Brighter Vision rents you a website for a monthly fee, starting at $99 a month. Stepflow rebuilds your website once, and then it's yours: no monthly fee, a clear fees & insurance page, and your booking stays exactly the same.
The short answer
A monthly website service for therapists, compared with a website you own.
| Question | Brighter Vision | Stepflow |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | From $99 a month, for as long as you have the website | $0 a month. One payment, with a fixed quote after your free check. |
| If you stop paying | The website they built stays on their system. Your web address is yours, and they say they’ll hand it back free. | There's nothing to stop paying. The website stays. It's yours. |
| Who owns the website | Brighter Vision keeps the website on its own system | The website and the account it lives on are in your practice's name, like getting the keys. |
| Refunds | No refunds on monthly plans. Annual plans: a partial refund only before your first draft, minus the setup fee, the first month and a $100 cancellation fee. | See a preview before you pay. If you don't love it, you owe nothing. |
| Contact forms and privacy | Forms safe for health details are an extra monthly add-on (from $14.99 a month) or part of a higher plan | Asks only for a name, an email and a short message. Never health details, and nothing is kept on the website. |
| Fees & insurance page | Up to you to write | Included: in-network plans, out-of-network benefits, superbills, sliding scale and Good Faith Estimates. |
| Online booking | Links to your booking system | A "Book now" button on every page for the booking system you already use. |
| Who does the work | Their design team builds it; you edit it in their system | We do all of it. You review and say yes. |
What we say about Brighter Vision comes from their own pages, checked October 2026: Brighter Vision pricing page. Prices and plans change, so check with them before you decide.
An honest answer. Brighter Vision is the better choice for some practices.
No tech skills needed. We do all of it, and your booking keeps running the whole time.
Send us your Brighter Vision website. You get a simple report: what's working, and what might be costing you clients.
If you'd like, we build a preview of your new homepage using your own words and photos. If you don't love it, you owe nothing.
Your words, photos and booking link come with you. Your booking keeps running the whole time, and Brighter Vision keeps running until the new website is live.
Your web address points to the new website and is put in your practice's name. Then you can cancel Brighter Vision.
Yes. Brighter Vision says you fully own your domain name, and that they’ll transfer it back to you without a release fee. We help you move it and put it in your practice’s name.
The website itself stays on their system, so you can’t take it as it is. Your words and photos are yours, and we bring them over to your new website.
No. Your booking system, schedule and booking link stay exactly as they are, whether that’s SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane or something else.
No. Your Brighter Vision website keeps running until the new one is live. Only then do you cancel.
Yes. The only ongoing cost is your web address, about $20–30 a year, which you likely already pay.
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