# TinaCMS

Git-backed headless content management system for Markdown, MDX, JSON and YAML files, with a GraphQL API and an in-browser editing interface.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/tinacms/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-23
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-23

## Record

### Links

- home: https://tina.io
- repository: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms
- docs: https://tina.io/docs/
- pricing: https://tina.io/pricing
- x: https://twitter.com/tinacms
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tina.io
- discord: https://discord.com/invite/zumN63Ybpf
- forum: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/discussions
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TinaCMS
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tinacms/
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tinacms_/
- threads: https://www.threads.com/@tinacms_

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: SSW USA
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2019
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: headless-cms
- hosting: node, static
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: mongodb, postgres
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: graphql
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local, per-request
- renderingModes: static, server
- installMethod: npx create-tina-app@latest

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 13845
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 49626
- contributors: 160
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 645
- dependentPackages: 74

### Sources

- urls: https://tina.io/ (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://tina.io/docs/ (read 2026-10-23)
- maintainer: https://tina.io/terms-of-service (read 2026-10-23)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- category: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- runtime: https://tina.io/docs/self-hosted/overview/ (read 2026-10-23)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tinacms/tinacms/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-23)
- databases: https://tina.io/docs/self-hosted/overview/ (read 2026-10-23)
- adminUi: https://tina.io/docs/ (read 2026-10-23)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://tina.io/docs/tinacloud/overview/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://tina.io/docs/ (read 2026-10-23)
- runsAs: https://tina.io/docs/self-hosted/overview/ (read 2026-10-23)
- installMethod: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-23)
- urls: https://tina.io/pricing (read 2026-10-23)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms/releases (read 2026-10-23)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/tinacms/tinacms/contributors (read 2026-10-23)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/tinacms (read 2026-10-23)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/tinacms (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/tinacms (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

TinaCMS is a Git-backed headless content management system. Content lives as Markdown, MDX, JSON and YAML files in a Git repository, and editors save changes from an admin interface built into the site. A GraphQL API serves the content to the front end. The admin is a statically built single-page app, and the site itself can be built as static HTML or rendered on the server.

Locally, TinaCMS reads the project's own files. A self-hosted backend runs as a Node.js serverless function with its own database adapter, auth provider and Git provider, and the docs say some features are not available when self-hosting.

## Worth knowing

TinaCloud is the hosted backend that the project offers next to the open source package. It provides a hosted GraphQL endpoint, Git integration, user management and editorial workflow features.

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