Front-end interfaces

Commercial

CloudCannon

The intuitive Git-based CMS for your Hugo website. CloudCannon syncs changes from your Git repository and pushes content changes back, so your development and content teams are always in sync. Edit all of your content on the page with visual editing, build entire pages with reusable custom components and then publish confidently.

DatoCMS

DatoCMS is a fully customizable administrative area for your static websites. Use your favorite website generator, let your clients publish new content independently, and the host the site anywhere you like.

GitCMS

GitCMS is an AI-focused CMS for markdown-based content sites that brings together Content Agents for ChatGPT and Claude using MCP app, a friendly notion-like interface for non-technical team members, and a structured editorial publishing workflow. It is built for teams that want to manage blogs, documentation, changelogs, and other markdown content with the speed of AI assistance and the reliability of a review-driven publishing process.

PubCrank

PubCrank is a static site editor which lets you define templates for different front matter layouts in your site. This gives writers an easy-to-use visual interface to create and edit content while maintaining the guardrails that the developer has created. PubCrank is free for local editing.

Sitepins

Sitepins is a Git-based CMS built for static site generators like Hugo. It offers a clean visual editor, media management, role-based permissions, shortcode support, and more. To get started, simply connect your GitHub repository, configure your content folders, and start visually editing your Hugo site with Sitepins.

Open-source

Decap CMS

Decap CMS is an open-source, serverless solution for managing Git based content in static sites, and it works on any platform that can host static sites. A Hugo/Decap CMS starter is available to get new projects running quickly.

Pages CMS

Pages CMS is an open-source, Git-based CMS for static sites and apps. It lets you edit Hugo content stored in a GitHub repository through a web interface, with support for front matter fields, media management, rich text editing, etc.

Quiqr Desktop

Quiqr Desktop is a open-source, cross-platform, offline desktop CMS for Hugo with built-in Git functionality for deploying static sites to any hosting server.

Sveltia CMS

Sveltia CMS is a drop-in replacement for Decap CMS which is built from the ground up with powerful and performant modern UI library Svelte. Sveltia CMS incorporates i18n into every corner of the product, while striving to radically improve UX, performance and productivity.