Tibly vs Squarespace

Already decided? How to move your website off Squarespace

Squarespace is a tool for building a website. Tibly is a service that produces one and then works on getting it found. That sounds like marketing language, so here is the concrete version: on Squarespace you choose a template, arrange your pages, and maintain them, and the result reflects the effort you put in. On Tibly you describe the business or hand over your existing site's address, and the pages, copy, design, and hosting arrive together. The difference shows up most six months later. A Squarespace site is exactly as current as the last time its owner sat down with the editor. That is fine if you enjoy that. It is the single most common reason small business sites go stale if you do not.

No, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. Squarespace produces technically sound pages that Google indexes normally. The gap is not technical quality, it is that no builder tells you whether the thing is working. When a customer asks ChatGPT or Gemini for a business like yours, some businesses get named and others do not, and the deciding factors are whether your pages answer the questions being asked and whether your details corroborate across your reviews and listings. Squarespace has no view into any of that. Neither does Wix, or WordPress, or any general-purpose builder. If you stay on Squarespace, the honest advice is to write question-formatted service pages and check your AI visibility with something separate.

Yes, and you keep your domain. Paste your Squarespace address and Tibly reads the live site, bringing across your copy, photos, services, testimonials, and contact details along with your colors, fonts, and section structure as pieces you can click to edit. Your domain does not transfer anywhere: you add two DNS records at whatever registrar you use, which for many Squarespace customers is Squarespace itself since it acquired Google Domains in 2023. Member Areas, code injection, and your stored Acuity and commerce records do not come across, so export those first.

Close enough that price should not decide it. Squarespace starts at $16/month as of July 2026 but bills annually, so the real commitment is roughly $192 up front. Tibly's Lite plan is $20/month billed monthly. The larger number for most owners is neither of those: it is what happens when you cannot update your own site. Freelance rates of $50 to $150 an hour mean a handful of small changes a year costs more than either subscription. Whichever you pick, pick the one you will actually open.

Is Tibly a good Squarespace alternative?

It is if your priority is a site that gets built and maintained for you rather than by you. Tibly generates or imports the site, lets you edit by clicking the live page, and tracks whether AI assistants recommend your business. If deep template control is what you want from a builder, Squarespace remains the stronger product.

Can I import my Squarespace site into Tibly?

Yes. Paste your Squarespace address and Tibly reads the live site, bringing across copy, photos, services, contact details, and your section structure as editable pieces. Member Areas, code injection, and stored Acuity or commerce records do not transfer, so export those before you cancel.

Do I lose my domain if I switch from Squarespace?

No. Your domain stays registered where it is, including at Squarespace itself, and you change two DNS records to point it at the new site. No transfer is required, and your email is unaffected because it travels on separate MX records.

Does Squarespace track AI search visibility?

No. Squarespace has no feature for monitoring whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or Google AI Overviews recommend your business. If you stay on Squarespace and care about that, you need a separate tool for the tracking and should write question-formatted service pages yourself.

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