MahApps.Metro VS Avalonia

Compare MahApps.Metro vs Avalonia and see what are their differences.

MahApps.Metro

A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort. (by MahApps)

Avalonia

Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project. (by AvaloniaUI)
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MahApps.Metro Avalonia
17 254
9,089 23,381
0.7% 2.6%
7.2 9.9
23 days ago 5 days ago
C# C#
MIT License MIT License
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MahApps.Metro

Posts with mentions or reviews of MahApps.Metro. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

Avalonia

Posts with mentions or reviews of Avalonia. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-07.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MahApps.Metro and Avalonia you can also consider the following projects:

Uno Platform - Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit - Google's Material Design in XAML & WPF, for C# & VB.Net.

WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF

Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

Fluent.Ribbon - WPF Ribbon control like in Office

metroframework-modern-ui - My humble attempt to bring the new Modern UI alias Metro UI of Windows 8 to .NET Windows Forms applications.

Windows UI Library - Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications

MudBlazor - Blazor Component Library based on Material design with an emphasis on ease of use. Mainly written in C# with Javascript kept to a bare minimum it empowers .NET developers to easily debug it if needed.