Top 5 best alternatives to Wix, Squarespace and Weebly in 2019
If you are planning for a website for a business on a long term, it’s always the best to get custom coded to your preference and to brand your website along with your company’s design language and principles.
If a custom coded website is out of your budget, the least that is needed is to build your business website on WordPress.
However, not everyone needs a fully fledged business website. All they would want is a basic website to get themselves on to the Internet. And here come the website builders to serve this purpose.
Gone are the days where to create even a basic website, you need to know HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
It’s easier now with CMS platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. However, completely drag & drop website builders like Wix and Squarespace took the ease of building a website to a whole new level.
Most of the website builders provided their own high-quality hosting and ability to buy domains.
It eliminates the hassle of dealing with hosting companies for issues of downtimes thereby making it a more seamless experience for the users.
It’s not an overstatement that you can build a personal or business website in less than half an hour.
While Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly are some of the well known and predominant players in the website builders space, there are many lesser-known but equally good and sometimes cheaper options.
Let’s look at a few of those in this article.
*All pricing mentioned and compared are for monthly payments. There could be some discounts when paid yearly.
Strikingly
Free Trial – 14 days
E-commerce – Available
Free domain – Included in yearly plans
Support – Live Chat
Pricing – $12 to $20 a month
STRIKINGLY is a website builder specially designed for one-page websites and it really excels in that. However, many multi-page templates are also available.
One distinct advantage of strikingly is 2 limited websites can be connected in limited plan and 3 pro websites can be connected in the pro plan.
Custom domains can be connected in both limited and pro websites. Pro sites have additional features like using third-party applications and use of custom codes, but for most basic websites, limited sites should do what is required.
If you like to build an e-commerce site, it’s best to go with the pro plan, as limited sites can accommodate only 5 products per site, but 300 products per site can be added in pro sites.
A fee of $20 a month for 3 pro websites is really a great deal. Therefore, if you have plans for more than one website, strikingly is a great option.
Also, the customer support is really prompt and helpful to clear out the doubts and provide with helpful information. They are happiness officers!!. Little things add a bit of charm.
Ucraft
Free Trial – 14 days
E-commerce – Available
Support – Live Chat
Free domain – Included in yearly plans
Pricing – $8 to $16 a month
If the design of your website is of utmost importance, ucraft will serve you well. The templates are simply gorgeous and look extremely professional.
Ucraft also has some cool tools like free landing page creator, designer tools, article app for blog writing, logo maker, etc.
Another great feature is the ability to make your website multi-lingual which can be a huge plus if you are planning for an international version of your website.
Overall, Ucraft is a great website builder with stunning templates.
Flazio
Free Trial – A forever free plan available with limited features but no free trial.
E-commerce – Available
Support – Limited email support
Free domain – Included in yearly plans, forever free.
Pricing – $9 a month
There is little to no chance that you have heard of Flazio. It is an Italian firm with some incredible value for money.
The pricing structure is quite simple. There is a free plan and one version of the paid plan with unlimited features all for 9 bucks a month and the features they offer are everything you would want from a website builder.
- A free domain forever
- E-commerce with unlimited products
- Unlimited storage and bandwidth
- 5 professional email boxes in your domain
- Free bookings elements
The templates look decent with a good variety in different niches.
One of the issues in limited support outside of Italy. The system is easy to learn and if you are a self-learner with not much support needed, flazio could the most affordable website builder with tons of great features.
Site123
Free Trial – A forever free plan available with limited features but no free trial.
E-commerce – Available
Support – Live Chat
Free domain – Included in yearly plans
Pricing – $10.8 a month (to be paid for minimum of 3 months, no monthly plan available. Also, Site 123’s pricing differs with respect to location. Your country might have more pricing options but overall, the price of the base plan is more or less similar)
Site 123 excels in its simplicity. It is not the cheapest for the features it provides, but what sets it apart is the absolute ease it gives to build a website.
The chat support is top notch with quick responses. So, if you entirely new to website building and want an easy option with great support and guidance, Site123 is a great option.
Builderall
Free Trial – 7 days
E-commerce – Available
Support – Email support
Free domain – No
Pricing – $9.9 to $29.9 a month
Builderall is an 8-year-old Brazilian firm introduced to the US and worldwide since 2017. It is a digital marketing platform rather than a simple website builder.
If you subscribe to the 29.90 a month plan, it provides the following features,
- Connect up to 15 domains (that’s 15 websites for just $2 per website per month)
- Unlimited email marketing with unlimited emails and unlimited subscribers (this feature alone is worth more than $100 a month)
- Sales funnels creator with hundreds of templates
- Android and ios app creator
- Script generator for your email marketing sales letters
If you need only a website builder, $9.90 plan would be sufficient. The templates are pretty good particularly the ones for local and small businesses.
Builderall is a great option if you need additional tools apart from a great website builder. For the extent and variety of features, $29.90 a month is an absolute steal.
Conclusion
There you have it. The top 5 best alternative website builders to Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly.
Our Pick?
It’s a tough ask. Each one offers a unique advantage depending on your needs. However, if I would be forced to choose one, I would go with Builderall for the extensive features it offers.
If you are new to website building and need chat support to help you through building the website, either Strikingly or Ucraft would be the perfect fit.
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