Blocs 6.3.3 — Mac version

Blocs suits folk who want a proper website without learning to code — small business owners, local groups, anyone who'd rather fix a bike than fight a stylesheet. It's a block-based builder for Mac, so you stack pre-built sections and tweak them until they look right.

Drag blocks onto a blank page to feel the workflow

• Drop a few Blocs onto a blank page and rearrange them by dragging. It's the quickest way to feel how the workflow hangs together.
• Open the inspector and change colours, fonts and spacing. The simplified view hides a lot, but under the hood there are advanced editing options when you need them.
• Add a navigation Bric, then toggle it off and on in the settings. Version 6.3.3 fixed the hamburger menu going missing after that, so it should behave now.
• Preview a page in a browser. Blocs generates clean code without extra embedded styles, which keeps things tidy if you ever peek under the bonnet.

One tip before you get stuck in

Start with a small project — a single page for a club or a repair café menu. You'll learn the block workflow faster when you're not juggling ten pages at once.

Where RapidWeaver leans on add-ons, Blocs stays block-first

RapidWeaver is the old hand on the Mac. It's been around forever and there's a healthy ecosystem of themes and add-ons. But it leans more on third-party stacks for layout flexibility, whereas Blocs keeps the block-based workflow front and centre without needing extra bits. If you like tinkering with a deep plugin library, RapidWeaver gives you more to play with. If you want a cleaner, more self-contained visual editor, Blocs feels more direct.

Sparkle is closer in spirit — another visual Mac builder that puts layout on the page. It handles multi-page sites well and has a slightly softer learning curve for total beginners. Blocs counters with tidier code output and better CMS integration if you ever need to hand a site over to a client to update content themselves. Both skip the bloat you get from online builders, but Blocs edges ahead when you care about what's under the hood.

Setting up an online portfolio for a local potter

A potter near the bike library wanted a simple site: a gallery of work, an about page and a contact form. She'd never touched a website builder before. We sat down with Blocs and had a four-page site roughed out in an afternoon.

We dragged in a hero Bloc for the home page, dropped an image gallery Bric onto the portfolio page and used the global swatches to pull the colours from her logo across every heading. The automatic text colouring saved us from fiddling with contrast on darker photos. One-click animations gave the gallery images a gentle fade-in without a line of code.

For the contact form, we hooked into a lightweight CMS backend so she could read messages without us setting up email forwarding. A month later she's still updating the gallery herself — she just swaps photos in the CMS panel and the site rebuilds cleanly. That's the real test: whether someone who throws pots, not pixels, can keep the thing alive.

If you're looking for blocs for mac to build a similar project, the block workflow means you spend the afternoon arranging content, not hunting through menus.

• Fixed the hamburger menu not showing after toggling the navigation Bric option off and on.
• Fixed checkbox selected-state display in the app.
• Fixed inspector options for selected radio items.
• Fixed multiple alerts when setting Blocs padding to fill inside a Bloc group.

• macOS 11 or newer
• Intel or Apple Silicon Mac