The Best 45 CodeIgniter Alternatives

  • Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Python

  • 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

  • CakePHP

    CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.

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

  • Pyramid

    Pyramid is an open source web framework written in Python and is based on WSGI. It is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Python

  • 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

  • TurboGears

    TurboGears 2 is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears 1 (of course), Django, and Rails. All of these frameworks...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Python

  • 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

  • Pylons Framework

    Pylons Framework is an open source Web application framework written in Python. It makes extensive use of the Web Server Gateway Interface standard to promote...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • 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

  • RadPHP

    Embarcadero® RadPHP™ XE2 provides the fastest way to build Web, Facebook®, and mobile applications with the only visual PHP framework and IDE that supports Web...

    Commercial Windows