongoDB, Postgres or SQLite.Open sourceSelf-hosted
Payload CommentsCMS & Website BuildersPayload Comments (@navanem/payload-comments) adds anonymous comments, emoji reactions, optional pre-publish moderation and up to three levels of replies to Payload CMS 3, with a React component, REST endpoints and an admin statistics view.Open sourceSelf-hosted
Payload ContactCMS & Website BuildersMIT-licensed TypeScript plugin for Payload 3.x that adds a contact form component, a validated submit endpoint with honeypot and per-IP rate limit, a message inbox with statuses, a runtime settings global and optional SMTP notifications.Open sourceSelf-hosted
PubliiCMS & Website BuildersPublii is a free GPL-3.0 desktop CMS for Windows, macOS and Linux that generates static HTML sites with block, WYSIWYG and Markdown editors and uploads them to FTP, SFTP, S3, Netlify or GitHub Pages.Open sourceSoftware
StrapiCMS & Website BuildersStrapi is an MIT-licensed headless CMS in JavaScript and TypeScript with a visual Content-Type Builder, generated REST and GraphQL APIs, i18n, roles and plugins, self-hosted on Node.js or on Strapi Cloud, with paid Growth and Enterprise features.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
TolgeeCMS & Website BuildersTolgee is a web-based translation management platform for software teams. Developers sync strings through SDKs, a CLI or the REST API, translators work in context, and teams use Tolgee Cloud or self-host the Docker image.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
WebflowCMS & Website BuildersWebflow is a hosted website platform with a visual builder, CMS, hosting, SEO tools and REST APIs, aimed at marketing, design and engineering teams.CommercialSoftwareFreemium
WebstudioCMS & Website BuildersWebstudio is an AGPL-licensed visual builder for websites from Webstudio, Inc. It exposes every CSS property, binds data from any HTTP or GraphQL API, lets AI agents edit projects through MCP, and publishes to Cloudflare or exports sites for self-hosting.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemium
WordPressCMS & Website BuildersWordPress is the free, GPL-licensed content management system from wordpress.org that you install on your own PHP and MySQL or MariaDB host. Not to be confused with WordPress.com, the managed hosting service built on the same software.Open sourceSelf-hosted
YcodeCMS & Website BuildersYcode is an MIT-licensed visual website builder with a CMS, forms, localization, an AI agent, an MCP server and a REST API. Self-host it on Vercel and Supabase or use the managed Ycode Cloud plans.Open sourceSelf-hostedFreemiumExplore collections with tools relevant to this category, grouped by deployment, source model or workload.
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Content management systems and website builders let teams model, edit and publish content without hand-coding every page. The category covers headless systems that expose content through REST or GraphQL APIs to any frontend, visual builders that bundle design, hosting and a CMS, publishing platforms with newsletters and memberships, and plugins that extend a CMS with comments or forms. Web frameworks provide the rendering layer, while these tools own the content and the editing experience.
What belongs in this category: A product fits here when editors use it to create and manage website content or structured content models, whether it renders pages itself or delivers content through an API to a separate frontend.
iThub lists 24 tools in CMS & Website Builders. 21 of 24 are open source, 19 of 24 can be self-hosted, 23 of 24 have a free, freemium or open-source pricing model and 17 of 24 offer an API.
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