Folex Lite is a free Astro theme for freelancers and small creative teams that need a polished agency or portfolio-style landing site fast. It is built with Astro 7 and Tailwind CSS 4 and gives you one homepage, a project page, nested navigation and a contact form, in English and French, with room to grow later.
It is free under the MIT License, and the source is on GitHub. Folex, the paid version, adds four homepages, services, team, portfolio layouts and a blog.
At a glance
- Price and license: free, MIT License, unlimited projects
- Built with: Astro 7.0, Tailwind CSS 4.1, Preline, AOS and MDX
- Size: 1 homepage, 4 page types
- Languages: English and French. One script removes French.
- Figma file: no
- PageSpeed Insights on the live demo: 99 / 100 / 100 / 100 on mobile, 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 on desktop (performance, accessibility, best practices, SEO)
- Output: static site for any static host
- Released: July 2025, last updated June 2026
Use cases
Free creative agency starter sites. Launch a small agency site with one strong homepage and a contact form, then move to Folex when you need services, team and blog pages.
Portfolio-style landing pages. Use the homepage to present your work and the portfolio single page to show one project in detail.
Personal studio websites. A freelancer or one-person studio can run a sharp visual site without the weight of a full agency theme.
Pre-launch brand sites. Put a brand online quickly with a homepage, contact form and custom content pages, and add pages later.
Pages included
- Homepage
- Portfolio single page
- Custom content pages through a shared page route
- 404 page
Features
- Multi-level dropdown menus with badges, external links and mobile navigation, set in JSON
- Sticky header and contact form provider set in config.toml
- Social links in social.json, one menu file per language
- English and French; npm run remove-multilingual makes the site English only
- Contact forms for Formsubmit, Formspree or Netlify Forms
- MDX content support
- Scroll animations with AOS
- Static output with no server or database
Customize with AI coding tools
Folex Lite includes AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, rules for Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf, and SKILLS.md with recipes for adding a section or page, rebranding, managing languages and adding an icon.
Not included
- A blog, services pages, team pages and pricing. These are in Folex.
- Multiple portfolio layouts. Folex has grid, gallery, slider and full-width.
- More than one homepage
- A Figma file
When to choose another theme
- You need more pages, portfolio layouts, a blog and a full agency site: Folex.
- Your site is more business-service than visual or portfolio-led: Lumio Lite.
- Your launch is a SaaS product rather than a creative brand: Upstart.
FAQ
Is Folex Lite really free for client work? Yes. It uses the MIT License, so you can use it for personal and commercial projects, including client sites, as long as you keep the copyright notice and license text.
Can I run the site in English only? Yes. Run npm run remove-multilingual and the site builds in English only.
Where do contact form messages go? To Formsubmit, Formspree or Netlify Forms, chosen in config.toml. There is no backend to run.
What does Folex add over Folex Lite? Four homepages, 28 pages, services in three layouts, team profiles, four portfolio layouts, pricing, FAQ and a blog. Folex costs $79 with a license for 5 projects.
