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Gophish vs ReadMe comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Gophish
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ReadMe
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
44th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AWS Marketplace category, the mindshare of Gophish is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadMe is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AWS Marketplace Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Gophish0.2%
ReadMe0.2%
Other99.6%
AWS Marketplace
 

Featured Reviews

JC
Administrador de sistemas informaticos en red at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
Phishing awareness campaigns have improved training impact but still need smarter automation
I think Gophish could be improved with more automation, for instance. It is great that you can create templates, schedule them, and do everything you want in Gophish, but it would be nice to have a small integrated AI model with which you could create email templates and phishing templates. It would be nice if Gophish implemented artificial intelligence. I wish Gophish could provide more support and be more advanced and that they continue developing it because it seems that Gophish does not get many updates, and I think they need to implement more features. It is great because it is free, but it needs more features. It would be cool if there was an artificial intelligence model that could create phishing campaigns or templates or email templates for you integrated within Gophish. I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance. It also depends on the number of clients a company has; it may be necessary to launch Gophish in a staggered way, which I also think is a drawback Gophish has. The issue is that if there are many people being targeted, for example, 5,000 employees in a company and you send 5,000, it may be that sending so many messages gets blocked by the security systems companies have. I think that Gophish could also improve the message sending flows. I gave it a seven because there are things to improve and it is not perfect. As I said before, it would be nice if templates could be created with AI, integrated into Gophish using an API with Gemini or ChatGPT or whichever, but the point is that it would be nice if the sending flows at large scale were better managed. When you send a phishing campaign to 5,000 people, you have to send it in sections in a staggered way, for example: to these 5,000 people it is going to be sent between eight in the morning and four in the afternoon. If you send them all at once, the phishing may get blocked and then the campaign has no effect. I would like it if Gophish implemented more improvements because they are needed, as it is kind of a bit stagnant. I hope that in the future they add more improvements including creating personalized templates with artificial intelligence and improving the message sending flows.
TejaswiniAleti - PeerSpot reviewer
Member Technical at ADP
Centralized API documentation has improved collaboration and reduces onboarding time
Overall, I have had a positive experience with ReadMe, but there are a few areas where I think it could improve. One is customization. While it is easy to create clean documentation, making deeper UI or layout customizations can be somewhat limiting without additional effort. Having more built-in customization options would help teams tailor the developer portal to their branding and documentation needs. I would also like to see more advanced analytics. It would be useful to have richer insights into which APIs are viewed most frequently, where developers spend the most time, and which document pages generate the most support requests. Those metrics could help us continuously improve our documentation. Another improvement would be the tighter integration with Git-based development workflows. While synchronizing documentation works well, making documentation updates, previews, and reviews even more seamless as part of the pull request process would improve the developer experience. All of these are not major issues. They are enhancements that would make an already solid platform even better. Overall, ReadMe has worked well for our API documentation needs. An additional improvement I would like to see is better support for documentation versioning and change tracking. In enterprise applications, APIs evolve over time, and having more intuitive tools to compare versions and clearly highlight changes would make it easier for both internal teams and external consumers to adopt new API versions. I would also appreciate more built-in collaboration features, such as richer review workflows or commenting capabilities for documentation changes before they are published. That would make it easier for developers, QA teams, and technical writers to review documentation together and keep it accurate. Other than those enhancements, I think ReadMe is an easy-to-use platform that has met our API documentation needs. I do not have any major concerns beyond the improvements I already mentioned.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The impact it has had is that we have been able to sell it to clients who, for example, do not have the money to pay for a platform because they are small startups, and so with Gophish we create a solution that is cheaper for them."
"Gophish has really improved security awareness in my organization."
"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"Gophish is a good structure and a good technological innovation that deserves to be studied and much better known by the world because not everyone knows Gophish."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy to set up and start phishing campaigns."
"Gophish has impacted my organization positively in terms of security awareness, as I have noticed fewer phishing incidents and more responses towards reporting phishing emails as specific improvements."
"Gophish has had a positive impact on my organization because it is open source, so it is free."
"My advice to other professionals who are considering using Gophish is that it is a platform for people who are just starting out and do not have the resources and also do not have knowledge."
"Previously, our documentation was split up, but now it is unified through ReadMe, which gives a clear overview and is very easy to navigate, acting as a single source of truth for our business and providing more stability."
"With ReadMe serving as a clear, self-service developer portal, our partners can now complete their integration in a fraction of the time, which has accelerated project delivery timelines, improved our partner satisfaction, and optimized engineering promises."
"Overall, if your organization wants to improve the developer experience, reduce repetitive support questions, and provide a centralized and professional API portal, I think ReadMe is a strong choice."
 

Cons

"Regarding how Gophish can be improved, the latest update is from 2022."
"The customer support needs improvement."
"I do not really have any improvements in mind at the moment, but offering ready-made templates that we could use or examples of emails that we could directly use would be beneficial."
"I believe that Gophish can be improved by increasing the number of possible integrations."
"Currently, we do not think Gophish requires much improvement other than a better graphical user interface."
"The one improvement I would like to see in Gophish is the booting up of the images, as it sometimes takes a lot of time and could be improved."
"I would rate it a seven. It is quite good and free software, but it needs more substance."
"The improvement I want to be made to Gophish is at the DNS level."
"ReadMe is a software-as-a-service offering only, and there is no way to self-host ReadMe."
"One is customization. While it is easy to create clean documentation, making deeper UI or layout customizations can be somewhat limiting without additional effort."
"We could probably have more advanced analytics, multi-domain support, or something similar, and advanced access controls."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
43%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Healthcare Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Gophish?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing shows that the setup cost is not very high; Gophish is completely free, as it is an open-source tool.
What needs improvement with Gophish?
I believe Gophish can be improved in a few areas. First, the user interface could be made more modern and beginner-friendly. The current setup is simple, but for a new user, campaign creation, land...
What is your primary use case for Gophish?
My main use case for Gophish is to run a phishing awareness campaign inside an organization in a safe and controlled way. For example, instead of waiting for a real attacker to send a fake email to...
What needs improvement with ReadMe?
For our internal APIs that move quickly with frequent minor schema changes, the versioning felt more rigid than we wanted. We ended up simplifying our branching strategy to fit ReadMe's model. Read...
What is your primary use case for ReadMe?
My company has been using ReadMe for about two years. We use ReadMe to document the APIs exposed by our large finance-related application. We document internal-facing endpoints consumed by our team...
What advice do you have for others considering ReadMe?
You need to have a good Open API specification that is clean because if that is bad, then it is not ReadMe's fault that the documentation is bad, as the underlying data has to be there. My overall ...
 

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