Ghost is quickly becoming a strong up and comer in the world of blogging and is following in the footsteps of WordPress in that it offers both a downloadable version of the platform to install on your own server or you can use their online blogging platform (similar to Medium, WordPress.com and others) and get up and running with no software to configure. The latter is a paid service, however, and costs typically would range between $5 / month and $80 / month depending on how much traffic and how many blogs you want to have. Pricing is pretty reasonable and you always have the option of downloading Ghost and installing it on your own server if you feel more comfortable managing the software yourself.

The writing interface that Ghost offers is unique from some of the others we’ve shared so far in that it offers you a split pane look where you write on the left and the right shows a live preview of the text as it’s being formatted for comparison. See the screenshot below for an example:

ghost – writing interface

Some other differences between Ghost and platforms such as Medium and Svble is that it supports themes. My personal opinion is that themes can end up being a distraction for some people but if you are interested in them, there are already plenty of themes for Ghost available.

Price: Free (if downloaded) or $29-199 / month (if hosted)