qodesign vs Flowbite
Flowbite is a free, MIT-licensed Tailwind CSS component library with versions for React, Vue, Svelte and Angular, and a paid Pro tier of blocks, templates and Figma files. It covers the everyday parts of a site. qodesign does something narrower: animated flows like a login, a tab bar or a checkout, sold one at a time as a single HTML file and a React version.
| qodesign | Flowbite | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3 each, or $29 once for all of them (the Shelf) | The open-source library is free. Flowbite Pro: Developer edition $299, Designer (Figma) edition $169, or team licences at $999 and $499, all excluding taxes, with 1 year of support you can renew |
| Free | 1 free component, no account needed | The open-source component library (they count 600+ components, sections and pages across the site) plus React, Vue, Svelte and Angular versions |
| Size | 17 components, more added as they ship | Buttons, modals, dropdowns, datepickers and the rest, plus Pro blocks and page templates for application, marketing and e-commerce UI, with matching Figma files |
| What's in a download | React + Tailwind (TSX), PROMPT.md, HTML file | See their site |
| Licence | Personal, commercial and client projects; no reselling the source | MIT, as listed for themesberg/flowbite and themesberg/flowbite-react on GitHub |
| Stack | React + TypeScript, Tailwind (most also use Framer Motion), HTML version included | Tailwind CSS utility classes with vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript support: npm install flowbite, then @plugin "flowbite/plugin" in your CSS. For React, npx create-flowbite-react@latest sets up React, Flowbite and Tailwind CSS v4 |
| Best for | One memorable animated moment in your app (login, checkout, nav, dashboard) | A complete, conventional set of UI parts across many frameworks, with Figma files that match the code |
Which one to pick
- Pick Flowbite if
- You want one library for every button, form and modal, maybe outside React too, and a designer working from matching Figma files.
- Pick qodesign if
- Your basic components are already there and you want one screen to move in a way people notice, with a PROMPT.md your AI editor can follow.
qodesign pieces to look at first
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