I’ve noticed a lack of recent updates and no visible progress on LLM integrations or other new features, which raises concerns about whether the project is still being actively maintained.
In addition, it appears that new templates are being sold separately, despite the original “lifetime” license messaging, which is confusing from a licensing and monetization standpoint.
Could you please clarify:
Whether Bootstrap Studio is still in active development
Your roadmap and future plans for the product (including AI/LLM-related features)
How the “lifetime” license is intended to work going forward, especially regarding templates and additional content
This information will help users like me decide whether to continue relying on Bootstrap Studio in the long term.
Not sure why you’d be concerned that the “project isn’t being actively maintained.” Martin is active in the forums and routinely posts about their future plans for the software. Here’s one such comment from 6 days ago… Page Scrolls to Top After Edit
The lifetime license is pretty clear. You get updated versions of the software for life. There are some templates that are included, and they also release premium templates from time-to-time that cost extra. When the program first came out, there were no premium templates, so I can see how there might be some confusion there.
”…which is confusing from a licensing and monetization standpoint.”
The license seems pretty clear. Not sure what you mean by “monetization?”
Even if, for some bizarre reason, the program stopped being developed, that would not stop you from using it to build new websites, or maintain websites you’ve already built with it. It would still be a perfectly functional tool albeit without a few features (at least until Bootstrap 6.x is released.)
I mean, nothing lasts forever, but Bootstrap Studio has been continuously developed and upgraded since it was released, with a big upgrade 2 months ago. I don’t imagine the Bootstrap framework is going anywhere anytime soon, so I can’t see why this program wouldn’t continue.
I cannot speak on the LLM features, as I never use them.
We are actively working on the app, and are finishing a big update. The highlight is the new AI assistant with support for Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter and local models with Ollama. It can work autonomously as an agent and build websites and web apps for you.
It’s a massive release, we’ve been working on it for half a year. It should be out very soon, we just need to resolve some last minute issues and finish the videos.
There are no changes to how the licensing works. With your Lifetime and Standard license you get a few of our premium templates for free, the rest are sold separately. This will allow us to add more templates to Bootstrap Studio over time (2 new ones are coming with our upcoming release).
We’ve been working on Bootstrap Studio for over 10 years, we are not going anywhere
