What Do Flowershow's Free and Paid Plans Include?

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Flowershow lets you publish Markdown and HTML files as a hosted website without a build step, and its free tier is described as "free forever, no credit card required." Premium adds three things the free tier doesn't list: a custom domain (with favicon and social image), full-text search across your site, and branded domain-level presentation. Everything else on the homepage — themes, CSS/Tailwind customization, rich Markdown, HTML, data files, Obsidian Canvas — is presented as part of the core product rather than as paid add-ons.

Free plan: what the site states

The homepage's sign-up call to action reads "Free forever, no credit card required," and the "Get started" path is a Google sign-up. Based on the page, the free offering covers:

  • Publishing from one folder — Markdown (.md/.mdx), HTML, and supporting files side by side.
  • Markdown rendering — CommonMark, GFM tables and task lists, Obsidian wikilinks, Mermaid diagrams, and LaTeX math.
  • HTML served as written — scripts run, and relative links to CSS, JavaScript, data, and images work.
  • Data and media files — .json, .csv, images, and PDFs are served at their own URLs.
  • Obsidian Canvas and Bases — .canvas files become diagram pages; Bases render as tables, cards, and lists.
  • Themes — four polished themes, plus your own CSS and Tailwind.
  • Content ownership — files stay plain text, Git-friendly, no lock-in.

The page does not state a limit on the number of sites, pages, or bandwidth for the free tier, so treat those as unspecified rather than unlimited.

Premium: the listed differences

The page attributes these features to Premium:

Feature Free Premium
Custom domain Not listed Yes
Favicon and social image Not listed Yes
Full-text search across every page Not listed Yes
Themes and CSS/Tailwind Yes Yes
Markdown, HTML, data files Yes Yes

The homepage links to a Pricing page (flowershow.app/pricing) but the provided material doesn't include its contents, so exact prices, billing periods, and any usage limits on Premium aren't confirmed here. Check that page before committing.

How to decide

  • Choose free if you're publishing a digital garden, notes, or a small docs site and are fine with the default Flowershow URL. You still get themes, wikilinks, Mermaid, math, and mixed file types — the things that make the tool distinctive.
  • Choose Premium if the site represents a brand or product and needs its own domain, or if readers need to search across many pages. The homepage frames search as a Premium feature, so a large wiki or docs site is the clearest case for upgrading.

Practical notes before you start

  • Sign-up is via Google, per the homepage button; no other sign-up method is described.
  • "No build step" means you point Flowershow at a folder and it publishes — you don't run a static-site generator yourself.
  • Because files stay plain text, you can test the free tier with an existing Obsidian vault or Markdown folder and move to Premium later without reworking content.