If you thought building websites wasn’t for you, think again. Sparkle is the intuitive site builder for your online portfolio, team or band pages, or business and client sites. Skip the tedium and design a gorgeous site that works right out of the box.
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WITH SPARKLE YOU. Create landing pages in a matter of minutes.
Test your ideas quickly. Focus your attention on content and layout. Quickly iterate on fully functional site designs. Sparkle turns your design into a live site on the fly, no coding and no jargon.
You don’t need to know about code or other web programming concepts: Sparkle makes sites happen. CREATE MEDIA RICH SITES. Quickly add galleries, video, audio, maps, social buttons, and downloadable files. Web fonts, retina graphics and delightful animations for stunning output quality. Visual contact form creation. Default wireframe look to share your site at any stage of construction. Sparkle’s freeform layout means you’re never constrained by a rigid page structure or by templates.
FROM BIG PICTURE TO SMALL DETAILS. Mobile device support via phone and tablet specific layouts. Live preview of your site on computers, tablets and phones, while you edit. Built-in incremental FTP to rapidly publish to any web host. Privacy and cookie law support. Sparkle features cutting edge code and asset generation, ensuring your site will be high performance and compatible across a broad spectrum of web browsers. PLATFORM NATIVE.
Familiar interface, fits right in on your Mac. Great integration with other apps, all content at your fingertips. Born on macOS, optimized for Mojave. Backed by a product-focused company praised for its support and helpfulness.
SPARKLE PRO The Sparkle Pro in-app purchase unlocks the full potential of Sparkle:. publish to an unlimited number of websites. publish an unlimited number of pages per website.
export to disk. remove page watermarking WHAT USERS SAY “We used to create comps in Photoshop for developers. With Sparkle we have our sites up and running in hours rather than weeks.” Hossein Farmani, Founder and Curator, The Lucie Awards, IPA - International Photography Awards 'We use Sparkle to create hundreds of quick landing pages to test our marketing strategies, Sparkle has saved us many hours of development time.' David Tera, Director of Marketing, IDA - Int'l Design Awards.
“I have tried out many different tools to create websites, but none of them can top Sparkle.” Philip Amour, Product Designer 'Sparkle has been awesome. A real godsend.
Truly fantastic.” Sebastiaan de With, Graphic Designer “When I discovered Sparkle it just blew my mind and I felt like dancing!” Peter Bladskog, Photographer 'Sparkle is very much what I was looking for the last 10 years” Daniel Schoeneck, Design Teacher, Bern University of the Arts SUPPORT If you have questions or feedback, please email us at feedback@sparkleapp.com or visit the support website sparkleapp.com/support.html. 2.7.2.
added support for multi-line button labels. fixed canvas drawing on Mojave. fixed align/distribute. fixed font not being loaded in some cases. fixed devices popover not showing which devices to review.
fixed anchors and anchor navigation. fixed activate after consent for embed elements. fixed page import not working for some sites. fixed menu orientation issues in some cases.
fixed a few Dark Mode issues 2.7.1. fixed icons on macOS 10.9-10.11 2.7. added support for macOS Mojave and dark mode!. added new toolbar icons. added support for publishing to International Domain Names.
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added drag and drop of images and video from Safari. improved offline compatible code generation. fixed FTP setup and publishing with some servers. fixed publishing cache, sometimes producing incorrect images.
fixed text wrap on Internet Explorer. fixed Pixabay link back to original photo. fixed maps address lookup. fixed some layout and stick to top issues.
fixed font-related crashes. fixed double audio autoplay. many other minor bug fixes. 2.7.1 Sep 27, 2018. 2.7.1. fixed icons on macOS 10.9-10.11 2.7. added support for macOS Mojave and dark mode!.
added new toolbar icons. added support for publishing to International Domain Names. added drag and drop of images and video from Safari. improved offline compatible code generation.
fixed FTP setup and publishing with some servers. fixed publishing cache, sometimes producing incorrect images. fixed text wrap on Internet Explorer. fixed Pixabay link back to original photo. fixed maps address lookup. fixed some layout and stick to top issues.
fixed font-related crashes. fixed double audio autoplay. many other minor bug fixes.
2.7 Sep 24, 2018. added support for macOS Mojave and dark mode!.
added new toolbar icons. added support for publishing to International Domain Names. added drag and drop of images and video from Safari. improved offline compatible code generation.
fixed FTP setup and publishing with some servers. fixed publishing cache, sometimes producing incorrect images. fixed text wrap on Internet Explorer. fixed Pixabay link back to original photo. fixed maps address lookup. fixed some layout and stick to top issues.
fixed font-related crashes. fixed double audio autoplay. many other minor bug fixes. 2.6.3 Jul 20, 2018.
added offline-compatible code generation, as an option for export to disk. added “Open in new page' option for in-site pages.
improved generated code size by about 15%. improved IE/Edge compatibility. improved website icon support. fixed setup of publishing with some FTP servers. fixed search and multi-lingual page metadata. fixed copy/paste style of some text attributes. fixed custom font panel on macOS 10.9.
fixed dots not being shown in galleries with thumbnails. fixed loading some custom web fonts. 2.6.1 May 28, 2018. 2.6.1:. fixed crash on startup when system doesn’t have Times New Roman installed. fixed background not being applied on all pages. fixed compatibility with some FTP servers.
fixed images appearing lower resolution in some cases. fixed menus not creating submenus for sections. fixed text wrapping in some cases.
fixed repeated font migration. fixed SVG issues on IE 8/9/10 We’re incredibly happy to release Sparkle 2.6, it has major privacy and performance enhancements, in addition to new features. We’re feeling really great about this release. We’re cutting a few corners due to the impending European privacy regulation (GDPR/DSGVO), so translations aren’t entirely complete and the documentation still needs to be updated. We will be correcting this in the next few days. Sparkle now scores 100% on the Swedish Internet Foundation privacy checker tool, one of the most advanced on the web: This is best in class in privacy compliance.
The specific combination of improvements:. all third party content is blocked until cookie consent. embedded code is by default subject to activation after cookie consent. fonts are now only ever stored in the local site, not referenced from Google fonts. the page address is by default not leaked when loading third party content We vastly improved the performance of sites published by Sparkle 2.6, generally achieving a perfect 100% score on Google’s PageSpeed Insights, an important reference point for Google’s ranking algorithm. We’re incredibly happy to release Sparkle 2.6, it has major privacy and performance enhancements, in addition to new features. We’re feeling really great about this release. We’re cutting a few corners due to the impending European privacy regulation (GDPR/DSGVO), so translations aren’t entirely complete and the documentation still needs to be updated. We will be correcting this in the next few days. Sparkle now scores 100% on the Swedish Internet Foundation privacy checker tool, one of the most advanced on the web: This is best in class in privacy compliance.
The specific combination of improvements:. all third party content is blocked until cookie consent. embedded code is by default subject to activation after cookie consent. fonts are now only ever stored in the local site, not referenced from Google fonts. the page address is by default not leaked when loading third party content We vastly improved the performance of sites published by Sparkle 2.6, generally achieving a perfect 100% score on Google’s PageSpeed Insights, an important reference point for Google’s ranking algorithm. 2.5.2:. fixed menu changing orientation in some cases. fixed text editing crash on macOS 10.9 and 10.10. fixed text elements changing position in some cases 2.5.1:. fixed gallery labels with links and animation. fixed layout differences with pre 2.5 sites.
fixed text wrap related issues. fixed text list related issues. fixed social media icon changing aspect occasionally. improved performance in many areas. fixed many bugs Sparkle 2.5 introduces high fidelity text layout and text wrapping around image shapes, giving you unprecedented creative control over web page layout. Sparkle 2.5 is also more efficient, more robust and more compatible.
added text wrapping around images. significantly improved text layout precision and accuracy. added advanced text settings and text shadows. added image color filters. added per-image links and labels on image galleries. added Google Tag Manager support.
added local business metadata editor. added HTML id customization. improved file format to reduce system resource usage. improved video player compatibility.
improved publishing compatibility with many web hosts. 2.5.1 Mar 5, 2018. 2.5.1:. fixed gallery labels with links and animation. fixed layout differences with pre 2.5 sites.
fixed text wrap related issues. fixed text list related issues. fixed social media icon changing aspect occasionally. improved performance in many areas.
fixed many bugs Sparkle 2.5 introduces high fidelity text layout and text wrapping around image shapes, giving you unprecedented creative control over web page layout. Sparkle 2.5 is also more efficient, more robust and more compatible. added text wrapping around images. significantly improved text layout precision and accuracy.
added advanced text settings and text shadows. added image color filters. added per-image links and labels on image galleries. added Google Tag Manager support.
added local business metadata editor. added HTML id customization. improved file format to reduce system resource usage. improved video player compatibility. improved publishing compatibility with many web hosts. 2.5 Feb 27, 2018. Sparkle 2.5 introduces high fidelity text layout and text wrapping around image shapes, giving you unprecedented creative control over web page layout.
Sparkle 2.5 is also more efficient, more robust and more compatible. added text wrapping around images.
significantly improved text layout precision and accuracy. added advanced text settings and text shadows. added image color filters. added per-image links and labels on image galleries. added Google Tag Manager support. added local business metadata editor. added HTML id customization.
improved file format to reduce system resource usage. improved video player compatibility. improved publishing compatibility with many web hosts. 2.2.3 Sep 23, 2017. 2.7.2. added support for multi-line button labels. fixed canvas drawing on Mojave.
fixed align/distribute. fixed font not being loaded in some cases. fixed devices popover not showing which devices to review. fixed anchors and anchor navigation.
fixed activate after consent for embed elements. fixed page import not working for some sites. fixed menu orientation issues in some cases. fixed a few Dark Mode issues 2.7.1. fixed icons on macOS 10.9-10.11 2.7. added support for macOS Mojave and dark mode!.
added new toolbar icons. added support for publishing to International Domain Names. added drag and drop of images and video from Safari. improved offline compatible code generation. fixed FTP setup and publishing with some servers. fixed publishing cache, sometimes producing incorrect images. fixed text wrap on Internet Explorer.
fixed Pixabay link back to original photo. fixed maps address lookup. fixed some layout and stick to top issues. fixed font-related crashes.
fixed double audio autoplay. many other minor bug fixes. Kyriba, SUPPORT IS WORLD CLASS!!! I’ve been juggling a very demanding full time job, and a hobby that I love and get paid for, for 40 years. I am a professional salesman, and on the weekends, a professional children’s entertainer. I AM NOT A WEB DEVELOPER.
I need tools that are powerful intuitive and easy to use. When I need help, I NEED HELP. I’ve been using Sparkle for a couple of years now, and every time I’ve needed help, their SUPPORT team has been WORLD CLASS.
My day job is selling technology products to Fortune 500 companies—and Sparkle’s SUPPORT team is on a par with any of the SUPPORT teams that I’ve ever worked with, and I’m comparing them to teams that support mission critical multiple million dollar investments in infrastructure. In particular, Duncan Wilcox is amazing!
He is responsive, tenacious, and competent. I don’t even want to say how far and above the call of duty he will go, because I don’t want to set the bar TOO high for him and Sparkle, but what he did for me today was very, very impressive. He’s an inspiration for how I want to treat my customers in all of my endeavors. The product itself is great.
But if you’re going to run a business, small or large, and count on the product, YOU NEED GREAT SERVICE—and Sparkle delivers!!!! Kyriba, SUPPORT IS WORLD CLASS!!!
I’ve been juggling a very demanding full time job, and a hobby that I love and get paid for, for 40 years. I am a professional salesman, and on the weekends, a professional children’s entertainer. I AM NOT A WEB DEVELOPER. I need tools that are powerful intuitive and easy to use. When I need help, I NEED HELP.
I’ve been using Sparkle for a couple of years now, and every time I’ve needed help, their SUPPORT team has been WORLD CLASS. My day job is selling technology products to Fortune 500 companies—and Sparkle’s SUPPORT team is on a par with any of the SUPPORT teams that I’ve ever worked with, and I’m comparing them to teams that support mission critical multiple million dollar investments in infrastructure. In particular, Duncan Wilcox is amazing! He is responsive, tenacious, and competent. I don’t even want to say how far and above the call of duty he will go, because I don’t want to set the bar TOO high for him and Sparkle, but what he did for me today was very, very impressive.
He’s an inspiration for how I want to treat my customers in all of my endeavors. The product itself is great. But if you’re going to run a business, small or large, and count on the product, YOU NEED GREAT SERVICE—and Sparkle delivers!!!! Adfsljlkdfj, If you want to sell items or have a login this isn’t for you I’ll start off by saying you can create very nice looking websites very easily. However, this app is missing major features.
Who do you you know that wants to just create a website without having forms to sell items, have registration or login features, or the ability to have small pop-up windows for additional information? This builder doesn’t even give you the option to add simple tabs to bring other information to the foregound without loading a completely different page. If you are looking for a truely functional ecommerce website builder this is not for you. A represenative informed me to add a shopping cart, I would have to use a 3rd party system like Shopify! Who wants to pay $80 a month to carry a few items?
They are reasonably simple forms to add and create I’m supprised they left them off of this web design. I truely regret spending $79 dollars on this. Do yourself a favor and just learn wordpress. Developer Response, First, very sorry about all the anger and frustration.
Just to clarify, Sparkle is a one time purchase ($39.99 or $79.99), definitely not $80 per month. Sparkle is still very much growing, and while it's very capable it doesn't do everything. Believe it or not there are many areas where Sparkle doesn't have a built-in solution, and despite this thousands of people manage to build perfectly functional and useful websites, today. Using an external solution is the norm for something as complex as commerce, I think we could have found a solution by emailing about it further.
There are free or inexpensive options, depending on what you need to do exactly. Anyway Sparkle's future is bright, and you are entitled to a refund so no need for regret. Adfsljlkdfj, If you want to sell items or have a login this isn’t for you I’ll start off by saying you can create very nice looking websites very easily. However, this app is missing major features. Who do you you know that wants to just create a website without having forms to sell items, have registration or login features, or the ability to have small pop-up windows for additional information? This builder doesn’t even give you the option to add simple tabs to bring other information to the foregound without loading a completely different page.
If you are looking for a truely functional ecommerce website builder this is not for you. A represenative informed me to add a shopping cart, I would have to use a 3rd party system like Shopify! Who wants to pay $80 a month to carry a few items?
They are reasonably simple forms to add and create I’m supprised they left them off of this web design. I truely regret spending $79 dollars on this.
Do yourself a favor and just learn wordpress. Developer Response, First, very sorry about all the anger and frustration.
Just to clarify, Sparkle is a one time purchase ($39.99 or $79.99), definitely not $80 per month. Sparkle is still very much growing, and while it's very capable it doesn't do everything.
Believe it or not there are many areas where Sparkle doesn't have a built-in solution, and despite this thousands of people manage to build perfectly functional and useful websites, today. Using an external solution is the norm for something as complex as commerce, I think we could have found a solution by emailing about it further. There are free or inexpensive options, depending on what you need to do exactly. Anyway Sparkle's future is bright, and you are entitled to a refund so no need for regret.
Yo solita juego, Incredible tool! Fantastic tool, well thought, well organized, well designed, with all kinds of built-in info on how to use it, works always, intuitive, incredible support. I love this program, not only because it does all I thought it would, but for all the things that I discovered it also can do. I put together a series of webs designed as platforms to deliver information within a framework that allows the users to understand how the information is organized and how and when to use it, and it worked like magic - I never worried about the program, it was just there, ready to do what I wanted it to do and more, allowing me to concentrate on the design of the webs. It is like driving a great car - you do not worry about the machine, you just enjoy the ride! Yo solita juego, Incredible tool!
Fantastic tool, well thought, well organized, well designed, with all kinds of built-in info on how to use it, works always, intuitive, incredible support. I love this program, not only because it does all I thought it would, but for all the things that I discovered it also can do. I put together a series of webs designed as platforms to deliver information within a framework that allows the users to understand how the information is organized and how and when to use it, and it worked like magic - I never worried about the program, it was just there, ready to do what I wanted it to do and more, allowing me to concentrate on the design of the webs. It is like driving a great car - you do not worry about the machine, you just enjoy the ride!
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