miow, a Strikingly alternative for small businesses
miow builds and hosts small-business websites, and moves a Strikingly site's pages across.
What is a good alternative to Strikingly?
miow is one, for a business that wants its website written for it rather than built up from a template. You describe the business, or give the address of the site you have now, and the pages appear at the site's own address on miow.me.
From there you say what should change and a model changes it, or you edit the page yourself. Every change is recorded and can be undone.
How is miow different from Strikingly?
Strikingly's figures are from its pricing page and help centre in October 2026, in US dollars.
| miow | Strikingly | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Building costs nothing, and so does hosting unless miow sets a monthly price for the site, shown under Money in its Settings before anything is taken | A free plan on a mystrikingly.com address with Strikingly's branding; Limited US$8 to VIP US$49 a month paid yearly, or Pro US$20 and VIP US$59 paid monthly |
| Fee on a sale | None from miow; cards are paid into the site's own Stripe account, which charges its own card fees | 5% on the free and Limited plans, which sell one product; 2% on Pro; none on VIP |
| Your own domain | On any site, with a domain you already own | From the Limited plan |
| Signing in | A passkey your phone keeps; no password and no email sign-in | A Strikingly account |
| Leaving | One zip of the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture | No export; Strikingly's help centre says it does not allow exporting sites yet, and products leave as a CSV file |
Can I move my Strikingly site to miow?
Yes, if the site publishes a list of its pages at its address followed by /sitemap.xml; Strikingly makes one for every site. Give miow the address, and up to 40 of its pages come across at the same addresses, each laid out by a model under a rule to keep every word, with its pictures copied into miow's own storage.
Forms, newsletter sign-ups and anything that runs as a script stay behind; where a form was the way to get in touch, the page keeps the email address or phone number it gives. Links to the old site keep working once its domain points at miow.
What does miow leave out?
miow takes no bookings, sends no newsletters and sells no domains. Each product is one item at one price, marked sold once it is paid for, which suits one-off pieces more than stock in sizes and colours.
A business that relies on bookings or a newsletter keeps that service where it is and links to it from its miow site.
How does miow compare with other website builders?
miow compared with other website builders lists every comparison.