A curated list with free, open-source UI Kits built on top of Material Design pattern, originaly published on Dev.to - Content provided by AppSeed.
The short index for fast runners
- Material Dashboard - Creative-Tim
- Material Able - CodedThemes
- Material Admin - BootstrapDash
- CoreUI Admin - CoreUI Agency
- AdminLTE - by ColorLib
- Modular Admin by ModularCode
What is Material Design
Material Design is a design language developed by Google which, at its core, is an extremely sophisticated and well-defined set of guidelines to help both designers and end-users replicate Google’s work as well as explain why things in Google look and respond the way they do - Definition provided by Enginess.io
Links
- Material Design - the official website
- Material Design - Wikipedia page
- What is material design - a comprehensive article about this design system
Material Dashboard - Creative-Tim
Vendor Notes - Material Dashboard is a free Material Bootstrap 4 Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design. We are very excited to introduce our take on the material concepts through an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Material Dashboard was built over the popular Bootstrap 4 framework and it comes with a couple of third-party plugins redesigned to fit in with the rest of the elements.
Design Links
- Material Dashboard Demo
- Material Dashboard Sources - MIT License, available on Github
Material Able Bootstrap Free is the most stylised Bootstrap 4 Free Admin Template, around all other Lite/Free admin templates in the market. It comes with high feature-rich pages and components with fully developer centric code. Before developing Material Able our key points were performance and design. While developing we have gone through various testing & code optimization process, for making this performance and design-centric backend application.
When it comes to performance, Material Able rendering is fast in all major browser. It is passed through a good score in Google Page Speed, Pingdom, gtMetrix. Code is passed via w3 validators with all w3 standards. This admin panel is fully responsive and tested in all retina devices. Material Able provides multiple choices of widget, chart icons and many more features support. All come’s with a color combination of pleasant look and feel.
Design Links
Material Admin - BootstrapDash
Vendor Notes - Material Admin is a free admin template designed based on Google’s Material Design framework. It contains multiple in-built layouts, which makes it possible to create pages in a different layout in just a matter of minutes. It comes with the basic components and set of pre-built pages required to lay the foundation for any application.
Design Links
- Material Admin Demo
- Material Admin Sources - published on Github
CoreUI Admin - CoreUI Agency
CoreUi, with more than 10k Github stars, is a popular admin dashboard design, actively supported by the mother agency.
Vendor Notes - CoreUI admin dashboard delivers a bunch of responsive, customizable, and reusable components you need to create modern, beautiful, responsive apps. CoreUI makes app development lightning fast.
Design Links
- CoreUI Demo
- CoreUI Source Code - published on Github
AdminLTE - by ColorLib
Vendor Notes - Best open source admin dashboard & control panel theme. Built on top of Bootstrap, AdminLTE provides a range of responsive, reusable, and commonly used components.
Design Links
Modular Admin by ModularCode
Vendor Notes - ModularAdmin is an open-source dashboard theme built in a modular way. That makes it easy to scale, modify, and maintain.
Design Links
Admin Dashboards - Material Design - provided by AppSeed