STATIC.APP ALTERNATIVE
Static.app alternative that takes the file you are holding
Static.app is a good product and its entry tier is cheaper than ours. The reason people look for an alternative is narrower than price: its own documentation says a loose .html file is not accepted and a React artifact has to be converted first. Both work here as they are.
Free plan, free SSL, no credit card.
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- file types accepted, in 7 groups
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- files needed to publish: a lone .html is a whole site
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- build steps for a single .jsx or .tsx page
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- framework build guides with the exact output folder
Who should not switch
Static.app wins on two things that are easy to measure, and if either is what you are optimising for, it is the better buy.
- Sites and a domain per dollar. Its Starter tier is $5 a month, or $60 a year, for two sites WITH a custom domain, and Large is $15 a month for thirty. Starter here is $5 a month for one site, and custom domains start on Pro. On that row Static.app wins and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
- It ships a macOS desktop app, listed on its free tier. Droply is browser, API, a Chrome extension and a VS Code extension, with no native desktop app.
- You always ZIP your uploads anyway and never touch React. Then the two frictions this page is built on do not apply to you, and the comparison comes down to price.
Why people look
Why people look for a Static.app alternative
Every point below is taken from Static.app's own documentation, with the page and the date it was read. Nothing here is a guess about how the product behaves.
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A loose .html file is not accepted
Its own Claude hosting page says a loose .html file is not accepted for upload and has to be zipped first. That is a real step: an AI tool or a text editor hands you one file, and the next thing you do is open an archive utility.
Static.app Claude hosting page, read 8 September 2026.
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A React artifact needs converting before it can go up
The same page says React-based artifacts need an extra step: ask Claude for a self-contained HTML version first. That is a round trip through the model, and the version you publish is then not the version you reviewed.
Static.app Claude hosting page, read 8 September 2026.
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The free column and the trial are the same column
Its pricing page lists a $0 tier with 1 website and 50 MB, and lists "7-Day Trial" among that tier's own features, while its copy elsewhere says the first 7 days are free with no credit card. Read that page yourself before you plan around the $0 column.
Static.app pricing page, read 8 September 2026. We are quoting an ambiguity on their page rather than resolving it for them.
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No password protection on any listed plan
Password protection does not appear on any tier of its pricing page. For a client preview or an internal document that is the difference between a link you can send and a link you cannot.
Static.app pricing page, read 8 September 2026: no password or access-control feature is listed on any plan.
Our answer
How Droply handles each one
One answer per point above, in the same order.
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A loose .html file is not accepted
Drop the .html on its own. It becomes the page at the root of the site, with no archive, no folder and no index.html rename. The same is true of a PDF, an image or an office document.
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A React artifact needs converting before it can go up
A single .jsx or .tsx file is published as it is and transformed in the visitor browser at the URL. Nothing regenerates it and nothing rewrites it, so what you read is what a visitor gets. See publishing a Claude artifact.
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The free column and the trial are the same column
The free plan is a plan rather than a trial of a paid one: 1 site, 25 MB, 5,000 visits and 5 GB a month. There is no seventh day and no card on file to start charging.
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No password protection on any listed plan
Password protection starts on Starter and is checked at the edge, before any file is served, so the assets behind the page are covered as well as the page.
Side by side
Droply and Static.app, row by row
Static.app is ahead on price and on sites per tier. Those rows are here too.
| Droply | Static.app | |
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| Free plan | 1 site, 25 MB, 5,000 visits and 5 GB a month, no card. | A $0 tier listed with 1 site and 50 MB, whose own feature list also names a 7-day trial. |
| Single .html file, no ZIP | Yes. | No. Its Claude page says a loose .html file is not accepted and must be zipped. |
| Single .jsx or .tsx, no build | Yes, transformed in the visitor browser. | No. Its Claude page says React artifacts need converting to self-contained HTML first. |
| PDFs and documents | Hosted as first-class files, with an in-browser viewer. | Not described as a product feature on its pricing page. |
| Password protection | From Starter, checked at the edge. | Not listed on any plan. |
| Expiring links | From Starter: six hours, a week, or a date. | Not listed on any plan. |
| One-click rollback | From Pro. | Not listed on any plan. |
| Security check on every publish | Every plan, including free. | Not listed on any plan. |
| Sites on the entry paid tier | See the pricing page: the count rises with the tier. | 2 on Starter, 7 on Medium, 30 on Large. |
| Custom domain | From Pro, $15 a month. | From Starter, $5 a month or $60 a year. |
| Entry paid price | $5 a month for Starter. | $5 a month, or $60 a year. |
Static.app figures come from its own pricing page and its Claude hosting page, both read on 8 September 2026. Rows marked "not listed" mean the feature does not appear on those pages on that date, not that we tested it. Product plans can change.
Migration
How to move a site from Static.app
Your Static.app site stays up while you do this. If you still have the ZIP you uploaded there, you already have everything you need.
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Find the archive you uploaded, or the folder you made it from
Static.app takes a ZIP, so the thing you originally uploaded is a complete copy of the site. Either the ZIP or the folder it was built from will publish here unchanged.
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Or paste the live address instead
Site import copies the pages, styles, images and fonts of a live site onto a Droply link, up to 40 pages and 600 assets. Use it when the archive is gone or was built on a machine you no longer have.
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Drop the folder on Droply
Sign up, then drag the folder, the ZIP or the single HTML file onto the upload area. Nothing is repackaged and no build runs: the files you upload are the files served.
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Check what the security pass found
Every publish is read for things that should not be public: a committed .env, a .git directory, a private key, an API key in a bundle. Old exports carry these more often than fresh builds do, so read it before you send the link anywhere.
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Point your domain at it, if you had one
From Pro at $15 a month you move the DNS record to Droply and the certificate is issued for you. Change the record last, once the Droply URL already renders what you expect, so there is no window where the domain resolves to nothing.
Price
Pricing compared
List prices on both sides. The two entry tiers are the closest thing to a like-for-like row on this page, and Static.app wins it: at its entry price you get two sites and a custom domain, where Starter here gives one site and puts custom domains on Pro. What you are paying us for instead is on the table above.
| Droply | Static.app | |
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| Free | 1 site, 25 MB, 5,000 visits a month, no card. | A $0 tier: 1 site, 50 MB, SSL, QR codes, and a 7-day trial listed in the same column. |
| Entry paid tier | $5 a month for Starter. | $5 a month or $60 a year for Starter: 2 sites, 500 MB, custom domain. |
| Middle tier | See the pricing page. | $10 a month for Medium: 7 sites, 3 GB. |
| Top published tier | See the pricing page. | $15 a month for Large: 30 sites, 10 GB. |
Static.app prices from its own pricing page, read 8 September 2026. Droply prices are read live from the plans table, so they cannot go stale on this page. Product plans can change.
No card required
What you get without paying anything
The free plan here is a plan rather than a seven-day window, and this is what it holds.
- 1 live site on a 25 MB account, with no card and no trial clock.
- Up to 25 MB per upload, and up to 25 publishes a day.
- 5,000 visits and 5 GB of traffic a month.
- HTTPS with a real certificate, issued and renewed for you.
- The same URL on every re-upload, so a link you already sent keeps working.
- The deploy-time security check, which reads what you published and warns about a stray .env file, a .git folder, a private key or an API key left in your JavaScript.
- A small Droply badge in the corner of the page. Removing it starts on Starter.
- Free sites are served noindex, so search engines do not list them. Search visibility starts on Starter.
- A loose .html, .jsx or .tsx file published as it is, with nothing to zip or convert first.