As promising engineering materials for green and sustainable processes, porous metal-organic framework (MOF)-polymer composites show great potential in applications, including adsorption, separation, catalysis, and bioengineering. Owing to the mild and scalable operation, porous polymeric materials derived from high internal phase emulsion templates (polyHIPE) have received great interests in recent decades. In this contribution, research progress of the preparation of porous MOF@polyHIPE composites and their applications are reviewed, highlighting how can MOF particles be shaped by HIPE templates, in particular the polymerizable ones. Four different emulsion templates stabilized by MOFs and the applications of corresponding MOF@polyHIPE are included. Hopefully, both the state-of-art and future directions present herein can give rise to the development of high-performance porous MOF@polyHIPEs.