Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MUI Toolpad – Open-source, local-first, admin app builder
Hi HN, Prakhar, Jan, Pedro and Bharat here - we are excited to introduce our product to you. It’s been more than a year since we started working on Toolpad and we're glad to show it to the HN community today. MUI Toolpad is an open-source, self-hosted internal tool builder designed for backend and full-stack developers who want to build web apps such as analytics dashboards, CRUD interfaces, and utility apps quickly. Toolpad comes as a Node.js package that integrates into your backend and harnesses the speed of its drag-and-drop UI builder for the frontend. It comes with 16 pre-built…
MUI Toolpad is an open-source, self-hosted internal tool builder for backend and full-stack developers. It integrates as a Node.js package and features a drag-and-drop UI builder with 16 pre-built Material UI… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MUI Toolpad – Open-source, local-first, admin app builder launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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React component for a visual way to create UIs
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One command line to add UI components to your project
2025 · ui.shadcn.com · its alternatives →
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21st.dev▲1,211I originally built this app to organize and reuse interesting React + Tailwind components I came across on Twitter, inspired by the shadcn/ui approach. Later, a friend started contributing their own components, and it got me thinking—this could grow into something bigger, like an NPM for design engineers to share and use components. Would love to hear your thoughts!
2025 · 21st.dev · its alternatives →
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Sketch UI mockups directly on live websites in Chrome
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source foundation of ToolJet AI - the enterprise app generation platform for internal tools, dashboards, business applications, workflows and AI agents. Build visually, from a prompt, or from Claude Code, Codex and Cursor over MCP 🚀 - ToolJet/ToolJet
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. I've been working on a new browser-based design tool that's ready for you to try. The idea is you work on your design in low fidelity wireframes, while still getting a high fidelity output that you can share or use as a reference for your implementation. The way it works is by mapping low fidelity blocks you draw into high fidelity design system & React components. I spent several years working on design tools at companies like Airbnb, and I think the ideas behind many of the tools we built for designing at scale could really help startups and small teams as well. I would love any…
2023 · noya.io · its alternatives →
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UXPin Forge▲244Generate UI from your design system, not around it
Apr 2026 · uxpin.com · its alternatives →
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Shards UI Kit▲308A free and modern UI kit based on Bootstrap 4.
2017 · designrevision.com · its alternatives →
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Beautifully designed, React components for MUI
2022 · kit.uifoundations.com · its alternatives →
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PyUI Builder▲250Hey all, I am Paul, an indie-dev, I am working on this web based Drag and drop GUI builder tool for python. It's still in beta and currently supports tkinter and customtk. It can generate clean code python for the UI you build. You can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/PyUIBuilder Feel free to check it out. Thanks!
2025 · pyuibuilder.com · its alternatives →
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Once UI 1.5▲299When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…
Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →
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The dynamic personal homepage builder. Contribute to trylinky/linky development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · 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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Hey HN! I'm Zach from Adam (https://adam.new/). We’re building an AI co-pilot for mechanical CAD software. As part of our broader research, we built a browser-based Text-to-CAD app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44182206) and are now open sourcing it. This is a React SPA with a Supabase backend. What it does: * Generates parametric 3D models from natural language descriptions, with support for both text prompts and image references * Outputs OpenSCAD code with automatically extracted parameters that surface as interactive sliders for instant dimension…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · tandemcode.com · its alternatives →
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Rapid React▲103A light weight CLI tool for rapid scaffolding of React apps
2021 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Tell hn. Hello hn. I made and shared this project five years back here. I lost track on why I started in first place. Last year, I had to quit my job and continued to work on this. Nov 2024, I started a company in India. re built again from scratch in past five months. Have a look! Also this is product page www.ui-editor.com You can have a look on product page as well. Feedbacks on both project and page is welcomed. Feedbacks, next steps, details on documentation or tutorials for such projects all welcomed. There are many things to do, couldn't prioritise them all, and first step is share it…
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility. - refinedev/refine
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fastest way to add custom UI controls to your internal tools
2022 · community.dronahq.com · its alternatives →
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MUI is a lightweight CSS framework that follows Google
2015 · muicss.com · its alternatives →
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