⚡ User Interface Frameworks in Kenya

User Interface (UI) frameworks are libraries of code, design elements, and components that help web developers create user interfaces with consistent structure and behavior.

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our research, user interface frameworks are used on 68% of websites from Kenya.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top UI frameworks in Kenya in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Bootstrap with an impressive share of 67.9%, followed by jQuery UI with 47.9% and Tailwind CSS with 5.6%.

Bootstrap 67.9%
jQuery UI 47.9%
Tailwind CSS 5.6%
UIKit 2.4%
Foundation 2.3%
AMP 1.6%
Materialize 0.6%
Radix UI 0.5%
Spectre.css 0.3%
Bulma 0.3%
Material UI 0.2%
MDB 0.2%
Material Design Lite 0.2%
Vant 0.2%
Semantic UI 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top frameworks that are more popular in Kenya than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. UIKit ^(-2)
7. Materialize ^(-1)
8. Radix UI ^(-1)
9. Spectre.css ^(-2)
12. MDB ^(-5)
13. Material Design Lite ^(-9)
14. Vant ^(-11)
15. Semantic UI ^(-5)
16. Element Plus ^(-17)
19. Chakra UI ^(-2)

✨ Best UI Frameworks

Below is a more detailed list of 24 UI frameworks used on sites from Kenya, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Bootstrap San Francisco, California, United States An open-source framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites and web applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, originally developed at Twitter. FreeOpen source	67.9%
2	jQuery UI San Francisco, California, United States A curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library. FreeOpen source	47.9%
3	Tailwind CSS Kitchener, Ontario, Canada An open-source utility-first framework that provides low-level CSS classes for building user interfaces directly in markup. FreeOpen source$149+	5.6%
4	UIKit Hamburg, Germany A lightweight and modular front-end framework. FreeOpen source	2.4%
5	Foundation Campbell, California, United States An open-source responsive framework that provides a customizable grid system, a library of UI components, HTML templates, and JavaScript plugins. FreeOpen source	2.3%
6	AMP San Francisco, California, United States An open-source HTML framework for creating lightweight pages that are optimized for mobile web browsing and load faster. FreeOpen source	1.6%
7	Materialize Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States A responsive CSS framework based on Google's Material Design guidelines. FreeOpen source	0.6%
8	Radix UI San Francisco, California, United States An open-source component library that provides low-level, unstyled interface primitives for building accessible user interfaces and design systems in web applications. FreeOpen source	0.5%
9	Spectre.css Shanghai, China A lightweight, responsive CSS framework designed for faster and extensible development. FreeOpen source	0.3%
10	Bulma London, United Kingdom An open-source modular CSS framework based on Flexbox. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	Material UI Paris, France An open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design. FreeOpen source$180+/developer/year	0.2%
12	MDB Warsaw, Poland A UI toolkit that combines Bootstrap with Google's Material Design guidelines. FreeOpen source€29+	0.2%
13	Material Design Lite Mountain View, California, United States A legacy user interface framework that implements Material Design components using plain CSS, JavaScript, and HTML without external dependencies. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	0.2%
14	Vant Hangzhou, China A lightweight, customizable Vue UI library for mobile web apps. FreeOpen source	0.2%
15	Semantic UI New York, United States An open-source component framework that helps create responsive layouts using human-friendly CSS class names. FreeOpen source	0.1%
16	Element Plus China A Vue.js 3 UI component library and the successor to Element. FreeOpen source	0.1%
17	Pure CSS New York, United States A lightweight, responsive CSS framework developed by Yahoo for building fast and minimal web interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.07%
18	Headless UI Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS. FreeOpen source	0.07%
19	Chakra UI Manchester, United Kingdom A comprehensive library of accessible, reusable, and composable React components. FreeOpen source	0.07%
20	Shoelace A framework-agnostic library of production-ready web user interface components built entirely with native Web Component standards, ensuring consistent design and behavior across any JavaScript framework or none at all. FreeOpen source	0.07%
21	Flat UI New York, United States A free design framework and theme for Bootstrap. FreeOpen source	0.07%
22	Angular Material Mountain View, California, United States A library of UI components for Angular that implements Google's Material Design specification. FreeOpen source	0.07%
23	Vuetify Southlake, Texas, United States An open-source, no design-skills-required UI library of beautifully handcrafted Vue components. FreeOpen source	0.07%
24	Element Shanghai, China A Vue 2.0 component library that offers a consistent collection of UI elements for building web interfaces. FreeOpen source	0.07%

👉 See Also

🌎 UI Frameworks in other countries

Data is based on the analysis of 2,169 websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.