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Content Management

Systems for authoring, structuring, and delivering content to any front end.

14 products, 7 Projects: 5 open source, 2 source-available, 0 unresolved-license

Notion

Notion

Documents, databases, and project tracking in one workspace

CompanyNotion Labs
Since2016
PricingFreemium

Notion's insight was that a document and a database can be the same object. A page can be prose, a table, a board, or all three, and the same records can be viewed differently by different teams without duplication.

DocuSign

DocuSign

Electronic signature and agreement workflow

CompanyDocusign
Since2003
PricingPaid

DocuSign is the name that makes a signature request unremarkable to the person receiving it, which is most of the value. Recipients already know what the email is and how to complete it.

Shopify

Shopify

Hosted commerce covering storefront, checkout, and payments

CompanyShopify
Since2006
PricingPaid

Shopify's real product is checkout. Conversion on a Shopify checkout is high enough, and the payment, tax, and fraud handling behind it complete enough, that most merchants should think very hard before replacing it.

Crowdin

Crowdin

Localisation management for software and content

CompanyCrowdin
Since2009
PricingFreemium

Crowdin coordinates the people, files, and machine translation involved in shipping a product in more than one language. Source strings sync from a repository, translators work in the web editor, and translated files come back on merge.

Buffer

Buffer

Social media scheduling with a deliberately small surface

CompanyBuffer
Since2010
PricingFreemium

Buffer schedules posts and reports on them, and has resisted becoming a suite for over a decade. That restraint is why it stays usable for a one person marketing function.

Contentful

Contentful

Headless content management delivered over APIs

CompanyContentful
Since2013
PricingFreemium

Contentful separated content from presentation properly and early. Editors work with structured content models, and any number of front ends consume the same entries through an API.

Confluence

Confluence

Enterprise wiki wired into Atlassian's tooling

CompanyAtlassian
Since2004
PricingFreemium

Confluence is where large organisations put documentation that has to outlive the people who wrote it. Spaces, permissions, page trees, and approval workflows are built for scale and governance rather than for speed.

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Postiz

PostizOpen

Schedule and analyse posts across 30+ social networks

Stars35.3K
Commit8h ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Postiz is a self-hostable scheduler for teams that publish to many networks and do not want to pay per seat for the privilege. It covers planning, drafting, approval, and publishing, with AI assistance for turning one post into per-network variants.

Alternative tobuffer
Outline

Outline

Team knowledge base that stays fast as it grows

Stars34.2K
Commit21h ago
LicenseBSL-1.1

Outline is a documentation workspace built around search and structure rather than infinite nesting. Collections, a strong editor, and genuinely fast full text search make it usable at the size where most wikis become write-only.

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Medusa

MedusaOpen

Commerce building blocks rather than a fixed storefront

Stars32.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseMIT

Medusa is a set of commerce modules - cart, orders, pricing, inventory, fulfilment - exposed as APIs you compose, rather than a themed storefront you customise around the edges.

Alternative toshopify
Directus

Directus

A content platform that wraps your existing SQL database

Stars30.8K
Commit1d ago
LicenseBSL-1.1

Directus points at a SQL database you already have and generates an admin interface and an API over it, without imposing its own schema. Existing tables keep their names, types, and constraints.

Alternative tocontentfulairtable
Docmost

DocmostOpen

Collaborative wiki with real-time editing and diagrams

Stars15.4K
Commit2d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Docmost is a documentation workspace with real-time collaborative editing, nested spaces, and diagram support built in rather than embedded from elsewhere.

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Documenso

DocumensoOpen

Document signing you can host and audit yourself

Stars12.5K
Commit3d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0

Documenso handles electronic signature collection with the signing certificate, audit trail, and field placement you expect, while keeping the documents on infrastructure you control.

Alternative todocusign
Tolgee

TolgeeOpen

Localisation platform with in-context translation editing

Stars4,085
Commit13h ago
LicenseApache-2.0

Tolgee's distinguishing feature is that translators work in the running application. Alt-click a string in the app and the editor opens over it, with surrounding context visible, which removes most of the ambiguity that produces bad translations from a spreadsheet.

Alternative tocrowdin