Animate.css vs Material Design for Bootstrap

Animate.css vs Material Design for Bootstrap: What are the differences?

What is Animate.css ? A library of CSS animations. It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.

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.

Animate.css and Material Design for Bootstrap are primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" and "Front-End Frameworks" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Animate.css are:

• Cross-browser animations
• Usage with Javascript
• Setting Delay and Speed

On the other hand, Material Design for Bootstrap provides the following key features:

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

Animate.css and Material Design for Bootstrap are both open source tools. It seems that Animate.css with 61.2K GitHub stars and 13K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Material Design for Bootstrap with 20K GitHub stars and 3.3K GitHub forks.