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Rapidweaver Overview

What is Rapidweaver?

RapidWeaver for Mac is a powerful and easy to use web design app that puts you back in control. Build your own beautiful, responsive, websites without having to write a line of code. Just because you never learned a lick of code doesn't mean you need to spend a small fortune to have a website built. RapidWeaver gives you the tools you need to publish a beautiful site—no programming, design, or server experience required. Getting started is as simple as picking one of RapidWeaver's elegant website themes (like Artful or Engineer). You'll edit page content using standard rich text or Markdown formatting; to add images, drag and drop from Finder, or use the app's media browser to import from your Photos library or the stock-photo service Unsplash. Need a contact page or photo gallery? Click Add and choose it from the menu. RapidWeaver automatically builds navigation links to the new page throughout your site. RapidWeaver's Simulate mode lets you preview as you edit, so you can see how it will look on various screens, including a range of Mac, iPhone, and iPads. (You can even flip iOS previews to landscape orientation.) And the Health Check feature ensures you haven't missed any details, such as page titles or "alt" image tags that make your site more accessible. With RapidWeaver, you never need to work with the underlying code, but advanced users will appreciate the option to tweak a site's HTML, Javascript, and CSS. And RapidWeaver makes it easy to drop in code, tags, or other information for search-engine optimisation, sharing, or internal reference. Need more options? RapidWeaver Addons—created by third-party developers let you enhance your site with e-commerce features, analytics, individual logins, additional layout options, and much more. You'' find over 1,000 of these in the official community library. And once your site is finished, you won't even need to bother with a file transfer app. Rapidweaver automatically uploads all the necessary files to your web host and keeps them in perfect sync whenever you make changes.

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Product Description

RapidWeaver is the all-in-one web design software for Mac that enables you to build the website you’ve always wanted.


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Year Founded
2002
HQ Location
Brighton, United Kingdom
LinkedIn® Page
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7 employees on LinkedIn®
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RealMac Software is a software development company known for creating intuitive and user-friendly applications for macOS and iOS. Established in 2002 and based in Brighton, United Kingdom, RealMac Software focuses on delivering high-quality apps that enhance productivity and creativity. Notable products include "RapidWeaver," a popular web design application that allows users to create responsive websites without extensive coding knowledge; "Ember," a digital scrapbook for collecting and organizing images; and "Clear," a straightforward and stylish task management app. The company is dedicated to crafting software that is both functional and easy to use.


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Recent Rapidweaver Reviews

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Rachel L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Designing Business Website is Easy With RapidWeaver"
Rapidweaver is a powerful tool for web development and designing, Easy to create professional websites with little to no coding. The app features a...
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Matthias R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use - Powerful results"
Rapidweaver can be extend with 100s of addons. One of my favorite Addon is Stacks from YourHead Software, which allows to use more than 800 stacks...
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Barry L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Rapidweaver 8 - Now working on M1 Macs!"
Rapidweaver has an amazing support community and over 1000 available plugins/add-ons. It's easy to use and powerful for being so affordable.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

Rapidweaver is a powerful tool for web development and designing, Easy to create professional websites with little to no coding. The app features an array of templates and plugins with a long list of features to help you make your site look exactly how you want it. Furthermore, if you want to get started from scratch or make some major changes, you can do this by editing the design of your choosing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

We can not assign multi users in this tool so it is a drawback of this tool. It should be updated because one developer works on a running project and the other developer needs to wait. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used RapidWeaver for our clients website to design for Mac. It has a powerful website builder to design responsive and mobile friendly for customers. I have also one more option to choose a pre pre-built template to custom design website pages and portfolio. In RapidWeaver, as a client I don't need to generate code for browsers separately because RapidWeaver has browser compatible features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

Rapidweaver can be extend with 100s of addons. One of my favorite Addon is Stacks from YourHead Software, which allows to use more than 800 stacks for animation, image, button, tables, CMS and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

Currently there is nothing i dislike about Rapidweaver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rapidweaver:

There is a 30 days evaluation available, so you can try it without any risk.

Please consider also to evaluate Stacks plugin from Yourhead Software. At https://www.bigwhiteduck.com you can find free stacks.

And please also have a look at https://www.joeworkman.net where you can find powerful commercial stacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating and maintaining for customers and also for myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

Rapidweaver has an amazing support community and over 1000 available plugins/add-ons. It's easy to use and powerful for being so affordable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

It's a little overwhelming and difficult to find the plug-ins you want/need, so a better search tool and standardized descriptions would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

For non-Wordpress sites, RapidWeaver is our go-to solution. It allows fast deployment, even when including code-based items, like log-ins, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

The best features of rapidweaver includes its ability to make web development looks easy than ever even though you arn't actually coding instead just designing like mobirise with wide range of templetes and addons with a long list of plugins and adaptive to design by choice allows to make changes from scratch to a templete or make some differential changes to the self constructed design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

I'm not too fond of the limitations of RapidWeaver to work with mac as it doesn't share compatibility with windows and the technical glitches that lead to multiple crashes and loss of cache memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rapidweaver:

My recommendation for others considering RapidWeaver is that if you're looking for the pc software version of Wix or GoDaddy studio for web development with minimum backend and coding support and scripts for a self-efficient design. You're looking for quick designs software for website development for macOSX, then you're making the right choice with RapidWeaver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I wasn't actually using the tool to resolve a concern. Instead, I started using it based upon the client requirement shared with my organization for creating designs for the project assigned to us. However, I was confused by the UI and its flexible adaptability to create some fantastic designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

It is easy and flexible to create a site when you add Stacks plugin and Foundry base of stacks that create the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

I would like it to be multiuser. If you want more than 1 developer to work on the site at one

time you need to break the site up in to sections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is much faster to develop sites using RapidWeaver than WordPress. I have used both and I like the interface much better since it is a real application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Biology online instructor
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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

Best web designing app enables us to build modern websites with wide range of options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

The cost is little high more than expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily build and publish mobile ready website without writing any line of code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

I really enjoy the canvas approach to Rapidweaver. The Stacks addon makes it very easy to use and create great websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

Without addons like Stacks Rapidweaver seems very limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rapidweaver:

If you decided to use Rapidweaver be get the Stacks Addon Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it create the website for my current job and I also develop websites for clients as a freelancer using the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

If you are looking for full control of your work, a secure website, and a beautiful stunning design I highly recommend RapidWeaver. Rapidweaver is all you need to create a website from simple ones to the more complicated online stores. It has been the best decision I have made 7 years back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

Really, I do not have any negative comments... Nothing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rapidweaver:

If you are considering a career in web design and development have a look at RapidWeaver, the best decision you will make. RapidWeaver community is there to will help you all the way! They are the best, professional dedicated developers I have ever dealt with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

If you are looking for security and peace of mind, better get on the wagon and start using RapidWeaver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

RapidWeaver doesn't need high level web skills to make high level sites. For a novice, RapidWeaver is point and click easy. There are excellent videos on YouTube that show you how. The raw program includes many of the powerful tools you will need.

RapidWeaver is template-based which means in addition to the built-in templates (which are superb and I use myself) there are many more free or paid-for designs to fit your web design needs. In addition are Stacks, incredible and sophisticated tools that enable you to do just about anything you need in a web site.

Making sites to fit phones, tablets, laptops or larger is automatic and RapidWeaver makes them for you. It is easy to add extra bits of code or HTML as well. Then, once the site is made, it is extremely rapid to upload changes or whole websites.

Support from the active forum is second to none. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

My only gripe is that Stacks isn't part of RapidWeaver but an add-on extension. My clients would also like to make changes to their web sites, but then, they only ruin them and what am I going to earn when they do? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can make a sophisticated website in a morning, then easily make additions or amendments on the fly. Maybe 5 years later, in a newer version of RapidWeaver, I can immediately understand the site and amend or extend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Rapidweaver?

I like the option to create a website without the need to touch any code, yet the power to tweak code if and when needed. While being allowed to look back at each portion of code easily...its like inspect element on steriods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rapidweaver?

There is a bit of a learning curve, and the program may not be for everyone. Once you get used to the process you can much more quickly trouble shoot and create code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rapidweaver solving and how is that benefiting you?

Faster production times, adding elements quickly, testing, everything is much easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.