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# Compare

> AWD CMS beside Wix, Squarespace, WordPress and Webflow: where you edit, what you have to learn, and who each one is really for.

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# Compared, fairly

Each of these tools is good at something. The question is which job you are hiring it for.

## The short version

## What each one opens on

What each one shows you as you start a new website, taken on the same day in the same size of window.

![AWD CMS after pressing Start free: a blank home page in the editor, with a box over it asking, step 1 of 9, what the business is called.](/screenshots/awd-first-screen.webp)

*AWD CMS, the first screen after Start free: your own page, and one question. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![Wix’s dashboard for a new site: a welcome, a list of five tasks to set up the business, and a menu of thirteen sections down the left.](/screenshots/wix-dashboard.webp)

*Wix, the dashboard of a new site: a set-up list, and thirteen sections in the menu. The site itself is behind Design Site. Account name blurred; a sale banner cropped off. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![Squarespace’s site dashboard: a menu of eleven sections down the left, a preview of the site, and tutorial videos on how to edit.](/screenshots/squarespace-dashboard.webp)

*Squarespace, the site’s dashboard: eleven sections in the menu, and videos on how to edit. Account name blurred; a trial-ended bar cropped off. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![The WordPress admin dashboard: ten menus down the left, a welcome panel, and boxes for site health, a quick draft and a summary of the site.](/screenshots/wordpress-dashboard.webp)

*WordPress, the admin area it opens on: ten menus, and boxes of news and drafts. Taken in WordPress Playground. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

![Webflow’s AI site builder at step 2, Organize the structure: five pages side by side, each a column of section cards to keep or remove.](/screenshots/webflow-ai-plan.webp)

*Webflow’s AI site builder: five pages and over forty sections to look through before the Designer opens. Screenshot taken 26 October 2026.*

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