Framer, honestly.
Framer is the best marketing-site tool on this list, and it is not close. Design control, motion, publish speed. The only mistake people make with it is asking it to be an app platform.
Design in production, publish in minutes.
- Real design control: the canvas is the closest thing to designing directly in production.
- Motion and interaction quality without writing code. Framer sites move like expensive sites.
- Fast publish on solid hosting and CDN, with SSL and forms handled for you.
- CMS-driven content sites: blogs, careers pages, changelogs, all maintainable by non-developers.
A site platform, not an app platform.
- No backend of your own: no custom database, no server logic, no APIs you control.
- Auth, user accounts, dashboards and payments beyond simple embeds are out of scope.
- Custom features accumulate in code embeds, which get harder to maintain as they multiply.
- The site runs on Framer hosting. There is no portable codebase to take elsewhere, so moving platforms means rebuilding.
Small attack surface. The leftovers are yours.
- Most platform-level security is Framer's job, and that is a genuine advantage over app builders: there is less of yours to get wrong.
- API keys pasted into custom code embeds ship to every visitor. Anything secret needs a server you do not have here, so route it through a backend service instead.
- Third-party scripts and embeds run with full page access. Audit what you add.
- Form submissions accept whatever they are sent. Validate downstream before piping form data into other systems.
When the site needs to become a product.
Call us when the marketing site needs accounts, dashboards or payments behind it, or when you want a cinematic site you own outright instead of rent. We build launch websites from $399 and cinematic 3D flagships from $3,000, on stacks you keep.
Is Framer good for web apps?
No, and it does not pretend to be. It is excellent for marketing sites, landing pages and content sites. For auth, dashboards, payments or anything with a real backend, you need an application stack.
Can I export my site's code from Framer?
Framer sites run on Framer hosting. There is no portable codebase you can lift out and host elsewhere, so moving platforms means rebuilding. Decide early whether that trade matters for you.
Is a Framer site secure?
The platform layer is Framer's job and it is solid. The risks you own are API keys pasted into code embeds, third-party scripts you add, and unvalidated form data flowing into other tools.
$500 Week-1 audit · credited against any build