Wix alternative
The Wix Alternative
Wix is easy to start and impossible to leave with. You build it, pay monthly, and own nothing at the end.
Point for point
Every row below is a fact you can check yourself, not our opinion.
You do. The design, the writing, the layout and every future change come out of your evenings, with nobody there to do it for you.
Your choice. We can build it for you from a document you send, or you can build it yourself with our starter kit and docs. Either way, real humans are on chat 24/7 while you work on it.
Wix's own closed rendering system, generated by the editor. You cannot open it, and there is no source code to hand a developer.
Standard HTML, CSS and JavaScript in a repository you own. Any web developer on earth can open it and work on it.
Not with the site. Wix publishes no export that produces a working website, so leaving means rebuilding from scratch, and the longer you stay, the more expensive that gets.
Whenever you want. It is a folder of files on hosting you control. Move it, redesign it, or hand it to somebody else and nothing needs our permission.
A subscription per site, per month, with no end date. Miss the renewal and the site comes down: years of payments and you own nothing at the end of it.
One build fee, once. Nothing further to pay, hosting is free, and the site is yours permanently.
The plan is the floor, not the price. Booking, reviews, proper forms and most of what a business actually needs are paid apps billed on top of it, every month.
Included in the build. What your business needs is coded into the site, not rented back to you a feature at a time.
Editor-generated pages ship a lot of script whether a page uses it or not. Poor mobile scores are the standard complaint, and mobile speed is what Google ranks on.
Hand-written pages that load nothing they do not use. Fast on a bad phone connection, which is where your customers actually are.
You get SEO fields to fill in yourself. The Google listing that decides whether you appear in the map results is a separate job nobody does for you.
Handled on Full Website: your listing set up properly, and the pages written for your town and your trade.
A general support queue for a platform with millions of sites. Nobody there has seen yours.
24/7 chat with the developers who built your site, who can just make the change.
Why people move
The reasons we hear most often from owners who came to us from Wix.
The monthly bill never ends and the site never becomes mine
I want to hire a developer and there is nothing for them to work on
It scores badly on mobile and I have been told that is hurting my search results
Every feature I need turns out to be another paid app on top of the plan
I do not want to be the one building and maintaining my own website
Send your current pages as the starting document. From $199, and you approve the design before we build.
Switching from Wix
Your content comes across; the site itself cannot, and that is a Wix limitation rather than ours. Wix publishes no export that produces a working website, so a move off it is a rebuild wherever you go, which is exactly why it is worth doing sooner rather than after another two years of subscription. We take your existing content as the starting document: send the text, the photos and the page structure you already have, and the new site is built from it rather than from a blank page.
Only this month. Wix is a subscription per site that runs for as long as the site exists, so the total never stops growing and there is nothing at the end of it. Our build is one payment, hosting is free, and there is nothing further to pay; most owners are ahead inside the second year, and unlike Wix they own the result outright.
Nothing, because there is nothing to stop paying. The build is a single payment and the site is standard code on hosting you control, and it keeps running whether or not you ever hear from us again. That is the opposite of a builder subscription, where stopping payment takes the site down with it.
No, and that is the everyday difference: on Wix you are the builder, the designer and the copywriter, on your own. With us you can send a document and we build it for you, or use our starter kit and docs to build it yourself. Either way, real humans are on chat 24/7 while you work on it.
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Send a doc and we hand-code it, or start from a kit and build it yourself
- Nothing built until you approve the design
- Live on your own domain
- Real code, yours to keep