User friendly for clients, closest thing to "Weebly for WP"

Beaver Builder is a great page builder choice if the business owners or staff will be using it to make updates or build their own pages. I use Visual Composer for a lot of sites because it’s so well-supported and has lots of plugins, but I find even the frontend editor of VC to be pretty intimidating and tricky to use for clients/staff. I build sites for these kinds of clients on Weebly whenever possible because it is easily the most intuitive page builder in the world, but usually there’s a reason to build the site in WP.

Here are some client-friendly features:

Front-end editing with realtime updates is handled well. There is no option for backend editing once page builder is engaged, so you don’t have to worry about overwriting your work when you have multiple tabs open. It is easy to select row options, column options, and content options as compared to other page builders.

All commit changes options are presented logically with one easy “done” button in the upper-right.

General operation is quicker than other builders; modals pop up quicker, the page refreshes quicker. If you’ve built really big, long pages in other builders you know it can take around half a minute for a page refresh.

Great image crop presets built into the image component make it easy to create a row of consistent-size images without resorting to image editors (or typing in a custom style).

Handy validation reminders make sure required fields are filled in (e.g. if you add a button, it reminds you to enter a URL before you can save the button.)

In the admin, you can turn off all the components you’re not using (as opposed to seeing a palette of 9000 icons as in VC.)

Drag-and-drop works better than competitors. If you’ve experienced the drag-n-drop “jiggle” driving you crazy in other page builders, you know what a huge barrier this can be to client confidence. Just works better in BB.

The content templating system in beta right now is really nice and easy, and powerful. Templates can be global or singletons. They just show up in the palette along with the other components. Much nicer and works better than Templatera.

The grid is flexible, though adding/deleting columns is a little clunky compared to VC. (Or Weebly, which does this better than anyone.)

More developer-related component options are hidden on a tab toward the back (adding css classes, IDs, margins, padding, etc.) Slight PITA while you’re developing, but worth it once the site’s done.

Works great with Genesis with a few CSS modifications.

Anyhow, very impressed so far. Hope devs stay focused on client-friendly niche as they continue to add features and refine.