🆚 Foundation vs. Materialize

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Foundation is much more popular than Materialize.
🌎 Foundation is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Materialize is more popular in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal.

Foundation

Materialize

Type

User interface framework

About

Foundation is an open-source responsive framework that provides a customizable grid system, a library of UI components (Building Blocks), HTML templates, and JavaScript plugins.

It includes keyboard accessibility, screen-reader support, ARIA attributes, device-adaptive visibility controls, and two types of grids (Flexbox and CSS Grid) to enable advanced layout control.

Materialize is a responsive CSS framework based on Google's Material Design guidelines.

It includes a responsive grid system, badges, buttons, cards, modals, parallax effects, and other CSS and JavaScript components.

Headquarters

Campbell, California, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

get.foundation #2,469,533

materializecss.com #120,406

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Foundation UI framework is 6 times more popular than Materialize.

Total websites

Market share

UI Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Foundation is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Materialize is more popular in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Nepal.

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Germany

United Kingdom

Netherlands

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Italy

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