🆚 Material Design Lite vs. Materialize

📈 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 Estonia, Tanzania, and Liechtenstein.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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 Estonia, Tanzania, and Liechtenstein.

United States

Germany

France

Iran

India

United Kingdom

Brazil

Italy

Spain

Russia

Awards

⭐ 9th most popular in Vietnam in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in Spain in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 11st most popular in Ukraine in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 14th most popular in Italy in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 5th most popular in Iran in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Croatia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Saudi Arabia in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in India in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Turkey in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Materialize is more popular than Material Design Lite in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

General News

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#630

#642

#2,155

#2,688

#3,558

Name

Rank

#2,309

#3,060

#3,089

#3,371

#3,541