🆚 Material Design Lite vs. MDB

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 MDB is twice as popular as Material Design Lite.
🌎 MDB is more popular in the United States, France, and India.
🌍 Material Design Lite is more popular in Spain, Japan, and Vietnam.

Material Design Lite

MDB

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 Design for Bootstrap (MDB) is a UI toolkit that combines Bootstrap with Google's Material Design guidelines.

It offers 700+ prebuilt UI elements, templates, and navigation patterns, supports jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue integrations, and provides customizable themes.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Warsaw, Poland

Website

getmdl.io #142,905

mdbootstrap.com #77,880

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️Open source

MDB Pro€29+

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The MDB UI framework is 1.7 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.

MDB is more popular in the United States, France, and India, while Material Design Lite is more popular in Spain, Japan, and Vietnam.

United States

France

India

Germany

Turkey

Brazil

Italy

Spain

United Kingdom

Russia

Awards

⭐ 10th 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.
🔥 13rd most popular in Turkey in the UI Frameworks category.
🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the UI Frameworks category.

⭐ 9th most popular in Austria in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Bulgaria in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in France in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Turkey in the UI Frameworks category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Indonesia in the UI Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MDB is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and blogs and wiki, while Material Design Lite is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Real Estate

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Health