Ui Library reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 404 Reddit reviews across 18 subreddits and 45 posts to rank the best Ui Library brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/reactjs, r/nextjs, r/reactnative, r/Angular2, r/vuejs. Top-rated brands include Shadcn (4.3/5), Mantine (4.4/5), Material UI (3.9/5).

Stats

Reviews404

Subreddits18

Posts45

Brands98

Products6

Top communities

r/reactjs111 r/nextjs96 r/reactnative64 r/Angular257 r/vuejs25

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Shadcn

4.3

(44)

"Shadcn is honestly very good and enjoyable to use, highly recommend."

"I use shadcn/ui and i love it."

"I have used it for my website and have had a quite a few compliments about it."

"Shadcn forever"

"Shadcn is extremely easy to use. if the basic styles are enough for you, you will have zero work to do"

"Shadcn-ui for the winnn!!!"

"Shadcn, tons of usable examples on both mobile and desktop, react aria included, customize it all you want"

"I find shadcn to have a very superior and modern design"

"Shadcn is great. They have App router support."

"Shadcn all the way!"

Mantine

4.4

(38)

"I love how I hardly ever need to make any custom component with mantine"

"Mantine any day, every day."

"Daisy Ui, mantine, shadcn/ui. you don't have to pay for that."

"Mantine. Really good components, easy to style"

"The best alternatives are Mantine (extensive and mature)"

"I find mantine to be the best in terms of options available and offering the perfect amount of customization too"

"Mantine"

"I use Mantine, it's API is much simpler than material UI"

"Mantine"

"Mantine is precisely what you are looking for."

Material UI

3.9

(19)

"How has nobody said MUI? Easiest framework I’ve ever used."

"MUI and React Bootstrap are your S tier standards in the industry."

"Worked effortlessly for me on a major MUI project"

"Shadcn, material ui are the one which i use often and they are best"

"Next.js 15 + Schadcn , Next UI or MUI - compatible, no issues."

"The best alternatives are Mantine (extensive and mature), MUI"

"I use Material ui. With a little tweaking it looks really nice."

"I would go MUI. It’s very clean"

"If you don’t plan to customize a lot, MUI is your guy. Very easy to use and lots of components and functions."

"Using it right now and it makes me dearly miss MUI and CharkaUI 🥺"

PrimeNG

3.5

(20)

"Prime NG"

"I have used material and primeng. Both have really good example code and documentation. However, I feel like primeng is just more complete."

"PrimeNG will be much better, as the founder I was away from the project last couple of years. I'm not back as the new PM so work with the team daily."

"I really like PrimeNg (offers a lot out of box, complex tables) but Angular Materials is good to."

"PrimeNG is not so bad, i have used it over the years in 10+ different size projects. The Avalon Theme has a realy good visual design."

"The hate i've seen for primeNG on this sub is misplaced. i've developed with primeNG for short of a decade now."

"PrimeNG has a new management, v18-v19 was a generational leap, and v20+ are planned to be drop-in replacements."

"Primereact has a boatload of components and is easy to use."

"Go with prime react you wont regret it"

"I also want to suggest Primer style from github, https://primer.style/guides/react. I find it very clean and thorough."

Ant Design

4.1

(15)

"Antd. [https://ant.design/](https://ant.design/)"

"Ant Design is my favorite"

"Ant Design! I've built complicated customised designs over ant design."

"Ant design components are good and free"

"AntDesign parece ser bem interessante e completo."

"Wow no one mentions Ant design? Great"

"You may have a look at ant design too."

"Ant design worked for me"

"Ant Design https://ant.design/"

"AntDesign - I've been building a SaaS with it for a few months and it's been great"

NextUI

3.8

(12)

"The library is extremely solid and well built - with excellent support in GitHub from the creators."

"Try NextUI :P i personally love it."

"NextUI looks great out of the box, serves me pretty well."

"The latter is just really pretty and it has my attention just for that."

"My favorite is NextUI because it’s beautiful."

"NextUi if you have to do something quick and nice looking, it has a lot of components and it's very pretty to me."

"I discovered NextUI today and it seems to be a cool one."

"NextUI is extremely solid and well built."

"NextUI uses tailwindcss, so think you can use flowbite components in NextUI style easily."

"I am using nextui. nextui.org"

Tailwind

4.2

(11)

"We migrated off of it after a month, and we went with tailwind + headless UI libraries (mostly radix, but some headless-ui components as well), and it paid off very well."

"Tailwind ( Nativewind ) is king for me."

"Tried many of them but nothing beats Tailwind."

"If it is close to anything tailwind, just use tailwind and go from there."

"I'd probably say it's more likely to be better at whatever is more popular and had the most data for Claude's training phase, so probably Tailwind."

"Tailwind is amazing for landing pages and small business sites"

"Go with Tailwind supported like shadcn"

"IMO Tailwind and Bootstrap are the leading front-end CSS frameworks."

"Tailwind or Bootstrap."

"Admittedly, I use Tailwind myself despite knowing that. It's not so much about needing it, it's just that it saves me time on pet projects."

Tamagui

4.1

(11)

"Tamagui.dev , hands down!"

"With that being said I love Tamagui."

"Try Tamagui"

"Tamagui"

"Surprised nobody is talking about Tamagui.dev. It's reallly nice."

"I eased in tamagui.dev into the component libraries and I’m glad I did."

"Tamagui for layout RN Papers for theme and components."

"Tamagui."

"We decided on Tamagui. Is it perfect? No."

"Tamagui"

DaisyUI

3.9

(11)

"I like DaisyUI's theming and components, but don't like having that extra layer of abstraction of their utility classes."

"I use daisyui, which is based on tailwind."

"Daisy Ui, mantine, shadcn/ui. you don't have to pay for that."

"I like DaisyUI which is on top of Tailwind. Kinda bootstrappy library."

"I'm using daisyUI (it's based on tailwind) and I'm happy so far."

"DaisyUI has pre-made for most of the things I need"

"I've been using DaisyUI."

"I’m super into daisyUI rn."

"DaisyUI seems to be more structured."

"Best looking? imo - https://daisyui.com"

#10

Chakra UI

4.3

(10)

"Clearly Chakra-ui v3."

"All-in on Chakra UI v3. It’s looking great and follows a similar philosophy as Shadcn."

"Chakra ui is the shit, give it a try"

"Recently chose Chakra over MUI for a project and I've been loving it."

"I love Chakra. I think it strikes the perfect balance between out-of-the-box usefulness and customization."

"I love Chakra with Sonnet."

"The best alternatives are Mantine (extensive and mature), MUI, Chakra"

"Using it right now and it makes me dearly miss MUI and CharkaUI 🥺"

"I use Chakra for most new projects now."

"The last projects we used Chakra UI which I don’t recommend."

#11

Tailwind UI

4.1

(10)

"Tailwind UI. Just look what you can build."

"Honestly TailwindUI is super useful."

"Tailwind UI, ShadCn are all good choices."

"If you’re using Tailwind for CSS, why not use TailwindUI?"

"I end up going back to TailwindUI"

"TailwindUI has been mentioned a few times but tailkit.com often gets overlooked."

"I use [tailwindui.com](https://tailwindui.com)"

"I personally like tailwinduicomponents.com."

"I actually believe you are mixing 2 concepts: libraries of Tailwind components such as TailwindUI and frontend frameworks like DaisyUI."

"Tailwind UI is OK, but I wish I would have bought flow bite honestly"

#12

Angular Material

3.6

(11)

"Angular Material by far my favourite"

"I use Angular Material with ng-select (which I also maintain). PrimeNG is good and the team is working on migrating to angular APIs."

"Material. It comes out of the box and is versioned directly with Angular."

"For the project you're talking about just stick with Material - it's the most "official" of the comp suites."

"Angular Material: Google's official library, great for Material Design lovers. Robust and well-documented."

"Angular Material"

"Material still does not offer time and date component."

"If you need the speed and the project isn't too picky about how it looks and there isn't a design that needs to be pixel perfect: material"

"If you don't want to style anything that a material library gives you angular material is sufficient."

"Used Angular Material professionally...it's alright, kind of boring and has pretty limited components, and I find they break compatibility a lot on version changes."

#13

PrimeVue

4.1

(8)

"PrimeVue all the way."

"I would go with primevue unstyled with tailwind."

"PrimeVue is in beta with version 4, bringing in revised and better themeing logic."

"The unstyled version of PrimeVue had a few pre-style bundle."

"Primevue tailwind, you will have access to customization."

"Primevue with tailwind or without 👍"

"PrimeVue’s new tailwind version is great too."

"PrimeVue. Works very well with Vue 3 and easy to integrate."

#14

Radix

4.0

(7)

"Radix is amazing, and you don't have to use tailwind mandatory"

"Shad cdn mostly uses Radix primitives, and I’ve faced only one issue with Radix. It was related to a delay after action."

"I am enjoying radix"

"If you like to use UI libraries. Use Radix UI with your own styles bhahah."

"Radix is neat for custom API."

"Start with radix UI if you need a starter with accessibility etc."

"Radix primitives or shadcn if u r too lazy to style"

#15

Flowbite

3.9

(7)

"I own Flowbite and TailwindUI and most of the time I end up just using Shadcn and OriginUI."

"We used Flowbite for one of the projects and felt it was worth it"

"I like https://flowbite-react.com for normal ui."

"For me, best means the most elastic in most of situations, that’s why I like using Tailwind based libraries like Flowbite."

"Flowbite."

"I am using Flowbite also, and it’s not perfect but it does the trick."

#16

MUI

4.5

(6)

"MUI all day."

"MUI is the gold standard in TS-based libs and has an excellent API."

"Honestly MUI. It is very mature, I love what they did with v5."

"I'm using mui. Less learning curve compared with tailwind."

"I’m using MUI on a new project and I like it a lot"

"Mui."

#17

React Native Paper

3.7

(7)

"React native paper, most complete ui components and easy to configure."

"Otherwise I usually go with react-native-paper which is based on MUI."

"Have used UI Kitten and React Native paper. Both good but I still prefer making my own component as our design team makes some complex UI which you wont find on custom library"

"React native paper is decent, also restyle."

"RNPAPER or Stylesheet"

"React native paper or ant design"

"Or there is classic like React native paper."

#18

Quasar

4.4

(5)

"I ended up going with Quasar. It's got a boatload of components that just work and look great"

"Quasar is really good, use it in personal projects and at work."

"Quasar seemed like a pretty cool multi platform UI batteries included thing."

"I use Quasar. Its great."

"Quasar has been what we’ve been using lately."

#19

NativeWind

4.0

(5)

"I like to use nativewind, it’s built on top of tailwind so it’s really fast to build things."

"- NativeWind"

"Nativewind with react native reusables"

"I prefer to build my own with nativewind but only recommend that if your familiar with building your own."

"Nativewind: read a lot of recommendations in this sub, I like Tailwind and our frontend is using it, so why not give it a go?"

#20

Gluestack

4.0

(5)

"Gluestack.io looks pretty badass - using it in my next project"

"Gluestack!"

"Not much of a UI library person, but I’ve been using https://gluestack.io recently and it’s been pretty solid so far."

"Gluestack is a great replacement if you like it though."

"Gluestack-ui v2 (https://gluestack.io/)"

#21

Fluent UI

3.6

(5)

"This gives your Flutter app the official UI design language from Microsoft."

"For windows, there is currently no other alternative than fluent_ui"

"You could look at something like Fluent UI from Microsoft."

"Have you considered using the new Fluent UI, v9?"

"The `<Pagination/>` component of Fluent UI is still experimental."

#22

rsuite

4.5

(4)

"Just migrated from Chakra to rsuite, loving rsuite's components! I don't feel like I'm ever fighting the library to do anything."

"I've been very happy with https://rsuitejs.com"

"I really like rsuite"

"Rsuite looks great, it’s very easy to overlook since it hasn’t got as much hype as other libs."

#23

Shadcn UI

4.5

(4)

"Shadcn UI. I always chose this once"

"I like shadcn-ui."

"Shadcnui."

"Shadcn UI if you are a fan of tailwindcss and prefer modular component."

#24

Syncfusion

4.3

(4)

"You can try Syncfusion Angular UI Components Library. It contains over 85 high-performance, lightweight, modular, and responsive UI components in a single package."

"Syncfusion has a complete set of components and it is free for small projects Under $1M. Their component set is comprehensive."

"Syncfusion React Components offers more than 85+ native UI controls"

"You can try the Syncfusion Flutter Widgets for creating a desktop app for Windows."

#25

Shopify

4.3

(4)

"@shopify/restyle. I use it for everything now. So much cleaner"

"If you want to create your component lib, the use [Restyle]"

"You just need a theme manager, like @shopify/restyle"

"Https://shopify.github.io/restyle/"

#26

Kendo UI

4.0

(4)

"Kendo UI is a great library. The grid component is awesome."

"I used kendo back with v6-7 angular. I found it very useful and straightforward to use."

"Kendo-UI"

"I've been using Telerik/Kendo products for something like 12 years now. I still do, but they pulled a bunch of code we relied on out just a couple years after they created it which left us in a lurch."

#27

NativeBase

2.1

(7)

"NativeBase is definitely worth looking into if you have used chakra UI for the web."

"Native-Base"

"I have ptsd because of the sudden abandonment of nativebase, then yet again a sudden complete 90 degree turn from gluestack v1 to v2. What they did was highly unprofessional, I'd only use their libs for small homegrown hobby projects."

"Nativebase v1 to v2 totally different, and some code on the lib totally change the infrastructure, so if you want do migration from v1 to v2 it's like re-coding all your code. too much headache on UI only."

"I used NativeBase, but 2 years later they're not supporting it, so I guess that goes out the window."

"Wouldn't touch this with a 20ft pole after they handled native base."

"Don’t use Nativebase, it’s also deprecated"

#28

Preline

3.5

3.7

4.0

(1)

"I launched my own UI library of animated components a couple days back. The only one available was paid, so I decided to launch my own one for free."

#98

Radix Themes

3.0

(1)

"Don't waste time with a faux component library like shadcn if you're not going to be building a design system."

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