🆚 Material Design Lite vs. Materialize

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Materialize is four times more popular than Material Design Lite.
🌎 Materialize is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
🌍 Material Design Lite is more popular in Tanzania, Costa Rica, and Liechtenstein.

Material Design Lite

Materialize

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.

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

Mountain View, California, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Website

getmdl.io #142,905

materializecss.com #120,406

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Materialize UI framework 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.

Materialize is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while Material Design Lite is more popular in Tanzania, Costa Rica, and Liechtenstein.

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