Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MUI
Highly hackable + lightweight Material Design CSS framework.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MUI launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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MUI is a lightweight CSS framework that follows Google
2015 · muicss.com · its alternatives →
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Material UI▲247A CSS Framework that Implements Google's Material Design
2014 · mui.com · its alternatives →
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Mui▲164An interactive wood panel for peaceful digital living
2019 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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A lightweight, scalable, mobile-first CSS framework - mobi-css/mobi.css
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Materialize▲171Modern front-end framework based on Material Design
2014 · materializecss.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I'm a solo developer who's been doing UI/UX work since 2007. Over the years, I watched design tools evolve from lightweight products into bloated feature-heavy platforms. I kept finding myself using a small amount of the features while the rest just mostly got in the way. So a few years ago I set out to build a design tool just like I wanted. So I built Vecti with what I actually need: pixel-perfect grid snapping, a performant canvas renderer, shared asset libraries, and export/presentation features. No collaborative whiteboarding. No plugin ecosystem. No enterprise…
Feb 2026 · vecti.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all Sharing a new piece of work I've been doing with a friend. Mu is a new micro web app platform which enables building and sharing apps instantly with storage, auth and payments built in. Apps are single file, built in the browser and rendered as an iframe. They're "micro" because they're quite literally tiny single purpose utilities like a hackernews reader or old school guest book. It's mostly at this point something that scratches a personal itch. Making app development super simple and lightweight. Sort of like living GitHub gists. And trying to build a simpler, cleaner place to…
2023 · mu.app · its alternatives →
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MUI Library▲108Design with coded components from MUI 5 library in UXPin
2022 · uxpin.com · its alternatives →
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Beautifully designed, React components for MUI
2022 · kit.uifoundations.com · its alternatives →
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UI Design System▲180Starter kit for Sketch to create awesome user interfaces.
2017 · uidesignsystem.com · its alternatives →
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Responsive, sortable, filterable and draggable grid layouts
2017 · muuri.dev · its alternatives →
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Apache Weex▲127A framework for building mobile cross-platform UIs
2017 · incubator.apache.org · its alternatives →
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Supersonic▲89UI framework for building awesome hybrid mobile apps
2014 · appgyver.com · its alternatives →
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Materialette▲177A material design color palette on macOS / Windows / Linux
2016 · mike-schultz.github.io · its alternatives →
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AniJS▲87UI Interaction Library for Web Designers in Plain English
2014 · anijs.github.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · muzoti.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist, classless-first CSS framework. Contribute to vladocar/Sumi.css development by creating an account on GitHub.
16h ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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Brackets 1.0▲190An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Uikit▲134Front-end framework for developing powerful web interfaces
2014 · getuikit.com · its alternatives →
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Layer CSS▲152Lightweight CSS framework to build your own fluid layouts
2015 · layers-css.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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