Making the work
Growing an audience
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Both cover website builders. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
A site builder that edits like a document
A free store plugin that takes no cut at all
Typedream | WooCommerce | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | From $15 | Free |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free plan, paid tiers | Free |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Yes |
| Data export | Not stated | Everything, in an open format |
| Their cut | None | None |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
A site builder that edits like a document
Typedream builds a website the way a document is written, with slash commands and blocks rather than a canvas and a grid, which suits somebody who wants a site finished this afternoon. A free tier publishes on a subdomain. Paid plans add a custom domain, a free first-year .xyz registration and the CMS. The document metaphor is also the ceiling: a layout that needs precise control over where things sit is not what this is for.
Our note
Try the free tier against your actual homepage copy before paying, because whether this suits you is entirely a question of whether your site is document-shaped. If it is, you will be finished faster here than anywhere else on this list.
A free store plugin that takes no cut at all
WooCommerce turns a WordPress site into a shop and states plainly that it charges no platform fee and takes no share of sales. The software is free and open source; the money goes on hosting and on whichever extensions a shop actually needs. That makes the total cost a range rather than a number, and the range depends on traffic more than on features. Running it means owning the hosting, the updates and the security, which is the trade against a platform that does all three and bills monthly.
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| Web |
| Covers | Website Builders | Digital Products & Storefronts, Website Builders |
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| Works with | Nothing in particular | Nothing in particular |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Our note
This wins on arithmetic once sales are large enough that a percentage hurts, and loses on every hour you spend patching it. Price your hosting honestly before comparing, because the $25 end of that range will not carry a shop that is actually busy.
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