MAMP Viewer vs FreeSite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MAMP Viewer
This app allows web developers to preview and test local websites directly on their iOS devices. It offers real-time previews, easy setup, and automatic WLAN transfer for seamless development on the go.
- Real-time website preview
- Easy setup for MAMP sites
- Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
- Automatic WLAN project transfer
- Intuitive user interface
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MAMP Viewer – Your Mobile Companion for Web Development With MAMP Viewer, you can view and test your local websites directly on your iPhone or iPad. Connect the app to MAMP PRO and review your projects on a real iOS device without having to publish them online first. Key Features Preview on Real Devices View your local websites directly on your iPhone or iPad and check how they look and work on iOS. Easy Setup Connect to your MAMP PRO websites in just a few steps. Broad Compatibility Test websites built with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, and other common web technologies. Local Network Access Access your MAMP PRO websites over Wi-Fi, with no cables or uploads required. Easy to Use Switch between your projects using a clean and intuitive interface. MAMP Viewer is the ideal companion for web developers, designers, and users of MAMP PRO 6 or later.
FreeSite
Easily create a professional-looking website with free hosting and no ads. This tool guides beginners through the process, offering essential features to get your site online quickly and optimized for search engines.
- Create free websites up to 5 pages
- Add logo, photos, gallery, videos, maps
- Website contact form
- Graphic customization (fonts, header, colors)
- Optimization Assistant for SEO advice
- Visitor statistics in-app
- Purchase custom domain names
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A completely free website builder with free hosting. FreeSite is the easiest way to quickly make a real website: a website which is clearly organized and optimized for your visitors and for search engines. Easily understand how to make your first website FreeSite is for beginners, for technologically challenged professionals, for people who don't have a computer, or don't want to use a computer. A Free Website + Free Site Builder + Free Hosting ? Yes, FreeSite offers you the tools, the hosting, and the guidance to create a real, effective website. Just publish your site at least once every 6 months, to show that you care, and it will stay online. You can even buy your own domain name for your free site, right in the App, for a normal price, with no need to upgrade. And there will be NO Ads on your site. If there are no paid plans, and no ads, how does FreeSite make money ? FreeSite is a simplified version of the popular professional website builder, SimDif, with FREE and uncluttered access to the ESSENTIAL features. SimDif does have paid upgrades, but only when you need them. FreeSite is here to help you make a successful start, and SimDif will be there to accompany you as you grow. CREATE YOUR FREE WEBSITE • Create a Free website with up to 5 pages. • Add your logo, photos, a gallery, videos, maps, and more. • Website contact form. • Choose your fonts, header and colors in Graphic Customization. Get your website online, for Free • The Optimization Assistant gives advice on what to work on, before you publish. • Rotate your phone to view how your site will appear on a computer. • See your site Visitor Statistics, right in the app. • Keep your website online for free by publishing your site at least once every 6 months. Have fun presenting your business or hobby with FreeSite If you want more pages and more professional features, just download the fully featured SimDif app, login with the same username and password, and start editing your website. You will already know how everything works. Just enjoy the extra features and upgrades. How easy can it be to Build a Website ? FreeSite is designed to answer this question. Easy to use and to create with, FreeSite is a website builder which helps you avoid the usual mistakes and lets you learn the essentials at your own pace. How can FreeSite be Free? As your site and your activity grows, you will need a domain name, which you can purchase right inside the website builder, for a standard price, including a free SSL certificate (https). You may find you need more than 5 pages; special features for Search Engine Optimization; an E-commerce solution; or more control over sharing your site on Social media. In this case, download the fully featured SimDif app, which does include paid upgrades. Often, if the service is free, you are the product. Not here. We are proud of how strictly we respect our users and their privacy. For example, if you choose to stop using FreeSite, all your data is erased from our system after 6 months. You are free to come back, with a clean slate, whenever you like. This is how we think and work. We call it User Advocacy. GET IN TOUCH Feel free to check our website. • SimDif Privacy Policy : https://privacy-en.simdif.com • SimDif Terms of Use : https://www.simdif.com/en/tos.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FreeSite at 83% against MAMP Viewer's 34%. FreeSite also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 9 months). MAMP Viewer's advantage is ratings volume (232 vs 43). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FreeSite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MAMP Viewer has 232 ratings behind it against 43, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of MAMP Viewer's written reviews are positive against 83% of FreeSite's.
MAMP Viewer ships an update every 9 months, FreeSite every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MAMP Viewer | FreeSite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (232 ratings) | 4.7 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 232 — better | 43 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MAMP GmbH | The Simple Different Company Ltd |
Customer experience
MAMP Viewer
FreeSite
Bugs and requests
MAMP Viewer
Reported bugs
34 issues- No MAMP Pro hosts found
- Error loading page: Mamp viewer is not able to load the requested page
- CSS files aggressively cached, no way to turn off or empty
- All resolution options grayed out in MAMP Pro General tab
- App has stopped working
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- Won't find hosts even with viewer enabled and on same network
- iOS viewer has never worked
- Upgrade to version 6 disables localhost on mobile
- Locally hosted site fails to load, error text truncated
- Page will not reload if iPad goes to sleep, requires restart
- Not working on custom hosts running Wordpress sites on Nginx
- Cannot change address in address bar manually
- Too many redirects error with WordPress
- Stuck in a redirect loop with WP sites
- Errors trying to load anything, won't let you enter a URL
- Hardly ever works
- Doesn't list hosts
- Cannot access free MAMP site
- Input shows up but won't type or delete anything
- All hosts failed
- Cannot load pages, error message with no explanation
- Menu scrolls to tags causing crash
- Fails to load, error message with no explanation
- Picks up host but fails to load
- Works well for one host, fails for multiple instances
- Doesn't work with any site, they appear but never load
- Only allows access to root page, cannot access subpages
- Incompatible with MAMP's self-signed SSL certificates
- Won't allow viewing anything with a self-signed certificate
- Doesn't support self-signed certificates
- Dynamic PHP sites show plain, unstyled with no images
- Help icon goes to MAMP downloads page
- 'Help' section contains placeholder text
- No hosts show in the app
Requested features
12 requests- Update user interface
- Add URL bar for manual entry
- Improve WordPress support
- Fix SSL certificate issues
- Add tutorial video for setup
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- Allow access to subpages
- Improve MAMP Pro integration
- Add admin section for settings
- Provide iPhone X support
- Enable manual URL entry
- Fix caching issues
- Allow viewing of multiple instances
FreeSite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MAMP Viewer
No in-app purchases
FreeSite
No in-app purchases
