The Best 41 CakePHP Alternatives

  • ImpressPages CMS

    ImpressPages is a PHP framework with admin panel. A new MVC engine is under the hood so you can customize ImpressPages in no time. Write your own plugins and themes to suit your and customers’ needs best.

    Free Open Source Web Self-Hosted PHP

  • CodeIgniter

    PHP (version 4 or 5) framework with a thin model layer. Includes an ActiveRecord class for database agnostic (mostly) data retrieval. Good community support in its forums. Further development available via GitHub: https://github .

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Laravel

    Laravel is a clean and classy PHP framework with minimal configuration and expressive syntax. RESTful routing; ORM; beautiful code.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Ruby

  • Symfony

    Symfony is a set of reusable PHP components and a PHP framework for web projects.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web PHP

  • Yii Framework

    Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development. Yii comes with rich features: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Agile Toolkit

    Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Zend Framework

    Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Pimcore

    Pimcore is a software vendor for free and open source customer experience management (CMS), digital asset management (DAM), product information management (PIM/MDM), multi-channel publishing and e-commerce software.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

  • Koa

    Expressive middleware for node.js using generators via co to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write. Koa's middleware flow in a stack-like manner...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Grails

    Grails is a high-productivity web framework based on the Groovy language that embraces the coding by convention paradigm, but is designed specifically for the Java...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ASP.NET MVC

    The ASP.NET MVC is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and the power of...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • ViUR.is

    ViUR – the Information System for the Google App Engine™ plattform – is a »sandbox« for designers and developers. With the help of ViUR you can easy build web...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Pedestal

    Pedestal is a web application framework written in Clojure that aims to bring both the language and its principles to client and server-side development.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • bitcore

    A pure and powerful JavaScript Bitcoin library or blockchain library.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Mac JavaScript

  • TomP2P

    A P2P-based high performance key-value pair storage library.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Bitweaver

    Bitweaver is a free and open source web application framework and content management system. Its speed and power are ideal for large-scale community websites and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Web

  • SCHLIX CMS

    A multi-site content management system free for commercial and non-commercial use. Available in 35 languages.

    Free Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted