Headless UI Templates

7 Headless UI templates with Tailwind CSS and React: unstyled, accessible menus, dialogs and tabs alongside shadcn/ui components. A template can be in several categories, so a Headless UI template can also be listed under another.

7 templates by 7 developers: 7 open source. The collection has 229 templates in all.

They are most often listed with React, Tailwind, Next.js and Full-stack. Those categories are linked at the foot of this page.

The collection is for shadcn/ui: each Headless UI template was listed because it uses shadcn/ui components. Its repository shows the exact setup, such as a components.json and the Tailwind CSS version.

Headless UI templates are complete apps or sites you clone or download; blocks are single sections you add to an app you already have. Use a template to start a project and blocks to extend it.

The browser on this page searches the 7 Headless UI templates by name, author or category and orders them by featured, name or newest. The address keeps the choice.

Among the open source ones, Eldora UI, RetroUI and Animate UI lead the list. Open each live demo before you clone one.

7 of the 7 Headless UI templates list a live demo and 7 link a GitHub repository. Each template page embeds the demo when it has one.

Eldora UI has the latest listing date among the open source ones, October 8, 2025. Choose Newest in the browser to order Headless UI templates by that date. The date is the listing's, not the repository's.

Animate ui has the most, 1 template, followed by Eyalcohen4 (1) and Karthikmudunuri (1). Each name links to the author's page.

7 developers built the 7 Headless UI templates. The open source ones are independent projects on GitHub.

Open the author's page from the list on this category page: it shows their templates in every category, and which technologies they use. /template/authors lists all 187.

None of the Headless UI templates are by shadcn.io: they are community projects, which their own authors maintain.

The 7 open source ones are free to clone from GitHub, each under its own license.

None. All 7 Headless UI templates here are open source; the 14 premium templates are listed under /template.

For the open source ones, it depends on each repository's license, which shadcn.io doesn't set: read the LICENSE file first.

No. Browsing Headless UI templates and trying their live demos needs no account, and an open source template is cloned from GitHub. Only the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server need Pro.

Open a template and its GitHub link, then run git clone, npm install and npm run dev. Each repository's README has the exact steps.

Yes. Blocks and components are React code you copy with the shadcn CLI, so they fit a Headless UI template that uses Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Components are free with a free account, and the blocks are in Pro.

Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, so you can ask your editor for a Headless UI template and get its repository and live demo.

Yes. The clone is your code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. How you deploy a Headless UI template depends on the template's own framework and services, so follow its README.