Zapd Review

Constructing your own website from scratch is something that can be rather intimidating to many. While you can always set up your own blog via Wordpress.com or set up a Flickr account to share your photos, sometimes it's nice to feel like you've got more control over things. Enter Zapd, a free app that aims to help you create your own website in a matter of a couple of minutes.

It's a pretty neat app too. Clearly designed to be simple to figure out, once you've signed up, it's a simple matter of choosing a template to work from. There's a wide range of different templates ranging from quite generic themes to suit anything to travel based looks, wedding themes and new born announcements too. Once you've chosen a template, you can then simply add some text, links and images to the page. Unfortunately, for now at least, you're restricted to just those three options. You can't upload video yet, or the date and time of your post. You also can't accept comments on your images or words either which is a shame. Still, as something that you can use solely to display some images and captions, Zapd certainly does the trick just fine.

Once the page has been set up, you can share via Facebook, Twitter or email at the tap of a couple of buttons. These options certainly appear helpful if, for instance, you want to share photos of your newborn baby easily and quickly to a mass of friends and family. The website is provided with its own link and you can easily view it in all browsers without any problems. You're by no means restricted to just iOS devices here.

Zapd is a little simple admittedly and it'd be great to see some more options such as the ones previously mentioned. However for a free app, it still does the job right. The app's developers state on their App Store page that new features such as extra themes, group sharing and video posting functionality will be added in the future, which certainly makes Zapd one to keep a close eye on.