The Framer alternative
for the app behind the site
Framer’s agent designs the site on a canvas you can edit. Here a team plans the product on one, data included, then builds the app.
Framer’s prices, agent and canvas read on framer.com, 17 September 2026.
Framer’s canvas is the site.
Ours is the plan, data included.
Both are canvases with an agent on them. Look at what each one holds.
The canvas is the pages
AgentChange the hero to a vertical stack layout.
Where the bookings live, who can see the diary, what the reminder says: off the canvas.
The canvas is the plan
Book a slot
ConfirmOpen on Thursday
A patient picks a slot before they make an account, never after.
The data behind the diary
Drawn, not builtbookings
therapists
patients
Every column is on the canvas before Devi writes a migration.
The page, and the tables behind it, before Devi writes a migration. An imaginary clinic.
Framer publishes the site.
Devi ships the app.
The same conceded point, from the other end: what you look at on Framer’s canvas is what goes live.
Framer: the canvas goes live
Pages, sections, copy and visuals, refined in the conversation or by hand, then published with hosting and a CMS.
The seven: the plan gets built
Devi builds exactly the boards, with Postgres, accounts and a live URL. We do not meter the runs.
Every Framer fact here
was read off Framer
Read on their own site, and dated.
framer.com/pricing
Free with 500 AI credits and a Framer domain. Basic $10 and Pro $30 a month on yearly billing. Extra editors $20 a month each, viewers free.
framer.com
A design agent native to the canvas. It generates and refines the site in place, every change visible and editable, and you can take over by hand.
framer.com/ai
Describe the website, page or update. The agent creates editable pages, sections, copy and visuals in your project, and code components for the site.
Every seat on a product team,
and you are in all of them.
Seven specialists. You direct all of them. Nadia and Devi are on every project.
Who this is for
Primary persona: Maria and Tom. Two people sharing one pipeline at a twelve-person company. Maria closes, Tom follows up. Neither has ever opened a CRM they liked.
What they are actually buying
- One list both of them trust, instead of two spreadsheets
- Knowing what to do next without a standup to decide it
- Something that survives one of them being on leave
Pain to mirror in the copy
- “Every CRM is built for a sales team of nine”
- Data entry that costs more than the deal is worth
- Reports nobody on a two-person team reads
Competitive frame
Not competing with Pipedrive on features. Competing on the half hour a week it takes to keep it true. The wedge is two people, one list, not “also works for small teams”.
Objections to answer before the fold
- “We already have a spreadsheet” → show the two-column import
- “What happens when we hire a third?” → seats, not tiers
Pipeline
New dealSorted by last touched. Nothing here is a stage nobody uses.
Visual direction for Anouk
- Mode: light, paper-first. This gets read at a desk, not on a phone
- Accent: one colour, used for state and nothing else
- Type: one humanist sans. Numbers tabular, so columns line up
- Density: eight deals on screen without scrolling
Reference
- Linear’s list density, Stripe’s number formatting
- Nothing that needs a second click to read a deal
Open questions before build
- Does a deal belong to a person or to the team?
- Is “won” a stage or a date?
- Do we show currency on every row, or once in the header?
Billing
Invoices
Plan table and invoice list stay two boards, not one.
keep them apart
Four screens to start: Pipeline, Deal detail, Pricing page, Schema. I have put the words on them, so read them before Devi sees any of it.
added 4 boardsBilling wants a plan table and an invoice list, so that is two boards, not one. Drawing both.
added Billing, InvoicesNadiaincluded
Jonah
Deviincluded
Theo
Anouk
Rosa
KitFramer against
HuntingHydra.
Their column comes from their own site.
| Framer | HuntingHydra | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A design agent for websites | A product team on a canvas |
| What the canvas holds | The site itself | The plan, and the data behind it |
| Every change visible and editable | Yes | Yes |
| What gets published | Pages, sections, copy | A Next.js app with Postgres and accounts |
| Who does the work | One design agent | Seven specialists |
| Free tier | Yes, 500 AI credits | Three days free, every agent on |
| Metered | AI credits, by plan | Not metered |
| Cheapest paid plan | $10 | $20 |
| Content | 2 to 10 CMS collections | Postgres, schema drawn first |
| Editors | $20 each a month, viewers free | One seat runs all seven |
Where Framer fits,
and where we take over
The honest split, and our answer to each.
You can start free
500 AI credits, a Framer domain, design pages. Three days here, and nothing metered.
It is $10 a month
Basic is $10 on yearly billing with a custom domain. $20 here buys seven specialists and the app behind the site.
The agent edits the real site
On the canvas, in place, every change visible. If the site is the product, that is the better tool.
Hosting, CMS, staging
Pro brings ten CMS collections, a staging environment and branching with previews. We give you a repo and a URL.
Editors and SSO
Editors at $20 each, viewers free, SCIM SSO on Enterprise. One seat here directs the whole team.
Still not sure?
Three days free, every agent on. Draw the boards, watch the build, then decide.
What people ask
before they switch.
What is the best Framer alternative?
For a marketing site, Framer. For the app behind it, one whose canvas holds the plan and the data, then builds the app from it.
Is Framer free?
Yes, with 500 AI credits and a Framer domain. Basic is $10 a month on yearly billing. Checked 17 September 2026.
Can Framer build an app?
Framer builds websites, and its agent can build a code component for the site. What it publishes is the site. An app with its own data and accounts is what this builds.
How is HuntingHydra different from Framer?
Both put an agent on a canvas you can edit. Framer’s canvas is the site. Ours is the plan for a product, with the data drawn behind the pages, and Devi builds the app from it.
What does HuntingHydra cost?
Three days free, then $20 a month on the model you already pay for. We do not meter the runs.
Framer designs the site on a canvas.
This plans the product on one, then builds it.
Three days free.