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Framer vs Material

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Overview

Framer
Framer
Stacks365
Followers502
Votes32
GitHub Stars5.9K
Forks477
Material
Material
Stacks96
Followers88
Votes3
GitHub Stars12.0K
Forks1.3K

Framer vs Material: What are the differences?

Framer: Turn static mockups into prototypes with animation & interaction. Framer is a JavaScript framework that makes creating realistic prototypes a breeze – complete with filters, spring physics and full 3D effects. Framer Generator is a desktop app that imports the resources and folder hierarchy from Photoshop files (Sketch coming soon). Import your design and immediately start to add interaction and animation; Material: A Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift. Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.

Framer and Material can be primarily classified as "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design" tools.

Some of the features offered by Framer are:

  • Generate assets out of Photoshop to set up new projects.
  • Animate any layer in 3D space with spring physics and bezier curves.
  • Hardware accelerated for high frame rates, based on CSS transforms.

On the other hand, Material provides the following key features:

  • Fully Configurable UI Components
  • Grid System For Complex UIs
  • Layout Library To Simplify AutoLayout

Framer and Material are both open source tools. Material with 11K GitHub stars and 1.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Framer with 5.45K GitHub stars and 506 GitHub forks.

Facebook, Dropbox, and Twitter are some of the popular companies that use Framer, whereas Material is used by Pardel Technologies, Working Minds, and Contratobook. Framer has a broader approval, being mentioned in 27 company stacks & 12 developers stacks; compared to Material, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.

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Advice on Framer, Material

Joey
Joey

Design & Growth Engineer at Joey van Gessel Design

Feb 12, 2021

Needs advice

Hey!

I want to prototype an app for a school project. I need to test the app from a distance, so it's multiple user tests from different locations when I'm only there online. What do you think is the best combination of tools available? I want to record the user sessions. It should be responsive on different viewports for phones, and it's should be interactive (e.g., testers can actually type in a text box).

Thanks in advance for your advice, looking forward to it. Please also tell me the "why" behind the choice.

  • Joey
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Detailed Comparison

Framer
Framer
Material
Material

Framer is a JavaScript framework that makes creating realistic prototypes a breeze – complete with filters, spring physics and full 3D effects. Framer Generator is a desktop app that imports the resources and folder hierarchy from Photoshop files (Sketch coming soon). Import your design and immediately start to add interaction and animation.

Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift.

Generate assets out of Photoshop to set up new projects.;Animate any layer in 3D space with spring physics and bezier curves.;Hardware accelerated for high frame rates, based on CSS transforms.;Works on desktop, mobile and tablets. Plays well with WebKit.
Fully Configurable UI Components;Grid System For Complex UIs;Layout Library To Simplify AutoLayout;Base Material Layers & Material Views To Create New UI Components;Side Navigation View Controller;Navigation Bar View & Controller;Search Bar View;Material Buttons;Material Switch;Material Card Views;Menu Toolset To Create Animated Menus;Camera / Video Extension With Extensive Functionality;Animation Extension To Create Intricate Animations;Complete Material Color Library;Example Projects
Statistics
GitHub Stars
5.9K
GitHub Stars
12.0K
GitHub Forks
477
GitHub Forks
1.3K
Stacks
365
Stacks
96
Followers
502
Followers
88
Votes
32
Votes
3
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 18
    Great for prototyping
  • 6
    Free
  • 5
    Fast idea validation
  • 3
    Integrates right with Photoshop
Pros
  • 1
    IOS benefits
  • 1
    Samples included
  • 1
    Good Documentation
Integrations
Figma
Figma
Android OS
Android OS
macOS
macOS
Sketch
Sketch
iOS
iOS
Objective-C
Objective-C
Swift
Swift

What are some alternatives to Framer, Material?

ProtoPie

ProtoPie

It is the easiest tool used to turn your UI/UX design ideas into highly interactive prototypes for mobile, desktop, web, all the way to IoT. ProtoPie runs on macOS & Windows and the player app is on iOS and Android.

Origami

Origami

Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.

Supernova

Supernova

Supernova converts any mobile design to full-fledged native applications, giving the developers extra time to do actual coding. No need to export resources, write navigation, connect it to components created by hand, read styles, apply styles, copy-paste information..

Lottie

Lottie

Lottie is a mobile library for Android and iOS that parses Adobe After Effects animations exported as json with Bodymovin and renders them natively on mobile!

Principle

Principle

It makes it easy to design animated and interactive user interfaces. Whether you're designing the flow of a multi-screen app, or new interactions and animations, it helps you create designs that look and feel amazing.

Fuse

Fuse

It is a set of user experience development tools that unify design, prototyping and implementation of high quality, native apps for iOS and Android.

Flinto

Flinto

It is a Mac app used by designers around the world to create interactive and animated prototypes of their app designs. It lets designers quickly make interactive prototypes of their mobile, desktop, or web apps.

Fiber

Fiber

Fiber UI Kit is the perfect starting place for your next project. Each element has been designed to work independently or as one seamless flow. It’s a full-fledged prototype with customizable components.

Pop

Pop

Pop is an extensible animation engine for iOS and OS X. In addition to basic static animations, it supports spring and decay dynamic animations, making it useful for building realistic, physics-based interactions. The API allows quick integration with existing Objective-C codebases and enables the animation of any property on any object. It's a mature and well-tested framework that drives all the animations and transitions in Paper.

Avocado

Avocado

Avocado is an open source interaction design toolbox built by​ IDEO.​ It ​enables designers to make quick interactive prototypes without writing a line of code.​ ​Built on top of Facebook's Origami framework, Avocado provides ready-to-use patches that can be easily combined to create fully-customized prototypes.​ Official announcement: http://labs.ideo.com/2014/05/27/avocado/

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