Top 15 StaticGen Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

StaticGen is a leaderboard of the top open-source static site generators. Promoting a static approach to building websites.

1. Hugo

Hugo What is Hugo?Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is a static site generator. This means that, unlike systems like WordPress, Ghost and Drupal, which run on your web server expensively building a page every time a visitor requests one, Hugo does the building when you create your......

2. Caddy

Caddy Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.The goal of Caddy is to streamline an authentic web development, deployment, and hosting workflow so that anyone can host their own web sites without requiring special technical understanding.......

3. Beambox Messenger

Beambox Messenger Simple. Content Storage. Real Time Messaging.Beambox is the easiest way to store and share content. Whether you want to save website links, share a folder of images with friends or build and host websites, Beambox is here to help you store, host and share content for all your personal and......

4. Tclssg

Tclssg A static site generator with template support written in Tcl. It is intended to make it easy to manage a small personal website with an optional blog. Tclssg uses Markdown for content formatting, Bootstrap for layout (with Bootstrap theme support) and Tcl code embedded in HTML for templating.Features* Markdown, Bootstrap......

5. Spoon

Spoon Spoon - A tiny and bashful static site generator in bash.Spoon is a 100-line bash script (that includes comments) that generates a static site for you. You can easily expand it however you want, to add extra functionality.Spoon follows the KISS philosophy - that is, don't add in the features......

6. Leaderboarded

Leaderboarded Create your own competition leaderboard whether for an event, a team or an online community.Add scores and players directly or source them from any platform including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, your own apps and Google spreadsheets......

7. Jekyll

Jekyll Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind......

8. Expansive

Expansive Expansive is a powerful web site generator that quickly creates compelling web sites with dynamic content. It uses powerful templating, scripting and tooling to provide a complete web site creation environment to accelerate your web application development.......

9. Hakyll

Hakyll Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.......

10. Phrozn

Phrozn Phrozn is static site generator written in PHP. Features |* Complete: Supports input files in Twig, Textile, Markdown, and LESS format.* Extensible: Supported text processors are not enough for you? Create your own - it is really simple!* Easy to use: Only couple of commands to learn and you'll be......

11. DocPad

DocPad DocPad is a dynamic static-site generator. That is a content management system that takes content from several sources, like files on your computer, and renders them into incredibly fast static output. DocPad's dynamic abilities allows you to pull in data from several sources, re-render when changes occur, and even add......

12. Bloopist

Bloopist Bloopist is a simplified blogging platform. Preview your posts as your create them. Publish to your custom domain. Drag and drop image uploads. Schedule and queue posts for publication.......

13. Octopress

Octopress Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of.......

14. Frog

Frog Frog is a static web site generator written in Racket.You write content in Markdown or Scribble. You generate files. To deploy, you push them to a GitHub Pages repo (or copy them to Amazon S3, or whatever).Posts get a variety of automatic blog features.You can also create non-post pages.The generated......

15. GitBook

GitBook GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:Static Website: This is the default format, it generates a complete interactive static website.PDF: A complete PDF book with exercise solutions at the end of the book. eBook: A complete eBook......