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CMS Made Simple vs REDAXO: catalog facts
CMS Made Simple	REDAXO
Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence, funded by donations.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Themes built from plain HTML and CSS with Smarty Modular with third-party modules and tags	Full control over output code through custom modules Installer addon with ready-made demo websites
Requires PHP hosting and some setup Smarty templating is a learning step for new designers	Documentation and community are mostly in German Requires PHP and MySQL hosting
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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