HeroUI
Beautiful by default. Customizable by design.

HeroUI (formerly NextUI) is a React UI component library built on React Aria and Tailwind CSS v4, offering accessible and visually polished components for building production-ready web applications. It positions itself as a modern alternative to MUI, Chakra UI, and shadcn/ui. The library is backed by Y Combinator (S24).
HeroUI provides a library of pre-built React components built on React Aria for accessibility and Tailwind CSS v4 for styling, which developers install and use directly in their projects.
Frontend developers and teams building React web applications
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- HeroUI
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