Webflow Vs Framer Sites

Webflow VS Framer Sites, the duel begins! A new product from Framer called "Framer Sites" was announced in May. It appears to be directly competing with Webflow. It seems like a cool and exciting product. Here we will compare both of them and discuss which is best for what, as well as how to think about it.

📽️ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Why are we so hyped about Webflow?
01:44 - Framer Sites Vs Webflow - First test drive
08:33 - Interactions and Animations
10:59 - CMS
12:51 - Conclusions

⬇ Would you give “Framer Sites” a try? Let us know in the comments. ⬇

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[deplatt]

This was interesting. While web flow seems better, it can definitely take some cues from Framer. Framer seems more intuitive and easy to use because the interface is cleaner. Webflows interface is extremely dense.

Also, the target audience are designers who are coming from Figma and XD so Framer is visually/conceptually very appealing to them

[matteotiscia]

In Framer, you can apply a stack on the actual breakpoint canvas, this will make it so every section stacks under one another, like Webflow does.

[RikkiTikki]

I'm a technical MarkOps manager looking at both Framer and Webflow simultaneously (no previous experience with either). I think Framer is great for a designer or small business, but the CMS restrictions are too much for mid-size companies. The fact Webflow lets you set conditional formatting based on content was enough to sell me on it. The ability to adjust Rich Text on the front end was just....incredible. Not to mention, Framer's lacking multi-reference component is a deal breaker for content managers.

So....

Framer: great for independent designers and non-technical teams.

Webflow: spend a few extra hours to learn the principles of HTML and CSS and infinitely scale your site.

[infinitedesigns_io]

I was out at "Framer does not have classes". Webflow is much better for serious designers. There is most likely a place in the market for Framer though. Great video Ran! Thank you!

[ju.ice-der-boi]

I personally think Framer could potentionally make more designers create full fledged websites. They obviously lack a lot of features by now, but I like to see that Framer combines designing (they have a really robust design tool) with front end developement. In terms of maintaining a design system for larger cooperations I really see benefits at framer. As a designer it‘s super easy to just build a design system in Framer & ship it to a developer. Looking forward to see what Framer is up to, especially because it‘s the only European company in the Design game ;)

[Georgeux]

Before you guys listen to this guy. Please note that he was incentivised by Webflow for his first “Why I won’t be using Framer” video as well as this video. You can look it up. Also he is simply miss directing you. His comparison is bent upon making look framer look bad in its most early stages. He then never reviews it again and it appears as if the the app is stuck in the past.

[borisperisset]

It looks like Framer Sites is combining Figma with Wix. I'm missing many CSS Features and FrontEnd logic so that I'll stuck with their concepts instead of understanding and learning FrontEnd Development. Webflow has it's limitations, – sure – but is way better with helping designers understanding FrontEnd Devs. Embrace the hard learning curve! It's worth it! You don't just learn Webflow, you learn HTML and CSS.

[pedroelton]

In Framer you can also code in React. It was not even supposed to be compared with Webflow. It can be used for real apps, mobile and web apps, not just statics simple websites.

[bySterling]

Being very much a visual designer I do have to say hats off to Framers UI and tools and templates/blocks being so much more attractive right out the gate.

[sundaydavid]

From what I'm seeing, Framer resembles Figma more than Webflow. Who thinks so too?

[edgarasben]

Great quick overview!

Webflow is great, but it's lacking some free position tools, which are helpful when starting to design something new. That's where Figma or Framer is good, for those earlier exploration stages.

[vedantkumar]

I think the main advantage of Webflow at the moment is their fucking awesome community. I'm new to webflow, maybe it's been 2 months, and have spent countless hours building my 2 websites which look awesome. According to me, if the community wasn't there, and the integrations such as the Finsweet suite, Refokus, and memberstack to a certain extend, along with countless YouTube tutorials, and the made in webflow section on the webflow website, I would've definitely quit long time back. It's so amazing to clone components, while learning how to replicate them by yourself!

Moreover, I'm a student, so I've availed the free 1 year student discount code for 1 cms plan annual subscription which is fucking amazing

[gammadesignco]

Interesting. It does look like it will still have some good use cases and getting to market might be faster for someone who is a designer first since Webflow does have a bigger learning curve. Really does look like a prototyping tool that can actually build the website and launch it. Interesting concept. I wonder how SEO will be handled. I see how it has integrations and other things which looks neat.

Kinda cool and competition is nice!

[chidorirasenganz]

In the video and a few commenters bemoaned the lack of classes but classes and particularly webflow’s implementation of them is pretty cumbersome. I’d much rather have a design system with components (with variants & variables (properties)). Not only is it better for designers but users in general vs the verbose and complex classes used in common webflow frameworks.

[welling]

The majority of web flow sites have horrible performance issues. Wonder how this compares.

[HenrikVendelbo]

I felt too limited with Webflow. Not being able to mix in custom React components makes need for any advanced functionality a showstopper. Components are essential to develop a design system. Secondly I cannot create my own templates

[oluwakoredeakanbi]

I just wanted to say....I love your lighting! Chef's kiss!...it's perfecto!

[frankdrolet]

I'm a big fan of Webflow, but you can't animate any properties, that's why we use GSAP and other libraries to complete Webflow native interaction

[blazi_]

I say webflow UI looks so complex, it looks like these old softwares from 90s i hate it. Framers UI looks like figma simple and clean i love it.

[HakanErtan]

Thanks for sharing your opinions. Weblow is indeed doing great job with CMS.