Is Moonfruit still available? What UK businesses should do in 2026

Moonfruit's website builder closed at the end of 2021. Its closure was announced for 7 December that year, and there is no Moonfruit builder to sign up to today. So every business that searches for Moonfruit now is really searching for a replacement.

This guide sets out what a good Moonfruit alternative should give a UK business in 2026, and why Moon Websites is the one to choose.

Is Moonfruit still available?

No. Moonfruit launched in 2000 and Yell bought it in 2012. It announced the end of its free websites in August 2016, and its website builder closed at the end of 2021. Today moonfruit.com is a directory of marketing agencies, with no website builder. If you are looking for a Moonfruit website builder, you need an alternative.

1. A platform that is open and growing

The first thing to check is the simplest: is the platform open, selling and adding features? Nobody wants to move their website twice.

Moon Websites is open now and adding to what every plan includes. You can build your website today.

2. Monthly prices, with everything included

Moonfruit's advertised prices were for yearly plans, paid in full up front, and its cheapest plan showed Moonfruit ads on your website.

Look for one clear monthly price in pounds, with no features held back for dearer plans. Moon Websites starts at £9.99 a month. Every feature is on every plan, and there is no set-up fee.

3. No contract and no exit fee

A website should earn its place every month. Moon is monthly, with no contract and no exit fee, so businesses stay because it works.

4. Made for phones

Most people find a business on their phone. Most of Moonfruit's templates were not responsive, so they did not adapt to phones.

Every Moon website is built for phones from the start, with your phone number one tap away on every page.

5. Help that answers any time

Moonfruit's help was a contact form and live chat on weekdays, 9:30 to 18:00, with no phone line.

Moon's help is there 24/7: Moon SI answers any time, our team is on chat and email, and you can call 0800 055 4707, free from UK landlines and mobiles. For a business, that matters most when something goes wrong at the weekend.

6. Change anything, any time

A website should keep up with the business. Moonfruit's editor started life in the Flash era.

With Moon, you change anything from Moon HQ as often as you like, at no charge, and Moon keeps every site updated.

7. Selling online, built in

With Moon, card payments through your website are on every plan, from the cheapest up.

8. Set up properly for Google and AI assistants

Moonfruit's SEO tools were basic: settings on each page and links to Google's tools.

A good alternative in 2026 should do more of the work for you. Moon includes page titles, descriptions, a sitemap, structured data, llms.txt for AI assistants and a daily health check, at no extra cost. Nobody can honestly promise first place on Google, and Moon does not. What Moon does is make sure your site is set up to be found.

9. More than a website

A website should bring in work, and the work needs somewhere to land. Moon HQ keeps every enquiry, review, email and social post in one place. Moon Super Intelligence (Moon SI), Moon's AI, helps with the busy work.

Your own domain works on every plan, your content stays yours, and a domain bought through Moon can be moved out whenever you like, once nothing is owed for it.

The checklist, answered

• Open and growing: Moon, yes.
• Monthly prices, everything included: Moon, from £9.99 a month, every feature on every plan.
• No contract, no exit fee: Moon, yes.
• Made for phones: every Moon website.
• Help any time: Moon, 24/7 with a free phone line.
• Change anything, any time: unlimited, on every plan, at no charge.
• Selling online: card payments on every plan.
• Search set-up: included, with a daily health check.
• More than a website: Moon HQ and Moon SI.

See for yourself

The best test of any Moonfruit alternative is to see your own website on it. Answer a few questions at moonwebsites.co.uk/build and your new website appears straight away, free, with no card needed. You only pay when you go live.

For the full side by side, see Moon vs Moonfruit. For the step-by-step move, read leaving Moonfruit in an afternoon. For what to look for, read the best Moonfruit alternative in the UK.

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Moonfruit is a trademark of its owner. Moon Websites is not connected with Moonfruit.