Compare Craft CMS vs. BackBee

Craft CMS is a new player in the PHP CMS field. It does not use Symfony components, but is a popular and more modern option for WordPress.

BackBee is a content management system from the company Lp Digital. The software is Open Source and released under the GPL3 License. BackBee uses multiple Symfony components for core functions.

• Superb usability
• Focus on content management
• Clean code base

• Great user experience with in-place editing
• Contemporary implementation without 
• Backed by a company

• Limited adoption
• Not a part of a larger ecosystem (like Symfony)
• Coding style is a bit old school PHP

• Limited adoption outside of France
• Custom implementation, Symfony in components
• Missing power user features like multilanguage and multisite