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Tibly vs Weebly
Weebly still works. It has also stood still for years while the way customers find businesses changed underneath it. Here is how to decide whether that matters for you.
By Sam Bretz
The short version
Where each one is the better choice, stated plainly.
Choose Tibly when
Choose Tibly if your Weebly site has quietly aged out and you want a current site you can keep current, plus a view into whether AI assistants recommend your business.
Choose Weebly when
Stay in the Square ecosystem if you already run Square for in-person payments, inventory, and your online store together. In that case Square Online is the path of least resistance and keeping one company across your register and your website has real operational value.
Tibly vs Weebly, side by side
| Feature | Tibly | Weebly |
|---|---|---|
| Platform investment | Actively developed | Little visible development since the 2018 Square acquisition |
| Getting the first version live | Describe your business or paste your site's address, live in minutes | Drag-and-drop assembly from a dated template library |
| Editing the site later | Click the thing on the live page and change it | Drag-and-drop editor, workable but dated |
| How the site looks on a phone | Generated responsive layouts | Responsive, but templates read as an earlier era |
| Exporting your site | Your pages are standard markup you can take with you | HTML archive on some plans, a static snapshot with no editor |
| In-person payments | Online invoicing and card payments only | Square hardware, register, and in-person payments |
| AI search visibility tracking | Daily scans across ChatGPT, Google, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot | Not offered |
| Entry price | $20/month as of July 2026 | Free tier, paid plans from roughly $10/month as of July 2026 |
45% of consumers used AI for local business recommendations in the past year, so a site frozen in an earlier era is losing work it never sees (BrightLocal, 2026). See the research
Already decided? How to move your website off Weebly
Is Weebly being discontinued?
Square has not announced a shutdown and existing Weebly sites continue to work, so nothing here is urgent. What has changed is investment. Since acquiring Weebly in 2018, Square has steered new customers toward Square Online, and Weebly itself has seen little visible development: the editor feels of its time, the template library is frozen in an earlier era, and the product has not kept pace with how websites are built now. That is a reason to plan a move on your own schedule rather than an emergency, and it is the honest framing. Anyone telling you Weebly is shutting down tomorrow is guessing.
What does a site standing still actually cost?
More than looking dated, which is the part owners notice. When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini for a business like yours, the engines favour businesses whose pages answer the question being asked and whose details corroborate against reviews and listings. A site showing prices from three years ago, a service you dropped, and a phone number you changed reads as unreliable to a machine performing that cross-check, and the recommendation goes to a competitor. That is the real cost of a platform you avoid opening, and it compounds quietly because nothing announces it.
Can you export a Weebly site?
Partly, with a caveat that matters. Weebly offers an HTML archive export on some plans, which downloads your site as a folder of files. That sounds like what you want and it is not. You get a static snapshot: the pages as they looked, with no editor, no way to change anything without hand-editing code, and none of your forms or store functionality. It is an archive, not a migration. Take it anyway as a safety net, then ignore it. The practical route is to import the live site by URL, which reads what is actually published.
What about your Square payments?
Untouched. Moving your website does not affect your Square account, your card reader, or your in-person payments, and this comparison does not suggest changing any of that. What does need a decision is your online store, if you have one, because a Weebly or Square Online store does not migrate. Decide before you move whether the new site takes payments directly or keeps linking customers to your Square store, and set that up ahead of switching the domain. If Square is central to how you operate, that connection is worth preserving deliberately rather than by accident.
Common questions
- Is Weebly shutting down?
- Square has not announced a shutdown and existing Weebly sites keep working. What changed is investment: since the 2018 acquisition Square steers new customers to Square Online and Weebly has seen little visible development. Plan a move on your own schedule rather than treating it as urgent.
- Is Tibly a good Weebly alternative?
- It is if your Weebly site has aged and you want a current one you can keep current, with AI-visibility tracking built in. If you run Square for in-person payments and inventory alongside your store, Square Online may fit better because it keeps your register and your website with one company.
- Can I export my Weebly website?
- Weebly offers an HTML archive on some plans, but it is a static snapshot with no editor and none of your forms or store features. It is an archive rather than a migration. To actually move, import your live site by URL into the new platform so it reads your published pages directly.
- Will moving my website affect my Square account?
- No. Your Square account, card reader, and in-person payments are unaffected by a website move. An online store built on Weebly or Square Online does not migrate, so decide in advance whether the new site takes payments directly or continues linking to your Square store.
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