Beautiful templates — shared with everyone else.
Squarespace is the designer's template builder: polished themes, a 14-day trial, then from $16/mo billed yearly. Ullbek designs a site around your business and lets you publish for free before you pay a cent.
You sell online (its commerce and scheduling are mature), you want a proven designer template, or you enjoy fine-tuning layouts in Fluid Engine.
You want a look that isn't shared with thousands of other sites — one designed around your business and the mood you describe — you'd rather describe than fiddle, and you want to be live for free before paying anything.
Prices are Squarespace's published list prices as of October 2026, billed yearly unless noted — they change, so check Squarespace's pricing page before you decide. Ullbek's are on our pricing page.
You're not a template.
Neither should your website be.
Ullbek designs your site around your business and the mood you describe — the type, the palette, the rhythm of every page — then builds it, page by page, until it feels like you. That's the whole difference, and every row below comes back to it.
Dozens of beautiful designs. All of them familiar, because everyone starts from the same few.
Drag blocks around a grid, then tidy the mobile layout separately.
Pick a plan from $16/mo, billed yearly, or the site goes dark.
Say what the site is for, who it's for and how it should feel. Ullbek asks what it needs to know.
Each page is designed, written and checked in a real browser as you watch. Say what to change.
Free on a .ullbek.site address, or on your own domain with Premium.
✓ a clear strength · ~ it's there, with a catch · ✗ not there.
| What matters | Squarespace | Ullbek |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | ~A template | ✓A blank canvas, designed around your brief |
| How you make changes | ~Fluid Engine drag-and-drop | ✓Ask in plain words |
| Free plan | ✗No — a 14-day trial | ✓Yes — free forever on a .ullbek.site address |
| Your own domain | ~From $16/mo billed yearly ($25 monthly) | ✓$12 per site per month, no yearly lock-in |
| Changing the design later | ~Switch template; re-fitting your content is on you | ✓Ask for a new look — nothing to migrate |
| Online store with cart & checkout | ✓Yes, Core plan and above | ✗No — product pages link to where you sell |
| Scheduling & member areas | ✓Yes, as paid add-ons | ✗Not built in |
| Blog | ✓Built-in blogging tools | ~Yes — ask for a post; there's no CMS panel |
| Mobile version | ~Mobile layout tidied separately | ✓Responsive from the first build |
| Support | ✓24/7 email and live chat | ~Email; priority on Premium |
Squarespace Commerce handles carts, inventory, shipping and taxes. Ullbek builds product pages that link out to your Shopify, Etsy or payment page. For a real shop with stock, Squarespace is more complete.
Acuity Scheduling and Member Areas are paid Squarespace add-ons. Ullbek has neither.
Squarespace runs around-the-clock support. Ullbek support is by email, with faster responses on Premium.
Squarespace has been refining its templates since 2004. Ullbek launched in June 2026. If you want the safe, proven option, that's them.
Say the site should feel like a Sunday-morning bakery, a late-night studio or a quiet law office, and Ullbek designs for that feeling — typeface, colour, spacing, the way the page breathes. A template was finished before you arrived; it can only be itself with your logo on it.
A menu that reads like a menu. A gallery that behaves like a gallery. A booking note where a visitor actually looks for it. Ullbek makes design decisions a designer would make, for your pages specifically — not a kit of blocks that stops where the kit stops.
Squarespace sites are beautiful and instantly recognisable as Squarespace sites. Ullbek designs around your business, so your site looks like you.
Squarespace has no free plan. Ullbek lets you build, publish and stay live on a free address — forever — with a small badge.
Take a month to get it right. Nothing expires, nothing goes dark.
“Swap the hero photo for the one of the terrace and make the opening hours bigger.” No grid, no breakpoints, no mobile pass afterwards.
Squarespace is the safer pick for a shop or a scheduling business. Ullbek is the better pick if you want a site designed around you and your mood, published free, and changed by asking.
Squarespace exports an XML file meant for WordPress, which Ullbek doesn't read. What works: give Ullbek your Squarespace address and it reads your public pages — text, structure, products — and builds a fresh site from them. Bring the photos you own.
Blueprint asks a few questions and assembles a Squarespace template with suggested layouts and copy; you then edit it in Fluid Engine. Ullbek has no template underneath — it designs the pages around what you describe and keeps changing them as you talk.
Squarespace has been a photographer favourite for years, and its galleries are excellent. Ullbek builds the gallery around your photos and your way of working — see how to build a photographer website with AI.
Squarespace Basic is $192 a year billed yearly, or $300 paid monthly. Ullbek Premium is $144 a year, paid monthly, and the free tier is $0. Building uses AI credits — a free credit covers your first builds. Full pricing →