🆚 Material Design Lite vs. Material UI

📈 Material UI is four times more popular than Material Design Lite.
🌎 Material UI is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
🌍 Material Design Lite is more popular in Spain, Vietnam, and Liechtenstein.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Material Design Lite

Material UI

Type

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

getmdl.io #142,905

mui.com #12,545

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Free version ✔️ Community version, 40+ free components, open source

Pro $180/developer/year

Premium $588/developer/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Material UI technology is 4 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 France, while Material Design Lite is more popular in Spain, Vietnam, and Liechtenstein.

United States

Germany

France

India

United Kingdom

Brazil

Indonesia

Japan

Spain

Netherlands

Awards

🔥 11st most popular in Vietnam in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 12nd most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 17th most popular in India in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 19th most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Indonesia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Israel in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Norway in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 9th most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 9th most popular in France in the UI Frameworks category.

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

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Travel

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Internet Services

Health

Real Estate

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#630

#642

#2,155

#2,688

#3,558

Name

Rank

#317

#333

#348

#729

#1,067