LiveReload App Reviews

I cant describe the amount of joy this app has brought to my life. Literally. Its turned the browser in to a television and my editor in to a remote. Insanely wonderful. Thank you!

This is one of the most useful tools Ive ever rolled into my development workflow. Actually, cancel that - its less that I added it to my workflow than that it removed lots of unnecessary steps from it. Beautiful software, and if time is money, you cant beat that price.

Initially I thought, "meh, Ill check it out." After using it for about an hour I realized just exactly how awesome this app is. For doing local development, it is amazing how much time is saved by not having to manually click refresh to check the changes you just made. Make your changes, hit save and BAM, your browser refreshes. Simple, yet awesome.

Doesnt seem to be updated to latest LESS support as Bootstrap doesnt compile correctly without errors. Codekit even in beta is updated to support this.

It took me a while before I finally clicked Buy on this one. Im so glad I did. Having the pages youre working on auto-refresh when saving a file is incredibly useful. Also, Ive started using LESS since buying this app, and its a super cool automatic parser. Works perfectly doing custom Wordpress themes using MAMP + Dreamweaver.

I use this app daily now. I still like to do initial CSS editing in Espresso, but the live CSS inject without page reload in LiveReload makes it a great app for design. The file-watching mechanism for refreshing all open browsers whenever project files change makes it even better for development. It will even refresh pages running in Mobile Safari in the iOS Simulator. 5 thumbs up.

I bought this app hoping it would help me compile LESS on my projects. Unfortunately, the LESS functionality in this app is much more primitive than the free Less.app. Even more concerning is that this app feels half baked. For example several features in the UI have coming soon notes, such as the use of a Node compiler, or "magic comments" which are touted on the UI but the support page indicates are not yet implemented. This is unacceptable for a small app selling at $10 in the App Store. I dont have a problem paying $10 apps product, but this one still needs work.

Tried to use it to speed up building WordPress websites locally with MAMP and Chrome and it simply doesnt work.

I am so thrilled with this app after 10 minutes of use that I came back to write a review. Im only using the reload feature. Im using CodeKit for LESS, etc. I update the code with PHPStorm. In this environment, this application works flawlessly. One note: it took me a while to figure out I had to turn on the browser add on within firefox after installing it. However, this was clearly stated in the directions, I just didnt read them :)

One of the better development tools/utilities I have. Saves a lot of time and frustration. Also helps save my wrist from repetitive stress. Ive been using it since beta and was happy to buy @$10 when it was released to the app store.

this is imo hands-down the best tool, most thoroughly tested of the current tools available for osx, that handle live monitoring and updating of web content under development (for osx).

If youre a web developer that values your time, get this app! This is easily the best application Ive spent money on in a while. If the developer didnt make the source code to this app available, I wouldve assumed that witchcraft was involved.

Having a built-in live view while working on web development is nice, but this is oh-my-god-why-havent-I-always-had-this nice. LiveReload just works and it works beautifully. And It works with any editor. And it works with any browser. And its fast. And and and… If you work with websites and you obsess over pixels in a layout, this is the answer youve been waiting for.

I just recently started using this tool and Ive got to say it saves me a ton of time each day. If you develop javascript, css, or html you need this app. Its non-intrusive. The amount of time save by not have to fire off a reload of the browser manually is amazing. Thanks very much for a great app.

LiveReload has become an essential productivity tool for web development, especially the CSS refresh without reloading the whole page. It was surprising to me how much faster you can develop and design web sites with a little bit faster edit/refresh loop.

While the concept of this app is great, Im afraid in practice it just doesnt pass muster. The browser plugins can simply never connect to the main app meaning that its completely broken (the browser plugin acts as a client connecting to the main app which functions as a server).

Sadly I didnt read the requirements before purchasing. For those of you who report that this is broken, I wouldnt be suprised if you are running a 32bit mac. Thankfully the developer provides a free 32bit version on their website, be sure to get that! Sadly it does not support anything but Safari, and will not compile lass/sass. Ill have to re-download this version when I am able to buy a new system.

This app saves me sooo much time. It paid for itself in the first 15 minutes of use! I had a completely chaotic workflow with a Browser, Sublime Text and 2 Espresso windows. The amount of clicking I had to do, was annoying. I am down to 2 windows now and my development time same been more pleasant and efficient. Thank you!

Great when it works but be prepared to troubleshoot a bit. included libraries are out of date, some of them painfully so.

I purchased this app to use on muliple browsers and was told to use Chrome when I discovered that the Safari Plug-in didnt work. I prefer not to implement the script tag as its a hassle for every coding session. I found a free alternative that works very similiarly. Its called Auto-refresh.