Compare Tailwind UI with daisyUI
Compare how daisyUI and Tailwind UI structure and deliver UI components to understand their different approaches.
Tailwind UI is a collection of professionally designed, pre-built UI components built with Tailwind CSS. It's a commercial product from the creators of Tailwind CSS, offering a range of application layouts, marketing sections, and component examples. However, some components are only available for React and Vue.
daisyUI is a component library for Tailwind CSS that provides pre-designed components with theming capabilities. It is framework-agnostic, meaning it can be used in any web project, and it doesn't ship any JavaScript to the browser.
daisyUI serves a wide base of developers, as suggested by its GitHub star count. Tailwind UI provides several component choices. daisyUI provides more component options overall. daisyUI ships as a self-sufficient Tailwind CSS plugin
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
Tailwind UI provides several component choices. daisyUI provides more component options overall.
daisyUI has 61 components, 57 of them are unique – for example pagination and button group are considered as same.
Tailwind UI handles theming effectively. daisyUI allows you to use multiple themes on the same page simultaneously, a feature not typically found in Tailwind UI.
daisyUI has 35 themes
daisyUI serves a wide base of developers, as suggested by its GitHub star count. daisyUI serves developers across the globe, demonstrated by its NPM download stats
As of April 2025
Avoid Tailwind UI if you're working on a project with a different framework other than React or Vue, or if you require extensive customization beyond what the components offer. Also, if you prefer open-source solutions or have a limited budget, Tailwind UI might not be the right choice due to its paid license.
Use daisyUI when you want to rapidly prototype or build a project with a consistent design system based on Tailwind CSS. It's well-suited for projects where you need a large variety of customizable components and theme options without writing a lot of custom CSS.
1. Install daisyUI as a Node package:
npm i -D daisyui@latestpnpm add -D daisyui@latestyarn add -D daisyui@latestbun add -D daisyui@latestdeno i -D npm:daisyui@latest2. Add daisyUI to app.css:
@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui";This comparison is for informational purposes only. Information is based on GitHub public data, NPM registry data and official documentation websites. If you found any outdated information, please open a PR to update it.