Strikingly review
We read the pricing page and three help-centre articles, and bought nothing.
- ByMohamed Al-Shehri · edited by Nora Al-Mutairi
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- Score6.7 / 10
We read the pricing page and the articles on account language, site language and text direction on Strikingly’s own site, on .
Strikingly does something no platform in this comparison does: Strikingly publishes a list of 16 languages for its account and editor interface with Arabic among them, and it is the only platform in this comparison to publish such a list including Arabic
The flaw is in the next sentence: its promise that a site reads right to left rests on an older page, and a newer page of its own describes the same setting entirely differently. The old one was never taken down, and that is where the danger is.
How this review was built
We bought no plan. Speed and uptime are out of the score for that reason. The score rests on four criteria readable on the company’s own pages: price and billing, Arabic and right-to-left support, published features, and support availability.
We read three help-centre articles: on account language, on text direction, and on setting a site’s language. The last two describe the same setting and say two different things, and the Arabic chapter is built on that.
There is no buyer-reports chapter here. We opened no reports this round.
Buying and price
9.9
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 25%
The advertised price is {entry} a month billed yearly. The page offers longer terms labelled by what they save rather than by what they cost, so a buyer sees the discount and not the figure until they switch.
What counts in its favour is that it prints the domain’s renewal beside its free first year, which few on this page do. The plan’s own renewal price is not published.
The second price is the commission: Strikingly publishes its store commission per plan; the rate falls with an upgrade and reaches nothing only on the top tier The payment gateway fee the company names and does not quantify, sending the buyer to the gateway’s own site.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| $8.00/mo billed yearly | 9.70 |
| A narrow premium for paying monthly | 10.00 |
| No commission on sales | 10.00 |
| A permanent free tier | 10.00 |
Arabic and right-to-left
5.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 20%
The first half of this answer leads the comparison and the second half sits at its foot.
The interface: Arabic is in the published list, which we found nowhere else. The caveat is that the company’s own page calls its translation a beta and invites visitors to help translate it — an admission worth reading.
The direction: Strikingly describes the site-language setting on an older page as making all the content read right to left, and describes the same setting on its newer page as changing small pieces of system text and nothing the owner typed, never mentioning direction at all So anyone reading the older page expects their site to mirror, and anyone reading the newer one learns that what changes is small system text they did not write.
Both pages are still published together, and the newer describes today. We opened no account to see which one matches reality, and that is written in the chapter on what we did not measure.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| An editor interface in Arabic | 10.00 |
| Publishes no right-to-left support | 0.00 |
| No Arabic templates published | 0.00 |
| Support in Arabic | 10.00 |
Published features
7.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 35%
What you get: {feats} of the items we count, with selling from the entry plan though capped in number, and a permanent free tier.
Custom code sits a tier above the entry plan, and multi-language and auto-translation on the top tier alone. Anyone wanting a two-language site here buys the tier above them all.
Storage and bandwidth are written per plan, and that clarity counts in its favour.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| What you get: 2 of the 3 capabilities we could read | 7.00 |
Support availability
4.0
Basis: the company’s own pages · weight 20%
Chat is published as round the clock on the paid plans, which lifts its availability score.
Phone support is on the top tier alone, and the page marks it English beside it. The language is named outright here, which the rest of this comparison does not do.
We found no refund window on the pricing page or in the help-centre results we read. Its questions speak of cancelling rather than getting money back, and the two differ.
| Value | Points |
|---|---|
| support around the clock | 10.00 |
| Contact by chat only | 3.33 |
| No refund window published | 0.00 |
| No renewal price on the page | 0.00 |
Speed and uptime: we did not measure them
We did not measure the speed or uptime of a site built here, bought no plan and opened no account.
We did not verify which of the two pages describes the editor’s behaviour today, because that needs an account. We opened no buyer reports. What we did not check is written here.
The full calculation
| Sub-score | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 9.9 | 25% | 2.475 |
| Arabic | 5.0 | 20% | 1.000 |
| Features | 7.0 | 35% | 2.450 |
| Support | 4.0 | 20% | 0.800 |
| Total | 6.725 → 6.7 |
If not this one, then what
Both picks are computed from the scores rather than written by hand: the first is the one directly above it in the ranking, the second the one that beats it by the widest margin on the criterion it loses on.
Hostinger Website Builder
6.8The service directly above it in the ranking.
$2.99/mo billed yearly, then $10.99/mo on renewal
Read the reviewIONOS Website Builder
6.3What this page offers instead on the criterion it loses on — Support availability.
$6.00/mo billed yearly, then $14.00/mo on renewal
Read the review
Bottom line
For anyone wanting a single page at a low price with an account interface in Arabic, Strikingly gives them what nothing else here does.
For anyone building on the mirroring promise, read the newer page before starting, because it describes something entirely different from the page the reviews repeat.
Questions
Is Strikingly’s interface in Arabic?
Yes — Arabic is in the account-and-editor language list the company publishes. The company describes its translation as a beta.
Does the site mirror to the right if you choose Arabic?
An older page of theirs says yes; a newer page about the same setting says it changes only system text and nothing you typed, and never mentions direction.
Is there a commission on sales?
Yes on the entry plan, falling with an upgrade and reaching nothing only on the top tier.
What we know, and where from
Every figure on this page, where it came from and when we read it.
| What we say | How we know | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strikingly publishes a list of 16 languages for its account and editor interface with Arabic among them, and it is the only platform in this comparison to publish such a list including Arabic | the company states it | Strikingly — Changing your Account Language Settings | |
| Strikingly publishes its store commission per plan; the rate falls with an upgrade and reaches nothing only on the top tier | the company states it | Strikingly — Pricing | |
| Strikingly describes the site-language setting on an older page as making all the content read right to left, and describes the same setting on its newer page as changing small pieces of system text and nothing the owner typed, never mentioning direction at all | the company states it | Strikingly — Change Site Language Setting |