🆚 Material Design Lite vs. Material UI

Type

User interface framework
User interface framework

About

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.

Material UI (MUI) is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design.

It offers a comprehensive suite of prebuilt components, such as buttons, cards, modals, charts, data grid, tree view, along with built-in themes, typography, and full responsiveness and accessibility.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Paris, France

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Community version, 40+ free components, open source
Pro$180/developer/year
Premium$588/developer/year

Categories

UI Frameworks › Rank #22
UI Frameworks › Rank #10
Legacy › Rank #44

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Material UI technology is 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.

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

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Material UI is more popular than Material Design Lite in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Travel
Entertainment
Internet Services
Health
Finance/Banking
Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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#1,391
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See also

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