--- title: Material Reviews meta\_title: 'Material Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Material works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 13 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Material Reviews & Product Details Material is a design system backed by open-source code that helps teams build high-quality digital experiences * * * Seller [Google](https://www.g2.com/sellers/google) Discussions [Material Community](https://www.g2.com/products/material/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Essential Studio](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Essential Studio") Essential Studio 4.5/5(797) ](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/reviews) [ ![Progress Kendo UI](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress Kendo UI") Progress Kendo UI 4.4/5(257) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-kendo-ui/reviews) [ ![Progress Telerik](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress Telerik") Progress Telerik 4.5/5(217) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-telerik/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/material/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 13 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Akash T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akash T.") AT Akash T. Software Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/30/2022 "I used material for Front End it is very good experience you got lot of nice things out of the box." 4/5 What do you like best about Material? You get a lot of the things out of the box like shadows on the elements and helps to build a very clean and nice-looking UI. compare to other competitors like bootstrap it helps to create a different feel in UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Material? The most dislikable thing is that all the apps you design looks like Google apps. This can be better if the developer can design the components just like tailwind css. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Material solving and how is that benefiting you? It is better for designing good-looking apps really fast and without investing a lot of time in thinking about how your app should look like you just focus on the functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/26/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prashad D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prashad D.") PD Prashad D. Developer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/31/2023 "Google css icons for development" 4/5 What do you like best about Material? Fast and attractive, Beautiful , with link provided icons and font styles from Google material .whery good for especially web development in css and bootstra . I am always used this icons for development .It also provides fonts , icons with colour at free of cost it is best thing of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Material? They should give more attractive icons with colour so that images become more attractive . Otherwise it is good for their links Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Material solving and how is that benefiting you? Firstly I have to read its documentation briefly and then start to do working . It is very simple to use and by just copying url of icon it will be appearing on web page .One more thing is that this is without ads service hence I always used this for my css, bootstrap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/22/2023 "Overall it was a good experience." 4/5 What do you like best about Material? cross platform compatibility, customizability, easy usability and accessibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Material? design uniqueness is not there and complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Material solving and how is that benefiting you? branding and identity, engagement and interaction, cross platform compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shreyansh S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shreyansh S.") SS Shreyansh S. Intern - Product Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/20/2022 "Fairly easy and simple but room for improvement." 4/5 What do you like best about Material? I liked that Material UI is fairly simple and the UI components have a natural fluidity to them. The transitions provided are really appreciable and the fonts are really simple and elegant. It looks really amazing in dark mode too. And on top of that, it has really impressive documentation. The support from the community and Google is equally remarkable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Material? On occasions, it can be overly simple and lacks modern aesthetics like Gaussian blur for iOS and other custom OS distributions. The animations on the heavy side are not suited for low-featured mobile devices and can be too distracting on occasions, if overused. The latest iteration, Material You, has a below-par wallpaper based colour selection and chooses really unappealing shades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Material solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Material UI for developing responsive web applications using ReactJS with the Material UI library. Material UI precisely follows the Material Design. This has helped in creating UI elements without spending a lot of time designing the UI elements and writing custom CSS code which on most occasions feels like grunt work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ishaan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ishaan M.") IM Ishaan M. Web Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/2/2022 "SImple and elegant, but not that modern" 4/5 What do you like best about Material? \* Simple and unobtrusive, with extremely fluid animations for all the UI components, whether in native mobile apps or web apps. \* Responsive \* Looks equally good, if not better, in dark mode. \* Perfect placement of shadows under elements, simple fonts, nice transitions. \* Great documentation and support from the community and Google. \* Many UI libraries like Material UI, Vuetify etc for almost all popular frameworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Material? \* Overly simple, does not incorporate modern aesthetics like Gaussian blur etc as in iOS and other custom OS distributions. \* Latest iteration, named Material You, has very poor automatic accent color selection based on the wallpaper, which chooses very ugly shades, which are also imposed in different apps that follow material design. \* Heavy animations are sometimes not suited for low-power mobile devices, and can often become distractive if overused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Material solving and how is that benefiting you? I develop responsive web applications or PWAs using ReactJS with MUi library, or VueJS with Vuetify. Both MUi and Veutify strictly follow Material Design. This helps in creating responsive and fluid UIs without spending so much time designing the UI elements and writing custom CSS code for thr same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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