Wireframe is one of the most valuable part of any web design project. Wireframe is a screen blueprint that represents the skeletal framework of a website. The wireframe draws the page layout or arrangement of the website’s content. Here we provide you the most popular free wireframe tools and websites that help you to make an excellent mockup of your website.
1. Mockup
Mockup builder is a prototype creator software. Sketch your ideas within minutes and share with customers, designers, programmers.
2. Naview
Naview helps you to design and build navigation prototypes quickly and test the usability of your navigation with users. It is made specifically for user experience and information architects, business analysts and web designers who design large website structures.
3. MockFlow
MockFlow is an online wireframe tool for software and websites.
4. WireframeSketcher
WireframeSketcher is a software tool that helps product managers, designers and developers quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications.
5. Flairbuilder
FlairBuilder has the tools you need to wireframe a website or iPhone application. Lots of built-in widgets to get you started and up to speed.
6. Frame Box
Lightweight online tool for creating and sharing mockups (wireframes). Easy, fast and free in use.
7. Mockingbird
Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application.
8. Adobe Proto
Adobe Proto, a new Adobe Touch App, lets you create interactive wireframes and prototypes of websites and mobile apps on your tablet. Communicate and share ideas with teams and clients using a touch-based interface. Initially available for Android.
9. iMockups for iPad
iMockups for iPad gives designers and developers with the ability to quickly draft wireframes for their websites and apps. Created exclusively for the iPad, iMockups combines a beautiful interface with intuitive functionality, taking full advantage of the breakthrough touchscreen device.
10. Pencil Project
Pencil is a Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching
11. Proto.io
Proto.io is a new UI prototyping tool specifically tailored for mobile and tablet applications. The web based environment allows you to start off by creating a project for either the iPad or the iPhone.
12. InVision
InVision’s prototype tool lets you create interactive wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes. Share your work and get instant feedback right on-screen.
13. ProtoShare
ProtoShare is an online, collaborative, website wireframing/website prototyping tool.
14. Jumpchart
Jumpchart is a simple online collaborative content wireframe tool for helping you plan websites.
15. Axure
Axure RP gives you the wireframing, prototyping and specification tools needed to make informed design choices, persuade any skeptics, get your design built to spec… and maybe win a few fans along the way.
16. iPhone Mockup
iPhone Mockup looks like a cool proof of concept for a sketchy mockup app for iPhone. It’s a bit like Balsamiq in spirit, but is done completely with JQuery. Firefox and Safari are the target browsers, and there is no option for doing secure mockups. Whatever you do will be visible to the world, so don’t plan on using it for anything other than playing.
17. Wireframe.cc
Wireframe.cc offers a simple interface for sketching your wireframes that eschews the toolbars and icons of a typical drawing app. There’s a limited colour palette to help you avoid that particular avenue of procrastination, and UI elements are context-sensitive and only appear when you need them.
18. Moqups
This tool is designed to take you through the whole process of roughly sketching your wireframes; collaborating on them with others; creating site maps, flowcharts and storyboards; and building functional prototypes.
19. UXPin
You can put together wireframes in UXPin at top speed by dragging and dropping custom elements. There are regularly updated libraries for Bootstrap, Foundation, iOS and Android, and your wireframes can be quickly converted to high-fidelity mockups. From there you can create fully interactive and animated prototypes of your final product.
20. Fluid UI
Fluid UI has 16 built-in libraries for iOS, Android, Windows and more, and pages are created by dragging in elements from these libraries. This app provides a great way for you to map out your projects visually by creating links to join screens, forming a diagram of how everything fits together.
21. Balsamiq Mockups
Balsamiq Mockups includes several drag-and-drop elements, from buttons to lists, each styled as a hand-drawing. The basic premise behind this wireframing tool is to keep the mock-ups ‘intentionally rough and low fidelity’, to encourage as much feedback as possible.
22. Pidoco
Pidoco is similar to Axure in that it includes library of various drag-and-drop interface elements, as well as the ability to add multiple pages and layers. Your prototypes can be shared online with clients, and includes functions for collaborative feedback and discussion.
23. Visio
Viseo’s real strength lies in technical diagrams rather than wireframing; however, for those already accustomed with other Microsoft apps such as Word or Excel, the interface will be very familiar.
24. InDesign CC
By including animations, video and object states, InDesign can be used to create an interactive PDF that acts as a wireframe for your website or app. The software also includes the ability to create libraries of page elements, so you can create collections of various reusable interface graphics.
25. Photoshop CC
Photoshop doesn’t offer libraries of interface elements, but for straightforward, fast wireframing, it is a very easy choice for designers. If you’re familiar with Adobe products, it’s simple to sketch out quick ideas, group various elements and layers, and build an effective wireframe.
26. Penultimate
If you’re working purely for iPad design, sketching out ideas directly within the device itself is the perfect way to ensure you’re working to the right ratio and with well-sized active areas. With Penultimate from Evernote, sketches and ideas can be easily saved and sent to clients for approval.
27. OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle is effectively an ideas tool that enables you to quickly bash together website wireframes, diagrams, process charts or page layouts. You select a document type, and OmniGraffle makes context-sensitive joins between separate elements, automatically linking lines in diagrams and aligning shapes and elements in wireframes or page layouts.
28. Gliffy
Gliffy is a tool that enables you to collaborate with other team members on flowcharts, network diagrams and more. It includes drag and drop components, online collaboration, image export andversion tracking.
29. Justinmind
Web-based Justinmind includes a library of UI elements, from buttons and forms to generics shapes and a range of widgets for iOS, SAP and Android. Custom styling is included, so you can add rounded corners, cropped images or colour gradients, or import graphics by dragging them into the browser. Prototypes can be exported as HTML.
30. HotGloo
HotGloo’s prototyping alone offers a rich range of features that goes far beyond simple clickable buttons. For example, users can change displayed elements depending on whether or not a user is logged in.
31. Lovely Charts
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create flowcharts, sitemaps, organization charts and wireframes.
32. Cacoo
Cacoo is a user-friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams, such as sitemaps, wireframes and network charts. The drag and drop UI means creating diagrams is relatively simple; there are also a number of stencils to utilize which could make the process even more efficient.
33. Lumzy
Lumzy is a mockup and prototype creation tool for websites and applications. You can add events to controls, place controls inside other containers and emulate your project with easy page navigation triggered by user actions.
34. SimpleDiagrams
SimpleDiagrams is a small desktop application that helps you express your ideas quickly and simply with just enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process. It’s built on the Adobe AIR platform, so will run smoothly on Mac, Windows and Linux.
35. Website Wireframe
Website Wireframe is a very simple web-based tool for building wireframes in a matter of minutes. A link to view the wireframe can be sent through email, instant message, or mobile phone, and then the wireframe can be easily updated based on feedback, discussion, ideas and suggestions.
36. Mockplus
Mockplus is a quick wireframe tool which is created by the fast-growing startup Jongde Software LLC. It is a desktop based application supports for software prototyping on multiple major platforms, such as mobile application, desktop application and website. It is really a good choice for users at any level of experience because of the ease of use and the clean interface.
37. Flinto
Flinto lets designers quickly make interactive wireframe/prototypes of their mobile, desktop, or web apps. It provides the tools to quickly create transition-based animations and the screen management to handle a large number of app screens.
38. Lucidchart
Lucidchart is a full-featured, free wireframe builder and UI design software tool that offers easy collaboration on wireframes.
39. Wirefy
Wirefy’s a downloadable project which goes through a reasonable number of regular iterations. It’s not web hosted but rather requires installation. It is built with developers as well as designers and is perhaps a touch more complex to get to grips with than most of the other tools in this list.
40. NinjaMock
What’s up with all these SaaS startups naming themselves ninja-something? Anyway, these guys offer a few device templates to get you started, and after that you get a ton of fun, freehand-style components you can use in your designs. I like simple components that make it obvious that this is nowhere near the final design.
41. ASCII Flow
ASCII Flow is a full-featured, free wireframe builder and UI design software tool that offers easy collaboration on wireframes.
