Side by side
Compared with nine website builders
Nine comparisons, each one a table of the rows that actually decide a purchase rather than a feature list. Every number on the other side was read off that company’s own page, with the date it was read.
The seven questions every one of these comparisons asks
Nine builders, 111 rows, each checked against the other product’s own public pages on the date shown — 83 go our way, 19 go theirs, 9 are a draw. Every comparison below names at least two rows that go the other way, which is the only reason to believe the ones that do not. Here is our answer to the 7 questions all 9 of them ask.
Inside one starting point
40 starting points, and each one opens as a working multi-page site rather than a blank canvas. The bakery is four pages carrying nine priced items, a custom-cake enquiry form with a photo field, and a six-image portfolio — a trade site before you have typed a word.
Restyling without retyping
15 design styles over 40 starting points — 600 openings — and switching one rebuilds the layout rather than recolouring it. Your menu and prices, reviews, staff, classes, listings and business details carry over; headings and photos you edited directly go back to the template’s, and one undo takes the whole switch back.
The parts that run the business
Ordering, table reservations, appointments, customer records and the back office are parts of the product with no second subscription behind any of them. They go live on Storefront Pro; Storefront builds and previews the same blocks.
Motion on the page
29 scroll and cinematic sections sit in the component palette, so motion is composed on the page out of real sections rather than picked from a short list of presets.
In the editor before you install anything
111 components in seven groups — basic, layout, navigation, forms, business, cinema, editorial — are in the editor before you install anything. Nothing on that list is a marketplace add-on.
How far one element can be pushed
Every block carries a Content tab listing only the fields it owns and a Style tab with three breakpoints: desktop, tablet and mobile. Mobile inherits desktop until you deliberately override it, and the editor marks every field that carries an override.
Getting the site out again
Storefront Pro downloads the whole project as a standard Next.js app — app/, components/, lib/, a package.json with no dependency of ours in it — so the site can be self-hosted with Naratake switched off.
- Square Online alternative for restaurantsSquare is a payments company that gives you a website. We are the website. If what you got from Square is an ordering page bolted to a register, the table below is what the other purchase looks like: the sections your trade needs already on the page, the modules that take the orders, the database that keeps them, and a folder of code you can walk away with.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Wix alternative that exports codeIf you got here searching for a way to pull your site out of Wix: there is not one, and Wix says so itself. What follows is the other purchase — 40 working trade sites, the modules that run them, and an export that puts the whole codebase in a folder with your client’s name on it.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Squarespace alternative that hands over the codeAlmost nobody leaves Squarespace because the site looks wrong. They leave on the day they find out the site cannot come with them — the export is an .xml file pointed at WordPress, and Squarespace’s own Help Center lists what that file does not carry. Below is the other purchase: the modules a trade actually runs on, two languages, no cut of your sales, and a folder of source code with your name on it.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- GoDaddy Website Builder alternative: own the codeIf you are here because your domain, your mailbox and your website all arrive on one bill, and you have started wondering what happens if you leave — that is the right question to be asking. Here is what opens on our side: 40 industry starting points that are working multi-page sites, 600 industry-and-style combinations that rebuild the layout rather than recolouring it, 29 scroll and cinematic sections, eleven operating modules, two languages on one site, no percentage taken from anything the site sells, and the whole thing as Next.js source. Two rows still go GoDaddy Website Builder’s way, and they are marked as such.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Shopify alternative for small businessesIf you got here because a salon, a clinic or a practice does not need a checkout, you are asking the right question. A commerce platform is a lot of machine to run five pages with a phone number on them. Here is what you get instead: 40 industry starting points that open as working multi-page sites, 600 industry-and-style combinations that rebuild the layout rather than recolouring it, eleven operating modules with no second subscription behind any of them, 29 scroll and cinematic sections, two languages on one site, and not one percent taken from what the site sells. Two rows still go theirs, and they are marked.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- WordPress alternative with no plugins to maintainWhat core does not hand you is the shop floor: its own Blocks list contains no form, no booking, no ordering and no timetable, and its own handbook says WordPress does not support a multilingual site out of the box. Here is what opens on our side instead — 40 working trade sites, eleven operating modules, 111 components, two languages, and an export that is the whole codebase with nothing to patch under it. WordPress takes 2 of the 13 rows below and they are marked as such, which is the reason to trust the ones that go the other way.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Webflow alternative a shop owner can maintainIf you are here because a Webflow site was built for you and now you cannot change it without calling the person who built it, that split is one Webflow describes itself. Its page-building page sells the arrangement as establishing building blocks that empower marketers to quickly create on-brand landing pages — which means somebody has to establish the blocks first, and that somebody is not you. Below is the other purchase, including the 3 rows Webflow takes.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Weebly alternative that ships the trade partsHere is how much of a working small-business site you have to go and install first on Weebly: the accordion, the FAQ block, the team cards, the booking form, the second language. In this editor they are already on the page, inside 40 starting points that open as finished trade sites, in two languages at no extra charge, with the source download in the plan on Storefront Pro. Two rows below go Weebly’s way and they are marked, which is why the rest of them can be believed.Checked Aug 26, 2026
- Strikingly alternative that takes no cutStrikingly is genuinely fast on the first day, and two rows below say so. This page is about every day after it: the percentage it takes out of each sale on all but its top plan, animation you pick from three presets rather than author, a second language that means a second site, and its own answer when you ask for your files.Checked Aug 26, 2026