Showit

Official site footer reads "copyright 2008- Showit, Inc." The About page says the company has built tools for creatives "for over a decade" without a precise founding date; some third-party sources cite 2006 for the founders' earlier photography-business work, but 2008 is the copyright-marked company start date on Showit's own site.

Hosted, freeform-canvas visual builder for the main site; on paid Blog tiers it bundles a managed WordPress install for the blog only. The core site product is not self-hosted or headless.

Showit's canvas/design app is proprietary. The bundled blog runs on WordPress (open source), but Showit's own platform is closed-source SaaS.

No permanent free tier. Only a 14-day free trial; the trial cannot publish a live site, connect a custom domain, or access WordPress blog admin.

Not applicable, no free plan exists (see pricing.free_plan).

Annual-billing monthly equivalent for the entry Showit plan (website only, no blog): $22/mo billed annually ($264/yr), or $27/mo billed monthly. Includes custom domain support.

Showit markets "Showit & Advanced Blog" as its most-popular tier: $39/mo billed annually ($468/yr), or $49/mo billed monthly. Includes unlimited WordPress users, custom plugin support, and blog migration.

Ecommerce (via WooCommerce on the bundled WordPress blog) officially requires an Advanced Blog subscription, so the cheapest ecommerce-capable tier is the same $39/mo (annual) Advanced Blog plan, not a dedicated ecommerce tier.

No Showit-branding watermark was found documented on any paid tier's limits; the entry plan already supports a custom domain, unlike many competitors' free/entry tiers.

Monthly billing runs noticeably higher than the annual-billing monthly-equivalent rate at every tier (e.g., entry plan $27/mo billed monthly vs $22/mo billed annually), effectively a discount for annual prepay rather than a teaser/renewal-hike structure.

No stated money-back guarantee found on official pricing, terms of service, or help center pages. Showit's own support content directs refund requests to a support email for case-by-case handling rather than publishing a formal refund window; the 14-day free trial (not a post-purchase refund window) is the closest published safety net.

Showit's defining feature: an unlimited, grid-free canvas where elements can overlap and be placed pixel-by-pixel, with separate desktop and mobile canvases edited side-by-side.

Text and elements are edited directly on the canvas.

Showit has an undo/redo button (Cmd/Ctrl+Z) that works only immediately after an edit and only until the browser is refreshed or the editor exited; there is no persistent, browsable version-history/rollback feature for the site canvas documented in the help center. (The WordPress blog side does get standard WP post revisions, which is a separate system.)

Showit autosaves after every change made in the Design App.

Showit's editor ("Design App") is browser-based at app.showit.com; no native iOS/Android app for editing the site was found. "Mobile design" in Showit refers to designing the mobile version of the site from the desktop browser editor, not editing from a phone.

Showit templates are full canvas designs; switching to a different template/design is not documented as a safe, content-preserving operation the way theme switches are on block-based platforms. Content typically needs to be rebuilt or manually migrated into a new design.

No-code and drag-and-drop, so it is far more approachable than raw WordPress or a code-first tool, but the freeform canvas plus separate desktop/mobile design and WordPress-blog admin (a second, different interface) add real learning overhead versus a guided section-based builder like Squarespace.

Showit does not publish an official total count of templates in its Design Market. The marketplace (store.showit.com) lists a large, continuously growing catalog from many independent third-party designers, but no authoritative figure is stated on official pages.

Supports all free Google Fonts natively plus custom WOFF font uploads to the Media Library.

Showit does not auto-generate responsive layouts from one design; instead it gives independently editable desktop and mobile canvases (two fixed breakpoints, side by side in the editor), which is closer to manual breakpoint control than full arbitrary-breakpoint control or true automatic reflow.

Custom CSS can be added via a <style> tag inside an Embed Code box (canvas-specific) or in Site Settings > Custom Head HTML (site-wide). Available on all plans, not plan-gated.

Supports both Inline JavaScript and Page Loaded JavaScript via the Embed Code widget and Custom Head HTML/Global Custom Code in Site Settings, on all plans.

Could not confirm a dedicated native animation/interaction panel (e.g., scroll-triggered or hover-state animation tools) from official documentation; some interactivity is achievable via custom code embeds rather than a built-in animation UI. Marking unverified rather than guessing.

Design Settings includes a site-wide Fonts panel and other global design settings that apply across the site, functioning as basic global styles.

The freeform, grid-free canvas allows overlapping elements, off-grid placement, and pixel-level positioning that most section- or block-based builders do not permit, making Showit one of the most visually unconstrained hosted builders on the market.

The Showit site/canvas cannot be self-hosted; it only runs on Showit's own hosting. The bundled WordPress blog is likewise hosted by Showit on Advanced Blog plans, not self-hostable separately from the Showit account.

Site assets/images are served through Showit's hosting infrastructure with automatic optimization for main-site pages.

HTTPS/SSL is included on all plans, listed as a standard feature on the entry Showit plan.

No published uptime SLA or percentage guarantee found on official pricing, terms of service, or help center pages.

Showit designs/templates are explicitly stated as exclusive to Showit hosting and not exportable for use on a different web host; only limited WordPress XML export (posts/pages text, not a full site or media export) is available for the blog side.

HTTP Archive CWV Technology Report for technology=Showit, geo=ALL, rank=ALL, latest month 2026-05-01. Combined (desktop+mobile) origins passing all Core Web Vitals: 2,391 of 3,251 tested = 73.5%. Split: desktop 80.6% (1,258/1,561 origins), mobile 67.0% (1,133/1,690 origins).

Showit automatically optimizes images used on main website pages. Note this does not extend to the WordPress blog, where Showit's own help docs recommend manually compressing images before upload.

Could not confirm from official Showit documentation whether lazy loading is automatic/native for site canvas images. Showit's own CWV data (see performance.cwv_pass_rate) shows a relatively low mobile pass rate, which is circumstantial but not a direct confirmation either way.

No site-owner-facing cache control settings (e.g., cache purge, TTL configuration) found documented in the Showit help center; caching appears to be entirely platform-managed.

Per-page SEO Title and Description fields are natively editable in Showit; the blog additionally gets Yoast SEO pre-installed for meta control on WordPress.

Page slugs are editable; the URL redirect feature explicitly works off editable page slugs.

Native, built-in 301 redirect tool in Site Settings on all plans, no plugin or add-on required for the main site. The WordPress blog separately supports the Redirection plugin.

Canonical URLs are automatically generated, with a site-wide www/non-www enforcement setting in Site Settings.

Showit automatically generates a robots.txt file for each site, but official documentation of site-owner editing controls for its contents was not found; treating editability as unverified rather than assuming.

Showit automatically generates a sitemap for the main site (siteinfo.xml); the WordPress blog on Advanced/Basic Blog plans generates its own separate WordPress sitemap (sitemap_index.xml or wp-sitemap.xml), both needing separate submission to Search Console.

No official Showit documentation found confirming automatic schema.org/JSON-LD structured data generation for the main site canvas. The WordPress blog can get structured data via Yoast SEO (pre-installed on blog plans), but that is manual/plugin-driven on the blog side, not a native main-site feature. Marking unverified rather than assuming none exists.

Showit supports setting an HTML language attribute (lang tag) site-wide or per-page in Advanced Settings, which is a manual, one-locale-at-a-time control rather than a native multi-locale hreflang system.

Per-page "Share Image" (Open Graph image) plus SEO title/description are natively editable per page.

Could not confirm a native per-page noindex toggle on the main Showit site canvas from official documentation (the indexing help article addresses getting pages indexed, not excluding them). WordPress blog posts can be noindexed via Yoast. Marking unverified for the main site rather than assuming.

Images support an SEO Title and Description that are used as the image's title and alt tags.

Not native to the canvas itself: blogging is a bundled, separate managed WordPress install available only on Basic Starter Blog and Advanced Blog tiers (not on the base Showit plan). Once provisioned it is a full, real WordPress blog (not a stripped-down clone), so it inherits WordPress's native blogging feature set.

Custom post types are achievable on the Advanced Blog tier via WordPress plugins (custom plugin support is an Advanced Blog exclusive; Basic Starter Blog only allows pre-installed plugins). Not available at all without a blog subscription.

Standard WordPress categories and tags are available on the bundled blog (Basic Starter Blog and up), including category templates and category-linking support.

Standard WordPress post scheduling is available on the bundled blog (Blog tiers only); not applicable to the base Showit-only plan, which has no blog.

WordPress's native post revision history applies to the bundled blog (Blog tiers only). The main site canvas itself has no equivalent revision/rollback system, only a same-session undo (see editor.undo_revision_history).

Advanced Blog supports unlimited WordPress users with role-based access (Administrator, Editor, etc.) for blog contributors; Basic Starter Blog is limited to 1 WordPress user, so multi-author is effectively an Advanced-Blog-tier capability.

Standard WordPress RSS feed functionality applies to the bundled blog (Blog tiers only).

No public content API for the Showit site canvas itself was found in official documentation. The bundled WordPress blog does carry WordPress's own native REST API by virtue of being real WordPress, but that is a WordPress capability riding along, not a Showit-provided API for the site as a whole.

Not a native Showit ecommerce system. Selling is done via WooCommerce running on the bundled WordPress blog, officially supported but requiring an Advanced Blog subscription; Showit's own docs also note some ecommerce features (e.g., product reviews) need further third-party plugins.

Digital products are sellable through WooCommerce (which natively supports downloadable/virtual products) on the Advanced Blog tier.

Recurring/subscription selling is possible via WooCommerce Subscriptions or similar plugins on Advanced Blog, not a native Showit or default WooCommerce feature.

Multi-currency selling would require a WooCommerce currency plugin; not a native Showit or default WooCommerce capability.

No native point-of-sale system; Showit is a web builder, and any POS capability would have to come from a third-party WooCommerce POS plugin/integration, unverified as officially supported.

Abandoned cart recovery is a WooCommerce plugin capability, not native to Showit.

Main site canvas content/design is explicitly not exportable (Showit designs are exclusive to Showit hosting). Blog content can be partially exported via WordPress's default XML Export Tool (posts/pages text only, no media) on Basic Blog, or via third-party backup plugins (UpdraftPlus, BlogVault, etc.) for a fuller backup on Advanced Blog.

Showit's own help documentation states designs and templates "are exclusive to Showit hosting and are not offered to be exported or used with a different web host." The site design cannot be taken elsewhere.

Custom domains are connected via standard DNS pointing rather than sold/locked by Showit, so the domain itself remains portable to any registrar.

The site cannot run off-platform; hosting is exclusively Showit's (see hosting.self_host_option and hosting.static_export).

No public API providing full content access to the main site canvas was found. The bundled WordPress blog inherits WordPress's own REST API, but that covers blog content only, not the site as a whole, and is a WordPress feature rather than a Showit-provided guarantee.

The core product, the visual site design itself, is explicitly non-exportable and tied permanently to Showit hosting per their own documentation. Migrating off Showit means rebuilding the site from scratch elsewhere; only the WordPress blog content has any real portability, and even that is a partial export (text without media on the cheaper tier).

No public developer API for the Showit site/canvas platform was found in official documentation. (The bundled WordPress blog carries WordPress's own REST API as a side effect of being real WordPress, not a Showit-provided developer API.)

No native Showit webhook system found in official documentation; any webhook-style automation would run through embedded third-party form tools (e.g., Powr.io) rather than a Showit-provided feature.

HTML/CSS/JS embeds (Embed Code widget, Custom Head HTML, Global Custom Code) are available on all plans, not gated to higher tiers.

Showit's own site-building engine/stack is not publicly documented (proprietary, closed-source). The bundled blog runs standard WordPress/PHP.

No CLI or developer tooling for the Showit platform found in official documentation.

Zapier connectivity is available indirectly, primarily through third-party embedded form tools like Powr.io rather than a native Showit-to-Zapier integration.

No AI site-generation feature found in official Showit product or help documentation. Showit's "AI" content (blog posts, marketing pages) is educational material about using AI in a creative business, not a built-in product feature.

No native AI writing assistant found in the Showit editor or WordPress blog admin per official documentation.

No native AI image generation/editing tools found in official Showit documentation.

No native AI-powered SEO assistant found in official documentation. The Yoast SEO plugin pre-installed on the blog offers its own (non-AI, rules-based) SEO checklist, and Showit publishes extensive AI-SEO strategy content, but neither constitutes a built-in AI SEO assistant.

Site-level "Contributor Access" lets an owner invite a designer/collaborator to edit the site under their own separate Showit login, without sharing credentials or exposing billing/account info, but this is a single contributor role rather than granular permission levels. On the WordPress blog side (Blog tiers), standard WordPress roles (Administrator, Editor, etc.) apply, which is more granular but scoped only to the blog.

No documentation found describing true simultaneous multi-user editing of the same site canvas in real time; collaboration is via sequential contributor access rather than concurrent (e.g., Figma-style) co-editing.

No native editorial approval/review workflow found for the site canvas. The WordPress blog inherits WordPress's own basic role-based publishing controls (e.g., an Editor role can control what a Contributor role publishes), but that is a WordPress capability on Blog tiers, not a dedicated Showit approval workflow.

Showit's editor has a Preview mode to view unpublished changes before they go live, but no documented separate staging environment/URL distinct from preview.

No in-editor commenting/annotation feature found in official Showit documentation.

No site-level audit log (who changed what, when) found in official Showit documentation.

No 24/7 support commitment found in official documentation; support is via email with standard business-hours-style handling implied, not an around-the-clock guarantee.

The Showit Help Center (learn.showit.com) is unusually deep for a niche platform: hundreds of granular, well-organized articles covering the editor, mobile design, SEO, redirects, WordPress/WooCommerce integration, fonts, and troubleshooting, which is a meaningfully bigger and more specific documentation footprint than most page-builder competitors of similar size.

No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other security certification found published on Showit's official site, terms of service, or help center.

Backup depth is tier-dependent and blog-only: Basic Starter Blog gets daily automated backups (30-day retention) but with no documented one-click restore; Advanced Blog gets more frequent design backups (every 10 minutes, 7-day retention) plus support for third-party WordPress backup plugins. The base (blog-less) Showit plan has no documented backup feature at all for the main site canvas.

No native accessibility-checking or remediation tooling (e.g., automated alt-text audits, contrast checkers, ADA widgets) found documented as a built-in Showit feature.

Showit lets you set a language tag (site-wide or per page) and relies on Google's browser-level auto-translate suggestion for visitors, plus a third-party "Website Translator" widget for actual multi-language content display. There is no native multi-locale content-management system (e.g., separate translated page trees) built into Showit itself.

No native translation management workflow (e.g., side-by-side translated content editing) found; multilingual setups rely on manually duplicating pages/content per language or a third-party translator widget.

No native per-locale URL structure or hreflang generation found; the language tag setting is manual and per-page/site-wide rather than a structured multi-locale SEO system (see seo.hreflang).

No official documentation found confirming or denying native right-to-left language layout support.