Free Tailwind Blocks for React

Watermelon UI has 180+ free Tailwind CSS blocks for React. They are complete page sections like hero sections, pricing tables, footers, navbars, and login pages, ready to copy into a landing page or app. They are open source, MIT licensed, and each one installs with a single shadcn CLI command.

Blocks save the most time when you are building a marketing site. Instead of assembling a pricing section from buttons and cards, you start from a finished section and change the copy.

Block categories

A sample of the blocks

A free alternative to paid block libraries

Paid kits like Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI) are excellent, but they require a license. If you want free blocks with full React source, Watermelon is a good place to start. See the Tailwind UI alternative page for an honest comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Are these Tailwind blocks free for commercial use?

Yes. Every block is MIT licensed and free for commercial projects.

Are these shadcn blocks?

They follow shadcn/ui conventions and are published as a shadcn registry, so they install with npx shadcn@latest add into any shadcn project.

Related

Open-source UI platform for developers

Watermelon UI is an open-source platform for browsing React components, animated interactions, dashboards, templates, and reusable page sections. The project is built for the community and helps developers move from inspiration to implementation faster by pairing visual previews with source-backed examples and documentation. The platform also includes full templates so people can see how individual blocks work together as realistic product pages instead of only as isolated snippets.

Important public pages include the main docs home, animated components, blocks, dashboards, templates, developer docs, about, contact, privacy, terms, copyright, llms.txt, and the sitemap. The repositories under WatermelonCorp are the source of truth for contributions, and the platform repository includes local MCP tooling for structured agent access to the catalog.