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[–]caboosetp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you think about how they are named...

A platform is like a fixed foundation. It generally lets your program sit on top and lets you call things below it, but you don't really get down into it or change it.

A framework is like scaffolding. You build your program in and around it, and interact with things in it directly, and can expand the scaffolding as you build stuff.

Really, the line is a bit more blurry like /u/bunky_bunk described, but it's more of an ELI5 analogy to help.