22 Website Designs Inspired by Apple.com

You can clearly see why Apple’s design is used as inspiration so much. It’s just so crisp, clean and usable!

As far as websites go, it’s definitely one of the best I’ve seen at selling it’s products and the sites you have showcased here, while they do look “nice” will never be as impressive as the original Apple design!

I only wish that my HP PC was inspired by Apple! Cool list, makes me envious.

I’m not seeing the connection for the first three layouts…?

I think you could call that “sexy web-designs inspired by apple” those are all amazing and engaging. Rich web design for the win!

Pixelmator [http://pixelmator.com]
GOG.com [http://gog.com]
Has direct relations with apple.com most of the sites you listed has only minute relation like, may be a button, an icon or something similar

There is no direct connection with the first 3 examples. The examples are there to show the current Apple site. The connection is from anything Apple, software applications, some of the sites use the iTunes carousel. Very subtle gradients, great use of white space. Heavy use of beautiful icons.

Nice,
I have to confess that I actualy follow very often Apple design (web or OS interface) on websites and even sometimes print. Its clear, user-friendly and simply beautiful !

I hesitate to use “inspired by” on this one, but http://www.gibson.com is an example of a fairly blatant rip off.

Funny how all these inspired sites are mostly for apps that run on apple products

I’d had to agree with what others have said, the first 3 are a pretty weak comparison…

I find Checkout slightly dubious with how close it is, but on the same token it’s an original layout and very well designed so you can’t take that away from them!

Well all of them look good ones. Bus yes inspired by apple site.

to me, RapidWeaver site looks closer to Vista scheme than Apple’s (particularly the top nav)

Although some of the examples aren’t the best, I still think its a good roundup and a fabulous source for inspiration if you’re interested in designing a site with similar design elements. Some of these have already made it into my personal inspiration library!

Thanks

All great sites. Apples typography style is a good example to follow on any web site

Yeah, I thought it was funny how many are actually products related to Apple. I guess that makes it ok to be unoriginal.

http://www.iqase.com

I don’t necessarily agree that all of them are apple inspired beyond the basic idea of clean and crisp layouts… but I can see how most of them are.

Heres an almost bit for bit copy site:

http://www.imemories.com

quite a list. original is the best

Some people get so inspired that they plagiarize what they see in a very bad way.
I love apple website. I hate designers emulating those effects. Why not start using our brains as the apple graphic designers did?

Cool list. Liked it a lot. Keep more and more list like this coming.

Regards
TJ

@ Scott

I was going to say the exact same thing

@ James

That is as blatent as I’ve seen in a long time!

Decent collection of “nice looking” sites, but as many are for apple apps as Scott said, they’re meant to blend in with the corporate image. An inspired site would take inspiration from the design elements but be for something completely unrelated.

Would you all have a look on my MacWeblog, which is an Arabic blog about Mac.

http://macweblog.com

Mustafa

1. sans-serif font
2. rounded corners
3. shines/reflections on literally EVERYTHING

thats all it is. take a basic css site, add a rounded corner background image and photoshop the buttons and there you have it. I doubt most of these sites took their influence directly from apple, it’s just this ‘web 2.0′ craze. And yeah it looks useable and polished but it’s also incredibly lazy.

DESIGN SOMETHING NEW.

Nice collection, +fav Thanks.

Hmm, I’m not sure they are inspired by “Apple.com”, they are mostly inspired by the interface guidelines from Apple, but mostly these websites all have their unique and extremely nice looking style.

When developing an application for Mac OS X, you need to follow certain conventions for icons and other UI related stuff so it integrates better with the system. Now it’s hard to create a website for a product with a completely different style than what’s generally accepted in regards to “Apple style.” I’m not saying they all look the same, they are incredibly imaginative in how they create their design within those boundaries!

As usual, always a nice group of websites. thanks for posting.

“And yeah it looks useable and polished but it’s also incredibly lazy.”

Yeah! Let’s all make our sites incredible hard for users to interact with so it’ll be *edgy and original*!

Apple rocks! Thanks for the cool post.

great post. i guess there could be worse trends to follow, i mean Apple does seem to get it right when it comes to their OS, UI, UX, etc,.

Some sites don’t go for the entire Apple.com theme, but instead use some similar elements, like input, and button styling.

Nice list of websites inspired by apple.com

i guess we could also be inspired by these as well

Apple has always lead the way. I see the infuence in the designs, but they still have som origininility to them also. I use some of these applications and I love em. The apps are as good as their designs.

Apple’s design is awesome and many people/companies copy its style.

Here is one blog inspired by apple design.
http://macblog.sk/

Nice collection!!

Apple very Good IDEA! Thanks for the cool post.

Nice! Some really great designs here, taking and extending the apple concept to some great ideas

Yup, some of them are even better than apple.

nice list, how could you have time to make it

thanks.

this design looks a bit like apple style : http://www.sub-deluxe.de

Anyway its a nice shop. You collection is nice too.

best from germany

Thanks for all the great feedback, Apple is a huge brand that is respected around the world, it only made sense to try to pay a tribute to that brand, by showcasing many of the websites that love and believe in that brand.

I had lots of fun looking over your designs. Thanks for entertaining my grey matter.

Curio website is one.

I like the apple design, is an universal style I think so. Thanks for sharing this list of website. Best regards!

I love the Apple design, it focuses on whitespace and usability. A site which uses the same concepts of whitespace etc like Apple and which I like is http://www.mediatemple.net/

I like it…. please sending this tutorial ..brother .
i wanna make like this (sorry for my English )

Big font, big buttons, big graphics! I love it. Great finds

All are selling Mac’s software, so branding is justified

While I see a lot of similarities in the Mac and iPhone/iPod software developer websites, for a reason, there are a lot of sites that made this list which have absolutely no resemblence aside from also being fluid, clean and professional — such as:

Warehouse
DeskLickr
Tangerine!
1Password
Roxio Toast
(And others….)

Unfortunately the fact that most of the graphics and screen shots on these sites are Apple/Mac related doesn’t help the fact that Apple.com inspired them. Just like Windows developers taking after the “Vista look” — you won’t see many Apple developers mimicking Microsoft.

I think a lot of these layouts were added to this list just to generate comments and debate. Boo.

Its nice to see people inspired and able to apply it to their product… Its not so easy as it seems ..

I am not truly an apple fan as too people swear they are god-like, however their designs are truly top notch. I love the apple site because it sells their products so well. Just looking at the site makes me want to get a touch….not. It’s still very good, kudos to the designers

Might want to check out http://www.gibson.com. I think they actually left Apple references in the source code.

Does anyone know who designed/developed apple.com?

By the way, not only it is greatly designed, the front end is also well thought out and executed.

Great Article ! I have so far converted my entire family into mac lovers – and these are just some of the reasons why.

Thanks for the article.. will be sure to go check out anything I have not yet seen already.

I am not truly an apple fan as too people swear they are god-like, however their designs are truly top notch. I love the apple site because it sells their products so well. Just looking at the site makes me want to get a touch….not. It’s still very good, kudos to the designers

For my money I like #8 280 Slides, I think its very clean and eye catching.

Stating that Apple’s website inspired all of those websites would only make sense if you spoke with the designer(s) and they stated as much. Some of the sites on this list are just well-designed, and are not reminiscint of Apple.com in the least. Apple is not beginning and end of good, simple design — they simply have / have had great designers work for them.

Well-designed sites, looking forward to see more… maybe a new trend?

Nice collections!

There’s a big difference between a company copy and design trends. These are mostly design trends. Most of us have seen the Apple site more then most sites on the web. So we are more conditioned to Apple’s site. Since most people are used to Apple, this creates an advantage for marketing. Creating a similar look and feel creates a since of safely and similarity in the visitors eye. Customers will be more likely to buy from you because you look mainstream, trusted and a feeling of “I’ve been here before”. Specially if it’s a product for Apple. Then make it look like Apple. What are Apple users used to seeing? Quality, friendliness, shinny objects, screenshots…whatever. You’ll need to meet that criteria. The work has already been done for you.

I love the Apple style website.Do you have wordpress theme?

Sweet colection

Nice collection. It’s not a sin to be inspired by the Apple site

Thanks for the post!

Not each form these designs are inspired from Apple’s

it strikes me that at least 3 out of 22 are designs made by an agency called Sofa (www.madebysofa.com) and are, like you mentioned in the intro, product websites for Apple savvy products. Apart from some design details, I really don’t see many similarities between those and Apple.com.

I found one more:
http://www.nprinting.com

nprinting.com is truly a mac website rip off!

I am not truly an apple fan as too people swear they are god-like,

What about Ubuntu’s website?

https://www.kissweddingbooks.com

Add http://www.bhtelecom.ba/ – complete apple.com ripoff!

These are great designs

Love these styles and I think they will stand the test of time. Iconic.

half of these are not really inspired by apple.com at all, some are blatent rip offs, pointless article

This article is really great. Well-designed collection of websites.