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

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.

What is Materialize? A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Bootstrap and Materialize can be categorized as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Material Design for Bootstrap are:

• Input fields (text, numeric, email, etc)
• Textarea
• Buttons (ripple effect working)

On the other hand, Materialize provides the following key features:

• Speeds up development
• User Experience Focused
• Easy to work with

"Bootstrap" is the top reason why over 14 developers like Material Design for Bootstrap, while over 94 developers mention "Google material design" as the leading cause for choosing Materialize.

Material Design for Bootstrap and Materialize are both open source tools. Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.8K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Material Design for Bootstrap with 19.9K GitHub stars and 3.31K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Materialize has a broader approval, being mentioned in 46 company stacks & 55 developers stacks; compared to Material Design for Bootstrap, which is listed in 5 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.