What people say about Ghost

It has now been one year since I quit my full-time job to go all in on Tangle. Today, we have [75,000] paying subscribers. That’s roughly [$4M] in gross yearly revenue ... it’s the best paying job I’ve ever had.

Ghost just does things right. It builds tools and features I need, it's priced fairly and the concierge service is fantastic. I wouldn't use anything else.

Moving Drowned in Sound to the Ghost platform has been such a great decision. After most of our 25 years spent on a custom made CMS and trying various publishing and newsletter services (including ones we left for ethical reasons), this is the first place that has felt like being where of the future of the internet is headed.

We power 15 communities with Ghost, it's proven to be the best membership platform on the planet.

Moving Webworm to Ghost has been the best decision I made all year. Not only for me, but for my readers. I had a 75-year old guy write in telling me how smooth it all was, which said it all.

We've been using Ghost for years now and I can't imagine using a different publishing platform. It's effortless to use and manage our company blog.

As a diplomat and a politician I defend democracy and I fight for freedom from tyranny. Ghost was therefore the natural choice of publishing platform for my work.

It has been one year since we moved from Substack to Ghost and I wish I had done it sooner. I cannot recommend Ghost enough to people who are considering a switch or site development. Easily the best business decision I've made for my small independent media outlet.

I love everything about Ghost. It’s minimalist but powerful. Since migrating, our publishing has become faster, simpler, and more effective. It’s taken away the headache of managing multiple channels and freed us to focus on delivering valuable insights on global politics while growing The Geopolitical Desk.

Choosing Ghost means peace of mind. It just works and I can be sure they will never screw me over to please greedy investors.

The transition to Ghost has been amazing. It’s given me complete creative control, faster publishing, and a seamless way to connect our stories, podcasts, and newsletters all in one place. It finally feels like our platform reflects the spirit of Causeartist.

After celebrating twenty years as an independent gaming and gaming culture site, we knew we needed a new platform to lay the groundwork for our next twenty years. Ghost is shaping up to be one of our best decisions for the site in years.

Ghost gives us total creative freedom without sacrificing speed or SEO. It’s the perfect platform for publishers who care about both performance and storytelling.

Adopting Ghost as our community and publishing platform has been a huge upgrade. For years we maintained a built-in-house publishing platform, which took our time away from producing new content for our community. We've now grown to 3000+ subscribers and counting!

Switching to Ghost gave us the freedom to focus entirely on our artists and audience. We cut the noise, kept our independence, and built a space that feels personal, fast, and global at the same time. It’s not just a platform – it’s the backbone of how Munchies Art Club connects art lovers, artists and art collectors worldwide.

As volunteer journalists in Cork, Ireland, Ghost empowers us to run a professional news operation on a shoestring. The members feature helps fund our work while keeping emergency alerts free. We've gone from Wordpress to Cork's trusted source for breaking safety news - all powered by Ghost.

It just works. I've been self-hosting Ghost for a while now, but life has got busy, and this website is so important to me that I just don't want to deal with the hassle of self-hosting it. I just want it to be up and work, and the Ghost platform works.

After trying nearly every CMS out there (as well as building our own), Ghost is hands down the best we've used in our 25+ years - and when you include it's open source with has an incredible community, it's a no brainer.

Our newsletter has been our number one lead generator for years. Moving to Ghost not only offered us the best platform for a newsletter-driven business but also a robust website that presents our company in the best way possible! Get the most with Ghost!

Moving to Ghost has allowed me to successfully engage so many people through my clean website and great newsletter features! It's a great platform and I love it - and you should use it too.

I worked at Pitchfork for 12 years writing about punk records in the margins of my news job. see/saw was the impossible dream—the opportunity to engage entirely with punk music. Through Ghost, I'm growing an income as a punk writer and building a new publication of my own. I still can't believe it.

We live in a difficult time where American democracy is under attack. Ghost provides an open platform, free from billionaires, algorithms, and questionable ownership, where we can share stories from our adversely impacted neighbors and those fighting for our rights.

Switching to Ghost made publishing feel effortless. No plugins, no maintenance, no distractions – just a clean, fast platform that lets me focus on writing. It’s the first blogging tool I’ve actually enjoyed using.

Ghost continues to be the easiest way to set up a custom publication on the open web. The authorship experience remains sleek yet flexible, and it's easy to control what your audience sees and experiences. I don't have to worry that my platform is spamming my audience because I haven't reviewed my settings with a fine-toothed comb.

Ghost has taken away all the hard work from HOW I run my site, and allowed me to focus on WHAT content I want to share. I 100% recommend Ghost to anyone trying build a newsletter brand.

Ghost is my favorite platform for publishing my work. It's where everything starts. It's great, it's open source, it's built by awesome people.

I needed a platform that prioritized clean design, speed, and simplicity. Ghost delivered on all of that and more. Our site loads faster, looks better on mobile, and feels more professional all around. If you're running a media brand and want a platform that's built for content creators, Ghost is the way to go.

Ghost has provided so much in the way of audience, UI, website support that I can truly focus on making my content great and top-quality!

With a solid and constant evolution journey, my choice of leaving WordPress for Ghost a few years ago has been validated.

Ghost lets me speak to people without censorship or billionaire algorithms deciding who hears it. With the fediverse, our movement can finally connect directly — across borders, outside corporate control. That’s the future.

I'm thrilled to be on a nonprofit that lives its values, and treats me like a person instead of a product. And so many more of my readers are glad to support my work now that I'm here-- it's a wonderful platform for publishing, and win-win all around.

I'm thrilled to be on a platform that lives its values, and that treats me like a person, not a product. And my readers are happier to support my work now that I'm here, too-- and since the interface is wonderful, it's win-win-win all around! I've been recommending Ghost everywhere I go.

Seamless, clean, and effective. Ghost brings back the joy of publishing with full control over my work.

Using Ghost has been a game-changer for The Art Newsletter. Its clean interface and publishing tools make collaboration seamless, allowing our international team of college students to easily share drafts, edit together, and publish polished issues every week.

Ghost lets you focus on what matters: content. That should say it all.

Ghost cut our publishing time in half and made our content actually readable. Before, we fought with WordPress plugins and slow load times. Our readers kept bouncing because pages took forever to load. Now our articles load fast, look clean, and we can focus on writing instead of wrestling with technology. Our email subscribers doubled in six months because Ghost's built-in newsletter tools actually work. Plus, we went from spending hours on site maintenance to basically zero downtime. The membership features let us build a real business around our content. Simple setup, reliable income, happy readers.

Moving to Ghost has been the best thing I've ever done for my solo writing. No more trying to act as a web developer and writer at the same time.

Independent media is the future, and the only place media can be truly independent is Ghost. I value knowing that my life's work does not depend on algorithms or corporations. Ghost is open-source, nonprofit, and flexible—and frankly, the best-looking platform you'll find.

The ability to design custom themes for my Ghost site allows me to create an online presence that reflects the full breadth of my creative practice. This is on top of the incredible newsletter and networking capabilities. It's the best option for working creatives and it's not even close.

I love Ghost! I was looking for the most ethical platform to build my subscription and blog on and found that Ghost is easy to use, it looks great and integrates everything I need!

The switch to Ghost was such a smooth process and their folks were super helpful with any questions I had. The latest update has made the Ghost dashboard even more comprehensive too.

Ghost is the perfect environment for writers to create the kind of work that they can feel proud of. Have been on the Ghost platform for about seven years and cannot recommend it enough.

Moving my newsletter to Ghost led to an explosion of growth (10x), and also felt like untying my hands as a publisher. Suddenly, I could do just about everything I wanted to make the newsletter uniquely mine. Ghost's continued investment in supporting the Fediverse and independent publishers also just feels so good to be a part of.

I wanted to build a deeper relationship with my audience than just relying on Google for traffic. Ghost has given me the tools to carve out my own slice of the web in an open, ethical way, and gets better all the time.

Ghost gave me the freedom to focus on creativity instead of wrestling with tech. Its intuitive toolset made publishing effortless and helped me turn my ideas into a sustainable income stream.

Super fast templates, very intuitive platform. Best choice to run a news outlet.

I left the newspaper business after 43 years to hang out my own shingle. Before making the leap, I did a lot of research. I feel fortunate — and I somehow look smart — to have landed on Ghost. Its ease of use have unburdened me to grow with my subscribers. Love the clean look.

Without Ghost, I'd still be stuck sharing my blog articles to Facebook. But with Ghost, I no longer feel confined to the social media machine. It's given me the ability to grow without much effort. Even with long hiatuses and a busy life, my subscriber count for my newsletter has grown almost 500% in three years. Support is fantastic, they are very kind and easy to understand, especially for a non-techy person like me. Ghost has taken the hassle out of running a business and a website, and given me the freedom to devote my time to other ventures.

Ghost is a transformative new experience that allowed us to focus on what we do best, writing, while taking care of the reader experience!

Ghost has been a game-changer for us because it puts creators back in control. No ads, no algorithms dictating reach. What I appreciate most about Ghost is how it removes the noise. Instead of wrestling with bloated tools, I spend my time actually creating and publishing. The workflow is frictionless, the site performance is excellent, and the sense of ownership is complete. It’s the kind of product that quietly multiplies your output without ever getting in the way.

Running The Second Act Letter on Ghost has been a game-changer. It gives us a clean, distraction-free platform built for publishing, with the flexibility to grow as our audience grows. From managing subscribers to delivering content seamlessly, Ghost has helped us focus less on tech headaches and more on what matters—writing and connecting with readers.

Ghost's all-in-one features have been a big problem solver for me, a finance creator that just wants to write and click publish. If you want a seamless way to go, use Ghost!

I love Ghost. A clean, straightforward backend. Open source, but actually user-friendly with managed hosting at a good price. Plenty of options for integrations, but none I really *need* because it just works out of the box. And it meaningfully lets me control my own blog--I could move to self-hosting without missing a beat, if I wanted to, but Ghost Pro is worth it.

No more messing with plugins to get half-decent site speeds and SEO, Ghost just does it all for you so you can focus on what's important: content.

Ghost has been exactly the platform I sought: independent, open source, flexible, beholden to no shareholders or VCs, and straightforward to use. And now part of the Fediverse. Excited to be part of its growth.

We run a global techno radio show and release exclusive tracks, mixes, and stories every week. Ghost powers our publishing with speed, clean design, and complete control, making it easy to share new episodes, releases, and behind-the-scenes updates with our audience, all in one place.

We originally ran our airfare alerts on WordPress, but after looking into Ghost, it quickly became clear it was the perfect fit for what we needed. Instead of juggling custom integrations and a long list of backend tasks just to manage our emails, Ghost offered a seamless, all-in-one solution. After giving it a test run, making the switch was a no-brainer—and we haven’t looked back since.

I love the level of control Ghost gives you over your online presence and newsletter, without requiring Mad Tech Skills. The balance is just right.

Ghost gives us the freedom to publish fast, stay lightweight, and keep full control of our content — exactly what an adventure platform needs

I switched to Ghost and spent more time writing than tinkering with plugins and buggy themes. Best decision ever. Now I am at +70 articles in and it's been a game changer for my career.

Ghost has been the best move I've made for my newsletter. It's easy to use, the support is great, and it looks fantastic. And best of all its affordable.

With Ghost, all I need to worry about is creating content. It gives me performance insights, growth tools, and a seamless experience. What better place to build than where everything is ready for you?

Nothing beats Ghost for running a blog. Period. It’s the cleanest, smartest platform ever built and I say that as someone born before the internet existed, with Boomer parents and enough digital battle scars to write a trilogy. Trust me: I’ve seen every blogging platform in the wild, and Ghost is the only one that doesn’t make you question your life choices.

I have been growing my social media following, but not enjoying the lack of control. Ghost is giving me back that control and helping me create a true, connected and authentic community.

Before Ghost we wrestled with slow pages and a clunky editor. After migrating our site and newsletters to Ghost, editorial workflow became faster, pages load quicker, and our monthly subscribers are increasing. Ghost gave us a reliable platform so we could focus on content and audience growth.

I've been running Ghost since before 1.0, first on self-hosted servers and later via Ghost Pro, and all I can say is that I really love this platform. The powerful yet simple interface is exactly what I want. The focus on an excellent writing experience is incredible. The upgrades have been an absolute breeze. Keep up the great work team.

Ghost makes it effortless to deliver exclusive content to registered members while keeping my writing safe(r) from the endless onslaught of web and AI scrapers. The built-in newsletter tools seal the deal; everything I need to publish, protect, and connect with my readers lives in one elegant platform.

With Ghost, we went from juggling plugins and updates to a clean, lightning-fast publishing experience. It’s made writing and growing my audience effortless, this is the speed, stability, and simplicity I always wanted.

We’ve grown to over 1,500 members and evolved into a full content engine for D&D VTT games. Ghost has been the backbone of it all — fast, distraction-free, and fully under our control. It empowers us to focus on what matters most: delivering handcrafted content directly to the players who care.

Ghost offers the best of all worlds. Amazing publishing tools and complete independence for writers that appreciate healthy community values. I can't think of a better place for journalists.

I had my website on WordPress for years, and it was a constant headache with every update. Despite creating templates, it would take over an hour just to post a new article. In one afternoon, I moved my site, and now it takes less than 5 minutes to create and publish my new posts. I love the clean, simple interface and Ghost is so easy to use.

There is no way I would have learned, developed as a technical person, and built a beautiful magazine without Ghost as the foundation.

As we build a movement to bring people together and inspire collective action towards a new way of living - Ghost's open-source nature allows us to freely customise and self-host our platform, giving us complete control to create ACTionism's publishing system aligned with our values, independent of corporate infrastructure.

Ghost is by far the cleanest and sanest blog platform out there. I can think clearly in this interface, and am very happy this isn't yet another lobster trap service which locks you into their brand. Ghost feels like it's mine and will stay mine.

Ghost has helped us to create a very high quality media product with The Executive Summary. We have CEOs reading and coming to our events. Wordpress was too fiddly. Beehiiv couldn't do landing pages or web content very well. Ghost has a lot of things already thought through and it's very easy.

Moving to Ghost was a game-changer. I spend less time on server headaches and more time seeing what content actually connects with my audience. Simple, secure, and genuinely easier.

Ghost is lightning fast, flexible, and secure - everything we need to run our chess education membership site. We migrated from Wix, and the difference in experience is literally like night and day. Go Ghost!

Ghost is everything a blog and newsletter platform should be. It's powerful yet invisible – doing everything I need it to do without getting in the way of the writing process itself. The fact that Ghost is also open-source, independent, and funded 100% by its users makes it the perfect tool for me.

Switching to Ghost has changed my whole relationship with publishing. By enabling me to make meaningful connections with readers, it's put the joy back in writing. Powerful but intuitive, Ghost is ideal for someone like me who just wants to focus on the words and leave the platform to take care of the rest.

In a world where most SaaS and cloud providers are happy to collect the money and make minimal updates and changes. Ghost continually pushes the boundaries, enabling growth. The latest connection to the Fediverse leaves me lost for choice in how to exploit this. It's a joy to look forward to real functionality with every upgrade. And it's spectacular value for money!

When it became clear I needed to find a new home for my newsletter, Ghost became the obvious choice. It was super easy to migrate my entire archive. The UI for building and publishing my newsletter is intuitive, the integrations are powerful, and the community in the forums very helpful for when you get stuck.

Ghost is hands down the best tool for writing and publishing. I have tried so many other platforms, and nothing competes against them!

Before Ghost I was juggling half a dozen platforms to sell courses, blog, and email subscribers. Now it’s all in one place — my studio, online. It feels like a creative home built for artists.

I moved to Ghost, and I feel it's the best decision I made. I was facing a lot of optimization issues before. Ghost helped me fix that. It’s fast, clean, and easy to use. I’m thankful for that.

Ghost is the answer to so many issues. Privacy, ownership and independence blend well with reach and dialogue. The interface is straightforward and customizable. Publishing is easy. And I'm free from the oligarchs. Ghost continues to make strides to promote the Fediverse. I look forward to greater interoperability.

A fully customisable, comfortable platform to call home. Thanks for having us!

Ghost has unlocked remarkable design and build capabilities that enabled us to launch our website earlier than expected and with more features than planned. We cannot recommend it highly enough. The design tools are superb, and the customer-service team is always on hand to help!

I worked for decades on Wordpress powered sites. Either vanilla Wordpress or headless Wordpress. It was always a patchwork of plugins, SaaS that, more often than not, would break. Since launching MooseMoney.com on Ghost, I can focus on growing our audience and monetizing and the website is faster than any Wordpress I ever operated!

Ghost gave me the freedom to build C-Store Thrive into a go-to resource for convenience store professionals without the noise and clutter of other platforms. In a niche where practical, real-world training is hard to find, Ghost makes it easy to share SOPs, compliance guides, and leadership insights with store-level employees, district managers, and owners — all in one clean, member-focused hub.

Ghost has enabled me to have my blog look exactly the way I originally envisioned it to be.

Ghost lets me monetize without handing over a huge cut to the same tech billionaires who’ve already tricked the internet into funding their yachts. Instead, I get to keep my revenue, and write snarky articles about them while they sail off.

I want to invest in platforms that are transparent, innovative, and customizable — and Ghost is all of these things and more! My SEO is incredible here and hosting on Ghost has given my brand and writing so much more traction.

I love the features that Ghost keeps adding to help creators grow their projects.

I've tried many other content and newsletter platforms, and Ghost is one of the best I've used in terms of ease, control, and features. Seems like every new update adds some incredible new features as well.

Ghost was the perfect answer to my specific need — a platform that lets me create blog posts and send them as a newsletter. The fact that it’s a hosted solution with custom domains, supports payment integrations, and connects seamlessly with third-party tools is just the cherry on top.

Ghost made it simple to launch a cutting-edge site for aspiring elite athletes: sleek, clean, professional, on a lean budget.

For me, true content ownership, coupled with the palpable care the Ghost team dedicates to their platform and community, creates a unique feeling of freedom. This makes using Ghost a perfectly coherent choice for my creative endeavors.

As an author and a coach, Ghost has been a game-changer. Having everything together in one place makes it effortless for my clients to explore my full archive and see all the ways I can support them.

I’ve seen a noticeable boost in visibility since making the move. The clean interface makes it easier to focus on writing, and the built-in SEO and distribution tools ensure my content actually reaches people. I spend less time wrestling with plugins and more time doing the writing and stuff I enjoy!

Ghost is pure signal — no noise, no distractions. It does one thing perfectly: lets you think clearly and publish without friction. I’ve used it for years because it respects the writer’s intent — fast, minimal, and entirely yours.