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  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

    • Project mention: Using raylib with Dear ImGui: Game Dev Debugging UI | dev.to | 2024-04-06

    include(cmake/CPM.cmake) function(raylib_imgui_setup_dependencies) message(STATUS "Include Dear ImGui") FetchContent_Declare( ImGui GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/ocornut/imgui GIT_TAG 277ae93c41314ba5f4c7444f37c4319cdf07e8cf) # v1.90.4 FetchContent_MakeAvailable(ImGui) FetchContent_GetProperties(ImGui SOURCE_DIR IMGUI_DIR) add_library( imgui STATIC ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_draw.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_widgets.cpp ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}/imgui_tables.cpp) target_include_directories(imgui INTERFACE ${imgui_SOURCE_DIR}) include(cmake/CPM.cmake) message(STATUS "Include dbg-macro") cpmaddpackage( "gh:sharkdp/dbg-macro#fb9976f410f8b29105818b20278cd0be0e853fe8" )# v0.5.1 message(STATUS "Include fmtlib") cpmaddpackage("gh:fmtlib/fmt#e69e5f977d458f2650bb346dadf2ad30c5320281" )# 10.x message(STATUS "Include raylib") cpmaddpackage("gh:raysan5/raylib#ae50bfa2cc569c0f8d5bc4315d39db64005b1b0" )# v5.0 message(STATUS "Include spdlog") cpmaddpackage("gh:gabime/spdlog#7c02e204c92545f869e2f04edaab1f19fe8b19fd" )# v1.13.0 message(STATUS "Include rlImGui") FetchContent_Declare( rlImGui GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/raylib-extras/rlImGui GIT_TAG d765c1ef3d37cf939f88aaa272a59a2713d654c9) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(rlImGui) FetchContent_GetProperties(rlImGui SOURCE_DIR RLIMGUI_DIR) add_library(rlimgui STATIC ${rlimgui_SOURCE_DIR}/rlImgui.cpp) target_link_libraries(rlimgui PRIVATE imgui raylib) target_include_directories(rlimgui INTERFACE ${rlimgui_SOURCE_DIR}) endfunction()

  • flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

    • Project mention: Flameshot: Free and open source screenshot software | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-15

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • cutter

    Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

    • Project mention: The Hiew Hex Editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-02

    Everything Hiew can do, Rizin[1] can do too, and is completely free and open source[2] under LGPL3 license. Moreover, it supports more architectures, platforms, and file formats, as well as GUI in Qt - Cutter[3][4]. If something is missing in Rizin but presented in Hiew, please let us know by opening the issue with details.

    [1] https://rizin.re

    [2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin

    [3] https://cutter.re

    [4] https://github.com/rizinorg/cutter

  • DearPyGui

    Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

    • Project mention: PysimpleGUI | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-08

    For native GUI, DearPyGui[0] as modern as you can.

    For browser web-based GUI, you can use nicegui[1]

    [0] -- https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui

    [1] -- https://github.com/zauberzeug/nicegui

  • Open3D

    Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

    • Project mention: Does anyone else agree that the links to the latest development version of Open3D don't work? | /r/cscareerquestions | 2023-07-10

    I was going to file a bug about another issue, but I have to download the development version. This is why I want this solved quickly. None of the links seem to work: https://github.com/isl-org/Open3D/issues/6259

  • Stacer

    Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

  • nodegui

    A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS πŸš€. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org

    • Project mention: Brig: A user interface toolkit for Node.js, which is based on Qt for rendering | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-20

    This looks like it hasn't been maintained in years but there's a modern equivalent in NodeGUI [1] which also has React/Svelte/Vue implementations. Unfortunately it requires a custom build of Node that merges the libuv and Qt6 event loops so YMMV.

    It actually inspired me to write my own implementation with Svelte on top of QuickJS and Qt Widgets but the task of wrapping the entire Qt6 API in Rust proved to be intractable once I found out that most methods weren't marked Q_INVOKABLE and thus couldn't be called via reflection (requiring manual wrapping). Providing a `Document.createElement` API that created Qt Widgets with working attributes and event handling worked surprisingly well though!

    [1] https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • GuiLite

    βœ”οΈThe smallest header-only GUI library(4 KLOC) for all platforms

    • Project mention: Bombed an interview and trying to figure out how to pivot. Any advice on on increasing code literacy and filling in knowledge gaps from EE? | /r/embedded | 2023-12-06

  • FTXUI

    Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (β†’ ζ΅‹θ―•). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

    • Project mention: Functional Terminal User Interface | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

  • Windows UI Library

    Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications

    • Project mention: WinUI 3 is now open source | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-24

  • wxWidgets

    Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

    • Project mention: Solitaire: Authentic remake of the Windows 95 original | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

  • Duilib

  • NanoGUI

    Minimalistic GUI library for OpenGL

    • Project mention: Cairo – Open-Source 2D Graphics Layer/API with Fonts and Many Back-Ends | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-17

  • implot

    Immediate Mode Plotting

    • Project mention: Recording and visualising the 20k system calls it takes to "import seaborn" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-16

    ImPlot is small and worth checking out if you don't want to make the plotting functions yourself. https://github.com/epezent/implot

  • ricochet

    Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging

    • Project mention: Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-11

    This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet

  • notes

    Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

    • Project mention: Joplin is an open source note-taking app | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-03

    Plume is actually based on my open source note-taking app Notes[1]. You can already get it on Flathub, Snap Store etc. Notes uses just a simple plain text editor while Plume has a completely revamped block editor that I built from scratch. That parts of Notes used in Plume will remain open source (per the MPL license) but the rest of the code will be closed source. At least for the time being.

    [1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

  • Yue

    A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps

    • Project mention: This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-18

  • Elements C++ GUI library

    Elements C++ GUI library

    • Project mention: declarative GUI libraries | /r/cpp | 2023-06-23

  • sciter

    Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

    • Project mention: Show HN: Open Source TailwindCSS UI Components | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-17

  • RmlUi

    RmlUi - The HTML/CSS User Interface library evolved

    • Project mention: RmlUi – The HTML/CSS User Interface Library Evolved | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-17

  • Qt

    Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

  • GacUI

    GPU Accelerated C++ User Interface, with WYSIWYG developing tools, XML supports, built-in data binding and MVVM features.

  • nana

    a modern C++ GUI library

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source GUI projects in C++? This list will help you:

Project Stars
1 imgui 55,570
2 flameshot 23,125
3 cutter 14,926
4 DearPyGui 12,218
5 Open3D 10,436
6 Stacer 8,750
7 nodegui 8,729
8 GuiLite 7,163
9 FTXUI 6,094
10 Windows UI Library 6,021
11 wxWidgets 5,721
12 Duilib 5,538
13 NanoGUI 4,526
14 implot 4,323
15 ricochet 3,680
16 notes 3,526
17 Yue 3,323
18 Elements C++ GUI library 2,903
19 sciter 2,562
20 RmlUi 2,425
21 Qt 2,273
22 GacUI 2,264
23 nana 2,248

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