# Material UI stays web-first: keep it or move to an owned kit

Material UI is a web React component suite with a Material Design default. That is enough when the product stays in the browser. It is the wrong default the week the roadmap adds Expo, a shared Button API across web and native, or a full-stack kit your agents should extend on disk.

This guide is stay-or-leave for teams already on [Material UI](https://mui.com/material-ui/). It is not an alternatives shopping list — that roundup is [Why builders are leaving MUI and the honest alternatives](/blog/material-ui-alternatives). The Chakra sibling decision is separate at [Chakra UI still wins for web-only React; switch when mobile parity matters](/blog/chakra-ui-web-only-decision).

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