A free website builder that writes the website too
Most free builders hand you an empty template and leave the hard part — the words — to you. Describe your business in one sentence and this writes the whole site, then lets you change any of it by asking. Building it costs nothing and needs no account.
Exactly what's free
Building and previewing a complete site is free, with no account and no card. You get five drafts and forty AI edits a month on the free tier, and editing text by hand is unlimited and always free.
When you publish, the site is live free for its first 14 days at yourname.buildwithivy.com. After that it is KSh 500 a month to keep it online.
That last sentence is the whole catch, and we would rather you read it here than discover it in a fortnight. Some builders offer a permanently free plan carrying their name and their ads; this is not that. What you get free here is the part that usually costs the most — the design and the writing.
What free actually gets you
A multi-page site, not a landing page: a homepage, an about page, your services or menu with prices, a photo gallery, testimonials, FAQs and a contact page whose form emails you.
Real photographs chosen for your trade, a colour palette and layout picked to suit it, and copy written in your voice rather than lorem ipsum. Prices come out in shillings and phone numbers in the local format.
You can draft it, sit on it for a week, come back and change your mind — none of that costs anything, because nothing is charged until you publish.
Questions
Is it really free to build?
Yes. No account, no card, no trial countdown while you are drafting. You describe the business, get a full site, edit it and preview every page without paying anything.
What happens after the 14 free days?
The site stops serving and shows a short expired page until it is paid for. Your draft is not deleted — pay and it comes straight back at the same address.
Is there a permanently free plan?
Not for a live site. Building and previewing are free indefinitely; keeping a site on the internet is KSh 500 a month after the first 14 days.
Will there be ads or a watermark on my site?
No. Paid sites carry no ads and no watermark.
Try it before you decide anything.
Building and previewing a whole site is free, with no account and no card until you publish.
Draft my site — free