Weebly Alternatives That Are Actually Free (After the 2026 Shutdown)

The best free Weebly alternatives are Google Sites, Framer and Carrd. Google Sites is the only one that connects your own domain for $0, Framer gives you a real design tool on its free plan, and Carrd is the cheapest way to a single page on your own name, at $19 a year. All three keep working without a card on file, which is the point if you are leaving a free plan that ended without much warning.

This list is for two kinds of reader: Weebly users in the 67 countries where Weebly has wound down and login access ends on 26 December 2026, and anyone elsewhere who would rather not wait to find out whether their country is next. If you run a shop with real order volume, skip the free tiers and read the section on Square Online and paid builders further down.

Why people are leaving Weebly in 2026

Weebly's own support notice says it decided to "wind down Weebly services in 67 countries by 2026-09-20", citing changes in regulation and a wish to simplify its operations. In those countries, publishing new pages stopped on 29 June, existing sites were due to be unpublished on 27 September, and account login ends on 26 December 2026, which is the real deadline for downloading your data and moving domains. Outside the list, including the US, Weebly still sells its plans, and its pricing page doesn't mention the wind-down. Our Weebly free plan review has the full timeline and the export steps.

The order below follows our ranking of free website builders, which judges what each $0 plan lets you publish, not how good the builder is overall. It is a different list from the ones that currently rank for this search, most of which were written before the wind-down and send you straight to paid plans.

The free alternatives, ranked by free tier

Read the last column as the price of leaving free on each builder, because most people who move off Weebly want their old domain back on the new site. Two of the eight let you do that for under $20 a year. The others land between about $120 and $205 a year, the same band as Weebly's own ad-free Professional plan at $180 billed annually.

Each alternative: what free allows, the catch, the cheapest exit

Google Sites: your domain, no bill

Google Sites costs nothing with any Google account, shows no ads, and one site can answer on as many as five domains you own. Google's help page sets a few conditions: only the site owner can connect a domain, the address needs a subdomain such as www, changes can take up to 48 hours, and there is a limit of 20 domain mappings a week. You buy the domain itself from a registrar or through Google Workspace. The trade is flexibility, since there is no built-in store and the templates are deliberately plain. Our Google Sites review goes through the rest. Google Sites has no affiliate programme, so there is no partner link here.

Framer: the designer's free plan

On Framer's free plan, the site lives on a Framer-owned address, traffic is capped at 1 GB a month, and you get 500 AI credits as a one-off taste; Framer's FAQ says connecting your own domain means upgrading. Basic, $10 a month when yearly billing is selected, takes the domain, lifts the traffic cap to 50 GB and allows a 30-page site, with 1,000 AI credits refilled monthly. Pro, at $30, stretches that to 150 pages. The catch on free is that bandwidth line, which an image-heavy portfolio can use up quickly. If your Weebly site was mostly a portfolio or a studio page, start on Framer's free plan and move to Basic when you connect the domain.

Carrd: one page, $19 a year

Carrd builds one-page sites. Its free tier lets you publish up to three of them on carrd.co addresses, with "Made with Carrd" branding. The paid plans are priced per year: Pro Lite at $9 removes the branding but doesn't take a custom domain, while Pro Standard at $19 adds custom domains, forms, widgets, embeds and up to 10 sites. Carrd lets you renew automatically or pay as you go. If your Weebly site was really a landing page with a contact form, Carrd's Pro Standard plan replaces it for less than two months of most rivals.

Webflow: room to grow, on a two-page leash

Webflow's free Starter plan gives you the full designer, a webflow.io address, 2 static pages, 1 GB of bandwidth and 50 form submissions. Paying $15 a month on yearly billing for Basic gets you your own domain, room for 300 static pages, ten times the bandwidth, no cap on form entries and password-protected pages. It still has no CMS, which Webflow keeps for Premium at $25. Webflow is the most capable tool here and the steepest to learn, so it suits someone rebuilding a bigger Weebly site with time to spare. Try Webflow on Starter before you commit.

Wix: the closest thing to the Weebly editor

Wix's free plan publishes on a wixsite.com address with Wix branding, and it doesn't accept payments. The cheapest way out is Light: $17 a month, paid yearly plus tax, which brings your own domain, strips the Wix branding and gives you 2 GB of storage. Checkout and payments only arrive with Core, at $29 a month. Yearly plans come with a domain voucher for the first year, and a .com renews at $21.35 after that. For people who liked Weebly's drag-and-drop editor, Wix is the most familiar move, and our Wix free plan review lists the strings attached.

Strikingly: unlimited sites, branded twice

Strikingly has no cap on how many free sites you publish; each may run to five pages and 500 MB of files with 5 GB of monthly bandwidth, and can sell exactly one product, with Strikingly taking 5%. Its help centre says every free site carries the Strikingly logo in the footer and shows "on Strikingly" after the site title in browser tabs and search results. Pro, at $16 a month billed yearly, removes the branding and allows up to 100 pages. Strikingly suits short event or campaign sites more than a long-term home.

Jimdo: five pages, ads included

Jimdo's free plan gives you 5 pages, 5 GB of storage, HTTPS and a jimdosite.com subdomain, but it isn't ad-free and can't connect your own domain. Start costs $11 a month with a 12-month contract, removes the ads, connects a domain and raises the limit to 10 pages; Jimdo says prices for other contract terms may vary. If a small Weebly brochure site is what you're replacing, Jimdo Start is a modest, predictable step.

GoDaddy: a funnel with an AI front door

GoDaddy's US website-builder page now shows only its Airo AI Builder plans. The free tier comes with 50 AI credits a month and needs no card; Starter is $9.99 a month billed annually with 150 credits, and GoDaddy says paid plans come with a free domain. The page doesn't say whether the free tier can publish a site, so check that before you rebuild there. Our GoDaddy free website builder review covers the older plan, and GoDaddy's builder is worth a look if you already keep domains there.

Not free: Squarespace and Square Online

Squarespace skips the free tier altogether and offers a 14-day trial, no card needed, instead. Basic, its entry plan, is $19 a month when paid yearly or $25 month to month, and the yearly route adds a domain free for year one. It is the polished choice if you were already paying for Weebly and want templates that need little work, but it doesn't belong on a list of free alternatives except as the paid benchmark. Squarespace is the exit for people who have decided to pay.

Sellers should look harder at Square Online. It belongs to the same company as Weebly, and in the US its entry tier costs nothing per location; you pay per sale instead, 3.3% + 30¢ on each online card payment. Moving up to Plus, $49 a month for each location, trims the online rate to 2.9% + 30¢. Whether the $0 tier can serve the shop on your own domain isn't spelled out on that plans page, so ask Square before you repoint a store's address.

Moving off Weebly: export, rebuild, repoint the domain

The order matters, because the domain is the slowest piece and the login deadline is fixed. In the 67 countries, everything below has to be finished before 26 December 2026; elsewhere, the same steps simply make you independent of Weebly's next decision.

• Take the account-wide download (Account Settings > My Data > Download My Data) plus each site's archive from Website > Edit Site > Settings > Archive.
• Rebuild the pages on the new builder from those files, starting with the pages that bring in visitors or enquiries.
• Unlock the domain under Websites > Domains in Weebly, copy the EPP code, and start the transfer at your new registrar; domains under 60 days old can't move yet.
• Point the domain at the new builder once the rebuilt site is ready, then check that old page addresses still reach something useful.

Two things are easy to forget. Unlocking a domain at Weebly switches off its WHOIS privacy, so turn privacy back on at the new registrar. And if your domain is a country-code one such as .co.uk or .de, or your email runs through Google Workspace bought via Weebly, contact Weebly support, because those move differently.

Edge cases

A Weebly site with a large store is the hardest move. Among the free tiers in the table, Strikingly is the only one whose pricing page lists selling, and only one product; Square Online's $0 plan is the free option built for it. Otherwise price in Wix Core at $29 a month or Square Online Plus if you sell regularly. A Weebly site that relied on a blog with years of posts needs a builder with real page room, which rules out Carrd and the five-page free plans on Strikingly and Jimdo. And if you only need your old address to say "we've moved", Google Sites on your domain does that for nothing.

Which one should you pick

If you want a single answer, it's Google Sites for an information site and Carrd for a one-pager. Both keep your own domain cheap or free, and neither depends on a plan that could change under you as quickly as Weebly's did. Framer is the pick when looks matter more than price, and Wix is the safe choice for someone who wants an editor that feels like the one they're leaving.