For cafés, studios, portfolios and newsletters
Finally, a website you're not afraid to update.
Cabin puts writing, photos, forms, visitors and hosting in one calm dashboard. Nothing to install, nothing that breaks on a Sunday.
Free for one site. No card. Most people are live in an hour.
Set up in an hour
Not a weekend. Not a developer.
Zero plugins
Everything's built in, so nothing needs updating.
Hosting included
Fast, backed up, on your own domain.
Yours to take
Export every word and photo, any time.
Quietly running sites for
- Field Notes
- BRIGHTSIDE
- Mara Lind
- Northwind
- Hearth Bakery
- Trailhead Weekly
- Juniper Café
- CLAY & KILN
Why Cabin
You've got options. Here's the honest comparison.
WordPress and Wix are fine tools. They're just built for bigger sites and bigger teams than yours.
| Topic | WordPress | Wix / Squarespace | Cabin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting set up | Weak:A weekend, a theme and a few tutorials | Mixed:An afternoon of dragging boxes around | Strong:About an hour. Describe your content, start writing. |
| Plugins to maintain | Weak:10 to 30, each with its own updates | Mixed:None, but every extra is an app with a fee | Strong:None. Forms, media and visitors are built in. |
| Hosting and backups | Weak:A separate bill, and your problem | Strong:Included | Strong:Included, on your own domain |
| Writing and photos | Mixed:A block editor plus an image plugin | Weak:Content lives inside the page builder | Strong:A plain editor. Photos sized and sorted for you. |
| Your content | Mixed:Portable, if you know your way around a database | Weak:Locked in. Exports are partial. | Strong:Export every word and photo, any time |
| When it breaks | Weak:Find a developer | Mixed:Wait for support | Strong:It doesn't. We run it. |
Already on one of them? Paste your site's address and Cabin brings over your posts, pages and images.See how importing works
What's inside
Everything a small site needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Most content systems are built for teams of forty. Cabin is built for the one person who actually updates the site.
Content types that fit your site
Articles, pages, people, recipes. Describe a type in a minute and Cabin builds the editor, the list and the fields around it.
A media library that behaves
Drop in a folder of photos. Cabin names them, makes the sizes your site needs and keeps them where you'd look for them.
Forms that land in your inbox
Contact forms and signups post straight to your dashboard and your email. Reply from either.
Visitors, without the sprawl
One number, one chart and the pages people actually read. Enough to know what's working, not enough to get lost in.
“I moved the whole site off WordPress in an evening. I haven't thought about a plugin update since, and form replies just show up.”
Mara Lind
Photographer, moved from WordPress in 2025
- to move a WordPress site, posts and photos included
- 1 hr
- plugins to update, ever
- 0
- dashboard for content, media, forms and visitors
- 1
Media1,284 files
12 photos added, sized and named
Media
Photos, sorted. Before you ask.
Drag a folder onto the page. Cabin renames the files, makes every size your site needs and writes a first pass at alt text. You can fix anything in a click.
- Crops that follow the subject
- Originals kept, never touched
- Find anything by colour, date or where it's used
Pricing
Simple pricing. Like everything else.
Your first site is free for as long as you like. Pay when it grows.
Cabin
For your first site.
Freeforever
- 1 site
- 500 entries
- 2 GB of media
- Forms and submissions
- Cabin subdomain
Lodge
For a site that's growing.
$12per site, a month
- Unlimited entries
- 50 GB of media
- Your own domain, SSL included
- Visitors and top pages
- Scheduled publishing
- Two editors
Studio
For studios running client sites.
$39a month
- 10 sites
- Client logins
- Shared media across sites
- Priority support
- Invoice billing
Move in this afternoon.
Set up your first site in an hour. Keep it free for as long as you like.