Katarina HarbuzavaIn today’s article, we will have a quick look at 10 admin templates and themes that are simple to use and good to look at.
Let’s define the criteria for simple admin themes and templates:
- Clear and user-friendly design;
- Not overloaded with dashboards elements;
- One critical point is performance;
- How often the project updates;
- Good documentation;
- Clear pricing
In this article, we will tell you about the themes both from marketplaces and premium vendors.
All of these templates have at least one pre-built dashboard homepage template that can be customized and used as the foundation for your own project. There are also various elements like buttons, tables, icons, and others that help build the application.
Many of the free products featured here are also available as paid products with more advanced functionality.
Best Simple Admin Themes and Templates
Light Blue React Theme
About
This good-looking React theme, designed in blue colors has a Node.js back-end. You can use it for e-commerce apps, CRM, SASS, and other apps: the template includes lots of elements and pages. The number of pages goes over 30, and they are all special and serve different purposes.
Main components
The amount of components is classiс, but popovers and tooltips are also there. There are three various types of alert, forms and maps. The crucial components are the e-commerce product page and the product grid. The first one provides you with all details of your product, gives a description of it, and has the rating and reviews. The second one displays your products according to the chosen type, brand, size, color, range and sort.
You can also find such components as:
- Buttons
- Maps
- Forms
- Several types of tables
- Icons
There are also some really great features:
- Over 30 unique pages
- Node.js & PostgreSQL integrated
- CRUD Application node js
- Fully responsive
- 8 Chart Libraries
- Fully Documented Codebase
Pricing and Licensing
The basic version of Light Blue is free. It misses many components and node.js backend. The premium version without backend costs $99 for the personal license and $449 for the developer. The difference between licenses are in the type of applications that may be built on top of that. For the backend version you will need an additional $50.
Documentation
The documentation is comprehensive and describes how to start a project, libs used in the product, pages and main components.
Support and Updates
Support is provided via email: the team says they answer in 24 hours. Major updates come every 3-4 months. They often include upgrades of framework and libs versions.
Conclusion
This dashboard template is a great start if you are building E-Commerce apps, CMS, SASS web apps, CRM, etc. It contains ready-to-use working Authentication, Social Login and Product Management components.
Star Admin
About
Star Admin is a responsive Bootstrap 4 dashboard template, available in free and premium versions. The design is fully modern and up to date. It supports all major browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and others. The product comes with Bootstrap, Angular, React, Vue, and Laravel versions.
Main components and Features
Star Admin has a good list of components:
- Forms
- Tables
- Charts
- Icons
- Maps
- Buttons
- Error pages
However, the real highlight of this free Bootstrap admin template is the Charts – thanks to their attractive appearance. The charts can be configured to display data in real-time, making your dashboard even more useful to your users.
Pricing and Licensing
Along with the free version, there is a Pro version with 3 pricing plans depending on type of license:
- Regular for $49
- Developer for $149
- Extended for $499
The licenses, in short, contain types of applications you can build on top of the template. The free version is distributed under MIT license.
Documentation
The documentation is very basic and only describes the structure of the components.
Support and Updates
The product updates once a year. Support is provided through website form. Response time is not indicated.
Conclusion
Overall, the free Star Admin template pack is good for creating admin panels, e-commerce systems, project management apps or CRMs.
SB Admin by Startbootstrap
About
SB Admin is a minimalistic product: the free version contains a minimum of components just enough to start developing a web application. The product is fast, lightweight and displays well on mobile devices. This template is offered in two versions, Angular and Bootstrap.
Main components and Features
In the basic free version, the following components are there:
- Basic table
- 3 types of Charts
- Error pages
- Authentification pages
- Main dashboard
In the premium version you will have more components: various cards, tooltips, buttons and others.
The author claims the product has been covered by over 300 unit tests – sounds very decent.
Pricing and Licensing
The initial version is free of charge. The paid version is represented by 3 plans and licenses:
- Developer License costs $69
- Startup License costs $199
- Enterprise License costs $799
The licenses differ in number of team members, allowance of paid apps and type of support (email only or dedicated priority support).
Documentation
Comprehensive documentation is included. It covers everything from your workspace setup, initial customization, development, and deployment. The documentation is constantly updated.
Support and Updates
When you purchase a pro product from Start Bootstrap, you get product support from the developers who created the product. Support may include bug fixes and improvements to the base product.
Updates happen quite often. As soon as the libraries used in the products become stable, the developers make the update.
Conclusion
SB Admin 2 based admin theme is perfect for quickly creating dashboards and web applications. Also, the free version works great if you want to get familiar with Bootstrap technology.
React Material UI Admin Theme
About
The other template we need to take a closer look at is React Material UI Admin by the Flatlogic team. It uses Node.js and Material-UI framework so the user can save time on the development process. Describing the advantages, here’s one of the central points – it doesn’t use Bootstrap and jQuery.
Main components
Among major components, there are various UI elements:
- Widgets
- Carousel
- Notifications
- Navigation bar
There are also a great chart library and some extra pages such as login, error, gallery, and others. Buying a license will open some good possibilities for your project: more than 40 sample pages, different colors, free updates for three to six months and full support.
Concerning the features, things are not bad as well:
- Three color themes
- Material UI inside
- No jQuery and Bootstrap
- Sketch Sketch version files included
- Fully responsive
- Node.js & PostgreSQL integrated
- CRUD Application
- React Hooks
- Various Charts Libraries
- E-Commerce Section
- Fully Documented Codebase
Pricing and Licensing
The basic version of React Material Admin is free. It comes without many components and node.js backend. The premium version without backend costs $99 for the personal license and $499 for the developer. The difference between licenses is types of applications that may be built. For the backend version you will need to pay an additional $50.
Documentation
The documentation is comprehensive and describes how to start a project, as well as libs used in the product, pages and main components.
Support and Updates
Support is provided via email. The team promises to answer in 24 hours. Major updates come every 3-4 months, often including upgrades of framework and libs versions.
Conclusion
Purchasing this template, the user can have both front-end and back-end for apps or websites. You can use it for showing data analytics, or e-commerce, or any other kind of app. Here’s another fact: design decisions are quite important. Understanding that, this template comes in three discrete colors, and Material UI helps it look modern and fine. Access to everything is easy and quick.
Tabler
About
Tabler is a user-friendly, clear and easy admin theme that can be used by both simple websites and complicated systems. The only requirement for it is basic HTML and CSS knowledge.
Main components and Features
Tabler comes with the following components:
- Alerts
- Avatars
- Buttons
- Colors
- Cards
- Charts
- Form components
- Tags
- Typography
Secondly, the product has following features:
- Fully responsive
- Cross Browser compatibility
- HTML5 & CSS3 standards
- Lots of demo pages
- Single Page Application versions
Pricing and Licensing
Tabler is a completely free, open-source product under MIT license.
Documentation
There is no structured documentation that comes with this product. It only has basic commands in the github page on how to start a project, and open issues where the community helps to resolve bugs.
Support and Updates
Support is provided by a community of developers. Updates usually come every day: it’s an open source product.
Conclusion
Tabler is a perfect solution if you want to create an interface which is not only user-friendly, but also fully responsive. Thanks to the big choice of ready-made components, you can customize your design and adapt it to the needs of the most demanding users.
Akveo NGX admin
About
Ngx-admin is a free admin template made with Angular 9+, Bootstrap 4, and Nebular 4 (UI kit made by Akveo). Ngx-admin is one of the most popular templates made with Angular. It also comes with a lot of backend integrations.
Main components
Ngx-admin provides 6 themes, 2 pre-built default dashboards, 60+ usage examples and more than 100 user interface components that include icons, forms, charts, graphs, maps, tables, modals, buttons, etc. It also contains a set of pages such as login, registration, request password and reset password pages.
The template also comes with 3 beautiful visual themes (cosmic, light, corporate), 2 dashboards (IoT and E-commerce), and more than 40 pages.
The template has following features:
- Angular 9+ & Typescript
- Bootstrap 4+ & SCSS
- Responsive layout
- RTL support
- Flexibly configurable themes with hot-reload (3 themes included)
- Authentication module with multiple providers
Pricing and Licensing
NGX-Admin itself if free, but there are paid versions with different backend options:
- .NET
- Java
- Python
There are also special versions built for building specific apps like ecommerce or IoT. Prices are $49 for personal license and $190 for developer license. The shop is, however, a bit difficult to understand.
Documentation
Documentation has a good structure and useful UI. It has installation guidelines, server deployment description and different descriptions on how to change themes.
Support and Updates
The support of the free version is provided through github issues, and in premium version – through direct email messages.
Conclusion
This template has a solid code. It’s a good choice to build apps if you need both backend and frontend.
AdminLTE
About
AdminLTE is one of the most popular admin dashboard templates on UseBootstrap. It has very robust documentation and also a very big and helping community.
Main components
Main features available while using AdminLTE:
- HTML5 & CSS3
- Mobile-first design
- 1000+ icons and 6 skins
- Enhanced for printing
- Most major browsers support
- Over 18 plugins, plus three custom made plugins
- Very active community
There’s also a list of components available for you:
- 4 types of charts
- Icons
- Buttons
- Sliders
- 2 types of tables
- 3 types of forms
Pricing and Licensing
AdminLTE is a completely free and open-source product distributed under MIT license.
Documentation
The documentation has a clear user interface and good user experience. Installation guide and how components work are described well too.
Support and Updates
Support is provided via community and managed with Github issues. Updates are pushed almost every week, so the product becomes better all the time.
Conclusion
Among the free products, AdminLTE is one of the best choices. The product has solid documentation, good number of components and great big community.
MaterialPRO
About
MaterialPro Admin is a popular open source WebApp template for admin dashboards and control admin panels. MaterialPro Admin is based on modular design, which allows it to be easily customised and built upon.
Main components
Material Pro is available in more than 6 dashboards and 5 unique demos.
Features include:
- Right to Left (RTL) Version
- 6 Predefined Color Skins
- Light and Dark Colour Schemes
- 500+ UI components and Ready to use Widgets
- 3000+ Font Icons
- Lots of Chart Options
Material Pro also offers a variety of applications like Chat Application, Contact/ Employee Listing and Details, Calendars and more.
Pricing and Licensing
There are 4 pricing plans and licenses:
- Single usage license for $39
- Multiple usage for $79
- Extended usage (for building SaaS apps) for $299
- Multiple extended usage for $499
Documentation
Documentation is comprehensive and describes major components of the product and third party libraries used in the dashboard.
Support and Updates
The company offers support only for the premium products. Support does include answering your questions or problems regarding the template, as well as giving solutions to the bugs reported. Major updates come every 6 months.
Conclusion
Material Pro is powerful and easy to customize. It’s created with the Bootstrap framework and follows Google’s Material visual language. Material Pro comes with all the components required to create a modern app dashboard.
Adminator admin dashboard
About
Adminator is a responsive Bootstrap 4 Admin Template. It provides a collection of ready to use code snippets and utilities, custom pages, as well as a collection of applications and some useful widgets.
Main components
The product includes following components:
- Main dashboard
- Various charts
- Datepicker
- Table
- Various maps
Pricing and Licensing
The template is free and distributed under MIT license. This means you can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies of the final products. Note that you always need to state Colorlib is the original author of this template.
Documentation
There is no structured documentation provided with this template. There are only basic commands written in the github on how to start a project.
Support and Updates
Support is provided by the community via github issues. Updates come out every 2 months.
Conclusion
This template is good if you need to learn more about Bootstrap and other technologies.
CoreUI
About
CoreUI is a free Bootstrap admin template that will help you create stylish yet functional user interfaces. CoreUI is an open-source Bootstrap admin dashboard template, available completely for free. Packed with rich functionality, CoreUI provides 6 versions: Bootstrap, React, Angular, Laravel, Vue.js, and Vue.js + Laravel.
Main components
With 1000 high-quality icons, 4 Bootstrap components, SCSS source files, charts, and widgets, it enables software developers to create beautiful websites and applications faster.
These are the components you can see in CoreUI:
- Buttons and notifications
- Charts, forms and tables
- Plugins, widgets and editors
- Icon packs
Pricing and Licensing
There are 3 one-off payment plans that differ in number of team members and type of apps you can build on top of product:
- Freelance for $89
- Team for $159
- Team bundle for $964
Also there is a plan with unlimited features for a monthly payment of $89.
Documentation
Documentation is very well structured and user friendly. Docs are comprehensive, all components and details are very well described.
Support and Updates
Free versions are supported via the community forum, paid versions are supported directly by developers. Major updates come out every 6 months.
Conclusion
Core UI is a great tool for building complex web applications. It has many technologies inside and a very flexible pricing plan.
Wrap Up
In today’s article, we looked at 10 simple templates you can use to build various web applications. We’ve looked at both paid and free products. Also in our selection there are products with an already developed backend solution.
We recommend you to spend money and buy a solution written on a specific frontend framework (like React or Angular) and a developed backend solution. This will seriously help you build your application more easily and quickly.
