miow, a Weebly alternative for small businesses
miow builds and hosts small-business websites, and moves a Weebly site's pages across.
What is a good alternative to Weebly?
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 Weebly?
Weebly's figures are from its pricing page and help centre in October 2026, in pounds as the page showed them in the UK. Weebly belongs to Square, and signing up goes through a Square account.
| miow | Weebly | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 weebly.com or square.site address with Square's ads; Personal £6 to Performance £24 a month paid yearly, or £9 to £27 paid monthly |
| Taking payments | On any site, into its own Stripe account; miow takes nothing from a sale | A shopping cart on every plan, the free one included |
| Your own domain | On any site, with a domain you already own | From the Personal plan |
| Signing in | A passkey your phone keeps; no password and no email sign-in | A Square account |
| Leaving | One zip of the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture | A ZIP of the site without its blog and store pages; Weebly's help centre warns that its contact form and slideshows may not work outside Weebly |
Can I move my Weebly site to miow?
Yes, if the site publishes a list of its pages at its address followed by /sitemap.xml; Weebly 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.