Apostrophe
CMS with a focus on extensible in-context editing tools.
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Still maintained? Yes: 97 commits in the last 90 days.
Also an alternative to Squarespace and Webflow.
At a glance
Apostrophe quick facts
- Health score
- 60/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 4,654
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Apostrophe
Full rankings: Squarespace alternatives, Webflow alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Build websites with in-context editing and headless flexibility using Node.js and MongoDB."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Apostrophe scores 60/100, #37 of 48 in Content Management Systems (CMS): 97 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 4,654 stars add 14.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
97 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 14.7 / 20
4.7k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 97
- Last 90 days
- 359
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #37 of 48 tools in Content Management Systems (CMS) by health , between WordPress (#36) and TYPO3 (#38) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Nodejs |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 4,654 |
| Open issues | 121 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | apostrophecms/apostrophe ↗ |
Apostrophe vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Apostrophe (Content Management Systems (CMS)), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Directus | 98 | 39k | BUSL-1.1 | yesterday |
| Automad | 92 | 958 | MIT | yesterday |
| Strapi | 89 | 73k | MIT | today |
| CraftCMS | 84 | 3.6k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| SilverStripe | 81 | 726 | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Apostrophe (this tool) | 60 | 4.7k | MIT | yesterday |
Apostrophe: common questions
What does Apostrophe replace?
Repoly lists Apostrophe as an open-source alternative to Squarespace and Webflow. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Apostrophe stands against the others.
Is Apostrophe still maintained?
Apostrophe had 97 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.