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Haris Butt

Universe for Mac - A magical new website builder made for Mac

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Today, we're bringing Universe to the Mac. We've turned the best app for building websites on iOS into the best app for building websites, period. On your iPhone, iPad, or on your Mac, you can create and launch a store or a site in minutes at your desk or on the go.

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Joseph Cohen
Maker
Hi - I'm Joe, the founder here. Here's our blog post for some more context on today's launch: Starting today, with the release of macOS Big Sur, we're bringing Universe to the Mac. We've turned the best app for building websites on iOS into the best app for building websites, period. On your iPhone, iPad, or on your Mac, you can create and launch a store or a site in minutes - literally - and integrate features like Apple Pay to make your site stand out. Thanks to Apple's Mac Catalyst framework, we've created a rich, native experience for Universe that makes perfect sense on the bigger screen. As a native app, the experience you'll get while you're building your site will match the quality of the site you create: a reimagined big-screen user interface, lightning-fast performance, and the ability to drag and drop media from other apps on your Mac effortlessly. Universe for Mac is available for free starting today in the Mac App Store. And while it works great on M1-powered Macs, anyone running macOS Big Sur on their Mac can use Universe thanks to Apple's Mac Catalyst framework. Universe gives creators the freedom of a blank canvas to express their ideas. Our grid editor lets anyone create the web from the palm of their hand — and now from a screen as big as their ideas. — You can download the app here: https://onuniverse.com/mac Happy to answer any of your questions!
erwin blom
@josephcohen Looks really great, like your iPhone as well. I will try it immediately after upgrading to Big Sur, but can you tell a little more about the pricing? The video says it's free. But what can you do for free and when do you start paying and what is the price then? For the mobile app you can only pay per year, to me that's a little steep to try something out. Hope you can clarify a little!
Joseph Cohen
Maker
@josephcohen @erwblo Absolutely! Our free product includes unlimited content creation with nearly all of our blocks. All of our commerce tools (sell with Apple Pay, build an inventory, ship products) are also free. With Pro, you can get a custom domain, remove Universe branding, get analytics, and other business features for $120/year or $25/mo.
Dave Galbraith
Awesome! What did you use to make this?
Vidy Thatte
Love Universe, so excited that it's on the Mac now!!
erwin blom
Looks great, don't dare to update to Sur yet!
sxsio
This is so slick ✨
Max Prilutskiy
Looks cool!
Mathilde Odel
Pretty cool !
Joanna Moore
Who are some of your competitors?
Tanya
Actually, it's pretty impressive! Although there are some UI bugs, like in some places text and icons are shifted, and I had some really hard time selecting multiple "squares", it didn't allow me to just select multiple squares by holding the mouse button whenever I like, turns out you need to first click on a single square and THEN move the mouse around, wow it took a while to figure out. Anyway, the rest is gorgeous, love the amount of various content you can insert, the simplicity, overall look and feel, great work you've done here lads! :>
Alex Papageorge
Love it. And love the video. Ala Steve Jobs
Michael Odumosu
Awesome!!!
Hasan Luongo
just gave it a spin and it's smooth and simple to use, just like the IOS app. Very cool to see Universe pushing things forward (again). I do love a nicely designed desktop app.