Topic
Open-source startups tagged #cms
10 open-source startups in this directory carry the GitHub topic #cms. 9 pushed code within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22, 0 have been quiet for 31–120 days, 1 has not pushed in over 120 days. Topics are set by each repository’s own maintainers, so this is what those projects chose to call themselves rather than a category we assigned.
9 of 10 pushed within 30 days of the snapshot of 2026-09-22. How we measure it →
The list
All 10, most-starred first.
The last column is the most recent push GitHub reported to us on 2026-09-22. It counts a push to any branch, by a person or a bot — it is not a claim that anyone is maintaining the project, and a quiet repository may be a finished one.
| Project | What it does | Stars | Ship status | Last verified push |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| strapi/strapi | 🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first. | 73.2K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| TryGhost/Ghost | Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters. | 55.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| halo-dev/halo | Halo 是一款强大易用的开源建站工具，从个人博客、知识库，到企业官网、在线商城，Halo 都能助您轻松实现，一站式满足您的多样化建站需求。 | 39.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| directus/directus | The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more. | 37.9K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| decaporg/decap-cms | A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators | 19.4K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| getgrav/grav | Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony | 15.7K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Qloapps/QloApps | QloApps is a Free and Open-source hotel management and reservation system to take a hotel business online. QloApps offers a Property Management System (PMS), a Booking Engine, and an attractive Hotel Website. Elevate hotel operations with QloApps to streamline processes and provide an enhanced experience for both hoteliers and guests. | 14.4K | Still shipping | Sep 18, 2026 |
| tinacms/tinacms | TinaCMS is the leading open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing. Your content is stored in your own GitHub repo 🦙 ❤️ | 13.8K | Still shipping | Sep 22, 2026 |
| octobercms/october | Self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. | 11.1K | Still shipping | Sep 21, 2026 |
| getgridea/gridea | ✍️ A static blog writing client (一个静态博客写作客户端) | 10.2K | Gone silent | Jul 26, 2023 |
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The 8 largest other topics in the directory, then the other ways to slice it. Every count is as of the snapshot of 2026-09-22.
Snapshot of 2026-09-22 · 721 repos in the directory · every number on this page is measured against that date, not against today. What this measurement cannot tell you →