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The best UI Kitten alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to UI Kitten, 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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UI Kitten

React Native UI component library with a built-in light/dark theme system, for iOS, Android and web.

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    React Native Paper

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.5k

    A React Native UI kit of Material Design components for Android and iOS apps.

    Best for: React Native developers who want ready-made Material Design components; Teams building iOS and Android apps with a shared codebase

    Full review UI Kitten vs React Native Paper
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    NativeBase

    Open source · MIT · ★ 20.4k

    Accessible React Native and web UI component library; now in maintenance mode, succeeded by gluestack-ui.

    Best for: Teams maintaining an existing app already built on NativeBase; Developers who need to keep an existing NativeBase v3 codebase running

    Full review UI Kitten vs NativeBase
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    Tamagui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.3k

    A TypeScript library for building React and React Native UIs that share styling and code.

    Best for: Teams building the same app for web and native with React; Developers who want shared styling across React Native and react-native-web

    Full review UI Kitten vs Tamagui
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    React Native Elements

    Open source · MIT · ★ 25.9k

    A library of ready-made UI components for building React Native apps on iOS, Android and web.

    Best for: React Native developers who want ready-made UI components; Teams sharing one codebase across mobile and React web apps

    Full review
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    daisyUI

    Open source · MIT · ★ 42.7k

    A free component library of ready-made UI pieces for Tailwind CSS.

    Best for: Developers already using Tailwind CSS who want prebuilt components; Solo builders or small teams prototyping a web interface quickly

    Full review
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    React Native for Web

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.2k

    Runs React Native UI components in the browser, using React DOM.

    Best for: Developers who already use React Native and want the same components on the web; Contributors who want to work on the react-native-web package itself

    Full review UI Kitten vs React Native for Web
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    Ant Design

    Open source · MIT · ★ 100k

    A React component library and design system for building enterprise web apps.

    Best for: React developers building admin dashboards or internal business tools; Teams that want a consistent visual style without designing every component from scratch

    Full review
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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

    Full review

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 UI Kitten. We don't take payment for placement.