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Squarespace vs Marq: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 6th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 5,112 reviews from Content Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Secure Data Storage
NA
Website Management
4.6
Customizable Branding
4.4
Access Controls/Permissions
4.6
Content Publishing Options
4.6
% Fit
Missing features
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Feature ratings
Secure Data Storage
NA
Website Management
NA
Customizable Branding
4.0
Access Controls/Permissions
4.0
Content Publishing Options
4.8
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews3,251
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.4
4.5
User reviews281
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.3
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Free version
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Free version
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Best for

Trusted by the worlds best, Squarespace empowers people with creative ideas to succeed. Entrepreneurs, photographers, restaurants, musicians, businesses, fashion designers, and more use Squarespace.

Organizations with creative teams who are bogged down with design requests for marketing or sales collateral and looking to empower their non-designer colleagues with brand templates.

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Liz K
Creator
1.0

Liz K.: Hi, my name is Liz. I am a Senior Paralegal at a niche law firm, but I'm also involved in operations at our resident techie outside of our external IT department. Our company size is approximately 30 people, and I would give Squarespace a one or two. Okay. We use Squarespace to host our company's basically about website with the details of what we do. Not our client portals, but just our company's main webpage. We are in the process of migrating to Wix. I have extensive experience with coding languages as well as multiple hosting providers. Wix is one that I'm not familiar with. And in the brief time I've already started using Wix, I prefer it to Squarespace dramatically. And I'm still not even fully up to everything with it. The one feature I do like about Squarespace is how easy it is to set up an application as well as the menus and their sub-menus, and add external links that in a way that it looks appealing. I hate their way to set up webpages. I hate how finicky it is. I hate how little control you have. I hate that you can't set the pixels with it, do you want the columns, you have to drag and drop everything. At some points, I wish I could write it into code rather than use their built-in thing, but that's not an option. I do not like how, for example, on our employees page, I have to click the add picture, add text, add this, add spacers in certain order. It gets all messed up. You drag and drop a block the wrong way, the whole website gets screwy. And then there's no one to... Or it's just very un-user-friendly for a site that advertises itself to be user-friendly. And again, I am very experienced with web design and I find it very frustrating, so I couldn't imagine someone who's never built a website before trying to figure it out.

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Travis T
AV Leader
4.0

Travis: Hi, I'm Travis, a Director of Development in the non-profit industry, and I would give Lucidpress four out of five stars. Before Lucidpress, we had Microsoft Illustrator and unfortunately it wasn't as intuitive to me. When I jumped on board in my position, I was looking for something that had just a wide range of features, and it didn't seem like at least our version of Illustrator was up to snuff with the vision that I had for the assignments that were before me, such as newsletter generation and other things. And so when I looked around, searched online, said a prayer, because I had no idea where to go, I actually came across Lucidpress and was pleasantly surprised. At the end of the day, after doing my search through the different publishing softwares, I decided on Lucidpress because it seemed like it not only gave us the most bang for our buck, but it also seemed to just have all the features that we need. They're constantly doing updates, and it's been four years since I made that decision and I'm still very comfortable with it. It's just been very easy to get the job done and also to train staff. They seem to pick it up pretty easily as well, and that helps. And so it's just been a nice process. Our printing company, they work well with us and they seem to understand it. And it's a really big plus to have it as cloud-based because when you're sending those big files, it's nice to just be able to go to the printing company, download it on their computers, and just allow it to do its job, and for them to take over from there, rather than having to dumb down one of the files in order for it to process or send via email. So there's a lot of great features to sum it all up, and the addition or the option for it to be on cloud is just a huge plus that makes our workflow a lot easier. It was very easy to onboard into Lucid. I was given the task of creating a newsletter that had already been in existence before I had started at my current position, and I had a vision for what I wanted to do, and it was great to be able to get into Lucid and easily identify what needs to be done. And I don't have a graphic design background by any means, but it just talks and shows and presents itself well. And so I think anyone who has a general understanding of what they want to do and of manipulating even Microsoft Paint or something like that, I think you would be able to pick up Lucidpress pretty easily. If you're considering Lucidpress, I would recommend that you gauge the price against the features. I think that's a huge draw to have a cloud-based publishing software. You might gauge it against the others, against the competitors, and assess even the templates and the things that are already available to you. I was able to create the newsletter that is still going on by manipulating a template that was involved in Lucid for our purposes. I did a fair amount of changing it, but it's still actually, four years later, serving as the base. And it's given the feel and the branding to our non-profit's newsletter. So I think just based on the price, the cloud integration or the cloud availability, and then all the features that come in, I think if you gauge it against the other ones, the competitors that are out there, it's going to be a very competitive publisher. And I think you would be good to make your decision with it and you'd feel that you confidently made a good choice.

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Squarespace

Top Features
26/37
  • Approval Process Control
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Calendar Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Content Library
  • Document Classification
  • Full Text Search
  • Multi-Language
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Single Sign On
  • Version Control
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Audio File Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Content Publishing Options
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Templates
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Forms
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Image Editing
  • Metadata Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Search/Filter
  • SEO Management
  • Tagging
  • Text Editing
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Video Support
  • Website Management
  • Workflow Management
  • WYSIWYG Editor
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Marq

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Squarespace
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Marq
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Squarespace
  • By Squarespace
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2007
Marq
  • By LPS Holdco
  • Located in United States
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