Sitely, AI Website Builder
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Create websites visually.
Sitely is a powerful visual website builder for Mac and iPad. Design every page directly on the canvas by dragging real elements into place. There’s no code to write, no templates to fight, and every feature is designed for people who want to build websites, not learn web jargon.
Designing in Sitely feels straightforward because what you see is what you edit. Place elements where you want them, style them visually, and see the finished result as you work. It’s not just no code. Every tool is clear, direct, and streamlined, so you can focus on your website instead of learning complicated concepts.
Building is fast, too. A rich collection of built-in elements means you’re rarely starting from scratch. Add text, galleries, forms, maps, buttons, videos, and more with a click, then style everything directly on the page. The built-in preview lets you interact with your site as you work, making it easy to refine ideas quickly.
It’s the same complete website builder on both platforms, with the same projects and the same professional features. Start a website on your Mac, continue on your iPad, and switch between them whenever it suits the way you work.
Designing for the web means designing for every screen. Instantly preview your site at phone, tablet, and desktop sizes, then switch between layouts with a click. Responsive design stays visual from start to finish.
Sitely generates static websites, so there are no databases, server-side software, or plugins to maintain. Every major feature is built into Sitely itself, so you aren’t depending on third-party plugins that break after updates or stop being maintained. The result is websites that are fast, secure, reliable, and easy to host on almost any hosting plan, with no ongoing maintenance and no fragile plugin ecosystem to keep up with.
What’s inside:
• Visual drag-and-drop website design with no code and no templates
• Sensible AI assistance
• Works seamlessly across Mac and iPad
• The complete website builder on both platforms
• Edit text directly on the canvas
• A wide range of built-in elements, animations, and effects, with no plugins to hunt down
• 1,600+ built-in fonts, plus support for your own custom fonts
• A Layers panel that keeps page structure clear and organized
• Built-in preview at phone, tablet, and desktop sizes
• A built-in Assistant that catches accessibility and SEO issues
• Fast static websites that work beautifully on almost any hosting plan
SUPPORT
If you have questions or feedback, please email us at feedback@sitely.app or visit the support website sitely.app/support.html
SUBSCRIPTION
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more - Added support for macOS 27, with interface refinements
- Added support for multi-line checkbox and radio button labels
- Added tooltips to the toolbar
- Improved touch interactions in lightboxes, including automatic video playback when swiping between items
- Improved publishing setup
- Fixed background bokeh editing
- Fixed the Fill Viewport option on mobile devices
- Fixed Matomo and Meta Pixel integrations
- Fixed an issue that could cause empty images to be published when the publishing cache was unavailable
- Fixed unresponsive image gallery thumbnails in the inspector
- Fixed the rendering of certain SVG images
- Fixed occasional horizontal scrolling in mobile Safari
- Fixed crashes
7.0.2 5 days ago
- Added a blur filter for images.
- Expanded calendar customization with optional month navigation arrows and event locations.
- Improved the Website Assistant, including a new check for text that may be too small.
- Improved compatibility with third-party content and upcoming Calendly changes.
- Fixed incorrect text sizing and blog spacing on responsive pages.
- Fixed several background-image issues, including positioning, scaling, and fixed backgrounds on older versions of iOS.
- Fixed password-protection email templates.
- Fixed superscript formatting and occasional line-height issues in text blocks.
- Fixed calculator fields and restored undo and redo for calculator entries in collected form data.
- Improved stability and fixed several crashes.
7.0.1 8 Sept
* The big one: Sitely comes to iPad. Your websites can now be edited there too.
* Vector Drawing: Create and edit simple vector graphics, sketches, and shapes directly in Sitely.
* 3D Models: Add 3D models with configurable camera motion and interactions.
* Magic Box: Let your imagination run wild and have AI create custom widgets and fun visual effects.
* Synchronized Calendar: Connect a new calendar widget to a live public iCloud or Google calendar.
* Alternate Device View: Keep your mobile layout visible alongside the canvas as you work.
* Animated Text: Bring your text to life with motion effects.
* QuickLook plugin: Preview Sitely projects and page thumbnails directly in Finder.
* Richer hover animations: Coordinate hover animations across multiple elements, with new Shine and Pop effects plus additional easing options.
* New text styles for forms.
* Major accessibility improvements.
* New MusicXML smart field.
* Improved website importer.
* Improved in-app search.
* Faster loading for large projects with reduced memory usage.
7 26 Aug
- improved image protection (prevent drag/context menu) to be more effective on iOS
- improved save performance of large projects on slower Macs
- fixed background shift positioning on macOS 26
- fixed element positioning for fixed elements
- fixed issues with stick to top
- fixed layout for multiline text links
- fixed lightbox animation for videos
- fixed lightbox on iOS
- fixed page height to account for shadows
- fixed size for videos in grid
- fixed grid slider issues on chrome and firefox
- fixed thumbnail rendering for grids
- fixed Youtube and Vimeo on Safari 26.4+
6.2.2 25 Jun
- Fixed background video scaling
- Fixed lightbox centering on iOS 26.4 and later
- Fixed a conflict between popup auto-open and Lottie/Rive players
- Fixed gallery image sizes on mobile
- Fixed gallery labels being clipped
- Fixed horizontal scrolling issues on mobile
- Fixed importing pages containing iframes
- Fixed the internal preview getting stuck on non-web content
- Fixed popup date ranges not being respected
- Fixed local preview and responsive design mode issues on Safari 26.4 for macOS
- Fixed crashes
6.2.1 1 Jun
- added image/video grid left and right margins
- improved load performance for large projects
- improved publishing performance and memory use for large projects
- improved website importer with the ability to add maps, videos, generic widgets, and iWeb galleries
- improved search to ensure results are not under the toolbar or format bar
- fixed website generation in relation to iOS 26.4 changes
- fixed incorrect behavior and crashes
6.2 23 Apr
- Introduced Liquid Glass UI (macOS Tahoe)
- Added per-device visibility controls from any device
- Added progress bars and preloader windows for slow or migrated projects
- Improved keyboard navigation and tabbing through controls
- Unified image/video zoom behavior under the new lightbox
- Improved Lottie performance and updated Rive/Lottie integrations
- Extended Arrange → Reflow Vertically to work with single selections
- Improved data/time smart fields across all date formats
- Improved loading performance for large projects
- Improved preview service
- Improved website import
- Improved contact forms
- Expanded network blocking detection
- Fixed layout block editing issues and popup group positioning
- Fixed YouTube/Vimeo handling with lightboxes
- Fixed site search to exclude password-protected content and inaccessible elements
- Fixed crashes when editing multi-selections, opening old projects, and duplicating forms
- Fixed lightbox issues across desktop, iOS, mobile, and multi-device setups
- Fixed undo/redo issues after grid resizing
- Fixed option selection not triggering actions
- Fixed canvas rendering issues with many wrapped text elements
- Fixed scroll position and page bottom drawing bugs
6.1 2 Mar
- improved time/date format in countdown and other smart fields
- fixed popup animations not always showing when the popup opening mode was set to automatic
- fixed dragged elements collapsing to 1x width or height
- fixed element duplication when inside a layout block
- fixed gallery label not showing
- fixed incorrect alignment of grid cells
- fixed page height not reflected in published website
- fixed resizing elements inside layout block causing issues
- fixed the add element popup not showing for new projects
- fixed videos thumbnails not showing
- fixed contact form message boxes to not submit the form when pressing enter
- fixed crashes
6.0.6 12/12/2025
- Fixed issue where Insert menu commands affected the work area while Settings were open
- Fixed crash when running SEO Check
- Fixed Arrange Inspector behavior for grid layouts
- Fixed drawing of boxes with a fixed-in-window background image and blur
- Fixed layout issues in grid cells and other edge cases
- Fixed layout breakage when pasting large amounts of text into a text box inside a grid cell
- Fixed selection issues involving rotated elements
- Fixed formatting for text lists
- Fixed hover effects not applying to video elements
- Fixed layout for video lightbox
- Fixed YouTube handling in image/video grids
6.0.5 28/11/2025
- fixed border rounding size
- fixed cell alignment in multi-device grids
- fixed disappearing normal/hover/clicked/visited bar after assigining text style on a different device
- fixed excess memory growth when using many overlapping blurs
- fixed regression in button and text link alignment
- fixed regression in the collected form elements area of contact form inspector
- fixed Google Analytics not working when privacy isn't enabled and activate after consent is selected
- fixed label option for text input file attachment
- fixed full width video in still+embed mode producing an incorrect layout for the thumbnail and the video
- fixed form button "collected items" in some cases
- fixed inability to change visibiliy on all pages for a multi-selection
- fixed layout of translated "Describe with AI" popup
- fixed mobile autoscaling for text input within a file attachment
- fixed multi-selection of animation settings
- fixed size to fit when double clicking the bottom handle of a text box
- fixed element snap in canvas, when resizing elements
- fixed text links in some multi device text
- fixed typewriter smart field
- fixed unlock checkbox in arrange inspector not working with multi-selection
- fixed use of arrange inspector arrows to move an element, causing it resize
- fixed export of video and other assets that are both in protected and non-protected pages
- fixed video player fullscreen mode
- hardened contact form spam checking against newer bots
- fixed crashes
6.0.4 17/11/2025
- fixed several edge case behaviors several with scroll animations
- fixed typewriter effect in some cases
- fixed edge cases of OKLCH gradients with no chroma component
- fixed contact form HTML formatting and behavior after delivery
- fixed the "open in new window" setting being reset when editing an external link
- fixed the image positions for the gallery lightbox mode
- fixed inability to close a lightbox in a single slide grid
- fixed the new page popup not working when the sidebar isn't open
- fixed the lottie play while scrolling mode
- fixed the slider layout in Chrome, when the page is zoomed in
- fixed stock images not showing transparency correctly in some cases
- fixed text alignment for buttons in some cases
- fixed video opening in lightbox not working for vimeo videos
- fixed issue of some SVGs added from the inspector not immediately showing up
- improved performance when saving project on network drives
- reverted from youtube-nocookie.com to youtube.com due to streaming issues
- fixed crashes and other incorrect behavior
6.0.3 19/10/2025
- added reset of form fields after opening thank you popup
- added suppression button for "No home page" warning
- added tooltips to the format bar align/distribute buttons
- improved performance in project file migration
- improved macOS 26 Tahoe compatibility
- fixed adding a youtube video to an image/video grid
- fixed arrange inspector showing the incorrect visibility options in some cases
- fixed crash when adding blog tags
- fixed crash when selecting multiple radio buttons
- fixed image protection not showing image in exported website
- fixed lightbox stall on last slide
- fixed menu occasionally using the coordinates of a different device when switching devices
- fixed preview service sometimes locking up when switching local to network preview
- fixed sitemap.xml generation to not include non-indexed pages
- fixed thank you popup not working in the case of forms visible on all pages
6.0.2 23/09/2025
6.0.1
- fixed inability to upgrade Pro 5 to Pro 6
- fixed multi-year subscriptions not recognized
- fixed slider pausing when scrolling vertically
- fixed copy/paste style for multi-step gradients
- fixed grid gallery undo/red when dragging images into the inspector
- fixed resizing a layout block that contains a popup
- fixed interference of different galleries on the same page
- fixed canavs incorrectly drawing layout block edges over a popup
- fixed move/resize from inspector vs. grid cells
6.0.1 10/09/2025
Sitely 6 brings a significant upgrade to creative tools and compliance support. A new slider mode adds dynamic layouts to image/video grids, while the image comparison feature (A/B mode) is ideal for before-and-after showcases. On the compliance side, Sitely 6 brings important updates for privacy features and accessibility, helping your site meet the latest requirements. Finally with the rise of AI, we have new features both to leverage AI, and to protect your site from AI.
Here’s the full list of additions:
- Image/video grids now support a horizontal slider layout, with smooth animation and full interactivity, and configurable gallery, flow, and carousel presentation styles
- The new before/after image widget is perfect for showing edits, transformations, or comparisons on your website
- Editing is faster with the in-window preview; a shortcut toggles edit and preview modes
- AI website generation now lets you customize your site's color palette and produces smarter, less generic text that better follows your instructions
- Images can now be protected in a number of ways: prevent drag-and-drop, add copyright metadata, reduce resolution; and a powerful technique to hide the image from web searches and AI, and prevent downloading the image via the page source
- You can now prevent AI bots from crawling or using your website content
- Hover animations are now available on most page elements
- Gallery slides now support borders, rounding, and shadows
- The cookie banner now support cookie types (e.g. functional, analytics, marketing), with individual embeds and third-party content responding to user choices
- Embedded content now supports two-step activation, allowing users to opt in later if consent was initially denied on the cookie banner, and enabling compliance with regulations like TTDSG in Germany
- Google Analytics and Tag Manager now support Consent Mode 2
- The website Assistant now checks accessibility for form labels, text contrast, and link descriptions for assistive technologies
- You can now add a text description to links, for accessibility
- Grid lightbox can extend to full browser window for immersive slideshows
- Image descriptions can now be generated by AI, to make your site accessible faster
- Form fields now support associating a text labels (or the more modern placeholders as floating label) for accessibility
- The Sitely canvas is now accessible, by adding assistive technology navigation support
- You can now integrate Rive animations, for lightweight interactive graphics
- Gradients now support multiple color stops, in boxes/buttons background and borders, and use smoother perceptual color (OKLCH)
- You can build forms across layout blocks and popups, triggered by option selection elements
- New image miniature effect
- Canvas can now be set to zoom to the page width, for smoother device switching
- Popups can auto-close after a set interval
- The page language is now used for on-page UI elements
- You now add an on click action to switch language in multi-language websites, that always switches to the configured page in the destination language
- You can now deliver a contact form thank you message via a popup, instead of going to a page
- Contact forms are now more resilient to spam, through more accurate bot detection and automation tools
- Contact form message delivery is improved by validating the sender address
- Publishing setup is now improved and streamlined, with better detection of edge cases and enhanced server compatibility
- You can now perform simple calculation in inspector text fields, like say a box is 37+14 pixels wide
- Built on JPEG XL research, Sitely now uses cjpegli to create smaller JPEGs that load faster without sacrificing detail
- You’ll now see a warning if an on click action is placed in a group that already has an on click action, the inner link was previously silently ignored
- Added Korean localization
- There are also many many minor improvements and bug fixes
6 10/09/2025
- This release restores Instagram functionality, following their change of policy regarding personal accounts
- Added Instagram reconnection alert
- Fixed issues with font replacement
- Restored the ability to move between gallery images using the swipe gesture
5.6.3 17/12/2024
- added page background option to apply the background to all pages
- added option for the site search feature to provide search results that exactly match the query
- added support for scroll animations in modal popups
- improved page efficiency by not including video poster image in autoplaying video
- fixed button hover/active colors and modes
- fixed issues with website import from disk
- fixed text bullet layout with respect to elements with text wrapping
- fixed text copy/paste not respecting line height
- fixed text style "Apply to style" to work more consistently
- fixed undo/redo for text inputs
- fixed website import not respecting original line height
5.6.2 08/12/2024
5.6.1:
- fixed "Export to disk" entries being lost
- fixed blog index generation
- fixed button hover/active color
- fixed layer view not resizing correctly
- fixed layout issues
- fixed rare crash on launch
- fixed other crashes
5.6:
Sparkle is now Sitely!
- added the ability to place "normal" popups in layout blocks or groups, so they move with the content
- added the ability to apply the fill/fit grid gallery mode to all images at once
- added an image replace option for gallery images
- added the double click gesture on the bottom handle of text frames, to resize a text box to fit the text
- added support for full width Lottie animations
- added more date formats to the date Smart Field
- added Copy Link option to link sharing
- added the ability to add a link to the "current" page, for links visible in all pages
- improved page loading performance
- improved Figma importer quality and font weight matching
- improved AI website generator performance and quality
- changed the in-canvas visibility of elements to be per-project
- removed the ability to set video opacity for YouTube videos, in compliance with YouTube terms of service
- implemented workaround for broken CSS optimizers used in web servers and CDNs (mod_pagespeed, cloudflare)
- implemented workaround for Safari bug causing galleries inside hidden layout blocks to flicker (iOS Safari)
- implemented workaround for mobile audoscaling causing scroll position jump (Android Chrome)
- implemented workaround for the size of Instagram embedded posts being wider than mobile device width
- fixed text wrapping when empty lines are present
- fixed in-canvas SVG rendering issues
- fixed undo causing cross-device element positioning issues
- fixed freeze when closing while the search window is open
- fixed long export times for SVGs containing large bitmaps
- fixed gallery in hidden layout block flickering in some cases
- fixed countdown smart fields opening popups not working with popups visible in all pages
- fixed image drag&drop from Finder to galleries not preserving image order
- fixed elements added to grid not being clickable
- fixed font name matching when copy/pasting rich text
- fixed a number of popup-related issues
- fixed issue with page height changing
- fixed solid lightbox background
- fixed footer issues
- fixed crashes
5.6.1 24/11/2024
Sparkle is now Sitely!
- added the ability to place "normal" popups in layout blocks or groups, so they move with the content
- added the ability to apply the fill/fit grid gallery mode to all images at once
- added an image replace option for gallery images
- added the double click gesture on the bottom handle of text frames, to resize a text box to fit the text
- added support for full width Lottie animations
- added more date formats to the date Smart Field
- added Copy Link option to link sharing
- added the ability to add a link to the "current" page, for links visible in all pages
- improved page loading performance
- improved Figma importer quality and font weight matching
- improved AI website generator performance and quality
- changed the in-canvas visibility of elements to be per-project
- removed the ability to set video opacity for YouTube videos, in compliance with YouTube terms of service
- implemented workaround for broken CSS optimizers used in web servers and CDNs (mod_pagespeed, cloudflare)
- implemented workaround for Safari bug causing galleries inside hidden layout blocks to flicker (iOS Safari)
- implemented workaround for mobile audoscaling causing scroll position jump (Android Chrome)
- implemented workaround for the size of Instagram embedded posts being wider than mobile device width
- fixed text wrapping when empty lines are present
- fixed in-canvas SVG rendering issues
- fixed undo causing cross-device element positioning issues
- fixed freeze when closing while the search window is open
- fixed long export times for SVGs containing large bitmaps
- fixed gallery in hidden layout block flickering in some cases
- fixed countdown smart fields opening popups not working with popups visible in all pages
- fixed image drag&drop from Finder to galleries not preserving image order
- fixed elements added to grid not being clickable
- fixed font name matching when copy/pasting rich text
- fixed a number of popup-related issues
- fixed issue with page height changing
- fixed solid lightbox background
- fixed footer issues
- fixed crashes
5.6 19/11/2024
Added support for macOS Sequoia
5.5.4 16/09/2024
- improved grid cell size settings
- improved layout of grids on autoscaled devices
- fixed a popup set to auto-open not opening in some cases
- fixed background patterns not working in password protected pages
- fixed blog index not showing popups and not performing layout blocks actions
- fixed an issue related to selecting a gallery placed inside a layout block
- fixed full screen video leaving 1 pixel line at the top
- fixed the issue of an element with parallax animation disappearing, when using an automatically opened modal popup on the page
- fixed popup close animation not always played on Safari
- fixed page bottom no refreshed properly when showing and hiding hidden elements on the page
- fixed text overflow warning being upside-down in some cases
- fixed layout issues and crashes
5.5.3 19/06/2024
- added option to turn off lightbox in grid gallery
- improved publishing setup
- improved website importer for some background images
- fixed canonical and hreflang metadata generation
- fixed font inspector not allowing change of weight if multiple weights of the same family are selected
- fixed issues for labels within galleries
- fixed grid layout and grid cell issues
- fixed searching and replacing text within menus
- fixed issue causing text icons to be lost in some cases
- fixed image generation to always provide a file extension
- fixed use of layout blocks as footers
- fixed layout in some cases
- fixed lottie files starting when popup opens
- fixed small translation typos
- fixed ungrouping footer items in some cases
- fixed use of some features in blog posts not working in blog index
- fixed crashes
5.5.2 29/05/2024
- added SEO check to mention that at least one image should be on the page
- added developer option to avoid putting images in subfolders of the images folder
- fixed page generation of video elements for the different cases
- fixed page generation for multiple dropdowns in a form
- fixed background shift not working correctly on some mobile devices
- fixed page generation for parallax in some cases
- fixed of domain parking check during publishing setup
- other performance and stability improvements
5.5.1 04/03/2024
- added extraction of images from PDF pages, to a gallery or an image grid
- added rounded corners option for videos
- added ability to drag and drop movies to grid inspector
- added ability to import options from a text file, for option selection form elements
- added ability to slide through images in a gallery lightbox, like for grid galleries
- added settings option for user interface language preference
- added work around for bugs in some FTP server causing upload of many images on every upload
- added work around for some web host setups preventing automated FTP setup
- added work around for a popular mobile browser breaking Sparkle's video player
- improved handling of video and image files in Image/Video Grid
- fixed Instagram setup issues
- fixed publishing very large websites
- fixed image transparency rendition in canvas vs generated website, in some cases
- fixed layout issues
- fixed excess memory use in publishing large websites
- fixed pages outline not restored to collapsed position when restarting Sparkle
- fixed loading a page with many mp3 players in password protected pages causing server errors
- fixed text being pasted along with image, when copied from certain sources
- fixed website importer getting page name wrong when the page contains Google Ads
- fixed menu inspector not switching to the correct options for "equal size" setting
- fixed option selection form element starting with an empty item
- fixed multiple option selections and sliders with the same variable name not being sent in a contact form
- fixed text wrapping in Chrome
- fixed video with autoplay not starting in popups in some cases
- fixed video inspector behavior with multi-selection
5.5 20/02/2024
5.2.5
- fixed crash
5.2.4
- added transition speed setting to the lightbox of the Image/Video grid
- fixed background images not being shown on non-retina displays
- fixed crashes when using variable fonts on macOS 10.14 and 10.15
- improved Instagram setup
- fixed gallery labels not showing in some cases
- added workarounds for Chrome and Safari bugs
- fixed other crashes
5.2.5 21/11/2023
- added transition speed setting to the lightbox of the Image/Video grid
- fixed background images not being shown on non-retina displays
- fixed crashes when using variable fonts on macOS 10.14 and 10.15
- improved Instagram setup
- fixed gallery labels not showing in some cases
- added workarounds for Chrome and Safari bugs
- fixed other crashes
5.2.4 20/11/2023
- Added support for macOS 27, with interface refinements
- Added support for multi-line checkbox and radio button labels
- Added tooltips to the toolbar
- Improved touch interactions in lightboxes, including automatic video playback when swiping between items
- Improved publishing setup
- Fixed background bokeh editing
- Fixed the Fill Viewport option on mobile devices
- Fixed Matomo and Meta Pixel integrations
- Fixed an issue that could cause empty images to be published when the publishing cache was unavailable
- Fixed unresponsive image gallery thumbnails in the inspector
- Fixed the rendering of certain SVG images
- Fixed occasional horizontal scrolling in mobile Safari
- Fixed crashes
more Version 7.0.2 5 days ago
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