Neve vs Airi comparison [2024] 💥
NEVE vs AIRI
This Airi vs Neve Theme comparison shows you the pros and cons of these two fast-loading popular Wordpress themes. Both themes offer both a pro and a free version. I will discuss the themes one by one and inform you about both versions.
NEVE THEME (Airi vs Neve)
NEVE THEME REVIEW
We start in this Neve vs Airi comparison with the Neve Theme which does not automatically mean it would be better. Let's take a look at why the theme is so popular. There are currently more than 100,000 active installations and in its rating, the theme practically only gets 5 out of 5 stars. It doesn't get much better. Neve was built by ThemeIsle, a company that builds elite WP themes and WP plug-ins.
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NEVE RATINGS
Below you can see the rating and active installation where I have placed arrows.
NEVE INSTALL
Installing Neve is very easy. You can download the free version from Wordpress.org. Upload the theme file via the standard Wordpress install. Install and activate it as shown in below screenshot.
It is recommended to install one of the many ready themes that Neve offers as shown below. If you click on that button, you will receive a message that you must first install 1 of the approximately 10 plug-ins that come with the theme. So do that here "Neve options" >> "Plug-ins" and activate the plug-in.
You can now select and install one of the hundreds of ready-made themes via the offered import function. Multiple demos are available for each niche. Neve offers a lot of demos, and of very good quality. You are sure to find something to your liking. This all works flawlessly and super fast and in this neve review we give the full points for ease of installation.
There is practically no theme better prepared for the installation of the top page builders. At the moment there are 92 demos available for Gutenberg, 122 for Elementor, 48 for Brizy, 99 for BeaverBuilder, even 10 for DiviBuilder and 10 for Thrive Architect but these last 2 only in the pro version. See image below.
NEVE SPEEDTEST
Let's run a speed test. It is important to know that with a good cache plug-in every website becomes much faster. I therefore run the test right away with the best cache plugin installed, called WP-Rocket. The plugin is set to optimize everything so css and js combined & minified. The results without optimized images and with optimized images are shown below and these are very good results. There are faster themes such as Genesis-Framework which is recommended by Google and Wordpress themselves. Ultimately, all themes in the top 5 for speed are blazing fast.
Special about Neve is that no jQuery is used in their theme, but instead Vanilla Javascript. This form of JS is a lot faster and websites made with this theme will load faster.
without optimized images
with optimized images
NEVE FREE VS NEVE PRO
Below you can see what the PRO version offers extra compared to the free version.
In this Neve theme review we now discuss some of the PRO functions, all BOOSTER add-ons belong to the PRO version. It is immediately clear that Neve PRO has a lot to offer.
NEVE HEADER BOOSTER
It more or less goes without saying what you can do with the Header Booster. Create beautiful Headers with incredible freedom, even for mobile. Advanced styling options and multiple HTML elements.
NEVE WOOCOMMERCE BOOSTER
This Booster makes your web shops much more professional with the many extra options. This certainly also results in a higher turnover.
NEVE BLOG BOOSTER
Increase the ease of use for visitors to your blog with the Blog Booster which offers a multitude of additional options.
NEVE ELEMENTOR BOOSTER
The Elementor Booster add-on gives you 9 extra widgets in your Elementor pagebuilder, provided you are using Elementor and not another page builder. It concerns the following widgets: Review Box, Flipcard, Typed Headline, Share Buttons, Progress Circle, Team Member, Banner, Content Switcher and Custom Field.
NEVE CUSTOM LAY-OUTS
With the add-on Custom Lay-Outs you can add your own content or custom code at all hook locations. You can also easily create special footers and headers with it.
NEVE THEME REVIEW: PRICING
Where other themes give licenses for 1 website, with Neve you always have the right to use the theme on as many sites as you want. For normal websites the Personal version is sufficient, if you own web shops I would opt for the slightly more expensive Bussiness version. Neve offers very reasonable prices and is well worth the money, this is a top theme.
NEVE THEME REVIEW: CONCLUSION
Neve is a great theme for both sites and shops with a huge variety of demo sites that can be installed with 1 click. The installation of the whole runs very smoothly and is very clear. The theme is written with great code, it cannot be more professional and is therefore one of the fastest themes on the market. The theme works with the best page builder I know, Elementor. As a result, Neve quickly builds top websites with the greatest of ease. It can be used on an unlimited number of websites and so you no longer need any other themes with Neve. Neve offers good support and you have 200+ videos and 300+ pages with tutorials available.
AIRI THEME (Airi vs Neve)
In this Airi Theme review we take a look at the most important features of this theme . Designed by aThemes, this theme is highly ranked on Wordpress.org for popular themes and is featured on over 20,000 websites installed. I've had good experiences with another theme from aThemes called Sydney and assume Airi has about the same to offer.
Airi Theme review: Rating
When we check Airi's rating on Wordpress.org, we see that practically all raters gave 5 stars. Ratings are very important because it shows what people who know the theme think of it. The theme is still relatively new and more raters will follow, but the average usually remains the same.
Airi Theme review: Demos
The Airi (free) theme offers 6 beautiful demo layouts. That number doubles in the pro version. The demos are of high quality and if you want you can watch them here "live ".
Airi Theme review: Webshops
Airi is 100% compatible with Woocommerce and if you are going to build a webshop Airi is definitely a suitable candidate. The best part is that all of these layouts were built with Elementor. You can find alternative themes for building shops in my top 10 for webshop themes.
Airi Theme review: Speed
The Airi theme is a minimalist theme and can therefore be called fast. The bare theme with no extra plugins with just a well-configured cache plugin produced the result presented above. Of course you can optimize your website yourself for loading time. Follow this tutorial here.
Airi Theme review: Page builders
The Airi theme uses the Elementor page builder by default, but is compatible with Beaverbuilder, and practically all top page builders out there for Wordpress. I recommend installing Elementor for free, but much better of course the pro version.
Airi Blog Lay-outs
In case you want to start a blog or are looking for a different theme for your existing blog, it is good to know that Airi offers different styles such as masonry and list layout. However, the best theme for blogging is the Extra Theme.
Airi Headermenus
Airi offers different types of menus in the header. This is in no comparison to the header builders that some themes such as Divi offer, but it is probably more than enough for most projects.
Airi Google Fonts
Always nice to have a wide choice of different fonts. Google Font offers more than 600 fonts. However, do realize that fiddling with fonts is a lot of work and can sometimes cause errors. The fact is that all themes try to choose the best fonts for a layout and the question is whether you are really able to improve that.
Airi Theme review: Conclusie
It is clear that a lot is possible with Airi. The demo layouts are very good, even in the free version. With Airi one can build any type of website and of course it is a pleasure to use the Elementor pagebuilder to work.
For a little more money, you have access to all themes from aThemes instead of 1 theme. Memberships usually provide much more bang for the buck than just a theme, just like with Divi is the case.
Airi vs Neve Conclusion
First of all thank you for reading this Airi vs Neve comparison till the end. Airi is at its best in this comparison as a free theme, but I think it still just beats Neve. Neve is slightly faster than Airi and offers many beautiful layouts and works perfectly with Elementor, Brizy, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOrigin, Divi Builder and Gutenberg. Between Neve Pro and Airi Pro I have a mild preference for Neve but the choice is yours.
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