# Materialize Reviews **Vendor:** Materialize **Category:** [Real-time Analytic Database Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/real-time-analytic-database) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About Materialize Materialize is a modern responsive front-end framework based on material design. ## Materialize Reviews ### 1. A great CSS and JS framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parth M. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Materialize?** This is absolutely amazing. The User Interface, its CSS modules such as tables,the grid layout for easy CSS, everything is absolutely flawless. Also the documentation is the cherry on the top, the proper documentation makes it so easy to use. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** It is a great framework overall; the only thing they could improve is to add better headers and footer templates for use. Apart from that, there is nothing, it is easy to use and understand **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** Just use it. It is awesome. The design is great. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** CSS on websites can be a pain, to be very honest, but Materialize makes everything really simple. I have used tables, forms, and multiple javascript components and nav bars ### 2. Building Applications with pre-builted components! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spencer R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Materialize?** I love that materialize is already included inside NPM allowing you to easily import any of the the designs needed to build out an application. I love it because you don't have to reinvent the wheel when google provides you with great designs for building forms and such. I love it for that reason! **What do you dislike about Materialize?** I dislike that alot of the responsive features use Jquery which is pretty outdated. So you can't utilize some features in react such as Autocomplete without importing another library. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** If you want a modern looking application, I would recommend Materialize to handle all of the CSS work for you! It's a great solution overall and will definitely make you have a foot over your competition. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** When building our our application, we choose to use Materialize as our CSS Framework, this allowed us to focus on the development of handling operations and not the design. It looks great and works without having alter anything! It's great because it speed up a majority of development only focusing on what's important. ### 3. Modern minimalist themes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taveras P. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** This CSS framework is very light, it is also easy to implement. What is best is that it is pretty easy to do mobile ready websites with it. The documentation just excellent! I really love it because you can just type what you want on their website and you will have a dedicated page on how to implement that class or component. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** This framework is not "dislikable" for me. What could improve is the way to use navigation bars on containers. It can get tricky to get it to "full width" while maintaining the container's margins. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love to use it with Angular and find it more easy to use it with Angular than using it with Bootstrap, because Bootstrap is very dependent on its script file and materialize isn't. But if you need it, it can be included easily on the component you need it. ### 4. Modern. Efficient. Powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ulises T. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** The best part of this CSS framework is that besides being light, it is very easy to implement and use. The components are great and it has a really nice minimalist view that is great for both desktop and mobile displays! The documentation for materialize is just incredibly good! It is one of the best documentations I've ever read. Everything you need to know about this framework is there, and the search feature on the documentation is awesome. Not to mention that there is a community that uses this framework as well! **What do you dislike about Materialize?** I do not really dislike anything right now about this framework, but it could improve on the way that it handles the left and right margins when inside a container. It is a bit tricky to have the navigation bar to be expanded up to the display's margins and not have some spacing on the display's x axis. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** I primarily use it with Angular and it couples better than Bootstrap. Since it doesn't heavily relay on its script file (which is the contrary for Bootstrap), I can easily use with Angular without caring too much for its script file. ### 5. Very easy to implement and use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julio Cesar V. | Software QA Automation Engineer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** The framework is very clean and organized. You can find the class you need very fast and in a intuitive menu. It has the majority of the elements and front end interactions that you need to set up a very nice and good looking Website or web app. The best thing for me is the simple implementation using CDN or downloading the files. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** Even though materialize has its own documentation some times you need to make some changes that it is not specified in the doc. I would like materialize to have a community or at least the most common QAs. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had set up functional static websites in just some minutes using this framework with high acceptance and very good look and feel. ### 6. Material Design at it's best! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles B. | Administration , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** With so many new and old design trends it's hard to find that unique balance. Materialize takes an innovative approach to Material Design and incorporates modern web standards to provide a unique UI for the best possible user experience. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** Even though this is a continuing CSS Framework I would like to see more developers involved to make this a standard Framework. Let's get this as popular as Bootstrap or Zurbs Foundation! **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** If you are looking for clean, well documented semantic code then Materialize is for you! **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a starting point for creating a new Brand for a client that involves mostly online Commerce with some user interactive forms. Since this specific client runs multiple online platforms it was hard trying to match each one with unique values. ### 7. Materialize is the way to go for mobile web applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaron O. | Graphics Designer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** Materialize has flat simplistic design style that looks better on mobile devices than bootstrap. Materialize styles are more optimized for mobile and touch screen interactions. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** Materialize has less support and a lower community of active users than Bootstrap. Its is harder to get assistance online or tutorials than is the case with bootstrap **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** Materialize css styles give a mobile web application a native appeal than you would get while using bootstrap. ### 8. Just amazing Material **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil S. | Full Stack Developer, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Materialize?** Materialize is full of innovative components which I frequently used in my client's websites. They have taken traditional form components to next level of creativity and they are much more interactive. End user never gets bored of filling Materialize form. I mostly use form components, grid feature, breadcrumbs, CSS styles, carousel, side bars, modals. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** There is nothing I have found to dislike Materialize, and Google has made it a lot easy and innovative. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** I always recommend Materialize for any dashboard or form filling website. It makes developers life so easier, and the site gets developed very quickly. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** First time I used materialize component for client requirement and when I start working with it, I felt like oh god why don't have come up with it earlier. And from that day I started using it in almost every website I have developed. The form components just makes look so classy that you don't need to do anything else than it. It is so simple and fastest way to do front end of website, the styling, javascript and html components all of them are easy to add. ### 9. All-in-one CSS framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve W. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** Materialize is one of the best CSS Frameworks out there today that mimic the all new Google material design. Creating new fresh websites has never been easier. It comes with tons of pre-made web widgets and are easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** I like everything except the tabbed interface which I wish would make a vertical responsive tabbed interface. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** The more options you have in a CSS Framework the faster you can prototype in the faster you can push out web templates. ### 10. Made my life easy in Front end development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhagyesh K. | Sr. UI developer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Materialize?** Materialize has a wide range of components which I mostly used in front-end development. Their innovative forms design has improved the user experience. The most common feature I used in Materialize is there Grid system which I feel very simple and robust. This is one of the best UI libraries which I have worked so far. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** There is nothing to dislike in Materialize. Google is also improving this by adding new features and new versions. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** Since its manage by Google, this is one of the best Front end libraries you will get. It's free of cost for development. They are improving with the latest trends so everyone should try this. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have already used materialize in more than 10 websites. I am using this to develop the front end of websites. I mostly use components like Grid, Breadcrumb, Cards also using Javascript like Carousal, Parallax, Tabs. Materialize provides unique forms features which you can see in all google sites. A major benefit from Materialize is that it has reduced lots of time in UI/UX development. I don't need to search different components and Javascript in different websites since Materialize covers this in under one library. ### 11. Lightweight and elegant framework for HTML and CSS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** It includes a multitude of features that make it fluid and robust. It is an excellent element for working with mobile first, incorporating different buttons with effects and menus, icons, etc. It gathers some JavaScript elements to complement its functionalities. It is very fluid and elegant, based on Google's style guide. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** They should expand some style functionalities, because the frame ends up being recognized in any app that uses it, and although it is very elegant and functional, it can become repetitive. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solve all layout problems of apps, forms, landing pages, and web pages, whether they are corporate or e-commerce. ### 12. Excellent finishes for your web and app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angel M. | Diseñadora Web, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** A magnificent framework, lightweight and based on Google's material design style guide. It offers a multitude of styles and basic routines, buttons, icon galleries, a grid system for mobile first, and a powerful JavaScript gallery with the most common applications in web layout frameworks. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** Do not include more Java and jQuery elements. Although they have great power and elegance, it becomes repetitive to use them over and over again. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** Layout of Applications and Web Pages, responsive web design, breadcrumb menu, etc... ### 13. Best jQuery based Material Design Implementation **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** Materialize has the largest set of components based on a material design that I have ever seen. It is great if your project is already using jQuery. It also comes with a pre-built theme which you can use to boost start development. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** It is based on jQuery so if your project doesn't have a dependency on jQuery then it is a huge overhead. Also, the web dev community is moving away from jQuery so Materialize might not be the best choice. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** Go for it if your project heavily relies on jQuery. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has a great looking user interface which comes out of the box so you don't require any designer to do the designing for your project. ### 14. Create fantastic and responsive websites **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica M. | Fotografía, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Materialize?** It is powerful and lightweight, featuring numerous styles based on material design, modern, scalable, and highly usable. It allows you to create grids based on flex and grid, which makes it very interesting for responsive design. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** Java libraries are so interesting that they fall short. More functionalities of this type would be appreciated. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** A very useful tool that should be considered as an alternative to Bootstrap since it provides excellent functions and finishes in your styles and basic routines. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very useful for designing landing pages, forms, applications, etc... ### 15. Friendly, elegant, and light **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manuel G. | Desarrollo Multimedia, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Materialize?** It is an incredible framework for developing web designs with great usability and cleanliness. The common buttons create a liquid effect with a beautiful finish, ideal for touch devices. The same happens with the two-position switches, with an extremely elegant sparkle effect. The finish of the date selectors is also very modern and user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** We have had some conflict with the use of a jQuery library. It is so wonderful that it becomes insufficient and you need more and more resources. **Recommendations to others considering Materialize:** Absolutely recommendable, even if you use other frameworks in your websites and applications, Materialize is gradually standing out and is here to stay. You must get to know it and it is well worth it. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly, we create landing pages and lead capture forms, especially with checkboxes, date selectors, inputs, buttons, etc... The result is truly spectacular. ### 16. Amazing innovative design **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Materialize?** The creativity and innovation provides familiar visual cues that allow me to understand the technology beyond the physical world. **What do you dislike about Materialize?** I have no complaints thus far, love it all. **What problems is Materialize solving and how is that benefiting you?** The grids, color, and imagery are not only visually pleasing, but also create a sense of meaning, and focus. 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