Energetic compouds based on furoxan ether were a type of important energetic materials with lower melting point, good energy and excellent plasticity. Since 1990s, the type of energetic compounds has been an important research direction in the synthetic fields of energetic materials.In this paper, the synthetic methods of symmetrical and unsymmetrical energetic compouds based on furoxan ether were reviewed. Some representative energetic compounds, such as FOF-1, FOF-2, FOF-11 and FOF-13, were reviewed, and their syntheses, performances and application were introduced in detail. The structures of 11 novel energetic compouds based on furoxan ether were designed, and their physico-chemical properties, detonating performance were calculated by MP3 semi-empirical method, and the results show that calculated densities of two designed compounds exceed 1.90 g·cm^-3, and theoretical detonation velocities are more than 9000 m·s^-1.