Magnolia vs Content Collections
Compare Magnolia and Content Collections for your content needs. Find out what actual users are saying about each product and which one is best suited for you!


What Users Say
See what users who have used Magnolia and Content Collections have to say about their overall experience with the product.
Magnolia's Key Strengths
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Content Collections's Key Strengths
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Magnolia's Key Issues
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Content Collections's Key Issues
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What Marketers & Content Creators Say
Hear from the users who uses Magnolia and Content Collections daily about their experience with the editors.
Magnolia's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Magnolia's editor.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Highlights
What marketers love about Content Collections's editor.
Magnolia's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Magnolia's editor.
Content Collections's Editorial Experience Issues
What marketers dislike about Content Collections's editor.
Mobile Editing
Find out how the platforms handle the mobile-first experience for the new generation of workforce on the move.
Magnolia CMS supports mobile-first experience with a focus on creating content on mobile devices.
"Focused on delivering modern UX designs with a mobile-first mindset."Source
"Start building responsive, mobile-first experience sites using web components with React, Angular or Vue."Source
"Focus then shifted to mobile first, omni-channel experience, personalisation, loyalty and analytics."Source
"Their rebuild of the software for a tablet and mobile first design."Source
Wisp and Contentful support mobile-first experiences for content creation on mobile devices.
Automatic Content Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic linking of related content to help user discover more content without additional manual effort from the marketer. This automatically create topical clusters of content and is essential for SEO.
The feature of automatic related blog linking is unclear from the available documentation and sources.
The CMS does not support automated internal linking of related blog posts based on content similarity.
"You can define a collection from a set of data that is structurally similar."Source
"We can manually add blogs one by one into the section and include a button that directs to the relevant URL."Source
"Webflow Collections allow you to create groups of content but do not automate related content linking."Source
Automatic CTA Linking
Find out if the platform supports automatic display of Call-to-Actions using AI to help users take actions that are relevant to the content they are reading.
Magnolia offers AI features that assist in automatic content creation, but specific CTA linking is not detailed.
"Magnolia’s AI Accelerator brings flexibility and composability to AI in digital experiences, by supporting connections to any generative AI engines to speed up content creation."Source
"Magnolia equips you with powerful tooling and an easy to use interface so that you can work more effectively and launch experiences faster."Source
"This feature was experimental and relied on outdated and unmaintained libraries."Source
Content Collections does not support automated linking for CTAs; this feature is generally missing in most CMS products.
Comments
Find out if the platform supports comments from your users to improve user engagement. This is often a great way to collect feedback and user emails.
Magnolia CMS supports commenting with moderation, email notifications, and anonymous comments.
"This module offers commenting features as well as the possibility of liking or disliking comments. You can moderate comments or mark as author’s favourite."Source
Webflow CMS supports commenting via a paid add-on with built-in moderation features.
"Supercharge your Webflow CMS with comments that let people interact with your Collection content."Source
"However, this permission does not allow visitors to update existing items or their field values."Source
"When you create Collections in the Webflow CMS, you can add Collection items manually."Source
Multi-tenancy
Find out if the platform supports managing multiple clients or projects within a single account. This is useful for agencies, multi-client or multi-project scenarios.
Magnolia supports multi-tenancy, allowing agencies to manage multiple client sites with separate configurations.
"Multi-tenancy and the ability to share content assets - while also being able to configure access on a per-tenant basis - is crucial in today's..."Source
"With Magnolia's multi-site, multi-language and multi-tenancy capabilities, you can centrally manage your network of franchises, country sites or subsidiary websites."Source
"Using the Multisite module, you can set up and run multiple websites with different domains and languages from one Magnolia installation."Source
Statamic supports multiple sites but is not intended for multi-tenant applications.
"I'm currently thinking of having a content collection called Organization, with a relation to an Admin User (User type, admin role)."Source
"Strapi (which you can trick into multitenancy but it's not out of the box and, unfortunately, I can't get it to work)"Source
"Payload has a multi-tenancy feature but requires significant setup."Source
"The multi-tenancy feature lets you segregate content in CRX based on organization."Source
"Statamic's multi-site capabilities are designed to manage a single site or site network with multiple localizations."Source
What Developers Say
Hear from developers who've integrated and built on Magnolia and Content Collections about their experiences.
Magnolia's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Magnolia.
Content Collections's DX Highlights
What developers love about building with Content Collections.
Magnolia's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Magnolia.
Content Collections's DX Issues
What developers dislike about building with Content Collections.
Content Modelling
Find out how developers model and manage their content with the platform with key highlights and limitations.
Magnolia CMS supports content modelling with customizable content types and properties.
"Magnolia allows you to manage all your content and media in one place. Flexible content modeling."Source
"A content model defines the structure and attributes of content for a specific project, including content types."Source
"The Magnolia Content Types module is a tool to define the content model in Magnolia, creating a shared understanding across the domains."Source
"A model definition describes the properties of a content type, including fields and relationships."Source
Content Collections supports content modelling with customizable schemas and validation via Zod.
"Transform your content into type-safe data collections, providing useful utilities for data fetching and parsing."Source
"Content Collections uses a schema to define the fields of a collection. Computed fields can be added with the transform function."Source
"The schema will validate the title and summary fields, ensuring data integrity."Source
Custom React Components
Find out if the platform supports custom React components to go beyond the basic HTML components for content.
Custom React components are supported through the Magnolia React Editor allowing dynamic content management.
"The Magnolia React Editor provides a lightweight, fully-featured library connecting React projects with the WYSIWYG authoring experience."Source
"Magnolia React Templating allows you to use React JSX Components in Magnolia templates."Source
"Components render content entered by editors in dialogs, supporting nested components."Source
Payload CMS supports custom React components in collections, enabling rich content integration.
"Swap in your own React components to be used within this Collection."Source
"Decap CMS exposes two constructs globally to allow you to create components inline."Source
"The same object is also the default export if you import Decap CMS as an npm module."Source
"Learn how to embed HubSpot forms in ButterCMS using a custom React component."Source
Full Text Search
Find out if the platform supports full text search across multiple fields to help users find content quickly.
Fully supports full-text search across all content with real-time results customization.
"Magnolia’s search works using the Lucene algorithm where by default all properties mentioned in the index-rule receive a boost value of 1.0."Source
"The Find Bar allows you to search across all content search inside and outside Magnolia (federated search, enterprise search). The search covers all Magnolia and custom-content apps, assets and pages."Source
"It offers powerful full-text search across all your content and provides a starting point for many tasks."Source
Contentful supports full-text search across multiple fields, enhancing search capabilities.
"Full-text search is case insensitive and might return more results than expected. A query will ignore search tokens with less than 2 characters."Source
"In Contentful, full-text search terms are left anchored. This means that when you, for example, search for 'house,' we will convert it into the."Source
"In Contentful's GraphQL API you can do searching within different fields with collection filters. Equivalent to full-text searching."Source
"Contentful does include some intriguing full-text search capabilities out-of-the-box that searches across all fields."Source
Starter Kits
Discover starter kits and templates to help you get started with the platform.
Magnolia CMS has several starter kits available for developers.
(Expand section to see a list of Magnolia templates and starter kits.)
Content Collections offers starter kits and templates through Acquia and Astro.
(Expand section to see a list of Content Collections templates and starter kits.)
Pricing & Plans
Compare the prices of Magnolia and Content Collections.