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The best Gentelella alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Gentelella, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Gentelella

Free admin dashboard template built with vanilla JavaScript, SCSS and Vite, without Bootstrap or jQuery.

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    AdminLTE

    Open source · MIT · ★ 45.7k

    Free Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard template with responsive layouts and dark mode.

    Best for: Developers building an internal admin panel or back-office tool quickly; Teams that already use Bootstrap and want a consistent dashboard look

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    Tabler

    Open source · MIT · ★ 42k

    Free, open source Bootstrap 5 admin dashboard UI kit with dark mode and RTL support.

    Best for: Developers building internal admin panels or dashboards quickly; Teams already comfortable with Bootstrap who want ready-made components

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    Bootstrap

    Open source · MIT · ★ 175k

    A free front-end toolkit of ready-made CSS and JavaScript for building responsive websites.

    Best for: Developers building responsive websites or web app interfaces quickly; Teams that want a common design system with ready-made components

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    Bootswatch

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k

    A collection of free, open source visual themes that restyle Bootstrap websites.

    Best for: Developers who already use Bootstrap and want a different look quickly; Prototypes and internal tools where a finished style matters more than a custom design

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    Bootstrap Table

    Open source · MIT · ★ 11.8k

    A JavaScript plugin that adds sorting, pagination, selection and more to HTML tables.

    Best for: Web developers already using Bootstrap who need sortable, paginated tables; Teams building admin dashboards or internal tools that display lists of records

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    SoybeanAdmin

    Open source · MIT · ★ 15.2k

    A Vue 3 admin dashboard template with TypeScript, Vite, Pinia, Naive UI and UnoCSS.

    Best for: Developers starting a new internal admin or back-office web app with Vue 3; Teams that want TypeScript, linting and a monorepo structure already configured

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    Bulma

    Open source · MIT · ★ 50k

    A CSS framework built on Flexbox that gives you styled layout and UI classes.

    Best for: Developers who want a quick, consistent styling baseline for a web page; Projects that already have their own JavaScript and only need a style layer

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    Layui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 30.6k

    A free, open-source UI component library for building web pages with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

    Best for: Developers maintaining existing sites or admin panels built on Layui; Non-front-end developers who want UI components without learning a framework

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Gentelella. We don't take payment for placement.