A Carrd alternative that builds itself
Carrd gives you a blank canvas. Clay builds your first site for you from your Google info, then lets you tweak everything.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Carrd is a lovely one-page builder, but you start from an empty page. Clay starts from your business: search your name and it generates a full site from your Google photos, hours and details. You get to a finished site faster, then customise from there.
Clay vs Carrd
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Real sites, made with Clay
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
Is Clay as flexible as Carrd?
You still control the design, colours, layout, blocks, fonts, but you start from a generated draft instead of a blank canvas, which gets most people to "done" a lot faster.
Does it start from a blank page like Carrd?
No, that is the difference. Clay reads your Google listing and hands you a finished page about your own business, and you edit from there.
Can I still control the design?
Colour, typeface, corner radius, photo treatment, the theme and the order of the bands. What you cannot do is place an element anywhere on a canvas, for that Carrd is the better tool and this is not.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.