Weebly is not shutting down in Australia, but it is shutting down in 67 other countries on 27 September 2026, and the platform Australians are left on is in maintenance mode.
- Square announced the wind-down in June 2026: publishing froze in affected countries on 29 June, sites go dark 27 September.
- Australia is not on the 67-country list. The US, UK, Canada and most of Western Europe are also unaffected.
- The Weebly mobile app was removed from the App Store and Google Play in December 2025, and Square points users to Square Online.
- Affected accounts keep login access until 26 December 2026 to download their data.
- Australian sites keep serving, but on a platform that is no longer being developed. Export your data now and move on your own timetable.
Keep asking about it in
Quick answer: Is Weebly shutting down in Australia? Not yet. Square announced in June 2026 that Weebly is winding down in 67 countries, citing changes in regulation and a simplification of its global operations, and Australia is not on the list. Sites in the affected countries stopped publishing new pages on 29 June, go dark on 27 September 2026, and lose account access on 26 December 2026. Australian sites keep serving. But the platform they keep serving on has been in maintenance mode for some time: the mobile app came off the App Store and Google Play in December 2025, and Square’s own support pages point users to Square Online. Here is what is actually happening, and what to do about it without panic.
What Square announced, and the three dates
The announcement sits on Weebly’s own support site under Upcoming Changes to Weebly’s Global Operations. In June 2026, Square said it is winding down Weebly services in 67 countries, and gave three dates for customers there:
- 29 June 2026: publishing froze. Affected customers can no longer publish new pages.
- 27 September 2026: sites are unpublished. Anyone visiting an affected Weebly site after this date finds nothing.
- 26 December 2026: account access ends. Until then, affected customers can log in and download their site content, data and domains.
The 67 countries include Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and most of South America and Africa. Australia is not on the list, and neither are the US, UK, Canada or most of Western Europe.
So Australian Weebly sites are fine?
They keep working, which is not quite the same thing. The honest picture for an Australian Weebly site owner in September 2026 looks like this:
- The mobile app is gone. Weebly emailed customers that the app would be removed from the App Store and Google Play on 1 December 2025, and it was. Editing now happens on the desktop only.
- No meaningful features are shipping. Weebly has been quiet on development for years while Square built out Square Online, and Square’s support pages advise users wanting current features to use Square Online.
- A third of the world just lost access. A platform does not wind down 67 countries as a growth strategy. The direction of travel is plain even where the destination date is not published.
None of that takes your site offline. It does mean your website runs on software that is being maintained rather than developed, by a company that has told a large part of the world to leave. We watched the same pattern with GoDaddy, which went further and killed its website builder entirely, and builder platforms that do keep investing tend to charge for it, as the Squarespace price rises showed in July.
What to do this week, whatever you decide
Download your data. Log in, then Account Settings, then My Data, then Download My Data. It is free and takes minutes. Every option you have from here is better with your content already exported, and Weebly’s own affected-country instructions confirm this is the supported path out.
Check what your site is doing for you. If the site is a brochure that has not changed in three years and still brings in calls, there is no emergency. Put a note in your calendar to revisit each quarter and keep the export current.
Plan the move on your own timetable, not Weebly’s. The worst version of a platform migration is the forced one, done in a rush against someone else’s deadline. Australians have not been given a deadline, which is exactly why now is the calm time to choose where the site lives next. For a trade or local service business, that next home is usually either another builder, with the same subscription treadmill attached, or a site you own outright. We have written honestly about what a website costs in Australia, and our websites service explains the ownership route: built once, on your own domain and hosting, with nothing a platform can unpublish.
A note on our angle: we build websites for a living, so we benefit when people leave website builders. Read this with that in mind. The advice stands regardless: Australia is not on the shutdown list, your site is not about to vanish, and the sensible response is an unhurried export this week and a decision made before the platform makes it for you.