Chakra UI

Three strengths

• Accessibility built in. Its components are built to work with screen readers and keyboards, so people with disabilities can use what we build. 3 4
• One look everywhere. Every button, form and menu comes from one shared set, which is what keeps an app consistent. 2
• Free and open source. It's released under the MIT licence, which charges no fee. 2

What it is

Most apps are made of the same handful of everyday parts: buttons, forms, menus, pop-up windows. A component library is a ready-made, tested set of those parts, so a team doesn't redraw them for every project. Chakra UI is one of those libraries for React, and it also works with Next.js. 1 2 It's open source under the MIT licence (a permissive licence that charges no fee), with Segun Adebayo as its original author and copyright holder. 2

Accessibility is one of Chakra's core strengths. A standard called WAI-ARIA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium, gives developers a way to label what each part of a page is and how it behaves, and to support keyboard navigation for people who can't use a mouse. 3 Its components strictly follow that standard, so accessibility is built in rather than bolted on at the end. 4

Consistency is another one of Chakra's strengths: everything on screen comes from the same library, so a button looks and behaves the same on every page, which makes an app feel finished and easier to learn. That matters to the people who use the software every day, because a staff member who has learned one screen already knows how to use the next. 2

We choose it so that more people can use the software and new features ship faster, since the foundations are already there.

How we use it

We use Chakra UI when building the front end of our web-based software projects. It sits alongside React, Next.js and TypeScript, and it's the reason our apps feel consistent from the first screen to the last. That's why a new feature slots in looking like it was always there.

It belongs to our Software Development service. For our mobile apps, we use an equivalent library called Gluestack UI, which does the same job for our React Native and Expo-based projects, so your people can pick up the finished software without a manual.

We use AI-assisted tools to draft and prototype screens quickly. Once an idea is settled, we check the designs for consistency and accessibility and polish them before we ship them to you.

References

1. Chakra UI, "Installation", chakra-ui.com. https://chakra-ui.com/docs/get-started/installation (accessed 28 October 2026)
2. Chakra UI, "chakra-ui/chakra-ui", README and licence, GitHub. https://github.com/chakra-ui/chakra-ui (accessed 28 October 2026)
3. World Wide Web Consortium, "WAI-ARIA Overview", Web Accessibility Initiative. https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/ (accessed 28 October 2026)
4. Chakra UI, "Chakra UI" (version 2 documentation home), v2.chakra-ui.com. https://v2.chakra-ui.com/ (accessed 28 October 2026)