The Jimdo Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Jimdo in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Jimdo
The Insider’s Guide
AI website builder for solo businesses with bookings and invoices
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among website and landing page builders, read from Jimdo’s own pages.
Made by Jimdo GmbH · checked Oct 17, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Jimdo’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Jimdo’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 17, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.0
GPA, above 3 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade
Jimdo is a German website builder for the self-employed and small businesses. Its AI writes a site's structure, copy and images from a description of the business, and the same account handles appointment bookings, payment links, invoices and a small online store. A free Play plan runs on a jimdosite.com address, and paid plans can be paid monthly or for 12 or 24 months at a time.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Jimdo, taken from its own pages and our grades.
Describing your business to the AI gets you a first draft quickly, but there's still a site, a booking calendar and invoices to set up.
- 1
Best for solo businesses that take bookings and send invoices
Jimdo is made for the one-person business: describe what you do, its AI drafts the site, and bookings, payment links and invoices sit in the same account.
- 2
Paid plans start at $11 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $11 per site / month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly).
- 3
There is a free plan
Play plan: 5 pages, 5 GB of storage, a jimdosite.com subdomain, one smart form, unlimited appointments and payment links.
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
- 5
AI-generated website
Describe the business and Jimdo's AI drafts the structure, copy, images and calls to action, set up for search engines and AI assistants.
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Bookings and events
Visitors book appointments with custom availability, a cancellation policy and online payment, on every plan including Play. Buffer times and reminders come with Unlimited.
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Payment links and invoices
Payment links with a hosted checkout work on every plan, and paid plans add unlimited invoices with branding, overdue tracking and e-invoicing formats.
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A 2.0 GPA, above 3 of 30
That is against the other website and landing page builders we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
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Keep it
The plain part of Jimdo you could make: forms and invoicing. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
Jimdo at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $11 per site / month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly)
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- None stated
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Jimdo GmbH, since 2007
- Category
- Website & Landing Page Builders
- Our grade
- 2.0 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for solo businesses that take bookings and send invoices
Jimdo is made for the one-person business: describe what you do, its AI drafts the site, and bookings, payment links and invoices sit in the same account. Start is $11 a month on yearly billing. Pages are capped hard, though, at 10 on Start and 50 on Grow, and selling products needs a separate store plan.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C | Start is $11 a month for one site on yearly billing ($12 monthly, $10 on a 2-year term), with a domain, no ads and invoicing. That's just over this category's cheapest quarter ($9), so it lands in the ordinary middle. |
| Free plan and trial | C | The free Play plan does more than most: 5 pages, 5 GB, bookings and payment links. But it's on a jimdosite.com address with one smart form, so a business will want to move up. |
| Features | C | AI-written sites, bookings with online payment, payment links, invoices, smart forms and a local listings add-on. The gaps are in the listing: Start allows 10 pages and Grow 50, and selling products needs a separate store plan. |
| Ease of use | C | No app store rating on record. Describing your business to the AI gets you a first draft quickly, but there's still a site, a booking calendar and invoices to set up. |
| Platforms and integrations | C | Web only, and what it connects to is mostly Google Ads, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. No phone or desktop app, and no API in the listing. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Jimdo is for
- Great if you're a coach, therapist or tradesperson who takes appointments online
- Handy when you want to send invoices from the same place as your website
- Good for people who'd rather describe their business than design pages
Who it is not for
- Too light for a site of more than 50 pages, unless you pay $49.50 a month for Unlimited
- Skip it if you mainly sell products, as that needs a separate store plan
- Tight if you need fast help on Start, where replies take 1 to 2 workdays
Good to know
Good for
- Solo businesses that want a site, bookings and invoices in one account
- Coaches, therapists and trades that take appointments online
- People who would rather describe their business than design pages
Worth knowing
- Start allows only 10 pages and Grow 50, so a larger site needs Unlimited at $49.50 a month billed yearly.
- Selling products needs one of the separate store plans; the website plans cover bookings, payment links and invoices only.
- Support response times depend on the plan: 1 to 2 workdays on Start, 24 hours on Grow and 12 hours on Unlimited.
- Jimdo's premium page advertises plans from $9 a month, but the lowest US price its pricing data shows is $10 a month on a 2-year Start term.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$11
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Jimdo has a free plan. Paid plans start at $11 per site / month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly).
But it's on a jimdosite.com address with one smart form, so a business will want to move up.
Play
$0
5 pages, 5 GB of storage and a jimdosite.com subdomain, with bookings, one event and payment links.
Start
$11
per site / month, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly)
Domain included, no ads, 10 pages, 30 GB of storage, invoicing and support within 1 to 2 workdays. $10 a month on a 2-year term.
Grow
$17
per site / month, billed yearly ($18 billed monthly)
50 pages, 50 GB of storage, advanced SEO, file uploads on forms and support within 24 hours. $15 a month on a 2-year term.
Unlimited
$49.50
per site / month, billed yearly ($72 billed monthly)
500 GB of storage, unlimited events, Jimdo branding removed and premium support within 12 hours. $45 a month on a 2-year term.
Store Basic
$18
per site / month, billed yearly ($22 billed monthly)
A small online store with order management and export, on top of the website tools. $15 a month on a 2-year term.
Store Business
$21
per site / month, billed yearly ($23 billed monthly)
Adds product variants, social marketing and social selling. Store VIP, with 500 GB of storage, is $28 a month yearly ($35 monthly).
The free plan
Play plan: 5 pages, 5 GB of storage, a jimdosite.com subdomain, one smart form, unlimited appointments and payment links.
Read from jimdo.com on Oct 17, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Pay for 12 or 24 months to lower the monthly rate
Start is $12 a month billed monthly, $11 billed yearly and $10 on a 2-year term; Grow is $18, $17 and $15; Unlimited is $72, $49.50 and $45.
Stated on jimdo.comOther savings
Free domain for the first contract term
Paid plans include a domain free for the first contract term, whether that is one month, one year or two years.
Stated on jimdo.com
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
AI website builder for solo businesses with bookings and invoices. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: AI features, booking links, forms, invoicing.
AI-written sites, bookings with online payment, payment links, invoices, smart forms and a local listings add-on.
- AI-generated website
- Describe the business and Jimdo's AI drafts the structure, copy, images and calls to action, set up for search engines and AI assistants.
- Bookings and events
- Visitors book appointments with custom availability, a cancellation policy and online payment, on every plan including Play. Buffer times and reminders come with Unlimited.
- Payment links and invoices
- Payment links with a hosted checkout work on every plan, and paid plans add unlimited invoices with branding, overdue tracking and e-invoicing formats.
- Smart forms and contacts
- Smart forms collect inquiries into a customer list: one form on Play, unlimited on paid plans, with file uploads from Grow.
- Jimdo Local listings
- An add-on keeps the business profile up to date on Google, Facebook, maps and directories, with brand monitoring on paid plans.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Google Ads
- Google Maps
Jimdo is made by Jimdo GmbH, and has been around since 2007.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
3/30
Other website and landing page builders it is graded above
Jimdo's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 3 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 5.
Its paid plans start at $11 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 9 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 31 website and landing page builders we grade, cut by the letter each got. Jimdo’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 2 of 30
- CFree plan and trialAbove 5 of 30
- CFeaturesAbove 4 of 30
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 30
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 0 of 30
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 30 website and landing page builders. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Jimdo is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
The plain part of Jimdo you could make: forms and invoicing. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 22 of the 30 other website and landing page builders grade higher. It costs $132 a year.
What you could make
- Forms and invoicing: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- Booking pages that read and write other people's calendars and send the emails.
- It plugs into other products, Google Ads, Google Maps and Facebook among them.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
What this rests on. Jimdo’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Wix, Squarespace, Webnode, SITE123 and Strikingly
The 5 tools Jimdo is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.8GPA
Wix
Free plan · from $17/mo
Drag-and-drop website builder with an AI agent and business apps.
- Only Wix lists iOS and Android apps.
- Jimdo also covers booking links, forms and invoicing.
- Wix also covers templates, AI agents and no-code.
- 2.6GPA
Squarespace
Free trial · from $19/mo
Template-based website builder with an online store and invoicing.
- Jimdo has a free plan. Squarespace does not, though it has a free trial.
- Only Squarespace lists iOS and Android apps.
- Jimdo also covers booking links.
- 2.2GPA
Webnode
Free plan · from $4.50/mo
AI website builder for small businesses with low-cost yearly plans.
- Jimdo also covers booking links and invoicing.
- Webnode also covers templates.
- 2.0GPA
SITE123
Free plan · from $12.80/mo
Free website builder that lays out pages from your content.
- Jimdo also covers booking links, forms and invoicing.
- SITE123 also covers templates and no-code.
- 2.6GPA
Strikingly
Free plan · from $8/mo
Simple website builder for small sites, stores and memberships.
- Only Strikingly lists an iOS app.
- Jimdo also covers booking links and invoicing.
- Strikingly also covers templates, email campaigns and live chat.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
13
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Jimdo free?
Jimdo has a free plan. Play plan: 5 pages, 5 GB of storage, a jimdosite.com subdomain, one smart form, unlimited appointments and payment links.
How much does Jimdo cost?
Jimdo lists 6 plans. Play: $0.
What platforms does Jimdo work on?
Jimdo is available on Web.
Does Jimdo offer any discounts?
Jimdo publicly lists the following: Pay for 12 or 24 months to lower the monthly rate; Free domain for the first contract term.
Does Jimdo have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 17, 2026. Jimdo is listed for Web.
Does Jimdo have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 17, 2026. Jimdo is listed for Web.
Is Jimdo open source?
Jimdo is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 17, 2026.
What does Jimdo integrate with?
Jimdo's listing names Google Ads, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Who makes Jimdo?
Jimdo is made by Jimdo GmbH. It dates from 2007.
What are the alternatives to Jimdo?
The closest alternatives to Jimdo in our directory are Wix, Squarespace, Webnode, SITE123 and Strikingly.
How does Jimdo compare with other website and landing page builders?
Jimdo's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 3 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 5.
Is Jimdo good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Jimdo C for value for money. On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4.
Could I make my own version of Jimdo?
The plain part of Jimdo you could make: forms and invoicing. What surrounds it you could not.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Jimdo’s own pages on Oct 17, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 17, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Jimdo's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Jimdo GmbH. Prices change, so check jimdo.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
1,880
Tools graded, in 47 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
ToolGPA is free to read. It may earn a commission from affiliate links and it works with sponsors, but anything paid for is labelled and no one can pay for a grade. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
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categories
426
price changes on record
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apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Jimdo, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/jimdo
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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