Iconic Admin Dashboards - AdminLTE, Black Dashboard, CoreUI, Adminator, Material Dashboard

Hello coders,

This article presents a short-list with iconic admin dashboards, free, open-source, and actively supported by their vendors and/or by a significant open-source community.

Dashboards short-list (for fast runners)

• AdminLTE - supported by ColorLib
• Black Dashboard - provided by Creative-Tim
• CoreUI - crafted by CoreUI agency
• Material Dashboard - provided by Creative-Tim
• Adminator - provided and supported by ColorLib

My (nick) name is Sm0ke - Thanks for reading!

AdminLTE

AdminLTE is a fully responsive administration template. Based on Bootstrap 4.4 framework and also the JS/jQuery plugin. Highly customizable and easy to use. Fits many screen resolutions from small mobile devices to large desktops - Links:

• AdminLTE - the official website
• AdminLTE Demo - something LIVE to click on
• AdminLTE Sources - project source code released on Github (MIT License)

The project is actively supported by ColorLib and by many open-source contributors that are coding together and provide support to AdminLTE consumers.

Black Dashboard

Vendor Notes (Creative-Tim) - Black Dashboard is a beautiful Bootstrap 4 Admin Dashboard with a huge number of components built to fit together and look amazing. If you are looking for a tool to manage and visualize data about your business, this dashboard is the thing for you. It combines colors that are easy on the eye, spacious cards, beautiful typography, and graphics.

Black Dashboard comes packed with all plugins that you might need inside a project and documentation on how to get started. It is light and easy to use, and also very powerful.

• Black Dashboard - the official product page
• Black Dashboard Demo - LIVE deployment

Black Dashboard is developed by Creative-Tim, a well-know web agency. Source code is published on Github (MIT License) and the repository has more than 200 stars and 64 forks.

CoreUI Dashboard

CoreUI, with more than 10k Github stars, is a popular admin dashboard design, actively supported by the mother agency.

Vendor Notes (CoreUI Agency) - CoreUI admin dashboard delivers a bunch of responsive, customizable, and reusable components you need to create modern, beautiful, responsive apps. CoreUI makes app development lightning fast.

• CoreUI - product page
• CoreUI Demo - LIVE app
• CoreUI Sources

Material Dashboard

Vendor Notes (Creative-Tim) - Material Dashboard is a free Material Bootstrap 4 Admin with a fresh, new design inspired by Google's Material Design. We are very excited to introduce our take on the material concepts through an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Material Dashboard was built over the popular Bootstrap 4 framework and it comes with a couple of third-party plugins redesigned to fit in with the rest of the elements.

• Material Dashboard - product page
• Material Design Demo - LIVE deployment

Adminator

A modern dashboard UI provided by Colorlib. The permissive license (MIT) make this design a good candidate for a hobby or a commercial project that involves an admin dashboard section.

Vendor Notes (ColorLib) - Adminator is a responsive Bootstrap 4 Admin Template. It provides you with a collection of ready to use code snippets and utilities, custom pages, a collection of applications and some useful widgets.

• Adminator - Source code published on Github
• Adminator Demo - LIVE deployment

Note: this article is an open list, feel free to suggest items in the comments. Thank you!

Other Resources

• Admin Dashboards - provided by the AppSeed platform as simple starters in modern frameworks
• Admin Dashboards - a huge index published on Github