If you're desperately on a hunt for the best website builders in the WordPress space, but not able to decide which one can fulfill all your needs due to the availability of multiple options in the market then you have landed in the right place as in this post I am going to help you to find the best WordPress Website Builders based on your requirements.
As you already know that there are multiple WordPress Website Builders that exist in the market and they are constantly competing with each other to hold the number one position among the WordPress users community.
So that keeping in mind in this comparison post I will be comparing the most popular WordPress Website Builders side by side using dedicated table charts to show you how they are similar as well as different from one another at the same time.
If you are interested in this topic then stick with this post to explore the differences/similarities in terms of features as well as the benefits of various popular website builders of the WordPress ecosystem.
Currently, I have compared the WordPress Builders including:
Please Note: This article is dedicated to the paid versions of all the WordPress Website Builders so please don't expect us to talk about the free versions dedicatedly.
So without talking further, let's begin...
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Elementor is the Drag & Drop website builder that makes it easy to build beautiful websites, landing pages, and mobile responsive websites. It allows you to create layouts visually using a live front-end editor, no coding needed.
It comes with all the features you need to create a beautiful website. Elementor Pro comes with detailed documentation. Also, you can choose from Elementor pre-made page layouts or customize them to create entirely new designs from the scratch.
In this section, you will find all the much-needed bookmarkable official and 3rd party resources for Elementor to make your workflow easier while building websites using it.
If you're thinking of why should you consider using Elementor over the other WordPress Website Builders then in this section I am going to give you all the good and valid reasons to use it.
Oxygen Builder is the most powerful WordPress builder to build almost any kind of WordPress website. It is a dedicated website builder for the developers who hates using page builders, even if you're not a developer then using Oxygen would help you learn HTML & CSS along the way.
The best part about Oxygen is that it produces clean codes and helps you make lightweight websites that perform faster for real-world users. Also if you love Webflow then using Oxygen Builder will give you a similar experience of Webflow even inside WordPress.
In this section, you will find all the much-needed bookmarkable official and 3rd party resources for Oxygen Builder to make your workflow easier while building websites using it.
If you're thinking of why should you consider using Oxygen Builder over the other WordPress Website Builders then in this section I am going to give you all the good and valid reasons to use it.
Zion Builder is a new yet advanced website builder for WordPress. It's packed with powerful features that allow you to create complex websites without hand coding.
If you love Oxygen Builder for producing clean codes, Elementor for an easy-to-use User Interface then Zion Builder bests for both worlds as you will get both clean codes and an easy-to-use user interface along with many other features of other powerful website builders at the same time.
In this section, you will find all the much-needed bookmarkable official and 3rd party resources for Zion Builder to make your workflow easier while building websites using it.
If you're thinking of why should you consider using Zion Builder over the other WordPress Website Builders then in this section I am going to give you all the good and valid reasons to use it.
Bricks Builder is a relatively new yet powerful and advanced drag-and-drop WordPress builder that helps you build any kind of website on WordPress and it also offers no lock-in effect, due to two-way Gutenberg-Bricks data conversion.
If you want to build a website, but you do not want to write code or hire a developer. Also, if you need a WordPress solution that is easy to use, you can install and manage yourself, and that will look classy and professional, and then Bricks Builder got you covered.
In this section, you will find all the much-needed bookmarkable official and 3rd party resources for Bricks Builder to make your workflow easier while building websites using it.
If you're thinking of why should you consider using Bricks Builder over the other WordPress Website Builders then in this section I am going to give you all the good and valid reasons to use it.
If you're curious to know about the available elements and modules of all these page builders to build websites using them as building blocks and also how they are compared to each other in terms of the availability of particular elements then this dedicated table chart will help you feed your curiosity.
Please Note: This table chart is here only to showcase all the elements that these website builders offer so if you can't find any element on any particular builder in this table it doesn't mean that builder doesn't have that feature altogether.
Therefore it's safe to assume that even if a particular element is missing on a builder yet it may possibly contain that feature in a different way which means you might be able to build the same thing with a different method using the builder that doesn't have a particular element which other builders may have to offer.
Example: Elementor has the largest number of elements available as compared to any other builders in this list but it doesn't mean the same features that the elements of Elementor offer are not available on other builders. Oxygen Builder has the lesser number of elements on their list but you can build almost anything using those limited numbers of elements.
If you want to know about how the most popular website builders are similar to as well as different from one another in terms of the available features then this master table chart will help find all the feature details of listed website builders in a single place to make your life easier.
I have tried my best to explore the similarities AND/OR differences among various WordPress Website Builders in this comparison post, and I will keep updating this post whenever it's necessary.
However, if you ask me about my personal opinion, let me tell you that the Oxygen Builder is my first choice due to its powerful features and flexibility to build the most complex websites without any bloat.
After that, I would consider Zion Builder and Bricks Builder as my second choice because both of these builders are new but in active development and they have multiple similar advanced features and flexibilities like Oxygen Builder and the UI & UX of native editor window are very nice just like the Elementor and Brizy.
Regarding Elementor I would only use it if a client insists or already have websites built with it in the first place even though I had been used it for multiple years yet I don't like the slow performance and bloated code output of the sites built using it.
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A really impressive combination of properties! Thx.
Thank you mate 😊
Really good article. It helps to decide which builder to use.
Thank you 😊
Very balanced and in-depth comparisons Wasim.
If Oxygen had 2 way Gutenberg, taxonomy and CSS child selectors, it would have wiped the floor with them all. Thanks for that.
I am glad that you liked the comparison and found it useful 🙂 Although currently, Oxygen Builder is my first choice still Bricks and Zion are stealing the show, my friend.
Yes, Oxygen is cool. But Bricks (2 way Gutenberg) should be the future (but there are a few bugs - but I think the development Team are working on it). I like the Look and Feel of Zion. It's faster and the panels are cleaner as oxygen. Another features of Zion are the css selectors (it is possible to access child elements directly inside an element), the views (tree view, wireframe and so on), also I think the usability is better.. and I don't like that Oxygen disables the theme. In my opinion (as a theme developer) a page builder should structure the single pages - not the whole theme - there are also some theme based plugins, that shouldn't work with oxygen (bb press for example).
I also think Oxygen Builder should have taken a different approach like Bricks Builder if they really didn't want other themes to interfere with their plugin.
Please add the LiveCanvas builder!
Sure! We will add LiveCanvas soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
Excellent article with more detail on the real distinctions between these products than I have found anywhere else. As someone struggling to figure out which tool to invest my time in learning, I truly appreciate your thoroughness.
An idea for an update would be to add your thoughts on "Why you shouldn't consider" using some of these tools (ie, your thoughts on what types of tasks they are not well suited to, relative to the others). This might help readers to learn more about how these products separate themselves, since they all seem to look very similar visually.
I was using a framework theme (WeaverXtreme) as my starting point theme for all my sites and started looking for a more robust replacement. Since I was originally considering starter frameworks as well as site or theme building tools, I ended up looking at 80 different products! I have finally narrowed it down to my top 9 - but I think it will take a lot of time to make a final selection. I also read your review of Live Canvas, which looks very interesting. I am wondering if you have thoughts on some of the other top ones on my list, such as Kepler.app, Brizy.io, Themify.me, or ThemeHybrid.com? Would love to hear your thoughts on them, even if it is just why you are not interested in looking at them further.
Thank you very much 🙂 I much appreciate your kind words.
Also, I agree with you that adding more details to the post would be helpful for the readers and FYI I already have plans to update this post whenever the time permits.
However, I never tested the products you mentioned like WeaverXtreme, Kepler.app, Brizy.io, Themify.me, or ThemeHybrid.com so I can't say anything about them but I will surely look into these in the future.
Currently, if you really need the most flexible WordPress Builder then I would highly recommend Oxygen Builder because it's the most powerful tool I have ever seen though it has a learning curve still totally worth it.
I haven't written any review of Oxygen Builder but you should check this Oxygen vs Elementor comparison post which obviously needs an update still you will get the idea.
Thanks for the reply.
I would not waste your time looking into WeaverXtreme. While I did like it for many years, it is just a theme framework that is past its prime and bloated trying to stay backward compatible. I want something that was created recently enough to have a more modern starting point/SW platform.
I have also removed Themehybrid from my list because it looks to me like active development has stopped and its user base has declined during the last two years.
My goals was to originally find a powerful Theme Builder first, Preferably one where I would always make a child theme to heavily customize but still have updates through the core parent theme to keep me up to date with the latest speed/feature enhancements that are managed by the tool's professional developers. But now that I am down the rabbit hole, I am getting a bit distracted by all the cool capabilities of these platforms.
My concern with Oxygen is one you could hopefully answer. It seems to me that if I ever want to stop using it, or switch to a different theme, that the entire site would break and that I am "locked in" to their platform. Most of the other platforms do not seem to have this problem at all. 1) Do you know if that is true, and 2) Do you think it is an important enough criteria to be concerned with, or not really?
I would love to hear your thoughts on HOW to differentiate among the others. Right now I am trying to learn more about Bricks, Zion, Kepler, and Live Canvas.
To my research, these are the 4 that have the best/most elegant underlying design, meaning they are using the very latest tools and are not hampered by 10 year old code issues and bloat.
They seem very interesting but it is hard to know how they differ as they are all being updated rapidly or are still in their 1.0 release phase. Even so, they seem elegant and powerful. There is much to be said from being able to start fresh. I am not a coder, but am enough of a CSS hacker that the Live Canvas interface that shows and allows edits directly to HTML or CSS is downright exciting.
I am trying to learn exactly what it is these 4 newer products can offer that the considerably larger and more mature and established companies like Brizy, Oxygen or Themify cannot.
However, I also need to be somewhat concerned about if they will stay in business, as they seem to be smaller operations with fewer developers. If I learn any more on these concerns as I keep on digging I will share it here with your readers.