Brizy Cloud Review: Build Websites Without WordPress

What Is Brizy Cloud?

Brizy Cloud started life as a WordPress page builder, but the team took it in a completely different direction — turning it into a fully hosted, standalone website-building platform. Think Squarespace or Wix, but with a price tag that makes both of those look expensive.

The platform handles everything from hosting to SSL certificates to a CDN, so you don't need to worry about setting up servers or managing WordPress installations. As of early 2021, Brizy Cloud also introduced a content management system for blogging, though it's still in its early stages. The editor itself is fast, fluid, and genuinely enjoyable to use — one of its strongest selling points right out of the gate.

Pricing and Plans

Brizy Cloud offers a free plan that gives you 50,000 visits per month, SSL encryption, and access to the blogging feature. It's surprisingly capable for a free tier, but most users will want to upgrade to unlock the platform's real potential.

The sweet spot is the Studio plan at $100 per year. For that price, you get unlimited sub-accounts, unlimited visits, unlimited websites, and a global CDN. Compare that to Squarespace or Wix, where a single site can cost more than Brizy's unlimited plan. There's also a mid-tier option at $49/year for three hosted domains if you don't need unlimited everything.

The value proposition here is hard to ignore, especially if you're building sites for clients. The trade-off is that Brizy Cloud is still actively developing features, so you're paying less but also getting a platform that isn't fully mature yet.

Dashboard, Sub-Accounts, and Team Management

The Brizy Cloud dashboard organizes your work into two project types: websites and pop-ups. Pop-ups can be embedded on other websites, which is a nice touch if you're using Brizy alongside an existing site.

Sub-accounts are where things get interesting for agencies and freelancers. You can create separate accounts for each client — so Joe's Carpet Cleaning gets their own siloed workspace with their own projects. When you switch between sub-accounts, each one only shows its own projects. This means you can invite clients or team members to log in and they'll only see what's relevant to them.

The team member system includes thoughtful role-based permissions. Viewers can preview work for approval. Editors can change images and text but can't touch the layout. Designers get full layout control. Managers can do everything including creating and deleting projects. If you're building websites for clients who want to make their own text updates without accidentally breaking the design, the Editor role is exactly what you need.

Hosting and Publishing Options

Brizy Cloud gives you several ways to publish your finished site. The simplest option — and the one most people should use — is their built-in hosting. You point your domain from Namecheap, Hover, or wherever you registered it, and Brizy provides the DNS records to make it work. Their hosting runs on Amazon AWS EC2 with a CDN, so performance is solid.

If you're on a more limited plan, you can use their server sync feature, which keeps your Brizy-built pages in real time sync with your own server using a small code snippet. There's also a free third-party hosting option, though the quality of service likely won't match their native hosting.

For one-off projects where you don't need ongoing sync, you can export the raw HTML files and host them anywhere you like. This is a great escape hatch — your work isn't locked into their platform forever.

Managing Leads and Moving Projects

Brizy Cloud's origins as a landing page builder show in its lead management features. If you're running paid traffic to a landing page with a contact form, all submissions are collected in a built-in leads dashboard. You can see everyone who filled out a form without needing to check your email or log into a separate CRM.

The platform also makes it easy to move projects between sub-accounts. If you're building a site in a sandbox environment under your personal account, you can move the entire project to a client's sub-account with a couple of clicks. This workflow makes it practical to do development work on your own and then hand things off cleanly.

Pages, SEO Settings, and Redirects

Adding pages in Brizy Cloud happens through the CMS section, accessible via the hamburger icon in the editor. You can create pages, set them to draft or published status, and manage their slugs. A small yellow indicator shows draft status while green means published — a clean visual system.

The SEO and social sharing settings live in the project settings area. You can set site-wide Open Graph data including a default social sharing image (aim for 630×1200 pixels), a site title, meta description, and favicon. Individual pages can have their own SEO titles and meta descriptions as well.

One practical feature is the redirect system. If you're migrating from WordPress or another platform, you can map old URLs to new ones so visitors and search engines don't hit dead ends. You simply enter the old path and the new destination, and Brizy handles the redirect. There's also a custom CSS injection area and code injection for headers and footers — perfect for analytics scripts, Facebook pixels, and other tracking tools.

Building Your Navigation Menu

Setting up your menu requires pages to be published first — draft pages won't appear in the menu builder. Once published, you can add pages to a named menu, rearrange them by dragging, and even nest pages to create dropdown sub-menus.

The nesting interaction has a small UI quirk: to reliably nest a page under another, you sometimes need to drag it elsewhere first and then bring it back, sliding it to the right to trigger the nesting behavior. It works, but it's not the most polished experience.

You can also add custom links to your menu for external sites or anchor links within a page. External links have an option to open in a new tab, which is best practice for keeping visitors on your site. Each menu item can have its navigation label and description edited through a gear icon.

Global Headers and Footers

Every website needs a consistent header and footer, and Brizy Cloud handles this with global blocks. You start by adding a header block from their preset designs, then toggle it to "global" in the block settings. After that, you set display conditions to control which pages show the header — typically "all pages" unless you're running landing pages where you want to hide the navigation.

The same process applies to footers. Add a footer block, make it global, and set display conditions. One thing to watch out for: when you add a global footer to a page that already has content, Brizy doesn't automatically place it at the bottom. It may land between other blocks, requiring you to manually reorder.

The block reordering tool is actually quite nice — it shows thumbnail previews of each section so you can easily identify what you're moving. It's a small detail, but it makes reorganizing pages much more intuitive than working with abstract labels.

The Editor Experience

The Brizy editor is where the platform truly shines. Adjusting margins is as simple as clicking and dragging — no typing pixel values into fields. The inline editing experience is fast and responsive, making it feel like you're designing directly on the live page rather than working through layers of UI.

Background images can be repositioned using a focal point selector, so you can highlight exactly the part of an image you want visible. Backgrounds support images, video, and even maps, with filter controls for brightness, contrast, and color temperature. You can also set different styles for hover states, which opens up creative possibilities for interactive sections.

Overlays work exactly as you'd expect from other page builders — an extra layer over your background that you can use to make text more readable. A dark overlay with reduced opacity over a busy background image is a classic technique, and Brizy makes it dead simple.

Block Settings and Sliders

Any block in Brizy can be converted into a slider with a single toggle. Turn it on and you get a tabbed interface where each tab represents a slide. You can duplicate slides, change their backgrounds independently, and modify content per slide.

The main limitation is that there's no way to reorder slides by dragging — you'd need to duplicate and delete slides to change their sequence. Adding a drag-and-drop reordering feature similar to what exists for blocks would be a welcome improvement.

Blocks can also be made global without being headers or footers. If you have a contact form or a call-to-action section that appears on multiple pages, making it global means any edit you make to that block updates everywhere automatically.

Editing Text, Headlines, and Images

Text editing in Brizy is handled through a single text element rather than separate widgets for headlines and paragraphs. You add a text element and then change its typography to H1, H2, or whatever heading level you need. This streamlined approach avoids the clutter of having multiple text-related widgets.

Inline formatting includes bold, italic, underline, lists, alignment, and hyperlinks with options for new tab and nofollow attributes. Everything applies to selected text only, giving you precise control.

Images support focal point adjustment, zoom, filters, and lightbox display. The lightbox feature opens the full image in an overlay when clicked — useful for portfolio sites or product galleries. For multiple images, Brizy includes a dedicated gallery widget with configurable columns, spacing, and lightbox support.

Global Styles

Brizy includes a global styles system where you can define typography and colors for each heading level, paragraphs, and other text elements. Changes propagate across the entire site in real time — update the H2 font from the styles panel and every H2 on every page changes immediately.

The color system is tied to global swatches, so changing a swatch color updates all elements using that color. Individual elements can override the global style with custom colors, but getting them back to the global style isn't as intuitive as it should be.

One notable gap: copy-paste styles doesn't work consistently across element types. It functions well for buttons but falls short on headlines, where you'd expect to copy a styled heading and paste its style onto another. The workaround is duplicating the styled element and replacing its text, which is functional but tedious at scale.

Buttons, Icons, and Multimedia

Button styling offers solid options including fill modes (solid, outline, transparent), corner radius, shadows, and independent hover states. Buttons can include icons from Brizy's library, positioned before or after the text. A particularly nice feature is that duplicating a button places the copy inline rather than on a new line — no column hacks needed for side-by-side buttons.

Video content can be added via YouTube or Vimeo links or by uploading files directly. The playlist element lets you display multiple videos in one section, though it doesn't auto-pull cover images or titles from YouTube — you'll need to add those manually.

Audio embedding works with SoundCloud out of the box or through custom MP3 uploads. While you could embed audio in blog posts, Brizy won't generate the proper RSS metadata that podcast directories like Apple Podcasts require, so you'll still need a dedicated podcast hosting service.

Columns and Layout Controls

Brizy's column system is straightforward. You can add columns by right-clicking or dragging the column element from the sidebar. Each column has its own background color, margins, padding, and corner radius settings, so building custom layouts like pricing tables is entirely doable without needing a dedicated pricing widget.

The drag-to-resize approach extends to columns as well. You can adjust widths by dragging column borders, and elements within columns can be individually styled. This flexibility means that many of the "missing" dedicated elements in Brizy aren't actually missing — they're just combinations of columns and basic elements styled to look like specialized components.

Countdown Timers and Marketing Features

Brizy includes a countdown timer element that can be set to a specific date and time zone. You can toggle visibility of individual units — show only hours and minutes if days aren't relevant. The layout adjusts via drag-and-drop sizing, keeping things clean.

The timer lacks evergreen functionality, meaning you can't set it to count down from when a visitor first arrives. For that behavior, you'd need a third-party service like Deadline Funnel. Since Brizy Cloud doesn't support WordPress plugins, any integrations need to come from SaaS platforms that provide embeddable code.

Progress bars are another built-in marketing element, useful for multi-step forms or showing completion status. They support customizable colors for the title, percentage, bar, background, and shadow. The embed widget rounds out the marketing toolkit — paste in code from any third-party service like ThriveCart, Deadline Funnel, or a booking tool, and it renders right on your page.

Contact Forms and Integrations

The form builder lets you create contact forms from scratch with field types including text, email, telephone, URL, select dropdowns, and paragraph text areas. Fields can be marked as required, and you can control the width of each field — setting two fields to 50% width places them side by side on the same row.

Form submissions trigger email notifications by default. You can customize the notification email with a template that uses shortcodes for each form field, which is a nice touch for client work — instead of a raw data dump, you can format the email to be readable and on-brand.

For email marketing integration, Brizy connects with Mailchimp, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, and several others, plus Zapier for anything not natively supported. Google reCAPTCHA integration is available for spam prevention. The integrations list could be larger, but Zapier covers most gaps.

Blogging in Brizy Cloud

Blogging is Brizy Cloud's newest feature, and it's still in early stages. You create posts from the CMS section, giving each one a title, featured image, excerpt, and category. The post editor uses the same drag-and-drop builder as pages, which means your blog posts can include all the same elements — columns, galleries, videos, forms, and more.

Categories are simple to set up and can be assigned to posts during creation. Each post gets its own slug, and you can set SEO titles and meta descriptions at the post level. The writing experience is consistent with the rest of Brizy — fast, visual, and inline.

The blogging system is functional but basic compared to WordPress. If you're running a content-heavy site with thousands of posts and complex taxonomy requirements, Brizy isn't there yet. But for a business blog with regular updates, it handles the fundamentals well.

Saving and Reusing Layouts and Blocks

Brizy lets you save entire page layouts as templates for reuse. Once you've designed a page you're happy with, you can save it as a layout and apply it to new pages — a significant time saver if you're building multiple sites with similar structures.

Individual blocks can also be saved to a library. If you've crafted a perfect testimonial section or a pricing table, save it once and drop it into any page on any project. This library persists across your account, so saved blocks are available in every sub-account.

The archive page — the listing page that displays all your blog posts — is built using a dedicated archive block element. You can customize how post cards appear, including which metadata is shown and how many posts display per page.

Mobile Responsive Editing and Pop-Ups

Brizy includes device-specific editing for desktop, tablet, and mobile views. You can switch between viewports and adjust layouts, font sizes, and spacing for each device independently. Elements that look great on desktop can be resized or rearranged for mobile without affecting the desktop layout.

The pop-up builder is a standalone feature that uses the same editor. You can create pop-ups triggered by various conditions — on page load, after a delay, on exit intent, or on scroll percentage. Display conditions let you control which pages show the pop-up, and you can exclude specific pages where pop-ups would be disruptive.

Pop-ups can be embedded on non-Brizy websites too, which makes this feature useful even if you're only using Brizy Cloud for lead generation rather than full site building.

Final Verdict: Is Brizy Cloud Worth It?

Brizy Cloud is a genuinely impressive platform with some rough edges. The editor is one of the best in the website builder space — fast, intuitive, and visually polished. The pricing is hard to beat at $100/year for unlimited sites, especially for freelancers and small agencies managing multiple client projects.

The sub-account system, role-based permissions, and project management features make it a legitimate tool for client work. Built-in hosting on AWS with a CDN means you're not cobbling together separate services. And the ability to export HTML gives you an exit strategy if you ever outgrow the platform.

Where Brizy Cloud falls short is in the details. The blogging system is basic. Some UI interactions are buggy — menu nesting, copy-paste styles on headlines, and footer placement all need polish. There's no evergreen countdown timer, no e-commerce, and the email marketing integrations list could be longer. But the core building experience is excellent, the price is right, and the team consistently delivers well-executed features when they do ship. If your needs align with what Brizy offers today, it's a strong choice. If you need advanced CMS features or e-commerce, check back as the platform matures.

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