Framer Review

Framer's idea is that the gap between designing a site and building it should not exist, so the design canvas publishes directly. For a designer who works in Figma the transition is nearly nothing: the same components, auto layout and constraints, plus interactions and scroll animations that are genuinely easy to build and hard to reproduce in code. The output is fast and the hosting is included. For a landing page, a portfolio or a marketing site the result looks like it cost more than it did, and the template community is large.

The limits are those of a canvas pretending to be a codebase: complex content models strain the CMS, the generated code is not meant to be touched, and a site that outgrows the tool has no graceful exit. Pricing per site is reasonable for one and expensive for ten. It has taken a real share from Webflow among designers precisely because it asks less of them, and it delivers most of what they need.