Webflow lists 31 features. How many does your team use?

Webflow is a hosted visual builder platform; a custom app can replicate the CMS and forms, but not its visual designer, global CDN hosting, or app marketplace.

Visual design & page building

• Visual responsive designer
  Design responsive layouts visually with CSS grid and flexbox on a canvas.
  Simplified version. Buildable as a simpler visual editor; full pixel-precise canvas is a large effort.
• Reusable components and symbols
  Create reusable components that update everywhere when edited.
• Custom code embeds
  Add custom HTML, CSS, or JavaScript to sites, pages or sections.
• Page templates
  Pre-built responsive page and site templates to start from.
• Motion and interactions
  Build scroll and hover animations and 3D transforms without code.
  Simplified version. Basic CSS/JS animations buildable; full visual interaction editor is large.
• Lightbox, sliders, tabs, navigation, forms
  Standard UI components such as sliders, tabs, lightboxes and responsive navbars.

CMS & content management

• Collections and custom fields
  Define content types with many field types and manage items.
• Dynamic collection pages
  Generate template pages for every CMS item automatically.
• Filtering, sorting and pagination of lists
  Filter, sort and paginate dynamic content lists.
• CSV import and export of CMS content
  Export collections as CSV to move content between sites.
• Draft and publish workflow
  Draft CMS items without affecting live content and publish individually.
• Inline content editing for clients
  Editors update text and images directly on the live site.
• RSS feeds
  RSS 2.0 feeds generated from CMS collections.
• CMS REST API
  Create, update and delete CMS items programmatically.

Forms & submissions

• Contact and lead forms
  Build forms and collect submissions.
• Form submission review and CSV download
  Review form submissions in the editor and download as CSV.
• Form notification emails
  Email alerts when a form is submitted.
  Needs an outside service: Resend. Needs a transactional email provider.

Hosting, security & performance

• Managed hosting with CDN
  Host and serve sites globally with automatic scaling.
  We can't build this. Global CDN-scale hosting infrastructure is not something we can run as a custom app.
• Responsive image optimization
  Scales and optimizes images for each device size.
• Site security
  Protect the site and manage access.

Collaboration & workflow

• Shared workspace and roles
  Invite teammates and clients with roles and permissions.
  Needs an outside service: Resend. Invitations need transactional email.
• Page branching and merging
  Branch pages for changes and merge when ready, with activity log.
  Simplified version. Simplified branching with a basic activity log is realistic.
• Client billing delegation
  Clients attach their own card to pay for site plans.
  Needs an outside service: Stripe. Built with Stripe; money handling needs a payment provider.

Localization

• Multi-language sites
  Customize a site for multiple languages.

SEO & AEO

• SEO and Open Graph templates
  Generate meta titles, descriptions and OG tags from templates.
• AI search visibility tracking
  Track brand visibility in AI answers and how AI crawls the site.
  Needs an outside service: OpenAI or Anthropic API. Needs AI model and external data; cannot track live AI answers at scale.

Analytics & optimization

• Site analytics
  Understand visitor behavior and site performance.
  Simplified version. Basic page-view analytics buildable; full analytics at scale is not.
• A/B testing and personalization
  Run experiments and personalize visitor experiences.
  Simplified version. Simple split tests buildable; advanced AI-driven optimization is not.

Apps & extensions

• App marketplace integrations
  Connect the site to third-party apps such as HubSpot, Zapier, Slack, Figma, Algolia, Google Ads.
• Code components from React
  Import React components into the designer.
  Simplified version. Only custom React components in our own build pipeline.

Hosted web apps

• Deploy full-stack web apps
  Host dynamic web apps alongside the site with APIs and real-time data.

What you’d bring

We write all the code. These features only work on outside services, and those accounts are yours to open and pay for directly.

What we can’t build

• Managed hosting with CDN. Global CDN-scale hosting infrastructure is not something we can run as a custom app.

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