SiteSpin
Compared with Squarespace

Both give you a beautiful site.
Only one keeps it accurate.

Squarespace hands you the best templates on the web, and then hands you the editor that maintains them.

Squarespace
an editor
SiteSpin
a conversation
The short version

Squarespace makes the best-looking templates anywhere.

If you care how a site looks and you are willing to sit in an editor to get it there, Squarespace will take you further than we will. Its templates are genuinely the most admired on the web, and its commerce and scheduling tools are mature. The cost is the same one every editor has: the site is only as current as the last evening you gave it.

SiteSpin makes the opposite trade. You answer questions, we make the design decisions, and when something needs changing you say what is different.

Who each one is for
Squarespace, if choosing the look is the part you want to do
SiteSpin, if the look is the part you want decided for you
The table

What it takes to do the same thing.

Seven questions, answered for both. Three of them Squarespace answers better, and those are on the list because leaving them off would make the other five worth less.

What you want to do
SiteSpin
Squarespace
Change the opening hours
Say the new hours
Open the editor, find the block, edit, publish
Start taking bookings
Ask for it
Acuity Scheduling, on the higher plans
Get the words written
Written from your answers
You write them, or you pay someone
Take a card payment on the site
Not yet. The order reaches you and you take payment as you do now
Built in, today
Choose from templates
There are none. Every site is written from scratch
About a hundred and fifty, and they are the best-looking ones anywhere
Keep the address working
We buy the domain and renew it
Free for a year on annual plans, billed separately after
Fix it when it breaks
Ours to fix
Yours to diagnose
The difference underneath all of it

Their AI hands you a draft and then hands you the editor.

That sounds like a small difference and it is the whole thing, because the editor is exactly what stopped these owners having a website in the first place. Here, asking for a booking system costs you what changing the hours costs. On an editor one is a Tuesday evening and the other is a plugin hunt.

Ask for a change, get the change
The assembly work is the product
The site is looked after, not handed over
From people who moved

Sites that came off Squarespace.

Three sites SiteSpin wrote. Ours, and all three live.

elias-roth.sitespin.app
Elias Roth, a photographer
Shows work, then gets enquiries
duskwork.sitespin.app
Duskwork, a clothing label
Takes orders, with sizes
ember-and-wick.sitespin.app
Ember & Wick, a candle studio in Bristol
Takes orders
Choose Squarespace if

Any of these is you.

We would rather you read this now than find it out in a month.

You want to choose the template yourself and you have one in mind
You need to take card payments on the site this month
You want scheduling and email marketing on the same bill
You are a designer, or you are building this for somebody else

Three common objections

"But Squarespace templates look so polished."
They do. SiteSpin's output is polished too, but in a different way: every site is custom-written for the specific business, so two SiteSpin photographers don't share a layout. If you want the aesthetic of a specific Squarespace template, Squarespace gives you that template. If you want a site that reflects your specific practice, SiteSpin's approach fits better.
"What about ecommerce?"
SiteSpin doesn't ship a cart or checkout in v1. If selling on your own site today is non-negotiable, Squarespace Commerce is the more complete option. If you sell on Etsy or Shopify already, SiteSpin can link out to your marketplace listings.
"What if I want precise control over the design?"
SiteSpin makes the design choices for you, then changes them the moment you ask. There is no drag-the-pixels editor. For most coaches, photographers, and makers, that is the point: a professional result without losing an afternoon to it. If hands-on design control is something you genuinely want to spend time on, Squarespace's editor gives you more of it.

Common questions

Can I migrate from Squarespace to SiteSpin?
Yes, but you describe your business in chat rather than importing the Squarespace site directly. Paste any copy from your Squarespace site into the SiteSpin chat as part of the brief. Upload your photos through the app.
Can I use my Squarespace domain with SiteSpin?
Yes. With SiteSpin Pro, point your domain at SiteSpin using the steps the app shows you. Keep the domain where it is or transfer it; either works.
What about SEO?
SiteSpin sites are built with clean semantic HTML, fast load times, and proper meta tags. Squarespace is also solid on SEO basics. The bigger SEO lever is the content of the site and the inbound links pointing at it.

Squarespace is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc.. SiteSpin is not affiliated with Squarespace and is not endorsed by it. Every row above was checked against Squarespace's published pricing and feature pages on 27 August 2026, comparing annual plan against annual plan. If a row has gone out of date, write to us and we will correct it.

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