Mantine
Shares rank 9 of 14 UI component libraries by recommenders
Free React component library with many ready-made components, praised for fast UI building; critics call it bloated and over-engineered.
Free React component library with many ready-made components, praised for fast UI building; critics call it bloated and over-engineered.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 67%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast to build functional UIs
“A bit of config magic later, I can quickly whip out functional UIs faster than I can think of features.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team” “It takes me 2 minutes to slap together a Mantine template and tap into some of the best UI components”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “How I use HTMX with Go” “Its just so much faster than having to remember which contexts to wire in.”
Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix” - Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix”
Full-featured with many components
“It takes me 2 minutes to slap together a Mantine template and tap into some of the best UI components”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “How I use HTMX with Go” “only Mantine is much more full-featured (without being messy and while maintaining flexibility)”
Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix” “It’s easy to use, full featured with lots of components and helpers”
Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix” Trouble-free premade UI library
“I'd always advocate for Mantine and css modules anywhere early enough to use premade UI solutions.”
Comment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok” “I've had no problems at all with UI libraries like Mantine.”
Comment from 20 Jan 2026 in “The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Bloated and over-engineered
“bloated do-everything libraries. Ant, MUI, Mantine, or whatever else is aimed to be a superset of all possible website needs”
Comment from 26 May 2026 in “Does Anybody Actually Like React?” “Absolutely over-engineered and terrible in every way compared to everything else available.”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix” Strongly disliked by some critics
“mantine sucks so much I hate it and hope no manager ever forces it on anyone ever again”
Comment from 6 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix” “Martine just straight up sucks.”
Comment from 5 Jul 2026 in “Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix”
Other UI component libraries people recommend
The four most recommended other UI component libraries, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shadcn/ui | 82 | 54 | 60% | 12 | 1 yr3 owners | — |
| Jelly UI | 41 | 38 | 52% | 1 | — | — |
| Tailwind UI | 38 | 28 | 58% | 3 | — | — |
| Performative-UI | 38 | 8 | 83% | 2 | — | — |
| MantineThis page | 8 | 4 | 67% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
18 of the 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I prefer to use Mantine and use its attributes for layout and styling”
“I'd always advocate for Mantine and css modules anywhere early enough to use premade UI solutions.”
“complexity growing at 2:1 rate with htmx but not with Mantine”
“It takes me 2 minutes to slap together a Mantine template and tap into some of the best UI components”
“Absolutely over-engineered and terrible in every way compared to everything else available.”
“mantine sucks so much I hate it and hope no manager ever forces it on anyone ever again”
“only Mantine is much more full-featured (without being messy and while maintaining flexibility)”
“Its just so much faster than having to remember which contexts to wire in.”
“It’s easy to use, full featured with lots of components and helpers”
“Mantine is brilliant, I can build anything in it quickly”
“Martine just straight up sucks.”
“bloated do-everything libraries. Ant, MUI, Mantine, or whatever else is aimed to be a superset of all possible website needs”
“Tiptap, mantine etc.are just no substitute”
“MUI or Mantine for the components”
“I've had no problems at all with UI libraries like Mantine.”
“Going to use it on my next side project”
“A bit of config magic later, I can quickly whip out functional UIs faster than I can think of features.”
“React has MUI and Mantine”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.