A Wix alternative with nothing to drag
Wix gives you a canvas and 800 things to put on it. Clay gives you a finished site made out of your own business, and a handful of decisions that matter.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Wix can build anything, and that is exactly the complaint. A drag-and-drop canvas means every element is a decision, this box two pixels left, that heading one size up, and the site is never finished, it is only abandoned.
Clay has no canvas. Your site is composed from your business: a header with your best photograph, your menu or your products, your hours, a map, your reviews. You choose the theme and two dials on it, an accent colour, and light or dark; the typeface and the corners come with the theme, and the layout is already right on a phone, which is where nearly everyone will see it.
Clay vs Wix
Wix wins the two rows below where it should. It is the more powerful editor by a distance.
One site, not two
Wix keeps a separate mobile layout, and it is the reason so many Wix sites look untended on a phone: the desktop one gets the attention and the phone one silently drifts.
Clay draws a phone page that is its own design rather than the desktop squeezed, one column of cards, the bar at the top with your one action in it, and it is drawn from the same content, so it can never be out of date.
Changing the look does not cost you the site
On Wix, a template is a commitment: switching means rebuilding. On Clay the design and the content are two different things, so you can try every theme on your own real page and land on one at three in the afternoon without losing a word.
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.
What you get
- No canvas, no dragging, no second mobile version to maintain
- Your Google photographs, hours, reviews and map, already in place
- Swap the whole design without touching the content
- No ads on the free site, just a small badge
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
Is Clay easier than Wix?
Much, and it is a smaller thing. Wix is a design tool that can build any website; Clay builds one kind of website, a business's own site, and does the first draft for you. If you want to lay out a page yourself, Wix is the better product.
Are there ads on the free version?
No. The free Clay site carries a small "Made with Clay" badge in the footer and nothing else, no banner, no interstitial, no branded subdomain bar across the top.
Can I switch design later without losing everything?
Yes. Design and content are separate: pick another theme and your words, photographs and hours stay exactly where they are. This is the single biggest difference from a template-based builder.
Do I need to fill in a questionnaire first?
One field, your business name. Clay looks it up, and everything it needs comes from your Google listing. You see the finished site before you decide whether you want it.
What if my business is not on Google?
You can still build one from scratch, and it is worth listing on Google anyway, for most local businesses that listing brings more visitors than the website does.
What happens to my Wix content?
There is no importer, and for a business site there is usually little to import, the photographs, hours, map and reviews come from your Google listing, and the rest is a few paragraphs to paste.
Is the mobile version really one design?
One page, drawn as its own design for a phone rather than the desktop squeezed, one column of cards with the bar at the top. It cannot drift out of date because it is built from the same content.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.