Launching something new can be daunting. There’s so much to prepare. Add to all of the work the time and effort required to design a website and ways to generate leads can seem like a huge, almost insurmountable mountain. So, having a tool to help you build a landing page fast and without hassle can be a lifesaver.
An easy to use tool can save time and money, things you don’t want to skimp on for marketing your new project. With Grapedrop, you can design converting landing pages to grow your audience – even without forking out.
Grapedrop was launched in 2018. It’s headquartered in Milan, Italy.
Pros and cons of Grapedrop
With Grapedrop, you can build single-page websites. It’s a cloud-based service which means you don’t have to take care of technical issues or updates and installation.
As with many cloud-based landing page builders, Grapedrop also comes with a drag-and-drop editor so that you don’t need to code. You can start for free and upgrade or downgrade at any time.
Pros
- Free forever plan, albeit with Grapedrop branding
- The free plan lets you connect to custom domains
- High degree of flexibility
- The powerful editor is almost like professional design software, with a layers panel
- Custom code can extend the features
- You can export your code with paid plans
Cons
- You may find that the design flexibility comes with a learning curve
- Limited integrations
Who is Grapedrop for?
When you want to promote your products and services, you’ll want an engaging landing page that converts. So, you’ll want the landing page builder to let you design
- an engaging headline
- a thoughtful copy
- eye-catching imagery
And finish with a compelling call to action.
Grapedrop is quite easy to use but since it gives you control over your designs and offers features such as the layers panel and adding custom code, it’s appealing to those who want to have more flexibility and design control.
How easy is Grapedrop to use?
It’s a refreshing experience to create an account. No endless questions, no credit card requirement – and it’s as simple as it gets.
Designing and launching a landing page is as simple as counting to 3:
- You select a template
- You customise the content
- Publish
Once you’ve found your template, it’s time to customise the content and design. Grapedrop gives you an editor with a layers panel. The layers panel is a tool that makes it so that you have more granular control over your design. It’ll look familiar if you’ve used design applications such as Figma or some advanced website builders such as Graphite.
You’re going to build single page website as landing pages, informational hub, or portfolio site. To help you get there faster, you’re going to build your page with blocks that you can drag and drop where you need them on the page.
Grapedrop gives you another tool to make things easier: When you find you use the same combination of blocks again and again, you can combine them into a component and reuse it on different pages.
When you’re ready to publish, you can connect your landing page with a custom domain or use it with a subdomain of grapedrop.com. It will look something like “yourchosensubdomain.grapedrop.com”.
Design and templates
Grapedrop comes with a bunch of modern and crisp-looking templates. The blocks gallery help to make your landing page stand out.
How easy is managing your ecommerce store with Grapedrop?
Grapedrop isn’t in the same category as an all-purpose website builder such as Ucraft. But since it allows you to add custom code, you can add a shopping cart solution to your page with Ecwid or Cartloom.
Integrations
Integrations are important since you want to keep track of how many people have visited. You’ll also want to collect leads.
Grapedrop has a form integration so that you can create a simple form on your page to capture contacts. It has no integration with any of the popular CRMs or email marketing providers. You can however hook it up to Zapier or send data to third party applications via webhooks. You can also get notified by email when someone has submitted the form. You can “hack a CRM” by using the email notifications.
For tracking, you may want to add Google Analytics or any other tracking tool by using the custom code panel.
Payment options
Since Grapedrop allows you to add custom code, you can add something like the Stripe Payment Button to your page.
Security
All pages created and hosted by Grapedrop are secured with SSL. You can clone projects and to have an off-site backup, export the code. You’ll need to subscribe to a paid account though.
Customer support
When you’re logged into your account, you’ll find the chat button in the lower right-hand corner. Use it to contact the support team. It also has a searchable help centre.
Pricing
Grapedrop has set its prices fairly and you get great value for your money. The more pages you want to launch, the higher the plan should be.
What’s cool is that even on the free plan, you can use a custom domain. But upgrading to the first paid subscription Basic at $4.90 per month only lifts the most severe restrictions.
Is Grapedrop the right solution for you?
If you like full control over your design, Grapedrop gives you a wonderfully powerful editor. And to complete the package, if you only launch a few landing pages, you can use it scot-free.
That said, since the powerful editor lets you do what you want, you might find you have a learning curve.
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