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The best Simplefolio alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Simplefolio, 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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Simplefolio

A minimal one-page portfolio template for developers, built with Parcel and SCSS.

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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 Simplefolio vs Bootstrap
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    Tabler

    Open source · MIT · ★ 42k

    Free, open source Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard UI kit with dark mode and RTL support.

    Best for: Developers building internal admin panels or dashboards quickly; Teams already comfortable with Bootstrap who want ready-made components

    Full review Simplefolio vs Tabler
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    NES.css

    Open source · MIT · ★ 21.9k

    A CSS library that styles buttons, boxes and forms to look like retro NES-era games.

    Best for: Developers building a retro or game-themed web page or demo; Designers prototyping pixel-style interfaces quickly

    Full review Simplefolio vs NES.css
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    ColorUI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.4k

    A CSS component library of bright, saturated styles for WeChat Mini Programs and UniApp.

    Best for: Developers building WeChat mini programs who want quick, colorful styling; UniApp developers using Vue who want prebuilt CSS classes

    Full review
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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
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    Layui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 30.6k

    A free, open-source UI component library for building web pages with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Best for: Developers maintaining existing sites or admin panels built on Layui; Non-front-end developers who want UI components without learning a framework

    Full review
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    Gentelella

    Open source · MIT · ★ 21.6k

    Free admin dashboard template built with vanilla JavaScript, SCSS and Vite, without Bootstrap or jQuery.

    Best for: Developers who want a starting point for an internal admin panel without adopting a frontend framework; Teams that want to avoid Bootstrap and jQuery dependencies

    Full review
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    Ratchet

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k

    A small set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript components for building mobile-style web apps.

    Best for: Developers prototyping a mobile-style web interface with plain HTML, CSS and JS; Designers who want to see mobile UI components in a browser

    Full review

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 Simplefolio. We don't take payment for placement.