Compare the Top Free Development Frameworks as of December 2025

What are Free Development Frameworks?

Development frameworks are code libraries and development tools that streamline the development process for developers that build applications. Development frameworks simplify the process of programming in different languages. There are a variety of different types of development frameworks including web development frameworks, mobile app development frameworks, frontend and backend frameworks, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Development Frameworks currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

  • 1
    Flutter

    Flutter

    Google

    Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase. Paint your app to life in milliseconds with Stateful Hot Reload. Use a rich set of fully-customizable widgets to build native interfaces in minutes. Quickly ship features with a focus on native end-user experiences. Layered architecture allows for full customization, which results in incredibly fast rendering and expressive and flexible designs. Flutter’s widgets incorporate all critical platform differences such as scrolling, navigation, icons and fonts, and your Flutter code is compiled to native ARM machine code using Dart's native compilers. Flutter's hot reload helps you quickly and easily experiment, build UIs, add features, and fix bugs faster. Experience sub-second reload times without losing state on emulators, simulators, and hardware.
  • 2
    Ionic

    Ionic

    Drifty

    The Ionic Platform allows you to bring your apps to market faster with an integrated app platform built on the leading cross-platform mobile SDK. Build, secure, and deliver new mobile apps—and transform existing ones—across iOS, Android, and Web platforms from a single codebase. Full scalability—Grow from prototype to production to enterprise-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability, or performance. Better apps, everywhere—Slash your development time and costs with a platform that lets you write once and deploy anywhere—iOS, Android, and Web. The core of the Ionic development experience is Ionic Capacitor, a cross platform native runtime that runs equally well on native iOS and Android mobile devices, as well as any web browser. The big difference is that, unlike traditional native development or cross-platform approaches, the UI of a Capacitor app runs primarily in the browser.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 3
    Webix

    Webix

    Webix

    JavaScript UI library and framework for speeding up web development. JS Framework for cross-platform web Apps development 102 UI widgets and feature-rich CSS / HTML5 JavaScript controls. Save at least 3000+ development hours by using ready-made widgets and UI controls. Develop Web UI 30% faster. We have accumulated the best design ideas. We have meticulously considered UX of each Webix component for five conceptual designs. Our support service specialists know everything about our library and can help you solve any problem. We also have an official support forum where you can discuss issues with our developers. By using Webix JS framework you receive an elegant and lightweight code based on object-oriented programming concepts. Associate your project with jQuery JavaScript library, MVC frameworks AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Backbone.js, third party UI extensions.
    Starting Price: $848
  • 4
    ADO.NET Data Providers
    dotConnect is an enhanced data connectivity solution built over ADO.NET architecture and a development framework with a number of innovative technologies. dotConnect includes high-performance data providers for the major databases and popular cloud applications and offers a complete solution for developing data-related applications and web sites. dotConnect can be used in all areas of modern application development: web applications and services, windows forms applications, mobile and enterprise development. dotConnect providers support such ORMs as Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, NHibernate and LinqConnect. The providers come bundled with their own visual designer for ORM models - Entity Developer. dotConnect ADO.NET providers for databases and cloud applications, such as Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Salesforce, Dynamics CRM, SugarCRM, Zoho CRM, QuickBooks, FreshBooks, MailChimp, etc.
    Starting Price: $99.95/one-time/user
  • 5
    Syncfusion Essential Studio
    Includes more than 1,600 components and frameworks for Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC, Core), UWP, WinUI, Xamarin, Flutter, JavaScript, Angular, Blazor, Vue and React. Includes top requested components such as charts, grids, schedulers, diagrams, maps, gauges, docking, ribbons, and many more! Working with the industry’s best and brightest minds to streamline your business. Includes more than 1,700 components and frameworks for major platforms. A wide range of product demos and training, including video tutorials, documentation, and KBs. Every control is fine-tuned to work with a high volume of data. Create powerful apps by viewing and editing Excel, PDF, Word, and PowerPoint files. Truly unlimited dedicated support system via the public forum, feature & feedback page, live chat, and support tickets. Easy integration of tools to blend Syncfusion controls with your project.
    Starting Price: $495 one-time payment
  • 6
    Jersey

    Jersey

    Eclipse Foundation

    Developing RESTful web services that seamlessly support exposing your data in a variety of representation media types and abstracting away the low-level details of client-server communication is not an easy task without a good toolkit. In order to simplify the development of RESTful web services and their clients in Java, a standard and portable JAX-RS API has been designed. Jersey RESTful web services 3. x framework is an open-source, production-quality, framework that provides support for Jakarta RESTful web services 3.0. Jersey framework is more than the JAX-RS reference implementation. Jersey provides its own API that extends the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features. Track the JAX-RS API and provide regular releases of production quality reference implementations that ship with GlassFish. Provides APIs to extend Jersey & build a community of users and developers. Makes it easy to build RESTful Web services utilizing Java and the Java Virtual Machine.
    Starting Price: Free
  • 7
    Wisej.NET

    Wisej.NET

    Ice Tea Group

    Wisej.NET provides a platform and set of tools designed to ease the burden of developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining complex AI-powered business software. It bridges the gap between traditional WinForms-style desktop applications and the web by empowering developers to leverage their existing .NET and C# or VB.NET) skills. Developers are able to use the tools they are familiar with, like a pixel-perfect design surface and drag-and-drop controls with the languages they are comfortable with (C# or VB.NET) to build real-time web applications without having to learn HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. They can stay in their favorite IDE like Visual Studio to take advantage of features like IntelliSense, integrated debugging, design surfaces and source control integration. Front-end developers can leverage their knowledge of web technologies to augment applications and seamlessly integrate third-party packages like HTML5 charting libraries and ASP.NET controls.
    Starting Price: $990
  • Previous
  • You're on page 1
  • Next