Customize Angular Material without fighting its design
Angular Material gives you solid components, but customizing the default design is difficult. BuilderKit removes the Material look and replaces it with a clean, modern UI using plain CSS, while keeping the same APIs and behavior.
Why Angular Material is hard to customize
Angular Material provides a strong foundation for building applications, but its default design system can be difficult to adapt.
Customizing components often requires deep overrides, complex theming configuration, and working against predefined styles. Even small visual changes can introduce inconsistency or maintenance overhead.
For teams building modern applications, this creates a gap between functionality and design.
Remove the default Material design, keep the components
BuilderKit takes a different approach to Angular Material styling.
Instead of overriding styles, it removes the default Material design layer and rebuilds it using plain CSS. This gives you a clean and modern UI without relying on complex SCSS configuration or fragile overrides.
You still use Angular Material components, APIs, and behavior. BuilderKit simply replaces the visual layer with a system that is easier to customize and maintain.
Angular Material vs BuilderKit
Both Angular Material and BuilderKit are built on the same foundation, but they solve different problems.
Angular Material
- • Provides accessible, well-tested UI components
- • Includes a predefined design system
- • Requires effort to customize beyond its defaults
BuilderKit
- • Uses Angular Material as a base
- • Replaces the default design with a modern UI
- • Makes customization straightforward using plain CSS
- • Adds composable components, blocks, and templates
BuilderKit is not a replacement. It is a layer on top of Angular Material that focuses on design flexibility and real-world application needs.
When Angular Material alone is enough
Angular Material works well if your needs are simple or close to its default design.
- • Internal tools with minimal styling requirements
- • Projects where the default Material design is acceptable
- • Teams that prefer building everything from primitives
- • Cases where full control over theming is handled manually
When BuilderKit makes more sense
BuilderKit is designed for building modern applications without spending time on styling infrastructure.
- • You want a clean, modern UI without the Material look
- • You need consistent design across a growing application
- • You want to avoid complex SCSS overrides
- • You are building dashboards, SaaS apps, or customer-facing products
- • You want ready-to-use components, blocks, and templates
Build modern Angular apps without the Material look
If you’re already using Angular Material, BuilderKit lets you keep everything that works while improving how your application looks and scales.
You get a modern design system, composable components, and ready-to-use UI patterns, all built on top of Angular Material.