Mobirise vs Wix
We give Mobirise a 2.2 GPA and Wix a 2.8, out of 4.0. Mobirise grades higher on the free plan. Wix grades higher on features, ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Mobirise
Free desktop website builder with paid themes, extensions and AI
Wix
Drag-and-drop website builder with an AI agent and business apps
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAMobiriseFair | 2.8GPAWixGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CThe app is free, but a site needs a server: BASE is $199 a year, about $16.58 a month, for hosting on your own domain, and KIT at $149 a year only unlocks themes in the app. That's the middle of this category. Hosting you already pay for costs nothing extra. | CLight is $17 a month for one site on yearly billing, with your own domain, no Wix ads and 2 GB, so it sits mid-range for this category. But it can't take payments or bookings, and Wix's own blog points small businesses to Core at $29, where this category's dearest tenth starts. |
| Free plan and trial | BThe desktop app is free for personal and commercial use, publishes unlimited sites to your own hosting or a free mobirisesite.com address, and gives 3 AI generations a month. One person could live on that; premium themes are the main thing missing. | CThere's a free plan with the full editor and the AI agent, but it runs on a Wix address with Wix ads and 500 MB of storage. Fine for trying ideas, not for a business. Paid plans have no trial, just a 14-day money-back guarantee. |
| Features | CAn offline drag-and-drop builder, publishing anywhere with full code export, AI site generation and 220+ themes and extensions in the Kit. Selling is done with cart extensions through PayPal, Stripe or WhatsApp rather than a full store. | AThe widest set of built-in business tools in this category: a store, bookings, events, restaurant orders and hotel reservations, an AI agent called Aria, an app market and a headless developer platform. Few rivals come close. |
| Ease of use | CNo app store rating on record. You install it and start dragging blocks in, but you still build every page and, unless you pay for BASE, sort out your own hosting. | B4.58 from about 16,800 App Store ratings. Thousands of templates and Aria drafting sections from a sentence make the start easy, though with this much in it there's more to find your way around than in a simpler builder. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWindows and Mac, plus Mobirise AI in a browser, which is still computers only, with no Linux and no phone app. Its connections are payment and social ones: PayPal, Stripe, WhatsApp, Instagram and YouTube. | BWeb, iPhone and Android, with an app market of Wix and outside apps such as QuickBooks Online and TikTok Ads, plus an API and Wix Headless. No desktop app, so not an A. |
| Best for | building sites offline and hosting them anywhere | business sites with bookings, events and a shop |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Mobirise and Wix. How we grade
Price against what you get
Mobirise starts at $12.42 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Wix starts at $17 a month and scores 3.3.
Wix scores higher, and starts $4.58 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other website and landing page builders on the chart, 9 score higher than Mobirise for less, and 1 scores higher than Wix for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Mobirise starts at $149 per year (KIT). Wix starts at $17 per site / month, billed yearly (Light).
- Only Mobirise lists Windows and macOS apps.
- Only Wix lists iOS and Android apps.
- Mobirise also covers forms.
- Wix also covers AI agents.
At a glance
| Mobirise | Wix | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $149 per year (KIT) | $17 per site / month, billed yearly (Light) |
| Free plan | The desktop app is free for personal and commercial use, with free blocks, publishing to any hosting or a free mobirisesite.com subdomain, and 3 AI generations a month. | Build and publish on a wixsite.com address with Wix branding, 500 MB of storage and 500 MB of bandwidth. A custom domain needs a paid plan. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Made by | Mobirise | Wix.com, Inc. |
| Price read from | mobirise.com | wix.com |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Mobirise
- People who want to build sites offline and host them anywhere
- Designers making client sites, which the Kit license allows without a site limit
- Anyone who wants a no-cost builder for simple Bootstrap sites
Wix
- Beginners who want to start free and upgrade when the site is ready
- Small businesses that take bookings, sell tickets or run a small store
- People who want an AI agent to draft pages they can still edit by hand
Worth knowing
Mobirise
- The desktop app runs on Windows and Mac only; there is no Linux version.
- Premium themes and extensions are sold only through the Kit, which runs for a year. If it is not renewed, premium blocks, updates and support switch off.
- Hosting, custom domains and more than 3 AI generations a month need BASE or GROW; KIT covers the desktop app only.
- A Kit activates on up to 2 computers; 10 needs the Enterprise license, whose price is not shown on the pricing page.
Wix
- Light has no online payments; selling anything needs Core at $29 a month or higher.
- Monthly billing exists, but Wix's pages show only yearly prices, and monthly plans come without the free domain voucher or premium apps.
- Each plan upgrades a single site, so running several sites means buying a plan for each.
- There is no free trial of paid plans; Wix offers a 14-day money-back guarantee instead.
Key features
Mobirise
- Offline drag-and-drop builder
- Pages are built on your computer from pre-made blocks for menus, galleries, sliders and forms, edited like a text document and saved to a local folder.
- Publish anywhere or export code
- Sites go to your own hosting, to a free mobirisesite.com subdomain or to a custom domain, and the full HTML, CSS and JavaScript can be exported.
- Mobirise AI
- A browser-based builder turns a prompt in any language into layouts, text, images and video, with hosting included. Its sites can be edited in the desktop app too.
- Themes and extensions
- More than 220 premium Bootstrap 5 themes and extensions, such as Code Editor, Form Builder, Popup Builder, Password Protect and social feeds, come with the Kit.
- Shop and cart extensions
- Simple Shop, Smart Cart and PayPal Shopping Cart add product blocks and checkout through PayPal and Stripe, or take orders as WhatsApp messages.
- Code Editor
- The Code Editor extension opens a site's HTML and CSS for manual edits, external plugins and custom blocks made from scratch.
Wix
- Wix Harmony editor and Aria
- The editor mixes drag-and-drop layout with Aria, an AI agent that turns a written idea into sections, pages or custom components you can then edit. It is included on every plan, free included.
- Templates and design tools
- Start from thousands of templates or from AI, then adjust the design without code. Paid plans remove Wix branding and connect your own domain.
- Payments and online store
- Core and higher plans accept payments and run a store, with standard and advanced commerce tools on Business and Business Elite. Light cannot take payments.
- Bookings, events and restaurants
- Scheduling and services come with Core and higher. Further business solutions cover ticketed events, online programs, restaurant orders and hotel reservations.
- App market
- Add marketing, accounting, social and store apps from Wix and other developers, such as QuickBooks Online, TikTok Ads and Instagram feeds.
- Developer platform and headless
- Business Elite adds the advanced developer platform, and Wix Headless lets a custom front end run on Wix's back end and business tools.
Plans
Mobirise
FREE$0
The desktop app with free blocks and themes, unlimited sites published to your own hosting, and 3 AI generations a month.
KIT$149
per year
All 220+ premium themes and extensions for unlimited offline sites with no Mobirise branding, for the desktop app only.
BASE$199
per year
Everything in KIT plus premium AI designs, 3 online sites with hosting, custom domains, site export and 100 AI generations a month.
GROW$249
per year
Everything in BASE with 10 online sites and 1,000 AI generations a month, aimed at client work.
Wix
Free$0
A Wix subdomain, Wix branding on the site, 500 MB of storage and bandwidth, the full editor and templates.
Light$17
per site / month, billed yearly
Custom domain, free domain for a year, no Wix ads, 2 GB of storage, a light marketing suite and 2 collaborators. No online payments.
Core$29
per site / month, billed yearly
Accept payments, basic online store, scheduling and services, 50 GB of storage and 5 collaborators.
Business$39
per site / month, billed yearly
Standard online store and marketing suite, 100 GB of storage and 10 collaborators.
Business Elite$159
per site / month, billed yearly
Advanced store and marketing tools, the advanced developer platform, unlimited storage and 100 collaborators.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom plans and pricing on request for large organizations.
Ways to pay less
Mobirise
No public discounts listed.
Wix
- Other savings
Free domain for a year with a yearly plan
Yearly premium plans include a voucher for one year of free domain registration. Monthly plans do not include it.
