The best shadcn/ui libraries in 2026

Last updated July 31, 2026.

Somewhere in 2025, shadcn/ui stopped being a library and became an ecosystem. There are now dozens of registries built on top of it, and figuring out which one to pay for is harder than it should be. Most comparison posts don’t help. They’re either forty links with no opinion attached, or five links where the author somehow comes out on top.

I build shadcncraft. It’s in this list and it comes first, so let me put my cards on the table. I’m a design leader with over 25 years of experience. I’ve worked in some of the top agencies in Melbourne, Australia, along with leading organizations like carsales and ANZ Bank. A lot of what follows is judgment about design quality, and you should know whose judgment it is: I know what good looks like. Every number in this post is attached to a page you can open. The opinions are mine and I stand behind them.

TL;DR

If a designer and a developer both touch your product, get shadcncraft. It’s the only library where every block exists in both Figma and React with matching names, so the design file and the codebase stay the same thing. If you’re a developer working alone and you just need volume, get Shadcnblocks.

By category:

• Best overall: shadcncraft
• Best Figma to code parity: shadcncraft
• Largest block library: Shadcnblocks, 1780 blocks
• Largest Figma kit: Shadcn Studio, 800+ Pro blocks
• Best open source: ReUI, 1,000+ free components and examples
• Best for marketing sites: Tailark
• Best for motion: beUI
• Best for interaction detail: chanhdai.com
• Best for advanced application components: Kibo UI

How I evaluated these

Six things, same for everyone. How many blocks and components there are, and whether they’re new work or restyled shadcn primitives. Whether there’s a Figma kit and how much of the code library it covers. Whether design and code share names and tokens or a human translates between them. Ecosystem support, meaning CLI, registry, MCP, Base UI, and how current it is with upstream. Tooling. Price at list, not whatever sale is on this week.

Best overall: shadcncraft

shadcncraft.com · 245 blocks · 116 components · 11 page templates · $119 to $499, one time

I’ll skip the part where I pretend to be neutral about my own product and just tell you what it does differently.

The case for shadcncraft isn’t volume. Three libraries in this list have more blocks. The case is that everything exists twice, in Figma and in React, and the two halves actually know about each other. All 245 blocks have a matching Figma frame whose layer names are the React data-slot values. That sounds like trivia. It stops being trivia the first time you point an AI tool at a design, because an agent reading the frame through the Figma MCP can tell exactly which registry block it's looking at and install the real thing instead of generating a lookalike from a screenshot.

Theming runs in both directions, which nothing else here does. Build a theme in shadcn Create, paste the preset into the Figma plugin, and it’s recreated in variables exactly. Or build it in Figma and carry the preset back to your codebase. tweakcn themes layer over any of the eight shadcn styles. Most kits drift from their codebase within a month of purchase because themes only flow one way, if they flow at all.

Icons get the same treatment. Five sets, Lucide, Tabler, Hugeicons, Phosphor, Remix. Switch them from Figma’s variables panel, and the registry reads your components.json and installs React blocks with whichever set you picked. Plenty of kits let you swap icons inside Figma. This is the only one where your choice survives the handoff to code.

There are two component bases, Radix UI and Base UI, which makes sixteen style and base combinations. Base UI landed here on April 26, a couple of months before shadcn/ui made it the default.

On quality, since everyone in this list claims it: open any block on the site. They’re all live. Switch the style, the base, the theme, the icon set, flip to dark. Then open the matching Figma frame from the same page and compare. Judge it yourself.

What’s in each tier. Base Figma is the official shadcn/ui set in Figma with all 8 styles and the Figma plugin for styles, themes and presets. The Pro tiers add the 192 Pro blocks, 55 Pro components, and the Pro pages and sites: in Figma on Pro Figma, in React on Pro React, and in both on the bundle. Pro React is code-only, so no Figma kit and no plugin, but it steps the agent skills up from token sync to full Figma-to-code and adds an offline Storybook build alongside the public one. The bundle gets everything, including React generation inside the plugin itself. Every tier has lifetime updates, unlimited commercial use, and support within 24 hours on Base and 12 hours on the Pro tiers. Upgrades are self-service and you pay only the difference between tiers, so starting on Base costs you nothing later.

Where it falls short. It’s a smaller library, and if breadth is what you’re buying, buy breadth. The 11 page templates are full multi-section layouts, dashboards, settings, auth flows, but they’re Figma only. No React equivalent for pages, just for the ClearFlow site. There’s nothing for motion or animation. And there’s no IDE extension or page builder yet.

Free tier: a starter kit on the Figma community, plus 8 blocks and 16 components in the registry, no license key.

Largest block library: Shadcnblocks

shadcnblocks.com · 1780 blocks · 1914 components · 49 pages · 17 templates · $149 to $399, one time

Credit where it’s due. Nothing else is close on volume, the pace is real, roughly 50 to 100 new blocks a month since launching in August 2024, and the tooling around the library is the best in the ecosystem. IDE extension, browser page composer, CMS boilerplates for Payload and Sanity, an admin kit. The catalog runs across marketing, app UI and e-commerce, and the templates are genuinely multi-page in both Next.js and Astro. 5,420 people pay for it. If you’re a developer who wants the widest menu available and tooling that keeps up with you, this is the default, and I won’t pretend otherwise.

Where it falls short. The design. To be precise: this isn’t about the code, it’s about what’s on the canvas. Weighting, spacing, typographic hierarchy, horizontal and vertical rhythm. Browse the library with those in mind and the blocks read as produced rather than designed. Elements sit where a generator or a developer doing their best would put them, not where a designer would. Which makes sense, because this is a developer-led product. And that’s the trap: developers deserve good design too, they’re just less likely to spot where it’s missing until their product is live and something feels off next to a competitor’s. If you’re buying this, you’re buying volume. Know that going in.

The Figma side has a gap you can count. 484 block designs in the kit against 1780 blocks in code, and their own pricing FAQ says it doesn’t yet contain all the block designs. For about three quarters of the library, a designer has nothing to work from. Figma also starts at the $299 tier, not the $149 one.

Largest Figma kit: Shadcn Studio

shadcnstudio.com · 800+ Pro blocks in Figma · 1000+ component variants · $219 to $1299, one time

The biggest Figma kit by count, and the widest toolset of any paid option here. MCP, IDE extension, theme generator, drag and drop builder, a Figma plugin with AI codegen. Figma Slots, which let you swap section content without detaching instances, are a genuinely good idea that more kits should steal. There’s a free open source tier, so you can read the code before paying anything.

Where it falls short. Same caveat as above: this is about the design, not the code. Look at the blocks the way a design reviewer would, at the type scale, the spacing, how a section hangs together, and a lot of the catalog looks AI-generated. Not wrong, just generic, the way a first pass looks before someone with taste has been through it. Like Shadcnblocks, this is a developer-led product, and at 800+ blocks, that first-pass look is what you should expect going in.

A few practical things too. Figma is gated to the $359 tier, the most expensive route to a kit in this post. Their block count reads 800+ on their own site and 550+ on their entry in shadcn’s Figma docs, so one of those is stale. And the pricing page has been running a “30% off for the next 500 users” banner long enough that I’d treat the list price as decorative.

Best open source: ReUI

reui.io · 1,051 free components plus 20 in-house primitives · 492+ Pro blocks and templates, paid, one-time

The widest free coverage there is, and the free tier is not a teaser. The in-house primitives, data grid, Kanban, Gantt, event calendar, filters, stepper, tree, are free, on both Radix and Base UI, from a public registry with no auth wall. If your budget is zero and you need application components rather than marketing sections, start here. The paid side, 492+ Pro blocks across SaaS, dashboards, fintech and e-commerce, sits on the same foundation if you outgrow it.

Their MCP deserves a mention on its own. Hosted, free with an account, and it does things most registry MCPs don’t bother with: search that tells you why a result matched, a tool that reads real component APIs so the agent wires props from documentation instead of guessing, validation before code gets written. If an agent does most of your assembly, that’s worth something.

Where it falls short. Breadth without much of a design voice, which is the usual price of open source at this scale. And the Figma side is a community file rather than a maintained kit, so there’s no real design story.

Best for marketing sites: Tailark

tailark.com · hundreds of blocks · complete pages in 4 styles · core free and open source, Pro in early access at pro.tailark.com

The best answer to a very specific worry, which is that your landing page will look like every other shadcn site on the internet. The design language is deliberately more bespoke than the default, and the four themes hold a whole site together without you re-tweaking each section. Radix and Base UI both supported. The core is free, so you can form your own view before paying for Pro.

Where it falls short. No Figma. Marketing surfaces only. And the pages carry less production functionality than they appear to at first glance.

Best for motion: beUI

beui.dev · 51 free MIT components · Pro adds 17 block groups and 5 templates

Ships roughly a component a day, and made the unusual call to drop the shadcn and Radix dependency entirely, so everything is standalone and sits beside whatever you already have. Listed in shadcn’s official registries index. beUI Studio, a WebGL background editor with 23 shaders that exports React source, has no equivalent anywhere else in this list.

Where it falls short. No Figma, no team or enterprise licensing, and no license or refund page that I could find at time of writing. It’s one person’s project. Set your support expectations accordingly.

Best for interaction detail: chanhdai.com

chanhdai.com · 36 components · MIT · free

Disclosure first: Chánh Đại is shadcncraft’s design engineer, which is exactly how I know this work well enough to point you at it.

This is craft, not catalog. Thirty-six components built to a standard most libraries don’t attempt. And the endorsements aren’t mine to hand out: shadcn, Vercel’s CEO and Vercel’s founding designer have all praised it publicly, it’s backed by the Vercel OSS Program, and his React Wheel Picker does 30k+ weekly downloads and sits in the official shadcn registry.

Where it falls short. It’s 36 components. A supplement, not a foundation.

Best for advanced application components: Kibo UI

Kanban boards, Gantt charts, timelines, complex data visualization. The components most libraries skip because they’re hard, and that most SaaS products end up needing at least one of. Narrow on purpose, and no Figma.

FAQ

What is the best shadcn/ui library in 2026?

Depends whether a designer is involved. If yes, shadcncraft, because all 245 blocks exist in both Figma and React with matching names, which is what makes handoff and AI codegen work rather than approximate. If you’re a developer working alone and want the largest catalog, Shadcnblocks, which covers marketing, app UI and e-commerce.

Which shadcn library has the most blocks?

Shadcnblocks, with 1780. Shadcn Studio has 800+ Pro blocks. shadcncraft has 245, and Tailark’s core has hundreds more, all marketing-focused.

Which shadcn library has the best Figma kit?

Shadcn Studio is the largest by count. shadcncraft is the most complete relative to its own code library, since all 245 blocks have a matching Figma frame. Shadcnblocks ships 484 Figma designs against 1780 blocks in code, a gap its own pricing FAQ acknowledges. Tailark, beUI, ReUI and Kibo UI have no maintained Figma kit.

Which shadcn library has real Figma to code parity?

shadcncraft. Figma layer names match React data-slot values, so an agent reading the Figma file resolves frames to real registry components and installs them instead of generating approximations. Shipping a Figma kit is not the same thing as parity, and the difference shows up the moment you point an AI tool at the file.

Which shadcn library works best with AI workflows?

shadcncraft on the design side: agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, MCP-ready blocks, Figma to React through the plugin, and an offline Storybook build agents can read locally. ReUI on the code side, with a hosted MCP that reads real component APIs and validates props before code is written. Different halves of the same problem.

Which shadcn library lets you switch icon libraries?

shadcncraft, across five sets: Lucide, Tabler, Hugeicons, Phosphor and Remix. They switch from Figma’s variables panel, and the registry installs React blocks with the matching set, so the choice made in design reaches the codebase. Sitsiilia’s free shadcn/ui create plugin also switches icon sets inside Figma, but there’s no paired registry on the code side.

Which shadcn libraries support Base UI?

Shadcnblocks was first, on February 5, 2026. shadcncraft followed on April 26, two months before shadcn/ui made Base UI the default on July 3. Shadcn Studio, ReUI and Tailark support both. shadcn/ui also added React Aria as a third first-class base in July, and nothing in this list supports it yet.

Which shadcn library is best for dashboards and application UI?

Most of the ecosystem is marketing-heavy. For application surfaces: ReUI for free coverage including data grids and Kanban, Kibo UI for Gantt and timelines, shadcncraft for dashboards and data tables with matching Figma, Shadcn Studio for its dashboard and app shell layouts.

Are there free shadcn libraries?

More than people expect. ReUI, chanhdai.com, Tailark’s core and beUI’s core are open source. Shadcn Studio has a free tier. On the Figma side, Obra’s free community kit is the largest by a wide margin, and shadcncraft has a free starter kit plus 8 blocks and 16 components in the registry, no license key.

shadcncraft vs Shadcnblocks: which should I buy?

They’re optimized for different buyers. Shadcnblocks has 1780 blocks against shadcncraft’s 245, the best browsing and install tooling in the ecosystem, and a faster release pace. shadcncraft has complete Figma coverage (all 245 blocks have a matching frame, against 484 of 1780), two-way theme sync between Figma and code, and layer names that match React data-slot values so AI tools resolve designs to real components. Developer working alone who wants the biggest catalog: Shadcnblocks. Designer and developer working together, or an AI-assisted design-to-code workflow: shadcncraft.

Do these libraries lock me in?

No. They all ship source into your project through the shadcn CLI, so you own the code and can mix libraries freely. What you inherit is the maintenance. Check GitHub activity and Tailwind v4 compatibility before adopting anything.

Bottom line

If a designer and a developer are both working on the product, pick for parity. The translation layer between Figma and code is where the time actually goes, and most kits don’t have one. That’s shadcncraft. Yes, I built it. That’s also why every number above is one you can check without asking me.

Developer working alone who wants the biggest catalog: Shadcnblocks. Budget of zero: ReUI. Marketing site that doesn’t look like every other shadcn site: Tailark. Motion: beUI.

Links

• shadcncraft
• Shadcnblocks
• Shadcn Studio
• ReUI
• Tailark
• beUI
• chanhdai.com