Framer
Ranked 9 of 14 AI app builders by recommenders
People recommend Framer for building polished websites quickly, with fine layout control and scroll effects. Critics say it suits designers more than everyone and is hard to learn.
People recommend Framer for building polished websites quickly, with fine layout control and scroll effects. Critics say it suits designers more than everyone and is hard to learn.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 8
- approval share
- 53%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.1 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Easier to build than WordPress
“Wix, framer and WordPress can do it easily”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at $13.3B valuation up from $6.6B in 2025” “Framer is much better than Wordpress”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser” Fine layout and container control
“I think I'm just heavily Framer-pilled and it lets you pre-determine a rough width and height within a stack”
Comment from 9 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent” “What this component does is that it allows you to target a specific Container”
Comment from 29 Apr 2026 on Hacker News
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Hard to learn, proprietary quirks
“Framer's marketing says it's for everyone. The product says it's for designers.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Show HN: ClankerView – AI agents browse your web app and give UX feedback” “they are incredibly frustrating and full of tedious little proprietary quirks”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” “you can prompt a corporate website faster than you can learn Framer”
Comment from 11 Jan 2026 in “AI is a business model stress test”
Other AI app builders people recommend
The four most recommended other AI app builders, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovable | 73 | 77 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| Replit | 51 | 39 | 57% | 11 | 9 mo3 owners | — |
| Squarespace | 23 | 23 | 50% | 11 | — | — |
| Bolt.new | 20 | 14 | 59% | 9 | — | — |
| FramerThis page | 9 | 8 | 53% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
All 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“underneath the covers it's the typical bloated Framer site”
“most of them are kinda the same framer template just filled with different data”
“Wix, framer and WordPress can do it easily”
“Afaik they are for only static/marketing sites”
“Shipping Protobuf, YAML, Lodash (hashing, unicode, collections), Typebox, GSAP and Framer”
“they are incredibly frustrating and full of tedious little proprietary quirks”
“it appears to be a framer problem”
“Framer's marketing says it's for everyone. The product says it's for designers.”
“What this component does is that it allows you to target a specific Container”
“hundreds of invisible details that figma, framer, paper, etc. get right”
“I think I'm just heavily Framer-pilled and it lets you pre-determine a rough width and height within a stack”
“I would never build something with Framer and have no interesting in allowing some fly-by-night agency hold my site hostage”
“made 50% in framer (scroll triggers, variants, text interactions)”
“which meant less tricks necessary to make the platform both feel snappy”
“you can prompt a corporate website faster than you can learn Framer”
“building it on framer was pretty easy, though, it has some limitations with more complex SVG imports”
“Framer is much better than Wordpress”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.