Website & app builders

What is the best website builder for a small business in the UK? Durable suits local service businesses that want a site, bookings and a customer list in one account, while Framer suits designers and startups who want full control over how the site looks.

Durable builds the site with AI and adds bookings, a CRM, invoices and local search tools. Its Launch plan costs $25 a month, or $22 billed yearly, and includes hosting, a free domain up to $20 in value and SEO tools that check how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Grok describe the business. It scores 4.8 on Trustpilot from 330 reviews, where reviewers name live chat agents who sorted out setup problems, and 3.8 on Product Hunt from 13. Durable says it is not designed for ecommerce.

Framer is a visual builder with an AI design agent, CMS, hosting, analytics and A/B testing. Basic costs $15 a month per site, or $10 billed yearly, with a custom domain and 30 pages. Product Hunt reviewers rate it 4.8 from 263 reviews and praise its animation tools, Capterra and GetApp both show 4.3 from 32, and Trustpilot shows 1.5 from 146, where reviewers complain that AI edits burn through credits. Framer shows prices in local currency by location and adds VAT at checkout.

Which website builder is free? Framer's free plan publishes a real site on a Framer subdomain, while Durable's free plan only gives a private preview that can't be published.

The free options compared: - Framer: a free subdomain with a Made in Framer badge, no custom domain and 1 GB of bandwidth, for non-commercial use - Durable: a private website preview, 300 AI credits in total and a CRM for up to 10 customers - Replo: 1,000 one-time credits, unlimited sites on a replosites.com address and one custom-domain site - whacka: 24 credits a month, with apps going offline 14 days after publishing - Anything: a free account exists but cannot start builds

Can AI build an app for the App Store? Anything and whacka both build iPhone and Android apps from a chat, with Anything handling App Store submission on its $24-a-month Pro plan and whacka on its $32-a-month Pro plan.

Anything builds web apps and iOS and Android apps with a database, sign-in, payments and hosting included, and its full code can be downloaded as a React, Next.js or Expo project. Pro costs $24 a month or $19 billed yearly for 20,000 credits, and Max starts at $239 a month. It scores 2.4 on Trustpilot from 18 reviews, where some describe Pro's credits running out within hours, and 4.0 on Product Hunt from 12. Its own iPhone app was removed by Apple in March 2026.

whacka turns a description into a hosted app with logins, a database and payments. Hosting, storage, push notifications and sign-in never use credits, and AI features inside a published app are billed to its users. Pro, at $32 a month, adds native Android and iOS apps and publishing to Google Play and the App Store. Its data is stored in the US, and no independent reviews could be found yet.

What is the best landing page builder for Shopify? Replo is built for Shopify brands: its AI agent builds, publishes and reports on ecommerce landing pages, and Shopify cart, checkout, Shop Pay and discount codes keep working on its pages.

Replo's Starter plan costs $119 a month, or $99 billed yearly, for 10,000 credits, and Pro costs $599 a month, or $499 billed yearly. Both include unlimited team members, and new paid plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee. It scores 3.9 on Trustpilot from 9 reviews, where reviewers praise quick, patient support but some report slow replies and an unexpected charge for team access. Theme sections, blog posts and product templates need its separate Theme Builder.

How do you pay less for a website builder? Yearly billing and the student and startup offers save the most, with Framer giving students Basic free for a year.

Framer's monthly billing costs 50% more than yearly, and eligible startups can get a year of Pro free. Each extra Framer editor adds $20 a month, so a site with several editors costs more than the plan price. Durable saves 15% on yearly billing, Replo about 17% and Anything prices Pro at $19 a month on a yearly upfront payment. whacka's annual discount of two months free applies to the first year only, and its $3 weekly plan suits a one-off project.

Refund terms are worth reading first. Framer refunds only within 7 days and never for unused time, Anything's subscriptions and annual payments are non-refundable, and whacka doesn't refund subscriptions mid-period. Prices for all five are shown in US dollars.