When comparing Gridly vs Superdesk, the Slant community recommends Superdesk for most people. In the question“What are the best open source headless CMS's?” Superdesk is ranked 10th while Gridly is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Superdesk is:
The interface is clean and well designed. You can tell someone with a UX background worked on it and not just software engineers.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Visual
The interface is clean and well designed. You can tell someone with a UX background worked on it and not just software engineers.
Pro Easy to use
Putting together an article is straightforward: you type the text into the main fields and then use drag and drop to add photos.
Pro Publish to more than one website
You have the option of setting up publishing routes to choose where something gets published in case you have multiple websites.
Pro Customizable
I like that you can set up a personal workspace and also add different widgets to your dashboard depending on what you’re interested in.
Pro Newsroom automation
Superdesk can aggregate and automate multiple mundane newsroom jobs.
Cons
Con Not really open-source
Although there are some repositories on Github, it does not seem to be fully open-source.
Con Sometimes buggy
Sometimes, when trying to publish a post I was getting errors which was a bit annoying. However, after we updated to the latest version the instance was running smoothly.
Con Not one-click publishing
At least in our company’s system you need to do a couple of extra steps to publish an article.