Framer
Framer is a desktop website design and publishing app that helps teams create, preview, and manage interactive web projects on Mac.
What is Framer?
Framer is a website design and publishing app for creating interactive sites, landing pages, and prototypes with a visual editor. The Mac desktop app gives users a dedicated workspace for opening Framer projects outside the browser while working on layouts, pages, CMS-driven content, and site previews. It is commonly used by designers, marketers, founders, and web teams who want to build polished web experiences without a traditional handoff-heavy workflow. Framer supports collaborative project work, quick access to shared project URLs, and desktop-specific conveniences such as tabbed work and image exporting. The product is developed by Framer B.V. and is available as a native desktop app for macOS and Windows alongside its web-based editing environment.
Key features
- Create and edit interactive website projects in a visual canvas
- Open shared project URLs directly in the desktop app
- Work across multiple projects and tabs in one desktop workspace
- Preview pages and interactions while refining layouts and content
- Export images and visual assets from desktop workflows
- Manage pages, layouts, and CMS-backed site structures
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Framer is legitimate website-building software, and its network access and local project activity are consistent with a collaborative design and publishing tool. The bundle ID com.framer.electron indicates an Electron-based desktop app, which is normal for this kind of cross-platform editor. As with similar cloud-connected creative tools, sign in only with your intended workspace account and review any synced project content before sharing or publishing.
Recommendation: Keep Framer if you use it to design, preview, or manage websites and shared projects. If you no longer use the app, you can remove it like other desktop software; doing so may also make locally stored settings, cached data, and quick access to project links unavailable until you reinstall.
Common paths
/Applications/Framer.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.framer.electron
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Framer
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.framer.electron.plist
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