Sitely 6 is a category-defining visual website builder for macOS, the new gold standard in Mac web design apps.
Sitely is an essential tool for small businesses, entrepreneurs and independent professionals who want to showcase their content with no third party branding, and without shoehorning content in a predefined template or fighting with a web interface.
For design agencies who build client websites, Sitely is an excellent opportunity to build bespoke designs without resorting to canned templates or components with a design that’s no longer unique.
Most website builders are either template based or require you to learn HTML. Sitely is different, it’s a WYSIWYG website builder with freeform layout. But it isn’t about HTML at all, it’s more akin to a graphic design application. If you can use Keynote and Pages, you already know how to use Sitely. It’s way more than iWeb ever was going to be, but it’s a useful parallel.
It’s fast and fun to create a website when you don’t have maddening CSS or a complicated plugin system to slow you down. Sitely entirely eliminates many tedious tasks that are web design headaches, such as resizing and compressing images, optimizing and minifying code, ensuring cross browser compatibility, working with CDNs and caches, dealing with privacy issues, future proofing the code, and so on.
Sitely offers anybody who is conscious about their identity on the web a great app to build a gorgeous, personal website.
Sitely has been in continuous development for over 10 years, look at the release notes here.
Given the visual focus, Sitely de-emphasizes code editing and HTML/CSS concepts. This is unsatisfactory for people who think web design equals coding.
Theoretically we could shift the focus of Sitely to be more code-focused, but we believe that bringing in the idioms of web development into a visual environment as first class citizens is much more helpful than just a layout engine for opaque code boxes. Doing a mix of both code and visual is damn near impossible.
We sell Sitely at a one time fee, and don’t charge a monthly fee (though a subscription is available for who prefers the predictable yearly charge). Sitely also doesn’t need a slew of add-ons or plugins for basic functionality. Sitely doesn’t use a stock underlying framework that limits the expressiveness of the layouts. Users need to provide their own hosting, but that’s also a form of freedom.
Our competitors seem to fall in one of two camps: they either follow a mostly visual approach, but limit the design/layout flexibility because they’re template based, or they offer full layout freedom, but are permeated by HTML and CSS concepts, if not outright code-based.
Some hybrid solutions similar to Sitely do exist, but they seem to be stuck in the 90s both in terms of user interface and generated code.
Mostly though Sitely goes way beyond simple page layout, offering high level constructs such as menus, image galleries, maps, social media and more. For example the menu system scales from manual set up to fully automatic with synchronization to the website outline, while image galleries not only generate retina images, but they generate a full set, for each image, for each device. Maps are based on the industry standard Google maps, but Sitely integrates easy address lookup and a number of preset color schemes.
Sitely 1.0: April 24, 2014
Sitely 6: September 10, 2025
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Sitely is also available on the Mac App Store.
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
macOS 10.14.4 Mojave or later. Optimized for macOS 23.0 Tahoe
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