Bootswatch vs Material Design for Bootstrap

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Bootswatch vs Material Design for Bootstrap: What are the differences?

What is Bootswatch? Free themes for Bootstrap. Simply download a CSS file and replace the one in Bootstrap. No messing around with hex values.

What is Material Design for Bootstrap? Material Design for Bootstrap. This Bootstrap theme is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in your Bootstrap 3 based application. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and include the javascript at the end of your document, everything will be converted to Material Design (paper) style.

Bootswatch and Material Design for Bootstrap can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Bootswatch and Material Design for Bootstrap are both open source tools. It seems that Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Bootswatch with 11.4K GitHub stars and 3.17K GitHub forks.

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Pros of Bootswatch
Pros of Material Design for Bootstrap
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    Great customer support
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    Easy setup
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    Very good comunity
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    Bootstrap
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    Light weight
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    Awesome and simple to use
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    Modern Looks
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    Google Material Design
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    Responsive
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    Open Source
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    Great angular compatibility

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Cons of Bootswatch
Cons of Material Design for Bootstrap
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      Not free for premo stuff

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    What is Bootswatch?

    Simply download a CSS file and replace the one in Bootstrap. No messing around with hex values.

    What is Material Design for Bootstrap?

    It is an open source toolkit based on Bootstrap for developing Material Design apps with HTML, CSS, and JS. Quickly prototype your ideas or build your entire app with our Sass variables and mixins, responsive grid system, extensive prebuilt components, and powerful plugins built on jQuery.

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      Solid design system
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