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AI Blog Website Builder to Create Your Blog Website Without Coding
Describe your blog. Appy Pie’s AI builds the site in about a minute, then you pick a design, write your posts and publish, on an appypie.com address for free or on your own domain.
What a Blog Maker Does for You
A blog maker gives you the website around your writing: the design, the pages, hosting and an address, so you can spend your time on posts. On Appy Pie you describe the blog in a sentence and the AI generates the site with a home page, a blog page, an about page and starting copy, which you then edit with drag and drop.
The writing is still yours. The builder sets up the blog; your posts, your photos and your voice are what readers come back for. If you need a site that is not mainly a blog, the AI website builder is the better start.
How to Create a Blog in 5 Steps
From an idea to your first published post.
Choose a niche and a name
Pick a topic you can write about every week, and a name readers can remember and spell.
Describe it and let the AI build the site
Type one or two sentences about the blog. The AI generates the pages, layout and starting copy.
Pick a design and edit the pages
Change colours, fonts and images with drag and drop, and rewrite the about page in your own words.
Write your first posts
Publish three to five posts before you share the blog, so the first visitors find something to read.
Publish and share it
Go live on your appypie.com address, or connect your own domain on Starter, then share your first post.
Setting up a website for the first time? Our guide to how to make a website covers domains and launch in more detail.
What Your Blog Website Includes
The parts of the builder a blogger uses, with the plan each one needs from our website pricing page.
Writing and publishing
- AI first draft of the site, its pages and starting copy
- A blog page where you write and publish posts
- Drag-and-drop editor, mobile-optimised layouts
Getting found
- Automatic SEO for page titles and descriptions
- Your own domain with SSL (Starter and Grow)
Keeping readers
- Web push: 500 a month on Starter, 1,000 on Grow
- Contact forms and pop-ups for reader emails (Grow)
- Visitor analytics, advanced on Grow
Beyond the website
- Convert the website into a mobile app (Starter and Grow)
- Custom CSS and JavaScript (Starter and Grow)
Read from our pricing data on October 1, 2026. The blog shown is an example.
Can You Create a Blog for Free?
Yes. You can build, edit and publish your blog for free on an appypie.com address. Here is what each plan adds, as our pricing page lists it.
Start writing today.
- AI-generated blog site and editor
- Publish on an appypie.com address
- Appy Pie branding shown
- Your own domain
- Push notifications
Your own domain and payments.
- Everything in Free
- Connect your own domain
- 500 web push notifications a month
- Accept one-time or recurring payments
- Convert the website into an app
For a blog that sells.
- Everything in Starter
- Sell products, services and subscriptions
- Contact forms and pop-ups
- 1,000 web push notifications a month
- 24/5 priority live chat
Prices as our website pricing page shows them on October 1, 2026, per website per month. A fully white-label site comes with the Add-On Package at twice the plan price. No money to spend? Start on the free plan, write your first ten posts, and pay for a domain once readers arrive.
How Much Does It Cost to Start a Blog?
Entry prices for the platforms bloggers compare, read from each US pricing page on October 1, 2026. Bars are scaled to $60 a month.
Domain name
About $10 to $20 a year for a .com, from any registrar. Optional on Appy Pie’s free plan.
Your time
The real cost of a blog. A post a week is a sensible starting pace for most part-time bloggers.
Optional tools
An email tool, a photo editor or a stock-photo plan. Add them when the blog needs them, not before.
Ways to Make Money From Your Blog
What the plans do for you, and what you set up yourself. Any income depends on your readers, so treat this as the toolkit, not a promise.
Accept payments
One-time or recurring payments with no transaction fee from Appy Pie, for a tip jar, a consultation or a membership.
Sell products and services
An ebook, printables, prints or coaching sessions, with Stripe or PayPal at checkout.
Sell subscriptions
A members-only area or a monthly box for your most loyal readers.
Affiliate links
Links to products you recommend, from programmes you join. Disclose them. Building a whole affiliate site? See the affiliate website builder.
Ads
Ad networks approve each site themselves. Their code goes in through custom JavaScript on paid plans; check with support before you apply.
Sponsored posts
Brands pay for a post once you have readers in their market. Label them clearly.
Blog Templates by Niche
Real categories from our template gallery that suit a blog. Open one to see the designs.
Blog Website Builder vs WordPress.com, Wix, Squarespace, Ghost and Substack
Each has a real strength. Pick the one that matches what your blog is for.
| Appy Pie | WordPress.com | Wix | Squarespace | Ghost | Substack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free on appypie.com; Starter $36 a month | Free; Personal $9 a month or $4 billed yearly | Free; Light $17 a month billed yearly | Basic $25 a month or $19 billed yearly | Starter $18 a month billed yearly | Free |
| Paid subscriptions | On Grow, $60 a month | From Premium | On paid plans | On paid plans | From Publisher, $29 billed yearly, no Ghost fee | Built in; Substack keeps 10% |
| AI first draft | Whole blog site from a description | AI site tools | AI site builder | AI design tools | No | No |
| Their strength | Website and app from one account; simple editor | The largest blogging ecosystem and plugins | Design freedom | Polished templates | Newsletter and memberships in one | Newsletter and a reader network |
| Where we fall short | No paid-newsletter system, no blog importer | Several of these have deeper blogging features, more themes and bigger plugin or app marketplaces than we do. | ||||
Prices read from each vendor’s US pricing page on October 1, 2026. Plans change; check their sites before you decide.
Turn Your Blog Into an App
The website plans include converting your website into a native mobile app, so readers can follow your posts on their phone and get a push notification when you publish. It is the same account and the same content, with nothing extra to keep in step.
See how it works on the website to app converter page.
What Writers Say About Appy Pie
G2 reviews from people who publish with Appy Pie, with their dates. They review the platform as a whole.
The design and publishing of APP for my blog. I have benefited from their excellent customer service.
Christopher D. · writer · 25 October 2021
For the starter price, it’s a great value where I was paying $50/mo for LeadPages. You can just give the AI some prompts and see what it comes up with.
Robin O. · 18 April 2024
Having an app in the App Stores is a needed presence. It adds tremendous value to my overall business. It makes your website way more legit.
Bob H. · CEO · 8 February 2022
The other side: one reviewer (Gustut P., G2, 26 February 2021) did not realise at first that editing after publishing needs an active plan, and the writer above wanted more background images to choose from. G2 overall: 4.7 out of 5 from 1,391 reviews.
What This Blog Builder Does Not Do
Six things to know before you start.
Blog Website Builder FAQ
What people ask before they start a blog, including the questions Google shows on these searches.
Describe your blog in the box on this page and Appy Pie generates a blog website with a home page, a blog page and starting copy. Edit the design, write your first posts and publish. Building, editing and previewing are free, and the free plan publishes on an appypie.com address with Appy Pie branding. Your own domain starts on the Starter plan.
It depends on what the blog is for. WordPress.com has the largest blogging ecosystem, Substack and Ghost are built around newsletters and paid subscriptions, and Wix and Squarespace lead on design. Appy Pie suits a blogger who wants an AI first draft, a simple editor, and a website and an app from one account.
Yes, but no builder can promise an amount. Bloggers earn from affiliate links, ads, sponsored posts, and selling products, services or subscriptions, and all of them depend on how many readers you have. Plan on months of steady writing before income is meaningful, and treat any figure you see quoted as one person’s result.
You can start for free on an appypie.com address. A domain costs about $10 to $20 a year. On Appy Pie, Starter at $36 a month adds your own domain and payments, and Grow at $60 a month adds selling products and subscriptions. WordPress.com starts at $9 a month and Substack is free until you charge subscribers.
The AI builder writes your site’s pages and starting copy from your description. It does not write full blog posts for you. Many bloggers draft with an AI writing tool and then edit in their own voice, which matters, because readers and search engines both reward posts that show real experience.
Not to start: the free plan publishes on an appypie.com address. A domain of your own, such as yourname.com, looks more trustworthy, is easier to remember and is yours if you ever move platforms. It starts on the Starter plan.
There is no documented one-click importer from WordPress, Medium or Substack, so you copy your posts across. That is fine for a blog with tens of posts. For hundreds of posts with comments and plugins, staying on WordPress is the easier call.
Paid plans allow custom CSS and JavaScript, which is how ad networks are usually added. Ad networks such as Google AdSense approve each site themselves and need enough original content first. Check with Appy Pie support that the network’s code works on your plan before you apply.
For most new bloggers it is faster: hosting, security and updates are handled, and there are no plugins to maintain. WordPress gives more control and a bigger choice of themes and plugins, at the cost of more setup and upkeep.
Yes, on the Grow plan, $60 a month: sell products, services and subscriptions, with Stripe or PayPal handling payments. On Starter you can accept one-time or recurring payments without a product catalogue.
Yes. The website plans include converting your website into a native mobile app, so readers can follow your posts from their phone, with push notifications when you publish.
It is a rule of thumb, not a law: spend about 20% of your time writing and 80% getting the post in front of readers, through search, social media, email and other blogs. The point is that a good post nobody finds earns nothing, so plan promotion as part of every post.
Ready to Start Your Blog?
Describe it in a sentence and see the first version in about a minute. It is free to build and to publish on appypie.com.
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