Foundation vs Foundation for Apps: What are the differences?

Developers describe Foundation as "The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world". Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices. On the other hand, Foundation for Apps is detailed as "Angular-powered framework for building powerful responsive web apps, from your friends at ZURB". Foundation for Apps is a framework you can use to build better, more polished single-page web applications that work across many devices. We’ve taken what we’ve learned from building the original Foundation framework to build an entirely new framework just for web apps.

Foundation and Foundation for Apps can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Foundation are:

• Semantic: Everything is semantic. You can have the cleanest markup without sacrificing the utility and speed of Foundation.
• Mobile First: You can build for small devices first. Then, as devices get larger and larger, layer in more complexity for a complete responsive design.
• Customizable: You can customize your build to include or remove certain elements, as well as define the size of columns, colors, font size and more.

On the other hand, Foundation for Apps provides the following key features:

• Vertical Grid
• Independent Scrolling Sections
• Easier Source Ordering

Foundation and Foundation for Apps are both open source tools. It seems that Foundation with 28.2K GitHub stars and 5.77K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Foundation for Apps with 1.65K GitHub stars and 236 GitHub forks.