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24 alternatives to Material Design Lite

Build Fast, Modern Material Design Web Apps. By Google.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Material Design Lite launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Material Design Lite▲25

   Add Material Design to your site with Vanilla CSS & JS

   2015 · getmdl.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Material UI▲247

   A CSS Framework that Implements Google's Material Design

   2014 · mui.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Lite – A small, fast text editor▲607

   A lightweight text editor written in Lua. Contribute to rxi/lite development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Google Material Design▲77

   Google's new visual look

   2014 · design.google · its alternatives →

5. 5
   MaterialUp▲139

   Daily showcase of the best Material Design websites and apps

   2014 · materialup.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Material UI Colors▲198

   Color palette for material design

   2015 · materialuicolors.co · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Material Design Kit▲159

   Design for Android better and faster

   2017 · inbaobi24h.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Materialize▲171

   Modern front-end framework based on Material Design

   2014 · materializecss.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Material Design Lite▲2

   Material Design Lite Components in HTML/CSS/JS

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Materialette▲177

    A material design color palette on macOS / Windows / Linux

    2016 · mike-schultz.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Material▲204

    A beautiful graphics framework for Material Design in Swift

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Material Design Icons▲293

    750 Free open-source glyphs by Google

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    LightCMS▲98

    Build Beautiful Websites

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Material Components▲88

    Modular and customizable UI components from Google

    2017 · m3.material.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Material Design UI Kit▲207

    Helps you create interactive material design prototypes fast

    2015 · wearebridge.co · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Material Kit▲250

    A badass Bootstrap UI Kit based on material design

    2016 · demos.creative-tim.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Material @ Colorion▲132

    Material design compatible curated color palettes.

    2016 · material.colorion.co · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Bootstrap Material Design▲148

    Material Design for Bootstrap

    2014 · fezvrasta.github.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Material Colors▲133

    A tool for material design colors

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Google's Material.io▲5

    New collaboration tools for app designers

    2016 · design.google · its alternatives →

21. 21
    lit▲265

    World's smallest responsive CSS framework (398 bytes!)

    2018 · ajusa.github.io · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Material Builder 2.0▲124

    Website creator based on Material Design & Bootstrap 5

    2021 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Google app for iOS 5.0▲100

    New release completely rebuilt and w/ material design

    2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Material Palette▲296

    Generate and export your Material Design color palette

    2014 · materialpalette.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →