A free Framer subdomain is enough — your-site.framer.website works, no custom domain and no paid plan needed first. Paste the URL, get a signed Android APK in about 60 seconds. No coding, no Android Studio.
Written by the Free App Maker team at My Mind Studio · Last verified 26 August 2026
You can turn a Framer site into an Android app without leaving the free Framer plan. Publish in Framer, copy the public URL — a framer.website subdomain is fine — and paste it into Free App Maker, which wraps it in an Android WebView and returns a signed APK in about 60 seconds. Building and previewing are free; downloading the signed APK is a one-time unlock, with the price shown before checkout.
Sources for the free-subdomain and custom-domain facts: Framer Help — How to connect a custom domain and Framer Pricing, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Framer is a no-code web builder aimed at designers who care about motion. Its own hosting page describes transitions as powered by Motion, GPU-accelerated to keep every transition smooth across devices, and describes the published output as clean HTML, CSS and assets rather than a proprietary runtime.
The part that matters for an Android app is where your site lives. Framer's help centre states that by default your website is hosted on a Framer subdomain, and offers a free one from framer.website, framer.photos, framer.media or framer.wiki. Framer's pricing page says connecting your own custom domain requires upgrading to a paid plan.
Either address is a public URL, and a public URL is all Free App Maker needs. It does not log into your Framer account, install anything in your project, or export your design — it points an Android WebView at the site you already publish.
Sources: Framer — Hosting, Framer Help — How to connect a custom domain and Framer Pricing (Free plan: 1 GB bandwidth), all checked 26 Aug 2026. The ~60 second figure is our own average build time, measured on the Free App Maker build pipeline; API level 21 is the minimum our APKs target.
A Framer site lives in a browser tab. An APK puts it behind a launcher icon: your app name, your icon, full screen, no address bar. Nothing about the design changes — the app requests the same pages your site already serves, so what you publish is what people see.
That framing matters because it sets the limits honestly. The app needs an internet connection and a publicly reachable site. If you switch the site to password-protected, or point the app at a staging address, the app has nothing to load — Framer documents password protection and staging on a framer.app domain as separate features on its hosting page.
For an agency, the deliverable changes shape: instead of handing a client a URL, you hand them an installable Android app built from the site you already designed. What it is not is a native rebuild — device-only capabilities such as Bluetooth, NFC and background services are outside what any web page, and therefore any WebView app, can reach.
Source: Framer — Hosting (password protection and staging environments), checked 26 Aug 2026.
No Android Studio. No Gradle. No code. Just your published Framer URL — and your APK is ready in about a minute.
Framer's help centre says to click the Publish button in the top right corner of the editor; your site then gets a Framer domain. Copy that URL — https://your-site.framer.website on a free Framer subdomain, or your own custom domain. It has to be publicly reachable: a password-protected or staging-only site gives the app nothing to load.
Head to freeappmaker.org and paste your Framer URL. Enter the app name that will appear under the icon on users' home screens, add your email, and optionally upload one square 1024×1024 PNG icon. From that single file we generate the launcher icons for Android's density buckets — 48, 72, 96, 144 and 192 px for mdpi, hdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi and xxxhdpi.
Our build system wraps your Framer site in a WebView APK and signs it, typically in about 60 seconds. Share the download link with clients as a deliverable, or send it to beta testers to sideload. Google Play is a separate route — new Play submissions require an Android App Bundle rather than an APK, and the AAB — with your signing key, the graphics and Google's form answers — comes in our Play Store Pack.
Sources: Framer Help — Publishing your Framer website (step 1), Android Developers — Support different pixel densities (step 2 icon sizes) and Android Developers — About Android App Bundles (step 3), all checked 26 Aug 2026.
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Convert Free — Takes 60 Seconds →From design agencies to product teams, converting a Framer site to Android unlocks a premium distribution channel with zero additional design work.
You built a stunning Framer site for a client. Converting it to an Android APK adds a deliverable that differentiates your agency from competitors who only offer web. Present the APK alongside the web launch — it takes 60 seconds to generate and adds genuine value to the engagement.
Launch pages built in Framer lean on scroll animation and timed reveals. Wrapping one as an APK gives the campaign a home-screen icon instead of a bookmark, and because the app loads the live URL, every republish during the launch reaches people who already installed it. Push notifications are not part of a WebView wrapper — plan those separately.
Designers, illustrators, and photographers use Framer for portfolios that showcase their work with smooth animations and transitions. An Android APK of your portfolio is an unexpected flex — hand a potential client a link to your portfolio app and stand out from every other designer who just sends a URL.
A Framer storefront wired to Shopify or a hosted checkout can be wrapped as an Android app so your product imagery sits behind an icon. Checkout is the part to test yourself: card payments, 3-D Secure steps and hosted gateways all involve redirects, so place one real test order on an Android device before you hand the app to customers.
Framer publishes clean HTML, CSS and assets, and Android's WebView shares Chrome for Android's rendering engine — so the starting assumption is that whatever renders in Chrome on the same phone renders in the app. Here is where that holds and where it needs your own check.
Test your Framer site with our free WebView Compatibility Checker before building your APK.
Sources: Framer — Hosting (Motion, image optimization, password protection, rate limiting), Framer — Forms (submission destinations) and Chrome for Developers — WebView overview (WebView shares Chrome for Android's rendering engine), all checked 26 Aug 2026.
You can turn your website into an APK right from the homepage — paste your Framer site URL and build.
A Framer site reaches Android through a wrapper of some kind. These are the three tools Framer users usually weigh up against us — a hosted app builder, a developer toolchain, and an open-source PWA packager — with prices and requirements read from each vendor's own pages on 26 August 2026.
| Approach | Free App Maker ✓ | Median.co | Capacitor (self-build) | PWABuilder |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to get a distributable Android build | Free to build — one-time unlock to download, price shown before checkout | Free tier ships with a "Powered by Median.co" watermark in the app; Starter removes it for a $229 one-time licence activation fee, then $179/yr from month 12 | Free, MIT-licensed open source — your time is the cost | Free, open source |
| What your Framer site must already have | A public URL — a free framer.website subdomain is enough |
A public URL | A public URL or a local build you configure yourself | A complete web app manifest, HTTPS, and a public URL |
| Local toolchain required | None — browser only | None — Median's own pricing page pitches launching "without Xcode or Android Studio" | ✗ Yes — Node.js 22+, Android Studio 2025.2.1+ and the Android SDK for API 24 or greater | None — packages from the web |
| Time to a first Android build | ~60 seconds (our own measured average) | Account setup, then configure in their App Studio | An afternoon of setup before the first build | Minutes, once the manifest passes |
| Updates when you republish in Framer | ✓ Loads your live URL | Also loads your live site | Depends how you configure it | Serves your live PWA |
| Your branding only | ✓ Unlocked builds carry no Free App Maker splash | Watermark on the free tier; removed on paid | ✓ Yours | ✓ Yours |
| Route to a Google Play listing | AAB included in the Play Store Pack | Positioned for store publishing on their paid tiers | You produce the AAB yourself | Generates a Play package |
| Google Play developer account | Required in every case: Google Play's help pages list a US$25 one-time registration fee, and Google's developer documentation states that from August 2021 new apps must publish with the Android App Bundle. | |||
Competitor pricing and requirements checked 26 August 2026 against each vendor's own pages: Median.co Pricing (Free $0 with in-app watermark; Starter $229 one-time licence activation fee, then $179/yr from month 12; Essential $590 / $399 per year; Plus $990 / $669 per year — all as of August 2026, read in a desktop browser because median.co blocks scripted fetches), Capacitor — Environment Setup, and PWABuilder Docs — Quick Start. Google Play requirements from Google Play Help — Open a developer account and Android Developers — About Android App Bundles. Vendor pricing changes; check each site for the current figure before you rely on it.
Design-focused advantages that make this the fastest path from Framer site to Android app.
Framer's signature is motion design. Google documents Android System WebView as based on the Chromium open source project, sharing the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android, so rendering should be consistent between the two. Your scroll effects and spring transitions get the same engine in the app that they get in the browser on that phone.
Framer's help centre describes publishing as the Publish button in the top right corner of the Framer editor, after which your site automatically generates a framer.app domain. Because the APK loads your live URL, a republish reaches installed apps the next time they load that page — no new APK, no store resubmission.
Build a signed APK from your Framer site URL in about a minute and include it as a deliverable in a client project. Share the download link in Slack, in email, or in your handoff document; the client sideloads it on an Android device that permits installs from outside the Play Store.
The app requests your live pages, so CMS collections — blog posts, product listings, case studies — render in the app as they render on the web, and an edit shows up the next time that page loads. CMS capacity stays a Framer plan question: Framer's pricing FAQ says the Free plan includes access to 10 CMS collections, 1,000 pages and 5 MB file uploads.
An unlocked APK ships with your app name, your icon and your Framer design — the small Free App Maker splash screen is removed by the same one-time unlock that lets you download the signed APK, and the price for that unlock is shown before checkout. For agency handoffs, the file you give the client reads as your studio's work.
Our APKs run on Android 5.0 (API level 21) and above. Google documents that on Android 7, 8 and 9 WebView is built into Chrome, while from Android 10 the two ship as separate apps — and that WebView auto-updates on mobile devices, independently of the Android version. An older phone can still render a current Framer site.
Sources for the cards above: Chrome for Developers — WebView overview, Framer Help — Publishing your Framer website and Framer Pricing, all checked 26 Aug 2026. The ~60 second build time is our own measured average on the Free App Maker pipeline.
Everything designers and agencies need to know about converting a Framer site to an Android APK. Framer facts below were read on Framer's own pages on 26 August 2026.
Sources: Framer Help — How to connect a custom domain and Framer Pricing, both checked 26 Aug 2026. Plan rules change — check Framer's current pages before relying on them.
Sources: Chrome for Developers — WebView overview and Framer — Hosting, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Framer Pricing, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Framer Pricing (Free 1 GB, Basic 50 GB, Pro 100 GB bandwidth), checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Framer Help — Publishing your Framer website, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Framer — Forms and Framer — Hosting, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Framer — Hosting, checked 26 Aug 2026.
Sources: Android Developers — About Android App Bundles and Google Play Help — Open a developer account, both checked 26 Aug 2026.
Source: Chrome for Developers — WebView overview, checked 26 Aug 2026. Android 5.0 (API 21) is the minimum our own APKs support.
Source: Android Developers — Support different pixel densities, checked 26 Aug 2026.
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