RapidWeaver

I have version 8, which I am learning on, and it will do me for the next few years after which I probably will not care as I will have moved on. I WILL NOT upgrade, I do not rent software I WILL not allow MY work and MY data to be locked in and held hostage.

From the advertising it looks like RapidWeaver is a drag and drop WYSIWYG web page editor. Not at all. Then the purchase changed to subscription. That's a bit no as I do not subscribe to something that I would use only a couple of times a year. Recommend some other solution. Very disappointed with my purchase.

Frankly, I don't like renting software and I don't support companies who to change to subscription mode: When the "landlord" goes out of business, you can bid farewell to the software, too. Mind you, it is not a rare occurrence, software companies do have the nasty habit of folding up. There should always be the option to purchase a perpetual license, that will never expire.

DO NOT UPDATE to v8.10.0 ! ! ! It is a PAID UPGRADE, it is SUBSCRIPTIONWARE, and will FAIL with your v8 license. This is TRAGIC. - - RapidWeaver is suffering from Marketing-As-Management, the disease that kills aging companies. At this time: (1) 'Check for Updates...' either fails, or it only detects the previous version as the latest. It will NOT detect v8.10.0. That may be a blessing. (2) "RadidWeaver Classic", despite it being listed at v8.10.0, is a PAID UPGRADE, which of course is insane. Your v8 license will FAIL. DO NOT INSTALL v8.10.0. (3) To add to this insanity, when v8.10.0 is manually installed, the name of the app has CHANGED from "RapidWeaver 8" to simply "RapidWeaver". You will (thankfully) have TWO copies, TWO versions of the app sitting next to each other. TRASH v8.10.0 "RapidWeaver" and don't look back. - - CONCLUSION: Past v8.9.4, RapidWeaver is DEAD TO ME. I've knocked it down from 5-star to 1-star. Shameful. Sad.

And now Rapidweaver is going also the way of subscription… :-( Following version is about the same price - but for only one year, a five year license will be… hold on… 291 dollars! Bye bye Rapidweaver! I’ll stick to version 8 for now as long as I can.

Having abandoned Sandvox a couple of years ago when it was clear that development had stalled I looked at all the other MacOS desktop web builders before settling on RapidWeaver as clearly the best for my needs. It is not cheap and some of the add-ons that give extra functionality are also expensive but if you are serious about building an attractive and responsive website without coding there is nothing to beat it. There is an active community of add-on developers and the app itself is frequently updated - version 9 is expected soon.

Welcome to the RapidWeaver platform. Where you spend $100 to get a barebones app and then the developers themselves encourage the use of a bunch of addons that cost hundreds of more dollars. Seriously. What can this app do on its own? Such a waste of time. The makers of the self-proclaimed "best web DESIGN software for Mac" can't even DESIGN their own website without the help of third party software IN THEIR OWN app. Sure, RapidWeaver has been around for two decades. And what's been developed in that time is a glorified (and non user friendly) TEMPLATE EDITOR which comes with about 8 modern usable templates. How funny this WEB DESIGN app can't do web design at all. This is clearly a company comfortable with its position, surrounded by add-on creators equally comfortable. There's no innovation here. What's the web without innovation? Every little detail costs extra.

RapidWeaver is just the foundation of a modular web development system. As is, you can create simple web sites and blogs, easy do design, publish and update. I've managed to develop some not-so-simple web sites during the years, with just the help of some manual coding (that can easily be done). Add Stacks, and you get more advanced page layout features. Add Foundry or Foundation, and you get an advanced web development tool, with which you can design the most sophisticate page layouts. Add other modules (or 'stacks'), add templates, and you get a lot for any type of personal and commercial web site. Costs grow depending on the complexity of the requested task. It not mandatory, even if tempting, to let it grow. In the end, RW+Stacks+Foundry/Foundation are some 200€, well deserved for an advanced development tool with great support.

There's little info in why you'd want to use this if you can actually code HTML/CSS already. There are frameworks for getting off the ground building compete sites and staying ahead. A tool like this would appear to just get in the way and not mesh well with all developer tools and frameworks out there.

What a joke that this application cannot open or import existing html files! And when copying the html code from a rather simple html file with nothing but three small tables into a new Rapidweaver project there is nothing but crap to be seen. Downloaded, installed, tried, deleted.

What a joke that this application cannot open or import existing html files!

What a joke that this application cannot open existing html files!

Click "Download" and... what you get is v8.3, not 8.5.1 :-/

Rapidweaver just keeps getting better with each update. Those who are negative here are obviously not enjoying the added benefit of using Stacks with Foundation or Foundry. These magical additions are critical to getting serious development from Rapidweaver. They cost extra, but WELL worth the SMALL investment to easily achieve amazing sites. Purchasing extra Stacks to achieve a particular feature is just common sense. No web authoring app can provide everything out of the box to suit your desires. With Stacks you can add almost anything spectacular to complete a dazzling site. Rapidweaver with Stacks and Foundation or Foundry is the way to go.

OMG, I have to pay...again! This is insane!

Rapidweaver 8.1 was issued 3. weeks ago. What is wrong with this site? Nearly everything on it is one or more versions behind.

I was considering this product, but reading comments here that so many additional plugins/addons need to be purchased to get it working right put me off. I'll keep looking until I find something fairly priced which doesn't have all these hidden costs. Considering either Sandvox or Everweb, not sure which produces the best looking sites. I already have Everweb so I can upgrade to the latest version, but if Sandvox is better maybe I'll go for that.

Purchased to replace an iWEB. Boy Scout Site as we needed to migrate to Sierra and iWeb is not compatible (would not work on ours) Although I could have wished for an easier and more intuitive interface, the videos quickly gave me what I needed to replace a multi paged and detailed website entirely in a few hours. The new site is ALMOST exactly what we wanted and we haven't even begun to learn RapidWeaver. Once we learn more I believe we will be able to manipulate the spaces more precisely and be even more happy with the product. Right now, Very pleased to replace the iWeb site so easily.

I used Rapidweaver for many years, then came paid upgrades, plugin creators out of business and I realised I had been had...here was an app purporting to create websites with ease that actually I needed more paid plugins and a decent paid theme to create a reasonable site. Is that really the future of simple website building. so I tried Sandvox, and a weight was lifted from my shoulders.

Since version 3, Rapidweaver has allowed me to manage several websites for years, updating their designs to integrate stores, add responsiveness and keep things modern with out having to delve heavily into code (though you can if you want). It's an indispensable tool for my business. Rapidweaver is one of the apps that keeps me a Mac user. I can't recommend it, or the community of developers surrounding it enough.