Squarespace

Squarespace is an all-in-one website builder: design templates, hosting, a custom domain, SSL and ecommerce all bundled into one subscription and edited through a clean, visual editor. It's best known for having the most polished, professionally designed templates in the industry — which is why photographers, studios, restaurants and brands that care about aesthetics gravitate to it. Everything is managed for you, so there are no plugins to update or servers to worry about. Since acquiring Google Domains, Squarespace is also one of the largest domain registrars in the world, so many people now manage domains there even if they build their site elsewhere.

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Less freedom than Wix. The templates keep you inside Squarespace's design system — which is also why sites stay beautiful, but it frustrates anyone who wants to move elements pixel by pixel. The app and extension ecosystem is smaller, there's no permanent free plan (just a 14-day trial, with paid plans from US$16/mo), and advanced ecommerce still trails Shopify for serious sellers. Deeper custom functionality can require code workarounds. It's the classic quality-versus-flexibility trade: you accept fewer options in return for a site that looks designed rather than assembled. For most brand and portfolio sites that's a fair deal; power users may feel boxed in.

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No — Squarespace has no permanent free plan, only a 14-day free trial to build and preview a site before you commit. Paid plans start at US$16/mo on annual billing. If a genuinely free tier is a must-have, Wix and Weebly both offer real ones (on a subdomain, with branding); Squarespace's pitch is simply that its design quality is worth paying for from day one.

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Same verdict whichever side you start from: Wix wins on flexibility, app selection and a lower entry price with a real free tier; Squarespace wins on design polish, template quality and a calmer, more guided editing experience. Squarespace's paid plans start at US$16/mo with no free option, only a trial. Content-heavy sites, feature hunters and tight budgets lean Wix. Portfolios, studios, restaurants and brand sites where looks do the selling lean Squarespace. Neither is wrong — pick flexibility or finish, because that's the real axis this choice turns on.

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Go to squarespace.com and click Log In (top right), or open the Squarespace app, then sign in with your email and password — or with Google or Apple if that's how you signed up. The account dashboard is where you manage your sites, domains (including any moved over from Google Domains) and billing. If your password's gone missing, the login page has a reset link to get you back in.

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Yes — Squarespace acquired Google Domains' registrations in 2023, and the migration finished in 2024. Tens of millions of domains moved across, and former Google Domains customers now manage them through a Squarespace account. Existing pricing was honored at first, but renewals now follow Squarespace's own rates — so if your domain came over from Google, it's worth checking the renewal price rather than assuming the old one still applies.

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