Material wins on maturity, breadth, and accessibility depth. fossui wins on
default look, API shape, and footprint. We wrote up exactly where each of
those is true.
The gist:
- Look: Material's tinted seeded color scheme and rounded-pill buttons vs fossui's neutral palette and superellipse corners. Same screens rendered both ways in the full post, so you judge it, not us.
- API shape: Material spreads emphasis across five button classes, fossui folds it into one widget with a variant. Same pattern repeats across tabs, badges, dialogs.
- Footprint: one runtime dependency, zero icon package, fossui paints its own glyphs.
- 32 components mapped against their Material counterpart, six with no Material equivalent at all (OTP field, number field, skeleton, meter, toggle, toggle group).
Where Material actually wins, no spin: raw accessibility depth on dialogs,
selects, sliders; broader built-in variants (RangeSlider, DataTable,
fullscreen dialogs); and the entire ecosystem gravity, every tutorial and
Stack Overflow answer assumes Material.
Full scorecard, every screenshot, and the complete component map:
fossui.org/blogs/minimal-flutter-ui-kits-compared-2026
