Fronty
Fronty is an AI website builder that turns a single sentence or an uploaded image into real, editable HTML and CSS pages, then adds a database, forms, a custom domain, hosting and a standalone code export.
What is Fronty?
Fronty is an AI website builder from Fronty, Inc., born in 2016 around an image-to-code converter and still marketed as the world's first image to HTML CSS converter. There are two ways in: describe the site you want in a sentence, or upload an image (a screenshot, a mockup, a design export). The technology page describes convolutional and recurrent neural networks that detect structures, element types, sections and "almost all of their styles", using techniques the company says are pending patent.
What comes out is a real site rather than a wireframe: navigation pointing at the other pages, sections with actual copy, buttons, sized images and a responsive layout. The markup comes from an in-house component library prefixed fy-, so one stylesheet and one script are cached across the whole site.
You then work in a visual editor: click an element and change its text, image, colour, spacing or mobile stacking. Nothing to install, everything undoable. Beside it sits an AI agent in a chat panel that sees your current selection and edits the real page — "Make this section shorter". Generations and editor messages are two separate monthly quotas that reset on the 1st.
The builder goes past layout. A built-in database offers typed columns (text, rich text, number, date, checkbox, single and multi-select, image, link, email, JSON) plus an AI data fill that creates real columns and rows from a description; design a card once, bind it to a table, and every row becomes an item on the page. Native forms support typed and required fields, validation and conditional fields, with submissions arriving in a dashboard inbox instead of a third-party service. Team roles — Owner, Admin, Editor, Viewer — are scoped per site and enforced server-side.
Publishing is included. Every site gets a free fronty.live address; paid plans add a custom domain with the A and CNAME records supplied, a Pending/Verified status and an auto-renewed HTTPS certificate. Sites can be multilingual with a visitor language switcher, business-email records (MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC) are monitored for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or Zoho Mail, and a pre-publish check flags dead links, missing titles and descriptions, missing alt text and placeholder content. From Pro upwards the whole site exports as a ZIP of standalone HTML, and a public API is documented. Fronty's own home page claims more than a million sites created and over 500,000 users.
What it does
- Generate a complete website from a one-sentence description
- Turn an image — screenshot, mockup or design export — into HTML and CSS
- Edit any page by clicking: text, images, colours, spacing, links
- Ask the in-editor AI agent for a change in plain language
- Build a typed database and bind page sections to it for dynamic content
- Create forms and read the submissions in a dashboard inbox
- Connect a custom domain with automatic HTTPS, publish, and export the whole site as standalone HTML (Pro and above)
When to use Fronty / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Fronty is the right fit.
When to use Fronty
- Designers who want to hand clients working code rather than mockups alone — a testimonial on the site describes sending "not only the designs I create but the code as well".
- Freelancers and small businesses with no developer budget, for whom the company pitches building a site "100x faster and 100x cheaper".
- Founders and entrepreneurs who need a first web presence quickly, with hosting, HTTPS and a custom domain already part of the package.
- Shops and small catalogues: the built-in database is presented for "a blog, a product list, team members, listings or events", with each row becoming an item on the page.
- Agencies and small teams that want to keep their options open — editing is shared through four per-site roles, and the whole site exports as standalone HTML from the Pro plan up, since "nothing here is a format only we can open".
When not to use Fronty
- Anyone building a dynamic web application or a SaaS product: Fronty produces content sites (HTML and CSS plus a database), not application logic.
- Transactional e-commerce: no shopping cart and no visitor checkout are documented on the published pages — Paddle bills your Fronty subscription, not your site's customers.
- Organisations with formal compliance requirements: no security certification is published (no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA), no data processing agreement is offered to customers, and no hosting jurisdiction can be chosen — the privacy policy names the United States, the EEA, the United Kingdom and Armenia "and other countries".
- Developers who want to pick their own framework: the markup comes from Fronty's in-house fy-* component library, and the terms give no warranty that the generated HTML and CSS are valid or accessible.
- Mobile-first users and under-13s: there is no iOS or Android application, the interface is English only, and the terms set a minimum age of 13.
How to use Fronty
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Create a free account — no credit card is required
- Create a site in the dashboard and give it a name
- Choose "Describe it" (one sentence) or "Upload a design" (a JPG or PNG screenshot or mockup)
- Wait one to two minutes while the pages appear one after another
- Open the editor and change text, images, colours, spacing and links by clicking
- Or ask the AI agent in the chat panel to make the change for you
- Create a table in the database, set the column types, add rows, then bind a page section to it for dynamic content
- Add a form; submissions land in the inbox of your dashboard
- Invite collaborators by email and give each one a role on that site
- Add your domain in the site settings, copy the A and CNAME records to your registrar, wait for the green status, run the readiness check and publish — then, on Pro and above, export the site as a ZIP from the toolbar
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Two entry points — a written description or an image — where most builders start you on a template
- A complete chain in one place: generation, editing, database, forms, domain, hosting and publication
- The no-lock-in claim is backed by a real feature: standalone HTML export with no proprietary project file (Pro and above)
- A permanent free plan with publishing included and no credit card required
- An entry paid tier at USD 8.00 a month that already includes a custom domain, automatic HTTPS and hosting; the "Powered by Fronty" badge disappears on any paid plan, and new sites get three badge-free months
- A typed database and native forms with a built-in inbox — uncommon at this price, and no third-party form service to pay for
- Subprocessors are listed by name in the privacy policy, and Fronty states that customer content is not used to train third-party foundation models
Cons
- No price is readable on the public pricing page: it is a JavaScript application with no amounts in the HTML, so buyers cannot compare plans without signing in
- One subscription covers one site, not the account — each site carries its own plan, which multiplies the bill for anyone running several
- The free plan is tight: 2 live pages (5 in total, 3 of them locked drafts), 3 generations and 50 AI messages a month, 1 GB of storage
- Code export starts at Pro (USD 12 a month); the entry Starter plan cannot export anything
- Compliance is thin: no security certification published (no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA), no data processing agreement for customers, no explicit GDPR claim, no Article 27 representative and no data protection officer
- No hosting region can be chosen — the policy says "and other countries" — and no documented option lets you keep your data out of AI training
- Refunds are not pro-rata and consumed credits are non-refundable; support runs through a generic info@ address and a web form, with no mobile app and an English-only interface
Pricing & Plans
Fronty offers a permanent free plan, presented in the product as "Free forever" and opened without a credit card; there is no free trial of a paid plan, because the free tier is itself the free entry point. The lowest paid entry point is the Starter plan at USD 8.00 per month. Billing is monthly and applies per website rather than per account: each site carries its own subscription. Payments are processed by Paddle as merchant of record, accepting cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local methods depending on the country, with VAT and sales taxes handled by Paddle. No discounted annual rate was found in the published sources.
- 3 AI generations and 50 AI messages a month
- 2 live pages plus 3 drafts
- 3 database tables
- 100 rows
- 1 collaborator
- 1 GB. No custom domain
- no code export
- "Powered by Fronty" badge displayed. Described in the product as "For exploring what Fronty can build."
- 20 generations and 250 messages a month
- 10 pages plus 15 drafts
- 5 tables
- 500 rows
- 1 collaborator
- 5 GB
- custom domain
- badge removed
- 60 generations and 800 messages a month
- 50 pages plus 50 drafts
- 10 tables
- 2
- 500 rows
- 3 collaborators
- 10 GB
- custom domain
- 200 generations and 3
- 000 messages a month
- 200 pages plus 200 drafts
- 50 tables
- 20
- 000 rows
- 10 collaborators
- 100 GB
- All four plans are billed monthly and apply to a single website. Generations (AI-built pages) and messages (requests to the AI editor) are counted separately and reset on the 1st of each month.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Fronty handles your data.
GDPR overview
Fronty never claims GDPR compliance. The word appears once, in the privacy policy effective 6 June 2026: "Where GDPR or similar laws apply, our legal bases may include performance of a contract, legitimate interests, consent, legal obligation, and protection of vital interests where relevant." Section 9 lists access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, withdrawal of consent, objection to marketing and complaint to a supervisory authority, "depending on where you live", exercised by writing to info@fronty.com, with identity verification possible. Section 7 covers transfers to the United States, the EEA, the United Kingdom and Armenia under standard contractual clauses or other lawful mechanisms. Californian CCPA rights are handled separately. Three things are never mentioned anywhere: an Article 27 representative in the EU, a named data protection officer, and a data processing agreement offered to customers — the SCCs and DPAs cited cover Fronty's own vendors, not you.
Who owns the data?
You keep ownership of your Customer Content and, as between you and Fronty, of the project-specific AI output generated for your site; third-party and open-source components, fonts and libraries keep their own terms (Terms 3.5). In return Fronty receives a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, process, transform, scan, transmit and display that content, solely to operate, secure, support, improve and enforce the Service (4.2). That licence ends when you delete the content or the account, except for copies held in backups, logs, audit, security and compliance records (4.3). The platform, editor, AI workflows and components stay Fronty's (4.4), and feedback you send can be used freely (4.7). Data your published site collects from visitors is yours to govern: Fronty processes it on your behalf, and notices and consent are your responsibility.
Reuse rights
What you create is yours to reuse without asking. From the Pro plan up you can export the entire site as standalone HTML — one file per page following the URL tree, plus the stylesheet, the script and the public form-submission endpoint — and host it wherever you like. Fronty makes the point itself: "Your site is not locked in", and there is "no proprietary project file, nothing only we can open". What you may not reuse is the product: copying, reverse-engineering, reselling or sublicensing the Service is forbidden (Terms 4.5), and the "Powered by Fronty" badge may only be removed if your plan allows it (4.6). Two conditions come with the freedom. You warrant that you hold the rights to the inputs you upload and to the use you make of the AI output (3.3), and Fronty gives no warranty that the output is unique, free of third-party rights, valid HTML and CSS, or compliant with accessibility, privacy or advertising rules (3.4). You are also required to keep your own backups: no recovery is guaranteed (5.4).
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Fronty, Inc. is a California company; its terms apply California and United States law and place disputes before the courts of Los Angeles County. The privacy policy states that Fronty "is based in the United States, and our providers may process personal information in the United States, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Armenia, and other countries" — these are processing locations rather than declared data centres, and the list is explicitly open-ended. Transfers rely on standard contractual clauses, processing agreements or other lawful mechanisms "where required". No hosting region can be chosen by the customer. Subprocessors are named: Paddle (payments, merchant of record), Anthropic (AI generation), Amazon Web Services S3 (object storage and backups), Nextcloud (files and media), Cloudflare (CDN, DNS, Workers, TLS for custom hostnames, Turnstile), MailerSend (transactional email) and Google (OAuth), plus MongoDB-compatible database, Redis queue and server hosting providers. The public domain resolves to 172.67.187.240 on Cloudflare's anycast network, which reveals nothing about where the application servers actually sit. Stated security measures include encryption in transit, access controls, logging, abuse monitoring, rate limits and bot controls, with no absolute guarantee. No certification is published: no SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no HIPAA.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Fronty.
- The generated output can be wrong: the terms state that AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, unoriginal, unsafe, inaccessible or non-compliant, and reviewing and testing it falls entirely on you (3.2).
- No uniqueness guarantee: Fronty does not warrant that the generated code is original or free of third-party rights (3.4). The site openly invites you to upload "screenshots of existing websites", and reproducing a design that belongs to someone else can put you in an infringement position.
- Single-vendor dependency: hosting, domain, HTTPS and the database all sit with Fronty. Code export softens this but does not remove it — the exported ZIP carries the pages, not write access to your database.
- You must keep your own backups: the terms disclaim any guarantee that content can be recovered (5.4), and an account can be suspended without notice for abuse, a rights complaint or a security risk (6.5).
- AI inputs travel to a third-party provider (Anthropic) that may retain prompts and outputs under its own terms; the privacy policy explicitly asks you not to submit sensitive, confidential or regulated information to the AI features.
- Legal exposure moves to you: the terms make you responsible for your published site's notices, cookies and visitor consent, and cap Fronty's liability at the greater of twelve months of fees or USD 100. Availability is not unconditional either — the terms note that some features may be "unavailable in certain regions", and your use must comply with sanctions and export-control law.
- Skill and cost drift: handing layout over to the AI erodes your own HTML and CSS fluency if you never read the code that comes out, and the one-subscription-per-site model quietly multiplies the bill as sites pile up.
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low. Signing up takes no credit card and the first pages appear within one to two minutes; nothing to install, no code needed for everyday use. The only genuinely technical step is connecting a custom domain: you copy the A and CNAME records Fronty supplies — with copy buttons and a Pending/Verified status — into your registrar, then wait minutes to hours for propagation. Business email is the most demanding part for a non-technical user: reading MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and possibly adding a TXT record. Code export and the public API assume technical skill but remain optional.
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Alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is Fronty?
Do I need to know how to code?
How much does it cost?
Does one plan cover all my websites?
Can I start without a credit card?
Can I use my own domain name?
Can I export the code?
How do I remove the "Powered by Fronty" badge?
Is my content used to train AI models?
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Should you pick Fronty?
Fronty has a clear story: the 2016 image-to-code converter has grown into a full chain that runs from an AI-generated first page all the way to hosting. Its real differentiator, and the one the site pushes hardest, is that the output is not locked in — from the Pro plan you leave with a ZIP of standalone HTML, and the first page comes from a model rather than from a template gallery. The price-to-scope ratio is favourable at the entry point: USD 8.00 a month already buys a custom domain, automatic HTTPS and hosting, with a typed database and native forms on top.
Two structural caveats deserve attention before you commit. First, a subscription covers one site, not your account: running four sites means four plans, and nothing at the moment of the first purchase makes that obvious. Second, transparency and compliance are the weak spots — no amount is readable on the public pricing page because it is rendered in JavaScript, no security certification is published, no data processing agreement is offered to customers, GDPR compliance is never claimed and no hosting region can be chosen.
The company is small and self-funded — third-party trackers describe a team of about three — facing Wix and Squarespace. The home-page numbers, over a million sites created and more than 500,000 users, are its own claims and cannot be verified. The terms are firmly on the vendor's side: no warranty on the quality, originality or accessibility of the generated code, and liability capped at the greater of twelve months of fees or USD 100.
Fronty is worth the detour for freelancers, designers and founders who need one good-looking site online quickly, who value being able to walk away with the markup, and who are not bound by formal compliance requirements.
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