🆚 Angular Material vs. Material Design Lite

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Type

User interface framework
User interface framework

About

Angular Material is a library of UI components for Angular that implements Google's Material Design specification.

It provides pre-built, accessible components such as buttons, forms, data tables, navigation elements, toolbars, menus, and icons, supports dynamic theming and typography, and has supported Material Design 3 since Angular 18.

Material Design Lite (MDL) is a legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies.

It provides a set of ready-made UI components, such as buttons, layouts, cards, menus, sliders, and dialogs, a responsive grid system, and automatic component upgrading via JavaScript.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #13
UI Frameworks › Rank #22
Legacy › Rank #43

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Angular Material UI framework is 2.3 times more popular than Material Design Lite.
Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Angular Material is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while Material Design Lite is more popular in Italy, Japan, and Turkey.
United States
Germany
France
India
Brazil
United Kingdom
Spain
Russia
Italy
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Angular Material is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Material Design Lite is more commonly used on entertainment and blogs and wiki sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Travel
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Real Estate
Finance/Banking
General News
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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