A Strikingly alternative that takes no cut of your sales

Strikingly 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.

Storefront $49 a month, Storefront Pro $79 a month. Building and previewing cost nothing and take no card; the price starts when you publish, and there is a 7-day refund. See the full price list

The 11 rows that decide it

Every row can be checked against the sources at the bottom of this page, and 2 of them go Strikingly’s way. A comparison where the author wins every row is an advertisement, and you would be right to discount all of it.
What you are asking about	With Naratake	With Strikingly	Who takes the row
What is inside one starting point	The bakery starting point is four pages: nine priced items, a custom-cake enquiry form with a photo column, and a six-image portfolio — a working site before you have typed a word. There are 40 of them, cut by trade, and layering any of 15 design styles over one rebuilds the layout rather than recolouring it — different bones, not the same page in a different colour.	The page Strikingly points at for browsing turns out to be a showcase of live customer sites rather than a template gallery, and its filters are eleven generic business types — business, store, startup, portfolio, organization, service, personal, fun, blog, event, company. No restaurant, salon, clinic or gym among them. The route Strikingly offers to something trade-shaped is its AI site builder, which asks for a site name and a description of the business and generates a site from that.	Ours
How many looks one business can try	40 industry starting points across 15 design styles is 600 different-looking sites before anyone touches a colour — and the count is not the good part. This is: every one of the 15 styles rebuilds the layout instead of recolouring it. The hero composition, every page header, the type, the corner radius, the motion and the photo treatment all move together, and palettes are picked per trade, so the same style over a bakery and over a clinic does not come out the same colour. Switching rebuilds the pages from the template and your content comes with it: the menu and its prices, the reviews, the staff, the class timetable, the property listings, the coupon codes and the opening hours all carry over, along with the business’s own details — name, phone, email, address, logo, social links. What does not: the headings and body text you edited inside a block, and the photos you swapped in, go back to the template’s. A single undo puts the whole switch back. So changing direction is an afternoon of looking in the editor, not a second site.	We are not going to characterise what a change of look costs on Strikingly, because it does not publish a template count and the page it points at for browsing turns out to be a showcase of live customer sites rather than a gallery. What its own documentation does set out is the sections a page is assembled from — and two notes worth reading before you rearrange anything: a few section types cannot be duplicated, and on its older editor a deleted section cannot be recovered.	Ours
The parts that actually run the business	Eleven of them, in the editor: online ordering, table reservations, appointment booking by staff member and time slot, a class timetable, an order tracker, property listings, quote requests, a coupon banner and three menu layouts. Nothing to install, no second subscription behind any of them, and every record lands in the site’s own back office. Where they run is a plan boundary: ordering and reservations go live on Storefront Pro, $79 a month or $758 a year; Storefront, $49 a month or $468 a year, builds and previews them.	The one appointment feature Strikingly documents is its Bookings section, and it is built in on every plan — one bookable event on the free tier, then four, ten and a hundred as you climb. Read its own limits before you build a business on it: adding a payment gateway directly is not supported on the Bookings section, so it cannot take the money; customers cannot cancel their own booking and have to contact you; the owner can only cancel the whole event; and once an event exists its capacity, timezone and duration cannot be changed — you make a new one. The business types it lists as supported are salons, health consultations, yoga, pet care and the like — we did not find a restaurant among them on Aug 26, 2026.	Ours
Motion on the page	What you pick from is 29 scroll and cinematic sections, finished rather than composed: video that scrubs as you scroll, parallax, a scroll-told story, a horizontal scroller, a film strip, a cinema reel, a marquee, an image that reveals as it comes up, a scroll progress bar, and more. A 3D hero and an animated background ship alongside them. One attribute sets the intensity for the whole site — subtle, lively, cinematic, or off altogether — across ten entrance signatures: rise, fade, slide, zoom, blur, clip, flip, letterbox, iris and swing, so changing your mind is one value rather than forty edits. The words stay readable with JavaScript off, and a visitor whose system asks for less motion gets the site holding still.	Three presets, chosen under Styles rather than authored: Page Scroll for how content is revealed as you scroll, Background for effects like parallax, and Image Link Hover. Strikingly publishes the limits itself — the scroll animations are not applied to the Text and Button Slider or the Banner Image Slider, not applied to sections with video backgrounds, and Fixed and Parallax are switched off on all mobile browsers because most lack support for them, so your phone visitors never see them. Blog posts get no animation at all. And text cannot be animated: Strikingly’s own answer is to upload a GIF of the animation you wanted.	Ours
What is in the editor before you install anything	111 components and 15 design styles, in the editor from the first minute on both plans, with no market to visit, nothing to keep updated and nobody else’s terms of service attached to your site. The design styles rebuild the layout rather than recolour it, so trying one is a change of shape rather than a change of paint.	The built-in sections Strikingly documents are a grid, a feature list, a pricing table, an accordion and FAQ, forms, site search, two sliders and advanced layouts — a decent set for a landing page. Past that you are embedding other people’s products: its whole App Store and HTML catalogue is third-party embeds and raw HTML — Google Calendar, Google Forms, Google Maps, ECWID, Typeform, Wufoo, MailChimp, Disqus, SoundCloud, an iFrame and an HTML block. Writing your own code is Pro and above, and Strikingly states that backend code access is not supported. A few section types cannot be duplicated, and on its older editor a deleted section cannot be recovered.	Ours
How far you can push one element	Dragging a block onto a page is the doorway, not the product. What is behind it: 44 style properties on any single node, each of them settable four times over — desktop, tablet, mobile, and again for hover — which is 176 adjustable points on one element. Vertical CJK text for a hanging-scroll heading, a neon glow in a colour you choose, frosted-glass backdrop blur, a two-colour gradient at the angle you set, a tilt up to 45° either way, sticky positioning, z-index, and a per-node entrance of fade, slide, zoom or blur. All of it is a control in the panel: no CSS to write, and no layout system to learn before you start.	Sections and their settings, chosen from a panel. The built-in set Strikingly documents is a grid, a feature list, a pricing table, an accordion and FAQ, forms, site search, two sliders and advanced layouts, and motion there is three presets picked under Styles rather than properties set on an element — text cannot be animated at all, and Strikingly’s own answer is to upload a GIF of the animation you wanted. Writing your own code starts at Pro, and Strikingly states that backend code access is not supported.	Ours
Who takes a cut of what the site sells	Not us. We take no percentage of an order, a booking or a deposit, on any plan, ever — the subscription is the whole bill we send. The card is charged through your own Stripe account: your keys, Stripe’s own rate billed by Stripe, and the money lands in your account without passing through us. Your own Stripe account goes in once at setup, and after that every dollar the customer pays lands on your side of the wall.	Strikingly takes a cut of online sales on all but its top plan, and its help centre is clear about whose cut it is: Strikingly charges additional fees for using payment gateways except for VIP users, separately from what the gateway itself charges. We are not going to reprint its rate card here — we cannot keep somebody else’s fee schedule true, and a stale number would be worse than none. Its pricing page is linked at the bottom of this page; read the tier you would actually be on. Two details from its own help centre are easier to miss than the rate and cost more: the cut is taken on the whole checkout total — items, shipping and tax, after coupons — and it is not returned to you when a customer is refunded.	Ours
Running the business in two languages	A checkbox, not a project. English plus Chinese or Spanish, one site, with a real language switch rendered in the navigation and both languages living in the same file. No third-party app, no word quota, no price per language, and nothing extra on either plan.	A second language is a second site. Strikingly’s own instruction is to link multiple sites together with a switcher: connect a separate site you already have, or clone this one and translate it by hand. Cloning and auto-translating is marked a VIP feature, and the pricing page lists multi-language and auto-translation as a VIP line item. Sites are counted against the plan too — the published caps are two premium sites on the entry tier, three on Pro and five on VIP — so every language you add spends one of them.	Ours
Getting the site out	You leave with the files. Storefront Pro includes the source download; the $49 Storefront plan does not. Or build in LocalSite Studio, the desktop line, which writes the whole site into a folder with no limit on how often: a Next.js project you can read, change and host anywhere that runs Node, with the database and back office included when the site stores anything.	Strikingly answers this itself, twice, and the answers are short. Asked for a copy of a site’s HTML file, its help centre answers no — not at the moment, and no direct access to your website’s HTML files. Asked about leaving, it answers that exporting sites is not allowed yet, and that you will have to rebuild your site elsewhere if you have changed platforms. A domain bought through Strikingly can be transferred away. The site cannot.	Ours
Getting the first site live	Building and previewing costs nothing and needs no card; publishing starts at a paid plan, with a 7-day refund on it. The first day here goes into a starting point that already carries your trade’s sections — a menu, a booking grid, appointment slots by staff member — and then into the words that go on them. Drafting those is what our AI is for, and it is a panel in LocalSite Studio, the desktop app on this same editor. Describe the business and the panel writes a hero, the SEO lines, the footer and the item descriptions, or rewrites the single block you right-click, filling that block’s own fields and leaving its structure alone. It runs on an API key of your own — Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek, held in that machine’s keychain — so the provider bills you directly at its own price, we resell no tokens and add no margin, and neither plan above carries AI credits to spend. Nothing is written unless you ask for it, and one undo takes it back.	This is what Strikingly is built for and it takes the row. Its AI site builder asks for a site name and a description of the business and generates a whole site from that, and there is a free plan to start on. If one good-looking page live this week is the entire brief, that row is theirs.	Theirs
Running an actual shop	An order, a booking or an enquiry lands in the site’s own database, and the card is charged through your own Stripe keys with no cut taken. A menu and a diary is the trade this is built to run. A catalogue at that depth — stock counts, shipping rates, tax tables — is Shopify’s trade and a different product.	Strikingly ships a store. Simple Store lists up to 300 products on Pro with a checkout attached, and if selling from a catalogue is the job, that is a product we never built — ours is a menu, a diary and an enquiry form. Two things to price in first: subscriptions and recurring payments are not supported, and the transaction fee in the row above rides on every order it takes.	Theirs

Everything said about Strikingly on this page was last checked on Aug 26, 2026. Plans, prices and features change without telling us — confirm them on Strikingly’s own pages before you decide anything.

What Strikingly is shaped for

Strikingly is the faster product in some directions. Here is when that matters more than keeping the whole price does.

01You want it live this week and one good-looking page is the whole brief. Their AI builder will draft the whole thing from a description of the business, and there is a free plan under it. Ours drafts the words onto a page that was designed first, which is a different errand from producing the page.
02You are selling from a catalogue today. Simple Store exists, with a checkout, and ours is a menu and a diary rather than a warehouse.
03You need more live sites than we publish. Strikingly’s published caps are two premium sites on its entry tier, three on Pro and five on VIP; here it is one published site on Storefront and three on Storefront Pro, so if five have to be live on one bill, that is theirs.

When we are the better answer

Move when the site has to be an asset rather than a subscription.

01You are selling something and you want the whole price. No percentage of an order goes to us on any plan — the card is charged through your own Stripe account and the money never passes through our hands.
02The business is a restaurant, a clinic, a studio or a letting agent, and the page has to know that from the first screen — a menu, a reservation block, an appointment slot by staff member, a class timetable, a quote form, a property list.
03You want a second language without a second site to keep in sync: one site, one switch in the navigation, both languages in the same file, no extra charge on either plan.

Plain about the fit

Who we are for

A one-page launch this week is Strikingly’s buyer. If the brief is a single good-looking page and it has to be live by Friday, its AI builder will draft it from a sentence and there is a free plan under it. We start you somewhere else on purpose: a designed working site for your trade, free to build and preview with no card, paid the day you publish. There is AI in the line too, aimed at the other half of that job: a panel in our desktop app drafts the hero, the SEO lines, the footer and the item descriptions onto that site, or rewrites one block you right-click, and it runs on your own Anthropic, OpenAI or DeepSeek key, billed to you by the provider, with nothing resold and nothing marked up. It works on a site that is already designed and already runs, so what it drafts lands on real pages. A catalogue business is a different product again: stock counts, shipping rates and tax tables go with shipping boxes, and that is what Shopify is for. What we are for is a local business whose site has to take an order, a booking or an enquiry and keep the whole price — 40 industry starting points that open as working sites, eleven trade modules in the box, two languages at no extra charge, not one percent of anything you sell, and the source code on Storefront Pro.

Questions people actually ask

Can I export my site or its source code from Strikingly?

No, and it says so itself. Asked for a copy of a site’s HTML file, its help centre answers no — not at the moment, and no direct access to your website’s HTML files. Asked about leaving, it answers that exporting sites is not allowed yet and that you will have to rebuild your site elsewhere if you have changed platforms. A domain you bought there can be transferred out; the site itself is a rebuild.

How much of each sale does Naratake take?

None of it, on any plan. There is no percentage on an order, a booking or a deposit — the subscription is the whole bill. The card is charged through your own Stripe account with keys you save in workspace settings, so Stripe bills its own processing rate and pays you directly, and we never hold the money. What we have not built is one-click Stripe onboarding, so wiring the keys in is a job you do once.

Can Naratake take online orders and bookings today?

On Storefront Pro, yes — ordering and bookings run on the published site, with the records in the site’s own database and back office. On the $49 Storefront plan you can build and preview them, but they do not go live. Charging the card is your own Stripe account either way. Pick the plan for the job before you build a business on it.

Open one and look at what is already on it

Browse the 40 industry starting points and open the one for your trade — the menu, the booking grid or the appointment slots are on the page before you type anything. Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year; Storefront Pro, the plan that runs ordering and bookings on a published site and includes the source download, is $79 a month or $758 a year.

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What we checked

The pages this comparison was read from, all of them on Strikingly’s own site.

Strikingly is a trademark of its respective owner. Naratake is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Strikingly, and this page is not official Strikingly content. Competitor prices and features were read on the pages linked above on Aug 26, 2026 and may have changed since.