A Weebly alternative with the trade parts already in it

Here 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.

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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 Weebly’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 Weebly	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, carrying the sections that trade actually uses. 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.	A theme on Weebly is a look, and Weebly says so itself: the theme gallery is organised by category, but its help centre adds that you can choose any theme you like no matter which category it happens to be in — and that changing themes will not change any of the content on your pages. The pre-made layouts its documentation demonstrates are generic rather than trade-shaped; the example Weebly gives is a Contact Us layout that drops in a map, a contact form and some text.	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 barber 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 a second direction is a look at it rather than the site typed in again — and nothing is installed to do it and nothing is bought.	Weebly is straight about this one and so are we, in both directions. Its help centre says you can choose any theme you like no matter which category it happens to be in, and that changing themes will not change any of the content on your pages — so what a theme change moves there is the look, and the pages you have written are left alone. What a design style moves here is the layout itself: the hero composition and every page header get rebuilt, and your content comes with it — the menu and its prices, the reviews, the staff, the class timetable, the coupon codes and the opening hours all carry over, while the headings and body text you edited inside a block and the photos you swapped in go back to the template’s, and one undo puts the whole thing back. Two different offers rather than two grades of the same one.	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. Accordions, tabs, FAQ blocks, team cards, counters, pricing tables, menus, galleries, forms, maps and testimonials are not a shelf you browse before you can build — they are the box, and the design styles rebuild the layout rather than recolour it.	Weebly’s own features page names the content elements as text, photos, maps and videos. For the rest, its help articles all open the same way: install the Accordion app if you haven’t already done so and drag the element to the page — and the same sentence heads the Tabs, FAQ and Team Cards articles. In fairness, those apps are published by Weebly itself and the App Center page for the Accordion one lists it at Free, so this is a step rather than a bill. Weebly draws the line itself, though: its documentation says App Elements can be dragged in just like native Weebly elements, and an app is connected to one site at a time.	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.	Weebly’s own features page names the content elements as text, photos, maps and videos, and the customising its help centre documents sits at the level of the page furniture: background images and their scroll effects, a flexible header, the theme’s colours and fonts. Past that the answer is the theme code editor — real HTML and CSS, which the code row below gives it credit for, and which Weebly ships with its own warning that it does not provide in-depth support for custom theming. Editing a theme’s stylesheet is a different job from setting a hover state on one node at one breakpoint from a panel.	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. Every record lands in the site’s own back office, with no second subscription behind any of them. 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.	Bookings come from outside. Weebly’s help centre documents two booking products, Appointedd and Schedulista, and both are third-party apps you install — the App Center prices them at $15 to $20 a month and $19 to $39 a month, on top of whatever Weebly plan you are on (Aug 26, 2026). A class timetable is not a module at all: the route its own documentation teaches is to generate a widget in MINDBODY, copy the code, and paste it into an Embed Code element on the page.	Ours
Motion on the page	Sections arrive finished rather than composed, and there are 29 of them: 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.	Weebly sells motion and it is real — its own website product page carries a Parallax and Reveal section promising advanced animation effects, and we are not going to tell you it has none. What its help centre then documents is where those effects live: on a section’s background. An image or video background can be given a scrolling effect, the video background is for Pro subscribers and up, and the navigation can be made sticky or set to reveal on scroll up. That is motion attached to backgrounds and menus rather than authored on the sections themselves.	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.	Weebly does not build this, and its own FAQ says so by offering two workarounds instead. One is a third-party app from the App Center — it names Multilanguage and LocalizeInternet, neither of them made by Weebly, so both the terms and the upkeep are between you and their publishers. The other is to copy the whole site, translate every page by hand, and link the copies to each other; the same article notes your blog posts do not come with the copy, and an account is capped at ten sites, so every extra language spends one of them.	Ours
Getting the site out	The export is a codebase, not a theme file. On Storefront Pro the source download is in the plan; the $49 Storefront plan does not include it. Or build in LocalSite Studio, the desktop line, which writes the whole codebase into a folder as often as you like: a Next.js project you can read, change and host anywhere, with the database and the back office included when the site stores anything.	There is an archive, and we are not going to tell you there is not: Settings, then General, then Archive emails you a zip of the site. Read Weebly’s own note on it before you count on it — blog and store pages are not included because they rely directly on its database, and some components may not work correctly outside the Weebly editor, the contact form and slideshow elements among the ones it names. The same page says the file cannot be imported back in. It is a backup to rebuild from, not a site you can move.	Ours
Editing the markup yourself	Two different answers, and one of them is not in the browser. The cloud editor gives you components and design styles, not an HTML pane. What you get instead is the whole project as source — the export is a Next.js codebase rather than a theme file, so the markup, the styles, the modules and the back office are all yours to open in a real editor. That is on Storefront Pro, and on the desktop line there is no limit on how often you take it.	Weebly lets you into the theme without leaving the builder: its code editor opens the theme’s HTML and CSS and accepts uploaded CSS files, images and scripts, and its own template page advertises full HTML and CSS control. It attaches a fair warning that it does not provide in-depth support for custom theming — and what you are editing is a theme on their platform rather than a project you hold.	Even
Running an actual shop	Orders, bookings and enquiries land in the site’s own database, the card is charged through your own Stripe keys, and an ordering site carries a register in its back office for what you sell across the counter. That 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.	Weebly belongs to Square, a payments company, and its pricing page carries a dedicated ecommerce section across all four plans. If you are selling stock and you want the cart, the tax and the register to come from one supplier that does this for a living, this row is theirs.	Theirs
What it costs	Free to build and preview, with no card to sign up — you pay the day you publish. Storefront is $49 a month or $468 a year; Storefront Pro, the plan that runs ordering and bookings on a published site, is $79 a month or $758 a year. Hosting, HTTPS and one custom domain are in both, there is no percentage on top of either, and there is a 7-day refund. A live site here starts at a paid plan, and on that this row is Weebly’s.	Hard to argue with. Weebly published a Free plan at $0 a month, Personal at $13 billed annually or $16 month to month, Professional at $15 or $20, and Performance at $32 or $36, read on Aug 26, 2026. On price this row is theirs; what our subscription buys instead is every other row on this page.	Theirs

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

What Weebly is shaped for

Reasons to stay, argued from Weebly’s side of the table.

01You are selling stock. A company that does payments for a living, with the cart, the tax table and the merchant account all in one place, is the shape they sell. Ours is an order or an enquiry charged through your own Stripe account — no cut taken, the money landing in your bank, and a register in the back office for the counter — and that is a different job from running a catalogue.
02Your budget is zero. Building and previewing here costs nothing and takes no card, and the price starts the day you publish — so a site that has to be live at $0 is Weebly’s offer to take.
03You want to edit the theme’s HTML and CSS inside the builder. Their code editor does that in the browser; ours hands you the whole project as source, which is the shape to have when the site has to outlive the tool.

When we are the better answer

Move when the site has to do the trade’s work on the day it goes live.

01You do not want to shop for parts. The accordion, the FAQ, the team cards, the booking grid, the class timetable and the second language are in the editor, not in a market you have to visit first.
02You want the second language to cost nothing. English plus Chinese or Spanish is one site with a switch in the navigation, not a duplicate site you translate by hand and then keep in sync, and not a third-party app in the loop.
03You are building for a client, and what they are buying is a website rather than a seat on somebody’s platform. On Storefront Pro the source download is in the plan; on the desktop line the whole codebase comes out as a Next.js project the client owns.

Plain about the fit

Who we are for

A shop with stock is a different purchase. If the job is a catalogue — inventory counts, shipping rates, tax tables, the merchant account on the same bill — Weebly sits inside Square and that is exactly what Square does for a living, and Shopify is the other product built for it. On budget: building and previewing here costs nothing and takes no card, and the price starts the day you publish, so a site that has to be live at $0 is Weebly’s offer to take. What we are for is a local business that needs the trade’s parts working on day one — a menu, a booking grid, an appointment slot by staff member, a class timetable, an enquiry form — inside 40 industry starting points, in two languages at no extra charge, with the source download in the plan on Storefront Pro.

Questions people actually ask

Can I export my Weebly site?

Yes, as an archive rather than as a working site. Weebly emails you a zip from Settings, then General, then Archive. Its own note on that page says blog and store pages are not included because they rely directly on its database, that some components — the contact form and slideshow elements are the ones it names — may not work correctly outside the Weebly editor, and that the file cannot be imported back in. Treat it as a backup you could rebuild from.

What does Naratake give me that Weebly does not?

Three things, and they are why this page exists. Starting points shaped like a trade rather than a blank page, with the ordering, booking, timetable and enquiry sections already on them. A second language as a setting rather than a duplicate site or a paid app. And the code: a Next.js project, from the cloud plan on Storefront Pro or without limit from the desktop line.

Is Weebly still its own product now that it belongs to Square?

Read its own FAQ and judge for yourself. It states that Weebly was acquired by Square in 2018, that Square Websites is a platform built with Weebly technology, and that as part of the merger it asks you to replace your Weebly account with a Square account. Its pricing page still publishes four plans with prices on them, read on Aug 26, 2026. We are not going to tell you what that means for the roadmap; we are telling you where to look.

Open one and see what is already on the page

Start a site in the browser from one of the 40 industry starting points and count how many parts you did not have to go and install first. Plans and prices are on the pricing page; what the export actually hands over is spelled out on the own-your-code page, including the part that only Storefront Pro and the desktop line give you.

Start a site in the browser See what you actually own

What we checked

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

Weebly and Square are trademarks of Block, Inc. Naratake is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Block, Inc., and this page is not official Weebly content. Competitor prices and features were read on the pages linked above on Aug 26, 2026 and may have changed since.