Works with the major AI providers
Claude Code, Grok Build, Codex, Antigravity CLI and Cursor CLI. Sign in with your own account inside each tool. ShipPress asks them to do the work and never sees your login.
Chat your way to the website you want
ShipPress is desktop software for people who want their own website without writing code. It is free to download; you chat with your own AI account and the site gets built on your computer.
Example
What it looks like in practice
A few lines with Teuchi Udon, the demo site for a small hand-made udon shop.
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You say
“Add a ‘Today at the shop’ block to the home page: first bowl from 11:00, we close when the dough is gone.”
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ShipPress does it
The AI Worker adds the block to the home page of the site on your computer, lists what it changed, and asks whether you want a Reserve a table button next to it.
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You look and decide
The preview on the right shows the new block straight away. Don’t like it? Go back to an earlier version from the restore points. Happy? Say the next thing.
Illustration
How it works
Three steps, no code
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Describe or pick a design
Write one sentence about your site, or start from a hand-made theme. ShipPress sets the site up on your computer for you.
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Chat to change it
“Make the header dark green.” “Add an opening-hours section.” The AI makes the change and you see it in the preview right away.
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Go live when ready
Connect your hosting and put the site online in one step. Until then, everything stays on your computer.
Screens
A look inside ShipPress
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Designs
Quiet, hand-made themes
Every theme is a full WordPress block theme with its own pages, type and colours. Filter them the same way as in the app, by industry, type, colour, style or a keyword.
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Ushio Line A harbour ferry theme for one Calder Bay line: six piers, fares, boats, crew and a sailing day.
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Suji Clinic A sports medicine clinic: twin photo hero, injury grid with offset lines, diagonal method bands and a parallax proof panel.
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Yukisaki Route A quiet landing theme for regional courier dispatch desks: white dossier cards, a frosted panel and a 14-day trial CTA.
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Hibana College A dark trade-school theme: drifting weld-ripple rings, a masked hero photograph, a month timeline and edge-to-edge twin photo panels.
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Mimamori College A calm college site for career-changers: inset practice-room photos, four audience tiles, and five coloured-rule courses.
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Mahora Foods A calm serif theme for staff-cafeteria contractors: photo hero, workplace tiles, service-day slideshow and a rate table.
What it works with
What ShipPress supports
Only what the app does today.
Websites: multi-page block-theme sites
Every design is a complete WordPress block theme with its own pages, fonts and colours, made for many kinds of small business. Or describe your business in one sentence and pick a design.
Online shops: WooCommerce designs
Designs marked E-commerce come with WooCommerce shop features, and you can filter the theme wall by them. A shop can’t be saved as a static version.
Hosts, connected directly: InstaWP, Hostinger, Pressable
Sign in through the browser (or paste an API token), then create a site and publish. On Hostinger it only opens new sites on a plan you already have; ShipPress never buys a plan for you. Pressable connects with an API key.
Hosts over SSH: any host that offers it
For example WordPress.com, xCloud, SiteGround, Kinsta or Cloudways. In Advanced mode enter the server address and a password or key to publish, pull back and use WP-CLI. The password is kept in your computer’s keychain.
No hosting company needed
Save a static version, publish with ShipPress hosting, or put the static site online straight from your computer with your Cloudflare domain (free, but your computer and ShipPress stay on).
Claude, Claude Code, Grok, Codex, ChatGPT, Antigravity, Google, Cursor, WordPress, WooCommerce and all host names belong to their respective owners. ShipPress is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
Data and privacy
Where your site and data go
The short version. The full wording is in the privacy policy.
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Your site stays on your computer
The site, its chats and its restore points sit in a ShipPress folder on your computer. Nothing leaves it until you click Go live or turn on sharing.
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Your AI login stays in the AI tool
You sign in inside Claude Code, Grok Build, Codex, Antigravity CLI or Cursor CLI yourself. ShipPress doesn’t read, store or forward that login, and we never see it.
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The AI sees what you send it
Your messages and the site files they involve go to the AI service you chose, with your own account, under that provider’s terms and privacy policy. If you use ShipPress AI credits instead, they go through our relay to OpenAI (see the privacy policy).
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Going live sends it only to your host
The site is uploaded to the host you picked when you click Go live. The dialog tells you what will be replaced, and if the AI asks to go live it waits for your Approve.
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Share to phone is temporary
A password-protected temporary link lets your phone reach the site on your computer, until you stop sharing or the link expires.
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This page and updates
This page sets no cookies. It counts visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics and counts downloads anonymously, without storing your IP address. The app only checks GitHub for new versions.
ShipPress is made by Codotx, LLC, building WordPress sites since 2013. About us · Contact us
Why ShipPress
Building a site can be simple
Say the site you want; ShipPress handles the rest. Here is how it works, and what it always stands for.
How ShipPress works
- You say it instead of learning it. No dashboards or layout tools to learn first: describe the change in a sentence and the AI makes it.
- Finished before you pick a host. The site is built and previewed on your computer, and you choose a host only when it is ready.
- Every change can be undone. A restore point is saved after each AI change, so you can return to an earlier version.
- Several Workers at once. Open more than one Worker on the same site; ShipPress warns you when two touch the same thing.
- The AI runs on your own account, or on ShipPress credits. Use the plan you already have, or buy ShipPress AI credits in the app. The app itself is free.
ShipPress's core principles
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A real WordPress site. You get a standard WordPress block-theme site that you can still edit by hand in the WordPress admin.
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Your own web address. You can go live on your own domain; the Go live dialog is where you pick the host and the address.
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The site is yours. You own the sites and content you create, and you can move to another host whenever you like.
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Ordinary hosting. The site is published to a regular web host such as Hostinger, or to any server you can reach over SSH.
Features
What else you get
Local WordPress
A real WordPress site runs on your computer. No account, no server.
Your choice of AI
Use Claude Code, Grok Build, Codex, Antigravity CLI or Cursor CLI, signed in with your own account. ShipPress never sees your login.
Several Workers at once
Run a few Workers on one site at the same time. If two touch the same thing, you get a warning.
Many sites
Each site has its own folder and chat history, kept in the ShipPress folder on your computer.
Restore points
A copy is saved after every AI change. Go back to an earlier version if you do not like the result.
Five app languages
ShipPress speaks Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French and German.
Static copy
Save the whole site as plain web files, with no PHP or database. Shops (WooCommerce) excluded.
Online from your computer
Publish the static copy straight from this computer on your own Cloudflare domain. Free, but the computer and ShipPress must stay on.
ShipPress hosting
No hosting company to find: buy a domain and publish in ShipPress, with forms e-mailed to you. Not for shops.
A working website
Not just a pretty page. A website that actually works.
ShipPress doesn't hand you a mockup. Store designs come with a working cart and checkout, and every site has an admin you can log into to manage pages, posts and products, plus room to add forms, memberships and more with plugins. That's because it's built on standard WordPress: a block theme, WooCommerce when you sell things, and the familiar wp-admin, so you can keep editing on your own, no AI required.
Why WordPress
The most used CMS
According to W3Techs, about 40% of all websites run on WordPress. Whatever you run into, someone has probably written up the fix.
Open source, and yours
WordPress is open-source software under the GPL. Your files and data stay with you, not locked inside someone's platform.
Runs on almost any host
Nearly every hosting company supports WordPress, so you can move whenever you like without rebuilding.
Easy to hand over
Plenty of people already know the WordPress admin. Hand the site to a client or an editor and they can update posts and products on their own.
Plugins: whatever you need, someone has probably built it
The WordPress.org directory lists more than 70,000 free plugins, from shops and SEO to memberships. When you need a new feature, a mature plugin usually beats writing it from scratch.
- WooCommerce stores
- SEO
- Forms
- Multilingual
- Memberships
- Bookings
- Backups
- Security
Why this matters for AI
No reinventing the wheel
The AI builds on proven parts: plugins, blocks, WP-CLI and the REST API, all used and tested on huge numbers of sites.
More reliable, and cheaper
Less code for the AI to write means fewer things to go wrong, and fewer AI credits spent.
Room to grow
Launch isn't the end. Add features later with the AI, install a plugin yourself, or hand the site to anyone who knows WordPress.
Sources: W3Techs (October 2026, about 39.6% of all websites use WordPress); WordPress.org plugin directory (October 2026, over 72,000 plugins).
Custom tools
Small tools made just for your site
The WordPress admin has everything, but rarely the one screen you use every day. Ask the AI in one sentence and it builds a small tool for this site, like an order list or a price table, ready to use.
Say what you need
Just ask in the chat, for example “Make me a list of products that are low on stock.”
The AI builds it
The tool opens under “Tools” next to the preview. Each tool says what it can see and change.
It asks before changing data
The first time a tool wants to change data, it asks you. Deleting, or changing more than 5 items at once, asks every time.
Tools you can make
Orders dashboard
Today’s revenue, order count and pending orders at a glance.
Bulk order status
Tick a few orders and mark them completed in one click.
To-ship list
Only the orders still processing, with customer and total.
Low-stock alert
Products whose stock is below a number you choose.
Quick stock editor
Change every product’s stock count in one table.
Price table and sales
See all prices at once and set a sale price on the ones you pick.
New product drafts
Type a name and price, save it as a draft, fill in the rest later.
Post status board
Posts grouped into draft, pending and published, so you see where things stand.
Publish drafts together
Tick the drafts that are ready and publish them at once.
Pages that need a refresh
Pages sorted by last change, so you know which ones are getting old.
Member list
Search members, filter by role, and fix display names.
Site basics
Site name, time zone, currency and more on one page.
Custom tools work on the site on your computer and don’t go online. They can handle posts, pages, users, WooCommerce orders and products, and a few site settings.
Static deploy
One click turns your whole WordPress site static and puts it online
Click Go live and ShipPress copies every page, image and style of your site into plain web files and publishes them on ShipPress hosting (Cloudflare). No hosting company to find, no server to set up. Changed something? Click it again.
One click
Sign in once with your e-mail, choose Free address and click Go live. Making the static copy, checking it and uploading all run on their own, and you get a ….workers.dev trial address first.
Fast and safe
What goes online is plain files: no PHP, database or dashboard to attack, and pages are served straight from Cloudflare.
Forms and search still work
Contact forms are e-mailed to you and site search keeps working. To go fully live, connect your own domain or buy one in ShipPress.
Or just take the files
Download the static copy as a folder and upload it yourself to Netlify, GitHub Pages or Cloudflare Pages.
Best for content sites such as company sites, portfolios and blogs. A WooCommerce shop can't go static, because checkout needs PHP, and live features such as comments won't work. ShipPress checks the site before uploading and tells you about anything that won't work. Search engines skip the free trial address.
Hosting
Supported hosts
Your site is built on your computer first. When you are ready, ShipPress copies it to a web host so everyone can see it. You connect a host once in the app, under Apps. No host? You can also make a static copy, use ShipPress hosting, or go online straight from your own computer.
WordPress.com Available via SSH
WordPress hosting from the team behind WordPress. Enter your SSH details to publish and download. Get WordPress.com hosting.
Pressable Available via API
Managed WordPress hosting from Automattic. Paste an API key to connect, then publish and download. Get Pressable hosting.
Cloudways API key + automatic SSH
Enter your email and API key to connect. Your sites are listed; publishing and downloading are one click. Get Cloudways hosting.
InstaWP Available
Sign in and ShipPress creates a site, publishes and pulls changes back. Get InstaWP hosting.
Hostinger Available
Sign in to create a site, publish and open wp-admin. To download a site, add SSH. Get Hostinger hosting.
xCloud API key + automatic SSH
Paste an API key to connect. Your sites are listed; publishing, downloading and wp-admin are one click. Get xCloud hosting.
Kinsta API key + automatic SSH
Paste an API key to connect. Your sites are listed; publishing, downloading and wp-admin are one click. Get Kinsta hosting.
SiteGround Available via SSH
Enter your SSH details to publish and download. Get SiteGround hosting.
DigitalOcean Available via SSH
Enter your SSH details to publish and download.
Any other host with SSH Available
Enter the server address, username and password or key to publish and download.
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FAQ
Questions, answered plainly
Does ShipPress cost anything?
No, the app is free. Use your own AI plan at no extra cost, or buy optional ShipPress AI credits in the app. You pay for hosting when you decide to put a site online.
If you sign up for hosting through a partner link in the app, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. See our affiliate disclosure.
Do I need my own AI plan?
Yes. ShipPress uses an AI tool you are already signed in to on your computer, one of:
- Claude Code, with a Claude subscription that includes it,
- Grok Build, with a Grok account,
- Codex, signed in with your ChatGPT plan,
- Antigravity CLI, Google’s tool, signed in with your Google account or your own Gemini API key, or
- Cursor CLI, signed in with your own Cursor account. ShipPress doesn’t store that login.
We never see your AI login. If you don’t have an AI account, you can buy ShipPress AI credits in the app instead.
Do I need to create a ShipPress account?
No. Install the app and start building; making a site needs no ShipPress account.
You sign in to your own AI tool, and to a hosting company only when you decide to go live.
Where are my site and my data kept?
On your computer. Sites, chats and restore points live there, and a site only leaves it when you click Go live or turn on Share to phone (which you can stop at any time). The AI service you choose receives the requests you send it, under its own terms.
This web page sets no cookies. It uses Cloudflare Web Analytics and anonymous download counts, and stores no IP addresses. Details are in the privacy policy.
Which computers can run it?
Macs today: Apple silicon and Intel Macs can download and use ShipPress right now. Windows version: leave your email and we’ll let you know when it’s available.
Leave your email and we will send you one message when the Windows version can be downloaded.
Is it safe to let the AI change my site?
Yes, and every change can be undone: ShipPress saves a restore point after each AI turn, so you can go back to an earlier version.
Anything that reaches beyond the site on your computer, such as going live, creating a site on a host, pulling a live site over your local one, or installing and updating plugins, shows an approval card in the chat first and only runs after you click Approve.
The AI tool runs on your computer as an ordinary program, not in a locked-down sandbox, so keep your own backups of anything important.
Can I undo a change I don’t like?
Yes. Every change has a restore point, so you can go back to an earlier version. ShipPress saves one before restoring too, so even a restore can be undone. Problems and ideas are welcome on GitHub.
Does putting the site online cost extra?
Usually, yes. Hosting and a domain are paid to the companies that provide them, at their prices, not to ShipPress.
The exception is putting the static version online from your own computer with a domain you have on Cloudflare: no hosting fee, but your computer and ShipPress must stay on. Until you go live, the site is built on your computer and needs no hosting at all.
Windows
Windows version: get one email when it’s available
ShipPress is for Mac today. Windows version: leave your email and we’ll let you know when it’s available, once.
Try it on your computer
Free to download. Use your own AI account, or buy ShipPress AI credits in the app; your sites stay on your computer.
Windows version: leave your email and we’ll let you know
Not sure which to pick? Apple menu → About This Mac: “Chip: Apple M…” means Apple silicon, anything else is Intel.