Bento

A Bento alternative when the grid is not the whole product.

Bento.me is a bento-grid profile. SayHi has a Bento template, and it also has Minimal, Editorial, Portfolio, and others. The grid is one layout, not the company.

Stay on Bento if that grid product is the one you want to publish on. Use SayHi if you want a personal site that can be a bento today and a different template tomorrow.

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Nia Voss

Identity, objects, and the rooms they occupy

Independent designer in Brooklyn. I make identities that can sit on a shelf as well as a screen — books, lamps, marks, and the paper they begin on.

Brooklyn

Studio Voss

A small practice. Brand worlds, objects, and the analog studies that keep both from going glossy.

Atelier Lumen

2025

Identity and a cloth-bound brand book for a lighting studio that still pours plaster in-house.

Civic Marks

2024

A poster series of rust, cream, and charcoal. No slogans. The shapes had to hold a wall on their own.

Lamp No. 4

2025

Bone glaze, olive foot, a shade that does not try to be a sculpture.

Color study, August

Start a projectOne new identity at a time.

Elsewhere

How they differ

Positioning checked 2026-09-24. Features and prices change. This table avoids numbers SayHi cannot keep current. Bento remains a reasonable choice for the cases below.

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Page design

A modular grid is the product.

Bento is a template. Other templates use the same blocks without the grid.

Link in bio

A grid can be the link in a bio.

The same, with a username URL. The grid does not have to be the only layout you own.

Personal website

A profile made of tiles.

A personal page. The bento grid is optional. See the bento website builder if the grid is the intent.

Portfolio

Tiles can hold projects.

Portfolio and Editorial exist when the pictures should be larger than the grid.

SEO and indexability

Their profile URLs follow their rules. Check the live page.

The builder page targets “bento website builder.” This page is only the comparison.

Customization

Card sizes and their widget set.

Block sizes on a grid, or leave the grid. Not a widget marketplace.

Analytics

Check their current product. This page does not invent a dashboard.

Optional first-party visitor insights live in the dashboard. This is not an ads or marketing suite.

Custom domain

Confirm on their site whether a custom domain is offered.

Custom domains are not offered. The public address is sayhi.page/yourname.

Creator use

People who want the bento look as the brand of the page.

People who want that look as one option next to a plainer or more editorial page.

Price

A free plan is commonly available, and paid plans exist. Check their current pricing. This page does not copy numbers that go stale.

Publishing a SayHi page does not require a paid plan today. There is no pricing table because billing is not a product yet.

Ownership

The profile is hosted as a Bento page.

Hosted at sayhi.page/yourname. You can switch templates without rewriting the blocks.

Why people move

The grid should be optional

Some work wants uneven cards. Some work wants a column of type. SayHi lets the template change.

You still want a bento

Nia’s demo is the Bento template. Start there, then delete what is not yours.

The page has to rank as a site, not only as a tile set

This comparison is not the builder. The builder lives at the bento website page. The profile is normal HTML.

Who should keep using Bento

Bento is the tool you already like

If the grid, the URL, and the widgets are working, SayHi is not a mandatory upgrade.

You need their specific cards

SayHi will not copy another product’s widget list. If a card you rely on is missing, stay.

You only wanted the word bento

Searching for a bento website builder should land on SayHi’s builder, not on a comparison. This page is for people leaving or evaluating Bento.

Paste the public URL

The importer reads public HTML only. It does not sign in, and it will not follow a URL that points at your machine or a private network.

Questions

Is this the bento website builder?

No. The builder is /bento-website-builder. This page compares SayHi with Bento as a product, and it does not try to rank for the builder query.

Can I import a bento.me page?

Paste the public URL into the page importer. You get whatever the HTML actually contains. Client-only tiles may not appear.

Which SayHi template is the grid?

Bento. Designer pages and the bento examples use it. Portfolio is the one to open when the stills should be wider.