Framer alternative
Framer is great
for a Framer site.
Where Framer falls short
You're on their platform
Framer hosts your site. Your domain, your content, your project — all living inside someone else's infrastructure. Moving out means starting over.
Built for portfolios, not platforms
Framer shines on marketing pages and portfolios. But complex content structures, dynamic data, and multi-role workflows push it to its limits quickly.
No real plugin ecosystem
memberships, bookings, multilingual, advanced forms — Framer has surface-level support at best. These aren't edge cases; they're how most real projects work.
Clients can't use it
Framer's editing experience is built for designers. Handing it off to a non-technical client is a support ticket waiting to happen.
Same canvas experience.
None of the tradeoffs.
Kirki starts where Framer does — an infinite canvas with full positional freedom. It ends somewhere Framer can't go: inside WordPress, with the full ecosystem your clients and projects actually need.
Infinite canvas
No fixed page box, no section grid. Place elements with full positional freedom at any scale — zoom in, zoom out, work the way designers actually think. Powered by CSS Grid and Flexbox.
Timeline interactions
Not entrance animations — a full timeline interaction system. Trigger-based, multi-step, composable across any element on the canvas. The kind of motion Framer’s component-variant based interaction can't come close to.
Real-time collaboration
Your team works on the same canvas simultaneously. Multi-user cursors, comments, live edits — the collaborative experience designers expect, natively inside WordPress.
Built-in CMS
A full CMS built into the builder. Design dynamic templates, bind elements to content, manage collections — without stitching together separate plugins.
Forms, SEO & popups
Kirki ships with forms, SEO tools, and popups built in. The full WordPress plugin ecosystem is there for everything else — eCommerce, memberships, bookings, and beyond.
Your hosting, your rules
Kirki is a WordPress plugin. Deploy on any host you choose. Your client's existing server, your preferred stack, your infrastructure. No platform dependency.
Kirki vs Framer,
at a glance.
Features
Framer
Kirki
Infinite canvas & positional freedom
Timeline interaction system
Real-time collaboration
Built-in CMS
Built-in forms & SEO tools
Client-friendly content editing
Your own hosting
Full WordPress plugin ecosystem
Ready for something different?
The canvas you want.
The platform you need.
Kirki gives you the design freedom of a modern canvas tool without asking you to leave WordPress — or the clients and projects that depend on it.
No credit card
No time limit