Theme Editions

Skill level: Beginner

The theme comes in three editions: Astro, Tina, and Sanity. The design, pages, and features are the same in all three, including the navigation, RTL, smooth scroll, and AI links. They differ in where your content lives and how you edit it.

Compare The Editions

	Astro	Tina	Sanity
You edit in	Your code editor	A visual editor at `/admin/`	Sanity Studio, in your browser
Content is stored in	Files in the project	The same files in the project	Your Sanity project, in Sanity’s cloud
Account needed to edit	None	None on your computer. Your own Tina Cloud project to edit online	Your own Sanity project
Click on the page to edit	No	Yes, under `npm run dev` on your computer. Online there are forms only	Yes, in the Studio’s preview on your computer. Online it needs a Node.js preview server
Live site	Static files	Static files	Static files
Good for	Developers and people happy to edit files	A non-coder editing, with content kept in Git	A team of editors working online

Each edition builds a normal static site, and hosting it needs no account with us. You use your own Tina or Sanity account, and your content stays yours.

Which One Should I Choose?

Astro if you are comfortable with text files or use an AI assistant to edit them.
Tina if you want to click and edit, and to keep your content as plain files you can move anywhere.
Sanity if several people edit from different places, and you want drafts, publishing, and an image service.

Getting An Edition

Each edition is its own zip, available from the theme’s product page, and its README.md explains its own setup. For the editing guides, see Tina and Sanity.

Moving Between Editions

Astro and Tina both keep content in files, so your content can move between them. On some themes the two differ in file type or a few keys, so run npm run tina:audit and npm run astro-check after you copy.
Sanity stores content in the cloud. Content doesn’t move into or out of Sanity automatically, so choose before you write much content.

Most Of These Docs Apply To All Three

Pages in these docs often list Files: at the top, and the Customization pages show those files. In the Astro and Tina editions, those are the files you or the editor change. In the Sanity edition, most of that content is edited in the Studio instead. Your theme’s What Is Editable In Tina and What Is Editable In Sanity pages show where each thing is, and what has been tested for this theme.