One of the most common questions I see in the Framer Facebook group is people wondering whether you need to use a Mac to run Framer. That’s understandable — the website has a screenshot of a Mac app, a download button, and a caption saying ‘available for Mac’. Here’s the thing — you can use Framer and join this wonderful community & way of working on any platform. Let me explain…
The app you see in the screenshots on the Framer website is ‘Framer Studio’. It’s a paid app, for OSX only. The thing that powers it though—Framer.js—is open source, and available for free on GitHub.
To save you having to compile the source, Framer provide a simple .zip file to get you started - including all of the JavaScript you need, and an HTML file to open in your browser. It’s that simple to get started with Framer on Windows or Linux!