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Gophish vs ReadMe comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

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
74th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 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

"Gophish is stable and very reliable, and it has never let us down."
"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."
"Gophish is one of the easiest tools that I can see available online, and a significant advantage is that it is free of cost and open source."
"The best feature that Gophish offers is its customizability; it makes everything look very professional and makes tracking very easy."
"Gophish has positively impacted my organization by making it very easy to set up and start phishing campaigns."
"Gophish has really improved security awareness in my organization."
"Overall, Gophish is dependable for phishing simulations and awareness assessments."
"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."
"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."
"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."
 

Cons

"I think Gophish could be improved with a user-level function, meaning if the person is strong or weak, we send more or fewer awareness emails, and rely on real attacks in order to be able to create a template by itself."
"The improvement I want to be made to Gophish is at the DNS level."
"The feature of actually taking the website's source code might be something which is not so ethical, because you're copying from the main website even though you're learning."
"I think Gophish could be improved because it is effective for its purpose, but there are certain features that can be enhanced."
"I believe Gophish can be improved by adding new features based on attack types in the future, particularly for new zero-day attacks, and incorporating AI-based tools to enhance analyzing and automation."
"Regarding how Gophish can be improved, the latest update is from 2022."
"It does not handle lists well either, so when you have a big list of email addresses or users, it crashes, perhaps in the sending of the emails or somewhere else, but it crashes."
"I believe that Gophish can be improved by increasing the number of possible integrations."
"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
26%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
47%
Healthcare Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Wholesaler/Distributor
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
No data available
 

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?
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 ...
What is your primary use case for ReadMe?
I have been using ReadMe for around two years. We adopted it as part of our API documentation workflow to make it easier for developers to understand and consume our REST APIs. During that time, I ...
What advice do you have for others considering ReadMe?
We did not formally track our KPIs specifically for ReadMe, but we did notice some measurable improvements. For example, new developers can casually get familiar with our APIs in a day or two inste...
 

Overview

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