Forestry Overview

Forestry is definitely one of the most popular commercial Git-based CMSs. If you are not sure what's the difference between API and Git CMS, we wrote an article explaining the details.

User Interface

The dashboard is a bit rough, it doesn't tell you much besides a nice welcome message. There is room for improvement for sure. For example, it would be nice to see links to docs or code examples.

Here is what the posts page looks like:

Customizable Sidebar

The left side is the Sidebar you can adjust to your needs. You can create a section, name it as you wish, and select what links should be there. That's one of my favorite things with Forestry, simple and very customizable via settings.

Take a look at the short video below how we used Forestry to manage our very own website.

Support

Free plan support depends on availability. Priority support (median time to close issues under 8 hours) starts with the Pro plan. In reality, we have had a couple of issues previously and needed a fast response. Surely enough their support team helped us out immediately.

Pricing

The personal plan starts from $0/mo and it is a perfect choice for smaller projects. You can have up to 3 websites and up to 3 users per 1 website. It gives you full access to the CMS, in opposition to most API-based CMSes there is no limit in terms of the amount of content or types. The only limits here are the technical ones in your Git provider.

In case you need more control over your organization or if you want to manage more than 3 websites you should look at the Starter plan. For the $29/mo you have access to the organization account and can have up to 5 websites ($9 per additional site).

What Do Clients Say?

We used Forestry together with Vercel and Gatsby for this website. That should be a good enough pro on its own.

Check out a different case study for our own website here.

Pros and Cons

It's not a coincidence we picked Forestry as the main CMS for the Bejamas website. Thanks to its simplicity and native Git integration it's a perfect choice for a marketing team of editors and developers.