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The best Angular Material alternatives

3 tools that do a similar job to Angular Material, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Angular Material

Official Angular UI component library (Material Design) plus tools for building custom components.

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    Materialize

    Open source · MIT · ★ 38.8k

    A CSS framework that gives web pages ready-made styled parts based on Google's Material Design.

    Best for: Developers building a web page or app who want a Material Design look quickly; Teams that want a ready-made component set instead of custom styling

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    Material

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12k

    A Swift UI framework for iOS apps with Material Design-style components and animations.

    Best for: iOS developers who want Material Design-style components without building them from scratch; Developers maintaining existing Swift projects that already use Material

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    Material Design In XAML Toolkit

    Open source · MIT · ★ 16.3k

    Material Design styles and controls for building Windows desktop apps (WPF) in C# or VB.Net.

    Best for: Developers building Windows desktop apps with WPF; Teams that want a Material Design look without writing styles from scratch

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Angular Material. We don't take payment for placement.