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# AWD CMS vs Squarespace

> Squarespace is known for polished templates and a strong editor. AWD is built around keeping a site true after it is built.

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# AWD CMS vs Squarespace

Squarespace is known for polished templates and a strong editor. AWD is built around keeping a site true after it is built.

## What Squarespace is

Squarespace is a hosted website builder known for its design-led templates. You build pages in its editor from sections and blocks, with commerce, scheduling and email marketing available in the same account. It is a good-looking way to build a site, and the editor sits over a view of the page.

## What AWD CMS is

A website whose editor is the live page. You click the words and type; you drag sections; you add pages from the menu. A guide builds the first version one section at a time, and an AI copilot drafts and rewrites on the page. Every page checks itself for search and for readers with a disability, and says what to fix. It is built for the person who has to keep the site true, on whatever device they are holding.

## Side by side

## When Squarespace is the better choice

When the look is the point and you want a very polished template with selling, scheduling and email in one account, Squarespace is a strong choice. It suits a portfolio, a restaurant or a small shop that is happy inside its templates.

## When AWD CMS is

When you want to change the words on the page, from wherever you are, without learning an editor. And when being found — including by the AI answer engines — matters as much as looking good.

Prices for the other tool are on its own site and change; ours are on our Pricing page. Nothing on this page is a quote from a customer of either.

## Decide with the editor in your hands

The sandbox needs no account. The demo builds a site in front of you.

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