Wix vs Wix Studio: which one is better?

With almost two decades of experience, Wix is arguably the most well-known website builder today, so you’d be silly to overlook it. In fact, it features in our guides to the best website builder for small businesses and best free blog website, and has done for several years – but Wix actually offers two different products (and its easy to confuse them).

First there's Wix ‘classic’ and then there's Wix Studio. Wix classic is a drag-and-drop website builder aimed at non-professionals, whereas Wix Studio allows for more granular control and is aimed at creatives, but how do they fare in practice? To confuse things further, price-wise they’re almost identical, and they also offer the same features to end-users. In addition, they both have templates to choose from as well as the ability to generate websites using AI, so are they really any different?

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Previously a design blog editor at Toptal and SitePoint, and before that a freelance product/UX designer and web developer for several years, Daniel Schwarz now advocates for better UX design alongside industry leaders such as InVision, Adobe, Net Magazine, and more. In his free time, Daniel loves gaming, café culture and Wikipedia, and also travels perpetually when there isn’t a pandemic.

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