Weebly

Yes — Weebly still runs and existing sites keep working, but it's effectively in maintenance mode. Since Block (formerly Square) acquired it in 2018, development has shifted to Square Online, which is built on Weebly's underlying technology. New features and investment go there, not into classic Weebly, so the product hasn't changed much in years. It remains a perfectly usable builder today — its free plan in particular is still one of the better ones around — but treat it as a stable, mature tool rather than one that's going to grow new capabilities.

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Development has largely stopped — Block's focus is Square Online — so the platform feels frozen in time. The templates look dated next to Wix and Squarespace, design flexibility is limited, and the advanced SEO and marketing tools are thin compared with mainstream rivals. The flip side is real, though: Weebly is genuinely easy to use, paid plans are inexpensive (from US$15/mo), and its free plan remains one of the most usable anywhere. That combination — dead-simple editing plus a workable free tier — is the niche it still fills, even if it's no longer the builder to pick for an ambitious or fast-growing project.

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Wix, in almost every dimension: more templates, more features, active development and stronger ecommerce. Weebly wins on just two points — its free plan is arguably the most usable for a simple, permanent site, and its editor is even more stripped-back and beginner-friendly than Wix's. Weebly's paid plans are cheap too, from US$15/mo. So if you want a zero-budget hobby or info page and value the absolute simplest editor, Weebly still works. For anything you expect to grow, customize or sell from, Wix is the clearly better long-term choice.

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Yes — Weebly's free plan is genuinely free forever: you can build and publish a working site, with SSL included, at no cost. The trade-offs are a weebly.com subdomain, Square/Weebly branding on the site, and a capped set of features. To connect your own domain, remove the branding and unlock the fuller toolset, you'll need a paid plan, which starts at US$15/mo. For a simple hobby or placeholder page the free tier is fine; for anything business-facing, the paid step-up is worth it.

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Yes — Weebly is arguably the easiest editor in this whole comparison: a straightforward drag-and-drop builder with far fewer options to get lost in than Wix. Paired with a real free plan, that makes it a genuinely good first website for someone who's never built one. The catch is that the ceiling arrives quickly — as your project grows you'll bump into its limits on design, ecommerce and marketing, and most people outgrow it within a year or two, moving to Wix, Squarespace or, for a store, Shopify. As a place to learn the ropes with no cost or risk, though, it's hard to beat.

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