Under £10 a month: what businesses get from Moon now Moonfruit has closed

Moonfruit's website builder closed at the end of 2021, so anyone searching for a Moonfruit website today needs somewhere new. This article puts Moonfruit and Moon Websites side by side, and shows what a business gets from Moon for under £10 a month.

The short version

Moon wins, easily. Moonfruit no longer takes new websites. Moon Websites does, from £9.99 a month in pounds. Every feature is on every plan, help is there 24/7 with a free phone line, and the website comes with Moon HQ to run the business behind it.

The full side by side is on the Moon vs Moonfruit page.

What happened to Moonfruit

Moonfruit launched in 2000, and Yell bought it in 2012. It announced the end of its free websites in August 2016. Its closure was announced for 7 December 2021, and the website builder closed at the end of that year. There is no Moonfruit builder to sign up to today.

If your business had a Moonfruit website, or you were thinking of using one, the question is simple: what should replace it?

Pay monthly, 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.

Moon Websites is monthly and priced in pounds, from £9.99 a month. There is no set-up fee, no contract and no exit fee. Every feature is on every plan, including the cheapest. The higher plans only add more Moon SI credits and scheduled posts. Nothing else is held back.

What £9.99 a month gets you with Moon

For less than £10 a month, a business on Moon gets:

• A website made for your business, with your name, words, photos and colours.
• Unlimited changes on every plan. Change anything from Moon HQ, as often as you like, at no charge, and free design updates arrive for every site.
• A site built for phones, with your number one tap away on every page.
• Card payments through your website, on every plan.
• SEO included: page titles, descriptions, a sitemap, llms.txt for AI assistants and a daily health check.
• Moon HQ, which keeps every enquiry, review, email and social post in one place.
• Moon Super Intelligence (Moon SI), Moon's AI, doing the busy work for you.
• Your own domain, with your content staying yours.

That is a whole business system, not just a page on the internet.

Help when you need it

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. When something needs changing on a Saturday night, Moon SI is there.

Built for the way customers search now

Most of Moonfruit's templates were not responsive, so they did not adapt to phones. Its editor started life in the Flash era.

Most people now find a business on their phone, often in a hurry. Every Moon website is built for phones from the start. The call button, the quote form and your reviews all work on a small screen, so the enquiry lands while the customer is still keen.

Found on Google, and by AI assistants

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

Moon sets up every live site properly for search: titles and descriptions on every page, a sitemap, structured data, and llms.txt so AI assistants can read what you do. A daily health check spots problems before they cost you visits. Nobody can honestly promise first place on Google, and Moon does not. What Moon does is make sure nothing is holding your site back.

See it before you pay

The easiest way to compare is to see your own new website. Answer a few questions at moonwebsites.co.uk/build and it appears straight away, free, with no card needed. You only pay when you decide to go live.

Moon vs Moonfruit at a glance

• Open to new websites: Moon, yes. Moonfruit, no: its builder closed at the end of 2021.
• How you pay: Moon monthly, in pounds, from £9.99 a month, with no contract. Moonfruit's plans were yearly, paid in full up front.
• The cheapest plan: Moon includes every feature. Moonfruit's showed Moonfruit ads on your website.
• Help: Moon 24/7 with a free phone line. Moonfruit a contact form and weekday live chat.
• Phones: every Moon website is built for phones. Most Moonfruit templates were not responsive.

Still choosing?

Read the best Moonfruit alternative in the UK for what to look for in a replacement, or go straight to building your website free.

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