# Strikingly

> Simple website builder for small sites, stores and memberships

Strikingly is a website builder for small sites, edited by clicking directly on the page and published to its own hosting with free HTTPS. Plans are bought by the year or month and each covers a set number of sites, from 2 on Limited to 5 on VIP. Pro adds memberships, custom forms and up to 300 products, and VIP adds newsletters, live chat and no transaction fee.

- **Category:** Website & Landing Page Builders
- **Made by:** Strikingly
- **Website:** https://www.strikingly.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Strikingly has a free plan. Paid plans start at $8 per month for up to 2 sites, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Unlimited free sites with Strikingly branding. Connecting a custom domain, and the larger page, storage and store limits, need a paid plan.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Unlimited free sites with Strikingly branding and no custom domain. |
| Limited | $8 per month for up to 2 sites, billed yearly ($12 billed monthly) | Custom domain with SSL, up to 5 pages and 1 GB per site, 50 GB of bandwidth and one product for sale at a 5% fee. |
| Pro | $16 per month for up to 3 sites, billed yearly ($20 billed monthly) | No branding, 100 pages and 20 GB per site, 300 products at a 2% fee, custom forms, memberships, pop-ups, site search and custom code. |
| VIP | $49 per month for up to 5 sites, billed yearly ($59 billed monthly) | 100 GB per site, 500 products with no fee, newsletters to 2,000 contacts, live chat, multiple languages, phone support and an account manager. |

Read from https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Strikingly before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Pay yearly to save $48 on Pro** (Annual discount): Pro costs $192 a year billed yearly against $20 a month billed monthly; Limited is $96 a year against $12 a month. Source: https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing
- **Lower rates for 2, 3 or 5 years paid up front** (Other savings): Pro costs $336 for 2 years, $432 for 3 years and $672 for 5 years; Limited is $360 for 5 years and VIP $2,064. Source: https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing
- **35% off Pro yearly and above for students** (Education): A back-to-school sale gives 35% off yearly Pro and higher plans after verifying a .edu email address. The page says it expires soon but gives no date. Source: https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing
- **Free domain for a year with yearly plans** (Other savings): Yearly plans include a free domain for the first year. Domains otherwise cost $24.95 a year. Source: https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing

## Key features

- **Click-to-edit builder:** Pick a template and click any element on the page to change it, then publish straight away. Pro and VIP allow up to 100 pages per site.
- **Simple Store:** Sell physical or digital goods with coupons and shipping, paid through PayPal or Stripe. Limits run from one product on Limited to 500 on VIP.
- **Memberships and paid content:** Pro adds member log-ins, members-only content and paid subscription memberships; VIP adds several membership tiers.
- **Forms, newsletters and live chat:** Signup and contact forms work on every site and custom forms come with Pro. VIP adds newsletters to 2,000 active contacts and a live chat widget.
- **Blog, analytics and HTTPS:** Each site has a simple blog, built-in visitor analytics and automatic HTTPS, with social feeds from Facebook, X and Instagram.

## Good for

- Short personal, portfolio or event sites that need to go up quickly
- Small shops selling a handful of products
- Creators running paid memberships on a small budget

## Worth knowing

- Limited keeps Strikingly branding, allows only 5 pages per site and one product, and charges a 5% transaction fee.
- Store fees run 5% on Limited and 2% on Pro; only VIP lists 0%, though the page also advertises a limited-time 0% fee lock for new upgrades.
- Phone support, a dedicated account manager and multi-language sites are VIP-only.
- Plan changes go through email support, and a yearly plan cannot be moved back to monthly billing.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Strikingly is a simple click-on-it-to-change-it builder for small sites, and its first paid plan is cheap: $8 a month on yearly billing with your own domain. That plan is tight, though, at 5 pages and one product with a 5% fee, so a business that wants more pages, no branding or a real shop is looking at Pro at $16.

- **Value for money: B.** Limited is $8 a month on yearly billing ($12 monthly), covering up to 2 sites on your own domain, so it's inside this category's cheapest quarter ($9). It's capped at 5 pages and keeps Strikingly branding; Pro at $16 lifts both.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Unlimited free sites with Strikingly branding, which is generous, but none of them can use your own domain. The larger page, storage and store limits all need a paid plan.
- **Features: C.** Click-to-edit pages, a simple store, memberships, forms, a blog, and newsletters and live chat on VIP. It's sized for small sites, though: 100 pages and 300 products on Pro, and multiple languages only on VIP at $49.
- **Ease of use: B.** 4.56 from about 600 App Store ratings. Pick a template, click on anything you want to change and publish straight away.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and an iPhone app, with PayPal and Stripe for the store and feeds from Facebook, Instagram and X. No Android or desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Strikingly's own pages on 17 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among website and landing page builders

- Strikingly's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 25 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 27 of 30) and worst on features (C, above 4).
- Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $14 for the category: 6 of the 29 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/website-builders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Strikingly you would be making newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 25 of the 30 other website and landing page builders we grade. It costs $96 a year.

- You could make: Templates and forms: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- You could not: A chat box on your site that reaches you the moment a customer types.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, PayPal, Stripe and Facebook among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 597 ratings in the United States, read Oct 17, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id892299884

## Works with

PayPal, Stripe, Facebook, Instagram, X

**Tags:** Templates, Forms, AI features, Live chat, Email campaigns

## Alternatives

- [Carrd](https://toolgpa.com/tools/carrd): One-page website builder with yearly plans from $9. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/carrd-vs-strikingly)
- [Wix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wix): Drag-and-drop website builder with an AI agent and business apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/strikingly-vs-wix)
- [Squarespace](https://toolgpa.com/tools/squarespace): Template-based website builder with an online store and invoicing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/squarespace-vs-strikingly)
- [SITE123](https://toolgpa.com/tools/site123): Free website builder that lays out pages from your content. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/site123-vs-strikingly)
- [Webnode](https://toolgpa.com/tools/webnode): AI website builder for small businesses with low-cost yearly plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/strikingly-vs-webnode)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.strikingly.com/s/pricing
- https://www.strikingly.com/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/strikingly/id892299884

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/strikingly
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).