Shingle vs Squarespace
Squarespace leads on design and commerce. Shingle helps you win local clients.
- Shingle
- Best ifYou sell websites to plumbers, dentists and other local businessesFirst paid plan$49 a month
- Squarespace
- Best ifHow the site looks is the main thing it has to get rightFirst paid plan$19 a month
The short answer
Choose Squarespace if design or selling online comes first. Its templates and commerce are stronger than Shingle's, and you edit by dragging things into place. Choose Shingle if you sell websites to local businesses. It finds who needs one, builds a demo from their facts, alerts you when they open it, and keeps every version so you can go back.
What Squarespace does well
A design-led website builder with an AI builder, for small businesses, creatives and stores.
- Polished templates and a drag-and-drop editor
- Stronger commerce, with a store, payments and no store fee from Core up
- Scheduling, invoices, proposals and email campaigns from the same company
- An AI builder that makes pages, copy, images and custom sections
- A Circle program that gives partners 10 to 25% off annual plans
What each one has
Read from each builder's own pages. "Not shown" isn't proof it's missing.
| Feature | Shingle | Squarespace |
|---|---|---|
| Finds businesses to pitch | Yes | Not shown |
| Pitch link that says when it's opened | Yes | Not verified |
| Version history with restore | Yes | Not shown |
| Site from an existing website | Yes | Not shown |
| Reviews every line against the business's facts | Yes | Not verified |
| Online store | No | Yes |
| Take payments | No | Yes |
| Online booking | Yes | Yes |
| Newsletter and campaigns | Yes | Yes |
| Blog | Yes | Yes |
| Site from a Google listing | Yes | Not verified |
| AI chat that edits the site | Yes | Partly |
| Share link for clients | Yes | Partly |
| Comments on a design | Yes | Not shown |
| Client access to one site | Yes | Yes |
| White label | Partly | Not shown |
| Client billing | No | Partly |
| Activity log | Yes | Partly |
| Code export | Yes | Partly |
| Buy a domain in the app | No | Yes |
| Publishes for free | No | Not shown |
Where it differs
Every version is kept
Preview or restore any earlier version, free. Squarespace's pages don't show a version history.
Start from what exists
Build from a Google listing or a page you have. Squarespace's pages don't show building from a website.
It helps you sell
Radar shows who needs a site, and a pitch link alerts you when they open their demo.
What each one costs
Squarespace's prices as its own pages showed them on 6 November 2026.
Shingle
- 7-day trial$1 with 1 live site and 100 credits
- Shingle plan$49 a month, with 1 live site and 200 credits
- Paid yearly$39 a month
- Each more live site$7 a month, or $67 a year
- 10 live sites$112 a month
Squarespace
- Basic$19 a month
- Core$27 a month
- Advanced$36 a month
Paid annually, Basic is $12 a month, Core $17 and Advanced $25, with a free domain for the first year. Basic also takes a 2% fee on store sales and 7% on digital content.
Free plan at Squarespace: none, but a 14-day trial with no card, and publishing needs a paid plan. Shingle has no free plan. It starts with a 7-day trial for $1, which includes a live site. Sources: Squarespace pricing, Squarespace AI builder, Squarespace Circle.
Who each one suits
Choose Shingle if
- You sell websites to plumbers, dentists and other local businesses
- You want leads, and an alert when they look at your demo
- You want to restore any earlier version of a site
- You want clients to comment on the demo itself
Choose Squarespace if
- How the site looks is the main thing it has to get right
- You sell products or digital content online
- You want to place everything yourself in a drag-and-drop editor
- You want invoices, proposals and scheduling from one company
Moving over from Squarespace
- Keep the look you chose by pasting your site's address into Shingle's composer and choosing Clone, which copies a page's words, photos and design.
- Clone asks you to confirm it's your business's website, or that you have permission to copy it, then offers the pages its menu links to.
- A domain you bought through Squarespace can stay there. Add the two DNS records Shingle shows you where you manage it. A store doesn't come across, because Shingle has none.
Common questions
Can't find your answer? Read Shingle Help or email [email protected].
It is if you sell websites to local businesses and need leads, pitch links and client tools. If you care most about fine design control, or you sell products online, Squarespace is stronger on both, and its plans start lower, at $12 a month paid annually against Shingle's $39.
If you want fine control of the look, yes. Shingle has no template gallery. Each site's design is written fresh for the business, and you refine it by asking or by changing fonts and colors yourself. Your team can reuse its own sites as starting points.
Its pages didn't show one when we checked. Shingle saves each build, change and edit as a version. You can preview any of them and restore it for free, and visitors keep seeing the live version until you publish.
Not today. Shingle has no store and doesn't take payments. It has forms, online booking and a lead inbox, which suit businesses that sell by phone call or appointment. If you sell products online, choose Squarespace.
Read next
- Shingle vs WixWix does far more. Shingle helps you sell websites.
- Shingle vs FramerFramer is a design canvas. Shingle helps you sell sites.
- Wix vs SquarespacePrice, booking, stores and leaving later, side by side.
- Clone a websiteCopy a site you own or may copy, then change it.
- Small business ownersBuild your own site, with only your own facts on it.
- Pricing7 days for $1, then one plan at $49 a month.
Build your first site
Start from a Google listing or a few notes. Demos usually take 5–15 minutes.
7 days for $1, then $49 a month. Cancel any time.