Material vs Materialize: What are the differences?

Material: A Graphics Framework for Material Design in Swift. Express your creativity with Material, an animation and graphics framework for Google's Material Design and Apple's Flat UI in Swift; Materialize: A modern responsive front-end framework based on Material Design. A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material belongs to "Mobile Prototyping & Interaction Design Tools" category of the tech stack, while Materialize can be primarily classified under "Front-End Frameworks".

Some of the features offered by Material are:

• Fully Configurable UI Components
• Grid System For Complex UIs
• Layout Library To Simplify AutoLayout

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

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

Material and Materialize are both open source tools. Materialize with 36.1K GitHub stars and 4.81K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Material with 11K GitHub stars and 1.21K GitHub forks.

The3ballsoft, Avhana Health, and GeoLytix are some of the popular companies that use Materialize, whereas Material is used by Pardel Technologies, Working Minds, and Contratobook. Materialize has a broader approval, being mentioned in 46 company stacks & 56 developers stacks; compared to Material, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 8 developer stacks.