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24 alternatives to Bolt CM

Sophisticated, lightweight and simple CMS written in PHP

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bolt CM launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   bolt.new▲1,230

   Build and scale high-performing websites & apps using your words. Join millions and start building today.

   2024 · bolt.new · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Barley CMS▲107

   Simple inline editing, HTML for templates, Dropbox syncing

   2014 · getbarley.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Forestry▲187

   A lightweight CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites

   2016 · tina.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   cmd.to▲97

   A command line interface for the web

   2015 · cmd.to · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Webflow CMS▲642

   Build professional dynamic websites without any code

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C▲261

   I've built many interpreters over the years, and Bolt represents my attempt at building the scripting language I always wanted. This is the first public release, 0.1.0! I've felt like most embedded languages have been moving towards safety and typing over years, with things like Python type hints, the explosive popularity of typescript, and even typing in Luau, which powers one of the largest scripted evironments in the world. Bolt attempts to harness this directly in the lagnauge rather than as a preprocessing step, and reap benefits in terms of both safety and performance. I intend to be…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Wisp CMS▲410

   Delightful way to create + manage blogs on existing websites

   2024 · wisp.blog · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Bolt CMS▲4

   A CMS for designers. developers. content editors.

   2020 · boltcms.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Pagekit 1.0▲137

   A modular and lightweight open source CMS

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    JustCMS▲255

    AI-powered, affordable, headless cms

    2025 · slotvipjpterus.co · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Craft▲104

    A CMS like no other.

    2014 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Netlify CMS▲236

    An open-source CMS for your Git workflow

    2017 · harta-europei.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Teh Playground▲87

    Rapid online PHP prototyping

    2016 · beta.tehplayground.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Tiny Docs▲121

    Simple place to write

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    LightCMS▲98

    Build Beautiful Websites

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    ZenPen▲125

    The minimal writing tool of web

    2014 · zenpen.io · its alternatives →

17. 17
    October CMS▲82

    The Platform that gets back to basics.

    2014 · octobercms.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Fraym▲67

    A new open-source CMS

    2014 · fraymm.wordpress.com · its alternatives →

19. 19CS
    CMS Server written in Go (alpha)▲61

    2013 · bytengine.com · its alternatives →

20. 20IM
    I made CMS less than 15 kilobytes, flat file▲88

    https://github.com/turboblack/HamsterCMS http://web1.0hosting.net/ - free hosting based on this CMS

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    PageKit▲88

    A modern CMS to create and share.

    2014 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Stack▲120

    A beautiful and smart key-value based writing app

    2017 · stack-writer.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Urubu▲70

    A micro CMS for static websites

    2016 · urubu.jandecaluwe.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Tapir.io▲63

    A simple CMS powering your small client sites.

    2014 · tapir.io · its alternatives →

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