The Best 45 CodeIgniter Alternatives

  • 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

  • FuelPHP

    Fuel is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on the best ideas of other frameworks with a fresh start and a design pattern in HMVC. The...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • 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

  • SingularCore

    SingularCore is a fine product powered by Zend Framework that provides instruments to create complex custom solutions where standard CMS’s won’t work or where you need...

    Free Open Source Web

  • 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

  • phunction

    Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Nette Framework

    Nette Framework is a popular tool for PHP web development. It is designed to be the most usable as possible and is definitely one of the safest one. It speaks your...

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

  • Akelos

    Port of Ruby on Rails development framework and designed to work for PHP4 and PHP5. The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Adianti Framework

    It is an open source tool that provides a complete architecture for developing PHP applications. Is a framework that uses commonly known enterprise design patterns like...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • ClanCatsFramework

    ClanCats Framework, because your time is precious. HMVC PHP framework.

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

  • Phraw

    Phraw, a PHP micro-framework. Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.

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

  • Qcodo

    Code Less. Do More. The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Phalcon

    Phalcon is a high-performance PHP web framework based on the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern. Originally released in 2012, it is an open-source framework licensed...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • PRADO

    PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for Web application development in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. ...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux PHP

  • Seagull

    Seagull is an object oriented framework written in PHP that focuses on best practices, clean code and reusable components.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • PHPixie

    PHPixie is a modern component-based PHP 7 framework. It is thoroughly tested with high code coverage and provides blazing performance without sacrificing any features....

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Koseven

    Koseven is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP7, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small. Forked from...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • K2F

    Yet another PHP framework? Yes, but with a twist. This framework doesn’t focus on a specific methodology or paradigm (eg: MVC), but on getting things done quickly and...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Servo

    PHP builder application which uses a combination of a powerful editor and drag & drop to make PHP pages.

    Commercial Windows