Creating wireframes for your web site or application design is an important and integral part of any successful design progress. Wireframes helps to summarize your ideas into visual components and summarizes the overall structural proposals. There are a bunch of wireframing tools available with each ones combining unique features. So here are 12 best wirerframe tools for rapid website & mobile prototyping.

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.

ProtoShare

ProtoShare is an online, collaborative, website wireframing/website prototyping tool.

Balsamiq

Balsamiq mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that can be used to quickly create sketch-like mockup designs for websites and applications.

Jumpchart

Jumpchart is a simple online collaborative content wireframe tool for helping you plan websites.

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.

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.

Frame Box

Lightweight online tool for creating and sharing mockups (wireframes). Easy, fast and free in use.

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.

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.

Pencil Project

Pencil is a Firefox add-on to do GUI prototyping and simple sketching

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.

InVision

InVision’s prototype tool lets you create interactive wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes. Share your work and get instant feedback right on-screen.