Free Kendo UI Alternatives

The best free alternative to Kendo UI is Semantic UI, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kendo UI and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Kendo UI are UIkit, Material UI, jQuery UI and shadcn-ui.

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  1. Semantic UI icon
     47 likes

    UI framework with 50+ elements and 3000+ CSS variables, ensuring responsive design. Seamlessly integrates with React, Angular, and other frameworks for customizable theming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • CSS
    • JavaScript
     
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    Semantic UI vs Kendo UI Comments
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    Positive
    1

    It is a complete web UI framework. It has a lot more widgets than Bootstrap and almost as many as Kendo UI. It is easy to use, feels lightweight and it has a nice default theme.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    2

    No data grid - this is a big diff

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Semantic UI is Free and Open SourceKendo UI is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. UIkit icon
     38 likes

    A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Material UI icon
     6 likes

    Material UI is an open-source React component library that implements Google's Material Design. It's comprehensive and can be used in production out of the box.

    98 Material UI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. jQuery UI icon
     27 likes

    jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components — interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects — based on the stellar jQuery javascript library . Each component is built according to jQuery's event-driven architecture (find something, manipulate...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. shadcn-ui icon
     1 like

    A set of beautifully-designed, accessible components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open source. Open code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Next.js
    • Laravel
    • Typescript
     
  6. Untitled UI icon
     2 likes

    Untitled UI is the world's largest Figma UI kit and React component library. Kickstart any project with everything you need to design and develop—fast.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Figma
    • React
     
  7. DevExtreme icon
     9 likes

    DevExtreme is a commercial application framework made by DevExpress. It is based on HTML5 and JavaScript and can generate native applications for smartphones and tablets (Windows Phone, iOS and Android) and responsive webapps for a traditional desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
     
  8. GroundworkCSS icon
     6 likes

    GroundworkCSS is a 100% free and open source responsive HTML5, CSS and JavaScript Framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. JQWidgets icon
     4 likes

    Unique toolkit for HTML5 Web development

    jQWidgets gives us something new and special. It’s a new and unique library for Web development and unlike others it makes our Apps and Websites look beautiful on desktops, touch devices and mobile phones. jQWidgets is the ultimate UI too.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Nevron Open Vision for .NET is a suite of advanced UI components that helps you develop feature-rich Web (Blazor WebAssenbly) and Desktop (WinForms, WPF, Xamarin.Mac) applications from a single code base.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
     
  11. alloyui icon
     4 likes

    AlloyUI is a framework built on top of YUI3 (JavaScript) that uses Bootstrap (HTML/CSS) to provide a simple API for building high scalable applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • JavaScript
     
  12. Free CSS/JS advanced and flexible framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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