10 alternatives to headlessui
tailwindlabs/headlessui — Completely unstyled, fully accessible UI components, designed to integrate beautifully with Tailwind CSS. (28,799 stars, MIT, ui, infra, automation).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 279 licence-cleared components from tailwindlabs/headlessui itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abilash-19/awsome-ui-library-kit | 7.8 | MIT | 2 |
| 2 | vercel/components.build | 4.4 | Apache-2.0 | 800 |
| 3 | bootstrap-vue/bootstrap-vue | 8.0 | MIT | 14,409 |
| 4 | magicuidesign/magicui | 7.7 | MIT | 22,856 |
| 5 | tremorlabs/tremor | 6.5 | Apache-2.0 | 3,676 |
| 6 | microsoft/fluentui | 5.0 | MIT | 20,362 |
| 7 | shadcn-ui/ui | 7.5 | MIT | 126,595 |
| 8 | craftwork-design/blank | 4.8 | MIT | 1 |
| 9 | yu-shell/pulld | 5.0 | MIT | 0 |
| 10 | dequelabs/cauldron | 7.1 | MPL-2.0 | 130 |
The alternatives in detail
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A modern, themeable React component library built with TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind CSS. Fully accessible, customizable, and ready to use.(in development)score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 2 stars · 43 components · search them
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An open-source standard for building modern, composable and accessible UI components.score 4.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 800 stars · 90 components · search them
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MOVED to https://github.com/bootstrap-vue-next/bootstrap-vue-nextscore 8.0/10 · MIT permissive · 14,409 stars · 245 components · search them
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UI Library for Design Engineers. Animated components and effects you can copy and paste into your apps. Free. Open Source.
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Copy & Paste React components to build modern web applications.score 6.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,676 stars · 88 components · search them
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Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
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Composable, accessible components with thoughtful defaults. Build your own component library with code you can customize, extend, and make your own.
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React components for shadcn in Blank's design language. Light and dark, Tailwind v4, MIT.score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 1 stars · 122 components · search them
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Production-ready, accessible, theme-aware shadcn-compatible components your AI coding agent installs by itself — plus pulld Search, hosted semantic search you drop into the command palette.score 5.0/10 · MIT permissive · 0 stars · 154 components · search them
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dequelabs/cauldronscore 7.1/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 130 stars · 173 components · search them
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