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xigzag vs Squarespace

xigzag or Squarespace? The honest answer.

Squarespace is known for beautiful, designer-grade templates and a clean, polished editing experience. Here's how xigzag compares — fairly, including where Squarespace is the better fit.

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What matters
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Squarespace
Getting started

Describe your business in a sentence and a finished site appears — designed and written for you.

Choose one of its well-crafted templates, then replace the demo content with your own.

Your design

An original look, created for your business. No two sites are alike.

Gorgeous — but you're starting from a template many other brands also chose.

Fees on your sales

0%. On a $10,000 month you keep all $10,000 — your customers pay you through your own account.

Commerce plans reduce or remove its own transaction fee, but you still pay the payment processor and a monthly commerce tier.

Everything in one place

Store, bookings, tickets, courses, memberships and donations all built in and working together.

Bolt on separate apps and plug-ins, and hope they get along.

Languages & the world

100+ languages and full right-to-left for Arabic, Persian and Hebrew — built in from day one.

Multi-language is supported, but right-to-left languages aren't a first-class, automatic experience.

Changing things later

Change one thing and the whole site keeps up — menus, links and pages stay in sync.

Update something and go hunting for everything else it broke.

Ads on your site

Never — ad-free on every plan, including the free one.

Free plans often show the builder's own ads or badges.

What it costs to grow

Free to build, $19 to go live, then a price that rises gently as you grow — no sudden jumps.

Step up to the next tier and the price can jump all at once.

Trying it out

Free to start, no credit card, cancel anytime — and your site is always yours to export.

Often a card up front, or a trial that quietly turns into a bill.

This is xigzag's honest view; Squarespace is a capable product and the details above can change, so check Squarespace's current plans too. The xigzag side is what we do today.

In fairness

When Squarespace is the better choice

Pick Squarespace if award-winning template aesthetics matter most and you're happy to pour your content into a beautiful, pre-made frame.

We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. If that's xigzag, the fastest way to know is to build a site and see — it's free.

The best way to choose is to try.

Describe your business and watch a real, finished site appear — free, before you sign up.

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