🆚 Bootstrap Icons vs. Material Icons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Bootstrap Icons is twice as popular as Material Icons.
🌎 Bootstrap Icons is more popular in the United States, India, and France.
🌍 Material Icons is more popular in Japan, Canada, and Israel.

Bootstrap Icons

Material Icons

Type

Icon library

About

Bootstrap Icons is a free, high-quality, open-source icon library with over 2,000 icons.

Material Icons is an official icon library created by Google that provides standardized interface icons designed according to the Material Design guidelines.

The set includes thousands of icons across categories such as navigation, communication, media, and editing, and is available in SVG, PNG, and icon font formats, with variants such as filled, outlined, rounded, sharp, and two-tone styles.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

icons.getbootstrap.com

developers.google.com

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Bootstrap Icons library is 1.8 times more popular than Material Icons.

Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Bootstrap Icons is more popular in the United States, India, and France, while Material Icons is more popular in Japan, Canada, and Israel.

United States

India

France

Germany

Japan

United Kingdom

Brazil

Spain

Italy

Indonesia

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in India in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Bangladesh in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Saudi Arabia in the Icons category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Icons category.

🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Icons category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Icons category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Icons category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Norway in the Icons category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Bootstrap Icons is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Material Icons is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies, and fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Health

Entertainment