awesome-gui

A curated list of awesome libraries for building cross platform apps.

Maintenance checked on 2026-10-28. Unmaintained marks projects with no default-branch commits for over a year (before 2025-10-28), or an explicit maintainer notice. Archived projects are labeled separately.

Framework

• Electron Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Electrobun Build ultra fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
• revery ⚡️ Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason! Unmaintained (last commit: 2021-08-27)
• Azul Desktop GUI Framework in Rust
• GPUI GPU-accelerated UI framework for Rust with hybrid immediate and retained mode rendering, used by the Zed editor
• Native Shell Native UI framework for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web, with Rust and TSX support
• graffiti Rapid GUI development using familiar technologies (javascript, flexbox, css) Unmaintained (last commit: 2023-11-08)
• Muon Lightweight alternative to Electron written in Golang Unmaintained (last commit: 2022-10-10)
• node-gui A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS like styling 🚀
• vuido Native desktop applications using Vue.js. vuido.mimec.org Unmaintained (last commit: 2019-02-12)
• proton-native A React environment for cross platform native desktop apps proton-native.js.org Unmaintained (last commit: 2021-01-20; maintainer notice)
• fyne Cross platform GUI in Go based on Material Design
• react native for windows&mac A framework bringing React Native to Windows & Mac devices.
• tauri Tauri is a tool for building tiny, blazing fast binaries for all major desktop platforms.
• Compose for Desktop Fast reactive desktop UIs for Kotlin, based on Google's modern toolkit and brought to you by JetBrains.
• Flutter Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.
• Kraken High-performance web rendering engine, built on Flutter by Alibaba. Unmaintained (last commit: 2022-07-27; upstream recommends WebF for Flutter 3+)
• Wails Create desktop apps using Go and Web Technologies.
• MyGo Desktop apps in Go, with a web frontend or a native GPU-rendered UI, shipped as a single binary
• nanoui Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend
• Neutralinojs Build lightweight cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• iced A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

UI library

• Blueprintjs A React-based UI toolkit for the web, made by Palantir.
• Mantine Mantine is a MIT licensed open source react components and hooks library with focus on usability, accessibility and developer experience.
• Wired Elements A set of common UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look. Unmaintained (last commit: 2021-11-02)
• Rough.js Rough.js is a small (<9 kB) graphics library that lets you draw in a sketchy, hand-drawn-like, style. Unmaintained (last commit: 2023-11-20)
• Chakra UI Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications.
• Radix UI Unstyled, accessible components for building high‑quality design systems and web apps in React.
• Fluent Design Fluent Design System by Microsoft.
• Primer Design GitHub’s design system.
• Geist UI Modern and minimalist React UI library, originating from Vercel's design. Archived on 2026-06-01; no longer maintained
• Semi Design A modern, comprehensive, flexible design system by DouyinFE.
• shadcn/ui Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps.
• GPUI Kit Rust component library and umbrella crate for building desktop interfaces with GPUI; used by Glim, a macOS file viewer and basic text editor.