12 Amazing Free and Premium HTML5/CSS3 Admin Templates You Should Know

Backend admin panels are an integral part of a web application now. Website administrators need to keep track of the website statistics constantly. A lot of data are needed by the administrator and quite a lot of them make administrative end complex to manage. These data have to be represented in the admin panel with utmost simplicity so that they are easier to manage. In order to avoid the trouble of building all the components from scratch and including all the required plugins to make the admin panel fully functional, the easiest way is to rely on an admin template.

When using an admin template, there are many things that have been taken care of. The templates are already responsive, they include many widgets, many pre-built pages, a lot of widgets etc. You can download a template that fits the needs of your project. If the design and features of the template meet your requirement, ensures well-written code, has a clean and a high-quality interface, then it can save you a ton of time and energy.

The following is the list of some of the best HTML5/CSS3 templates, both free and premium.

Free

1 - Modular Admin

Modular Admin is a neat, simple and elegant admin template built on top of Bootstrap 4. It is fully responsive and can be easily customized. It comes with 6 skin colors and you can choose the header, footer, and sidebar to fixed or static with respect to the dashboard.

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The bold typography of the template makes the components of the template stand out. The template has many features that should be present in an admin template to create a decent admin panel. The template is fully compatible with additional plugins.

Browser support for the admin template includes Chrome, IE 10+, iOS Safari 7+, and last two versions of Firefox. A well-written description of how to use the template has been given in the documentation to help you get started with your project without much delay.

2 – Gentelella

Gentelella is a free, responsive admin template with flat design. it has more features than that you can ask for in a free template. it has got 35+ pages which include Additional pages for e-commerce, projects, contact, profile etc. It uses several libraries for charts calendar, forms validation, form autocomplete, upload area, range sliders, notifications, etc. You can select from three different dashboards that Gentelella has in store for you. It includes a huge collection of plugins and UI elements that you can use for your admin template.

Gentelella is built upon Bootstrap 3, the stable version of Bootstrap as of now. The template overrides the basic Bootstrap styles to give the unique look that the template has.

3 – Copilot

Copilot is free responsive admin template that is forked from AdminLTE. It has a colorful flat design for your dashboard and is highly customizable. The number of pages is 9 including a login page and an error page.

The pre-built pages of the template include the dashboard, tables, task, settings, files, access, server, reports, login page, and a 404 error page.

In case you face any problem while using the template, you can ask your questions and get support on the issues page on GitHub. Documentation and the demo for the template are provided in the GitHub repo.

4 – Dashgum

Dashgum is a simple, elegant, and flat admin built with Bootstrap. It is a responsive, highly customizable template for you to get started with your admin panel as soon as possible. It comes with 15 pages that you can use, the extra pages include a blank page, a login page, and a lock screen. With the free template, you get a lot of features like tables, charts, calendars, notifications, forms etc. But if you need more features, you can get premium version that offers a lot more functionalities.

5 - Startmin

Startmin has all the basic Bootstrap components that you would need for building an admin template. It has a simple, clean flat design. The responsive navbar and sidebar with multi-level dropdowns and various other UI components like charts – Morris charts and Flot charts, forms, tables, and other UI elements make it a good starting point for your admin panel. In case any issues with the admin panel, you can submit your issues on the Github issues page.

6 – Admin LTE Control Panel Template

This Bootstrap 3 based admin template is yet another template that can compete with any premium template of its kind. It is responsive, comes with a flat design and has 6 skins. It has responsive navbar and a responsive sidebar with multilevel dropdown, 35+ pages, including two dashboards that you can choose from.

AdminLTE uses over 18 plugins and 3 custom made plugins and different widgets including direct chat, social widgets etc. to get more than the default bootstrap style. It supports all latest and popular browsers including Safari, IE9+, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. AdminLTE provides very good documentation on how to get started and about all the components, plugins used, upgrade guide etc. They provide support through their GitHub page.

Premium

7 – Remark

Remark – Responsive Bootstrap 4 Admin Template is an excellent pick to create a masterpiece admin dashboard. Beginning with the design, Remark offers two version for the design – classic and material. Other than that it has 6 different layouts for the menu, 6 page-content layouts, dark and light menubar and 11 predefined color schemes to choose from and you can always create your own custom color scheme to suit your tastes.

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Coming to the functionalities, the template is fully responsive, it has 1000+ UI components- basic and advanced, 100+ widgets, charts, forms, tables and much more. There are 25+ pages that the template has, and the additional pages include 5 error pages, FAQ, gallery, gallery grid, maps, login and register pages, sitemap, code editor etc.

Remark – Responsive Bootstrap 4 Admin Template is well documented, has an average star rating of 4.77/5 in ThemeForest. The template can be purchased from ThemeForest at different prices for different licenses. Support for the template is provided by AmazingSurge via email.

8 – Monarch

Monarch is an upscale, powerful, sophisticated and responsive admin template. It has 4 demos including a frontend template. The other three are AngularJS version, HTML version, and a Bootstrap 4 version. The interface is neat with bordered and well-placed elements, with a light background and minimalist use of colors. There are 4 different layouts ready to use, 7 solid and 8 gradient color variations for the header and the sidebar. If you don't like the dashboard you can check out the alternate dashboard in the extra pages.

Monarch is fully equipped with reusable UI components, widgets, and many plugins. The elements that are uncommon are dashboard boxes that comprise of charts, tile, social and panel boxes that you can add to the dashboard of your web application. The widgets include lazyload, loading feedback, sortable elements, responsive tabs etc. You can add a mailbox application, chat, timeline and a checklist from this admin template. The components you add are easily customizable so it won't be a bad idea to get a little creative.

9 – Limitless

Limitless Responsive Web Application Kit is a responsive admin template based on Bootstrap 3 and Less. The template comes with LTR and RTL versions. It has 5 layout variations, 2 themes - default, and material, and within the template, there are nine page-layouts for the navbar and sidebar. The template comes with many color palettes that you can apply to your web application, which of course you can also customize with the imagination of your own.

The functionalities provided by the template are immense. It is populous with many UI elements. There are 1000+ pages, 1000+ components, and widgets, an equally extensive list of icons, animations, extra pages, tables, charts and forms

Limitless Responsive Web Application Kit is a well-documented admin template with support provided by Kopyov through the comment section. So you can go through the comments to see what all issues have been raised and how they have been resolved. The template can be purchased from ThemeForest at different prices for different types of licenses. Limitless has received great reviews with an average rating of 4.92 stars out of 5 based on 405 ratings.

10 – Supina

Supina is a fully responsive admin template with a colorful, neat, modern and flat design. With Supina you get 3 different dashboard examples. An exclusive feature of this admin template is that it has many examples for the front-end UI templates that includes 16 examples for homepage, widgets including carousels and slideshows, portfolios, different elements, headers, and footers.

Supina is fully packed with UI components, widgets, different form elements, maps, and of course charts. Extra pages include helper classes sidebar panels, animations, and page transitions, other than multiple logins, lock screen, and error pages. The template is easy to customize and you can easily integrate any of the components that you require to your web application.

11 - Clean UI

Clean UI is based on Angular 2. Clean UI is one the most popular premium admin templates. The template has a simple design that is ideal for a complex admin panel. It also gives you an option with 6 different color schemes.

If you need a template for your Angular 2 project that gives you a lot of options that can help you create a full-fledged admin panel, then Clean UI will not disappoint you. There are two admin dashboards that you can choose from, pre-built pages, additional e-commerce pages, a huge collection of charts and tables, and more.

The template is a premium template that provides good support and is well-documented. Clean UI comes in an Angular version as well.

12 - Fuse

Fuse admin template is built using Angular 4 and Bootstrap 4. This is a responsive admin template with Google's material design. Fuse is a great option for your angular project. It will save a ton of time and effort that you would have to put in otherwise when starting from scratch.

The template also includes many plugins that can help you get advanced UI elements along with the other huge collection of the UI elements and built-in pages.  The applications in the template include chat, file manager, contacts, to-do list, calendar, email, and scrum board. There are various of layouts that you can choose from including RTL layout. The template is cross-browser compatible and well-documented.