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Magic UITremor
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- Editor's pick: Magic UI.
- No logged gotchas: Magic UI.
| Field | Magic UImagicui.design | Tremortremor.so |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | 150+ animated components built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind and Motion, explicitly designed as the companion to shadcn/ui. Installs with the exact same CLI you already use. No Three.js dependency; components stay under ~5 kB tree-shaken. | 35+ chart and dashboard components built on Recharts and Radix, copy-paste, requiring React 18.2+ and Tailwind v4. Tremor Labs was acquired by Vercel in Jan 2025 and the previously-paid Blocks were released free under MIT. |
| Category | UI component libraries | UI component libraries |
| Cost tier | free | free |
| Pricing | Free · MIT · Pro ~$199 once | Free · MIT (Blocks now free) |
| Why builders pick it | Best stack fit of the animated libraries. Animated beams for a table-of-contents, number tickers for circulation stats, shimmer on a subscribe CTA, marquee for a sponsor row — polish without changing anything structural or blowing the image budget. | If your project has an internal editorial dashboard — traffic per article, submission pipeline, subscriber growth over Supabase queries — this is the strongest free option and much better than hand-rolling Recharts. |
| Watch out for | not logged | There are two Tremors. The legacy npm package @tremor/react still has an unresolved Tailwind v4 bug (renders completely unstyled). Use the copy-paste components from the site; do not npm install the package. |
| How to wire it up | pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @magicui/globe | not logged |
| Editor's pick | Yes | No |
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# Tool comparison — Magic UI vs Tremor Source: Kbaise, a directory of tools that work with Lovable projects. Pick one and tell me why before writing any integration code. ## Magic UI (magic-ui) - URL: https://magicui.design/ - Category: UI component libraries - Cost: free — Free · MIT · Pro ~$199 once - What it is: 150+ animated components built with React, TypeScript, Tailwind and Motion, explicitly designed as the companion to shadcn/ui. Installs with the exact same CLI you already use. No Three.js dependency; components stay under ~5 kB tree-shaken. - Why builders pick it: Best stack fit of the animated libraries. Animated beams for a table-of-contents, number tickers for circulation stats, shimmer on a subscribe CTA, marquee for a sponsor row — polish without changing anything structural or blowing the image budget. - Wiring: pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @magicui/globe - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/magic-ui ## Tremor (tremor) - URL: https://tremor.so/ - Category: UI component libraries - Cost: free — Free · MIT (Blocks now free) - What it is: 35+ chart and dashboard components built on Recharts and Radix, copy-paste, requiring React 18.2+ and Tailwind v4. Tremor Labs was acquired by Vercel in Jan 2025 and the previously-paid Blocks were released free under MIT. - Why builders pick it: If your project has an internal editorial dashboard — traffic per article, submission pipeline, subscriber growth over Supabase queries — this is the strongest free option and much better than hand-rolling Recharts. - Trap: There are two Tremors. The legacy npm package @tremor/react still has an unresolved Tailwind v4 bug (renders completely unstyled). Use the copy-paste components from the site; do not npm install the package. - Full dossier: /api/public/tools/tremor ## Quick read - Editor's pick: Magic UI. - No logged gotchas: Magic UI. ## Rules 1. Prefer the free tier when no budget was stated, and say what the ceiling is. 2. Read the full dossier before integrating. 3. Fetch /api/public/models before writing any AI model ID.
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