Popular Vue3 UI Frameworks and Their Features

Ant Design Vue

Official website: https://2x.antdv.com/components/overview/

Ant Design Vue is a very mature framework; creating user interfaces with it is simple, and its over 60 components adapt to various icon styles, fonts, and dark themes. It continuously improves to cover most project needs and enhances accessibility.

The Vue3 version of Ant Design is smaller, feels lighter, and supports SSR (including the composition API). It offers mature complex components such as data tables, statistic panels, pop confirmations, modals, and pop‑up windows.

Ant Design Vue has more than 15k stars on GitHub and about 49k weekly downloads, indicating strong popularity.

BalmUI

Official website: https://next-material.balmjs.com/#/

BalmUI has released version 9.0, which supports Vue3. Based on Google’s Material Design, it feels familiar and includes Vue plugins, directives, and highly customizable components ranging from simple to complex.

BalmUI develops rapidly; if you want a Material Design style and need complex built‑in directives such as debouncing and UI ripples for custom components, it is well suited for Vue3 projects.

Wave UI

Official website: https://antoniandre.github.io/wave-ui/

Wave UI was positioned well after Vue3’s release; development started when Vue3 was still in alpha, aiming to support the stable API immediately, making it one of the first Vue3 UI frameworks.

Wave UI offers over 40 beautiful, responsive components ranging from spinners to calendars, plus utilities, customizability, and mature integrated form‑validation features.

Its components are visually consistent and animated, making it a solid choice for enterprise‑grade responsive Vue3 applications.

Vuestic

Official website: https://vuestic.dev/

Vuestic is one of the most beautiful open‑source admin panels for Vue, excelling at maintainable Vue code, flexible components, and interfaces.

The team recently released a Vue3 version that includes the popular Vuestic Admin UI and more components. Vuestic emphasizes out‑of‑the‑box keyboard navigation support, which is highly valued in the front‑end community.

It provides over 50 uniquely functional, highly configurable components with responsive design, seamless translation support, and keyboard accessibility.

Vuestic has established itself as one of the most visually appealing Vue3 UI frameworks and is accelerating the creation of more complex components such as date pickers and data tables.

Element+

Official website: https://element-plus.org/#/zh-CN

Element+ rose to prominence in Vue2, and now brings a large collection of unobtrusive components to Vue3. Most of what is needed for a complex application is already built and ready to use.

It provides mature date‑time pickers, trees, timelines, and calendar components.

Element+ also offers the finest‑grained parts developers might need, from simple animations to a framework‑wide internationalization system that can be paired with i18n for custom translations.

It has over 11.1k stars on GitHub and is becoming one of the most popular Vue3 UI frameworks, praised for issue management, timely updates, plug‑in components, and high customizability via SCSS variables.

Ionic

Official website: https://ionicframework.com/docs/vue/overview

Ionic was one of the earliest UI frameworks to support Vue3, focusing on mobile UI. The team knows how to cater to and maintain an excellent UI framework.

Ionic Vue is a mature framework with a vibrant community, many StackOverflow questions, enterprise support, and a large Slack channel, making help easy to obtain.

It has over 45k stars on GitHub and is used by large companies such as Airbus and Electronic Arts; the Ionic team is known for maintaining their UI framework well, making it a solid choice now and in the future.

Naive UI

Official website: https://www.naiveui.com/zh-CN/os-theme

Naive UI gained a lot of attention after being posted on Twitter and retweeted by the creator of Vue. Within three months it earned 5.1k stars on GitHub.

It offers over 70 well‑crafted components that integrate seamlessly into almost any Vue3 application. The components perform excellently, are highly customizable, support TypeScript, and provide a great developer experience.

The documentation site is easy to browse, with full custom input options that let developers preview components in their own themes. Custom themes can be downloaded and applied to override defaults.

Quasar

Official website: https://next.quasar.dev/

Quasar is a complete, performance‑focused framework that helps build Vue user interfaces for SPA, PWA, SSR, mobile, and desktop. Besides Vue, Node, and Webpack, it includes Cordova, Capacitor, and Electron for desktop and mobile experiences without separate learning.

Quasar appears based on Material Design, but once started, everything can be customized to fit your own design system.

Vue3 support is rapid, and Quasar has released almost all v1 components, plugins, and directives, along with composable components that help developers dive deeper into the Quasar API.

PrimeVUE

Official website: https://primefaces.org/primevue/showcase/#/setup

PrimeVUE is also among the earliest frameworks to support Vue3 and does not disappoint. It offers over 80 components, making it one of the broadest‑range libraries in this list.

Components include data tables, sliders, trees, charts, split buttons, knobs, and more. PrimeVUE also integrates the Vuelidate form‑validation library, provides pre‑made themes, and includes a mature visual editor for customizing themes.

Summary

As the ecosystem migrates, moving from Vue2 to Vue3 becomes easier. Leveraging Vue3’s API and reactivity together with these UI frameworks will make project development better, faster, and more flexible.