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The best Materialize alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Materialize, 8 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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Materialize

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

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    Bootstrap

    Open source · MIT · ★ 175k

    A free front-end toolkit of ready-made CSS and JavaScript for building responsive websites.

    Best for: Developers building responsive websites or web app interfaces quickly; Teams that want a common design system with ready-made components

    Full review Materialize vs Bootstrap
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    Bulma

    Open source · MIT · ★ 50k

    A CSS framework built on Flexbox that gives you styled layout and UI classes.

    Best for: Developers who want a quick, consistent styling baseline for a web page; Projects that already have their own JavaScript and only need a style layer

    Full review Materialize vs Bulma
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    Material UI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 99.3k

    A React component library of ready-made UI pieces built on Google's Material Design.

    Best for: React developers who want a consistent, prebuilt set of UI components; Teams that want to follow Material Design guidelines

    Full review Materialize vs Material UI
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    Milligram

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.2k

    A small CSS stylesheet framework for clean, simple page styling, around 2kb gzipped.

    Best for: Developers who want a light starting point for a simple website or prototype; People who prefer writing their own HTML with minimal framework styling

    Full review
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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

    Full review Materialize vs Material
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    Bootstrap Table

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.8k

    A JavaScript plugin that adds sorting, pagination, selection and more to HTML tables.

    Best for: Web developers already using Bootstrap who need sortable, paginated tables; Teams building admin dashboards or internal tools that display lists of records

    Full review Materialize vs Bootstrap Table
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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

    Full review Materialize vs Material Design In XAML Toolkit
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    Angular Material

    Open source · MIT · ★ 25k

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

    Best for: Angular developers who want ready-made, accessible UI components; Teams already following Material Design guidelines

    Full review Materialize vs Angular Material

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 Materialize. We don't take payment for placement.