Building beautiful interfaces is not an easy task, especially if you’re not a UI design afficionado. Getting the details right can quickly become a very stressful and tedious task.
Frameworks such as Bootstrap tend to take away some of the pains of building your own UI design system. However, even with a ready-made framework at your disposal, all projects end up looking as taken through a cookie cutter machine. They all look, feel the same and quickly get outdated aesthethically speaking.
There are hundreds, if not thousands of Bootstrap themes and templates that are waiting for you to grab and use them. They usually try to add something new to the mix, such as new components and features, or just develop on top of the existing selection of UI components.
In this article we will go through some of the best, good looking and and popular Bootstrap themes and templates that you can integrate into your next amazing project. Let’s dive right in! πββοΈ
![Shards UI Kit - A Free & Modern Bootstrap Theme Template Pack](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/1-shards-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
1. Shards UI Kit
Shards is a free and modern Bootstrap Theme that comes packed with dozens of extra components and utilities in addition to what Bootstrap 4 already has to offer. It’s sleek and modern and also features two ready to use landing page templates for Mobile Apps and Agencies & Startups. Shards is also available as both native React.js and Vue.js UI component systems.
- Based on Bootstrap 4
- Beautiful typography
- Modern design system
- Lightweight (~13kb minified and gzipped)
- Well documented
- Responsive by default
- Dozens of custom components (Sliders, DatePickers, Toggles, etc)
- Custom page templates
- Vue and React versions available.
![Material Design for Bootstrap - Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/2-material-design-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
2. Material Design for Bootstrap
- Material Design System
- Sass variables and mixins
- Responsive grid system
- Extensive prebuilt components
- Mobile first
![Boomerang UI Kit - Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/3-boomerang-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
3. Boomerang UI Kit
- Custom components
- Extensive color palettes
- Beautiful typography
- Fully responsive
- Clean and modern design
![Stream UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/4-stream-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
4. Stream UI Kit
- Free to download
- Fully responsive design
- Well documented
- Starter templates
- Includes multiple custom components
![WrapKit Lite - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/5-wrapkit-lite-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
5. WrapKit Lite
- 25+ Ready to use custom components
- 17+ Interface sections
- 1 Pre-built landing page
- Fully responsive
- Retina ready
- SASS Files
![Bootflat - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/6-bootflat-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
6. Bootflat
- Lightweight
- Mobile first and responsive
- Design files included
- Many custom components includes
![forgJs - ForgJs is a javascript lightweight object validator..](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/7-drunken-parrot-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
7. Drunken Parrot UI Kit
- Includes PSD and HTML
- Super clean flat style
- Created on 980px Grid
- Works with Adobe CS5+ and all modern browsers
- Lightweight
- Mobile first and responsive
![Core UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/8-core-ui-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
8. Core UI
- 50+ ready to use and customizable UI Components
- Fully responsive
- Extensive documentation
- Clean and lightweight
![Helium UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/9-helium-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
9. Helium UI Kit
- Features 100+ components and elements
- Modern and clean design
- Fully responsive and mobile first
- Stylish business elements
![Flat UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/10-flat-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
10. Flat UI Kit
- Flat design
- Retina Ready Images and Icons
- Custom form components
- Sleek CSS3 effects
- Easy configurable color scheme
- New web-font and new web-font icons
![Startup UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/11-startup-ui-kit-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
11. Startup UI Kit
- Custom components and elements
- Fully responsive
- Many pre-built blocks and sections
- Well structured and documented
![Kanso UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/12-kanso-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
12. Kanso UI Kit
- Lightweight and modern
- Simple and responsive
- Custom components
![Hero UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/13-hero-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
13. Hero UI Kit
- Fluid and responsive layout
- Custom components and elements
- Clean and flat design system
- Easy to use
![Epic UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/14-epic-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
14. Epic UI Kit
- Flat design system
- Custom components and elements
- Clean structure
- Easy to use
![Super Minimal UI Kit - Free Bootstrap Theme](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/15-superminimal-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
15. Super Minimal UI Kit
- Minimal design system
- Custom components and elements
- Easy to use
- Lightweight and fully responsive
![forgJs - ForgJs is a javascript lightweight object validator..](https://dgc2qnsehk7ta.cloudfront.net/uploads/16-azure-bootstrap-theme.jpg)
16. Azure Blog UI Kit
- Focused on blogs and content sites
- Lightweight
- Modern design
- Fully responsive and mobile ready
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