Tidysite vs Squarespace: which is right for your business?
Squarespace makes beautiful templates you build yourself. Tidysite designs and builds the whole thing for you. Here's how to choose.
What Squarespace is good at
Squarespace is known for genuinely beautiful templates, and if you've got an eye for design and the time to do it, you can build something that looks great. It's a polished tool, especially for portfolios and visual brands. Credit where it's due.
Do-it-yourself vs done-for-you
Even the nicest template is still a template — and still something you have to build and maintain yourself. You're choosing layouts, writing the copy, dropping in images, and keeping it current. The result can look good, but it'll look like a Squarespace site, because thousands of others started from the same template.
Tidysite is custom-designed for your business by a person — not assembled from a gallery — and you don't build any of it. We write the copy, set it up for Google, launch it, and handle every update after. You get a site made for you, kept current, with none of the building.
How they stack up
| Squarespace | Tidysite | |
|---|---|---|
| Who builds it | You | A person, for you |
| Design | Polished templates you customise | Custom-designed for your business |
| Copywriting | You write it | We write it (you approve) |
| Ongoing updates | You do them | Tell us; done in 48 business hours |
| Get found on Google | Your job to set up | Set up for you |
| Monthly cost | Plan fee + your time | $99 flat, inc. GST |
| Own it outright | Locked to Squarespace | Yes — buyout option |
Who should choose which
Choose Squarespace if…
design is your thing, you've got the time, and you want to build and run it yourself.
Choose Tidysite if…
you want a custom-designed site that looks made-for-you and is completely managed — without spending your evenings in a template editor.
Switching, in plain English
Squarespace sites stay on Squarespace, so we rebuild yours custom on our stack and bring your content across. You get a faster site with a buyout path, instead of one locked to a platform.
That's the idea — custom-designed for your business, not a shared template, and built to load fast on a phone. Have a look at recent builds and judge for yourself.
Ready for a website you don't have to think about?
Custom-built, kept tidy, $99 a month. Live in about three weeks. Cancel any time.
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