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Umso

Keeps the editor deliberately narrow so a startup site takes an afternoon.

Last verified 2026-08-18

Ratings

Ease for a beginner3/5
Design and templates2/5
Room to grow3/5
Help when you are stuck4/5
Value for money4/5

At a glance

Cheapest plan

$0 a month

Free

Type of tool

Drag-and-drop builder

Best for

Single landing page, Business brochure site

Starting price

$5 to $15 a month

About Umso

Umso positions its editor as deliberately limited: fewer settings, fewer choices, and a shape suited to a small marketing site rather than to anything that might grow in an unexpected direction. For a founder who wants a presentable site this afternoon and does not want to make thirty design decisions to get one, the narrowness is the feature.

It is not a one-page tool, despite what the free tier suggests. Only the free plan is limited to a homepage; the first paid tier publishes up to ten pages and the tier above removes the limit entirely.

Pricing is per site rather than per account, which is cheap for one project and adds up quickly for anyone running several. Documentation is the other difficulty: the pricing page, the features page and the help centre all returned too little to read, so several capabilities are recorded as absent from the homepage's own feature list rather than as confirmed absences. That is a thinner basis than a published statement would be.

Features

  • Free plan, not a trialSupported
  • Use your own domainPaid
  • No builder branding on your sitePaid
  • Sell productsNot supported
  • Bookings and appointmentsNot supported
  • Blog built inNot recorded
  • Email marketingNot recorded
  • Edit titles, descriptions and redirectsNot recorded
  • Site in more than one languagePaid
  • Export your contentPaid
  • AI builds a first draftSupported
  • Talk to a humanSupported

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