Xway
Xway is a macOS visual web design app for building and publishing modern websites with a layout-focused editing workflow.
What is Xway?
Xway is a native macOS web design application that helps users create and publish modern websites in a visual editing environment. It is designed for people who want to build pages graphically while still working with current web technologies such as HTML and CSS. Xway is especially relevant to designers and long-time Freeway users who want a newer tool for producing professional websites on current versions of macOS. The app supports template-based document creation, master pages for faster site building, navigation menus, webfont use, and CSS flex layout for responsive page design. It can also open Freeway documents and upload finished sites to a hosting provider. Xway is developed by Softpress Systems Ltd and runs on Macs with Apple Silicon or Intel processors.
Key features
- Build websites in a visual design environment without hand-coding every page
- Create new projects from templates to start common site layouts faster
- Use multiple master pages to speed up site-wide page creation
- Design layouts with CSS flex layout for modern responsive pages
- Add navigation menus and rollover-style visual effects
- Open Freeway documents for continued work in a newer tool
- Use web fonts such as Google Fonts and Typekit in page designs
- Upload finished websites directly to a hosting provider
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Xway is legitimate web design software for Mac. It normally needs access to files you open or save, and it may use network access when checking for updates, downloading templates, or uploading sites to web hosting. Those behaviors are consistent with its purpose. As with any web publishing tool, review what you upload and keep your project files backed up before making major changes.
Recommendation: Keep Xway if you use it to design, update, or publish websites. If you no longer work on Xway projects, you can remove the app, but export or back up any site files, templates, and related assets you still need first.
Common paths
/Applications/Xway.app
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.softpress.Xway.plist
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