Recommended Rust GUI Libraries

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/rust

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  • bl3_save_edit

    Borderlands 3 Save/Profile Editor for Windows/MacOS and Linux!

  • I recommend iced - here's a GUI I built with it if you want to see what it's capable of.

  • cowbump

    Image viewer with tag based filtering

  • Right now I'm working on an image organizer made with egui https://github.com/crumblingstatue/cowbump

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  • cacao

    Rust bindings for AppKit (macOS) and UIKit (iOS/tvOS). Experimental, but working!

  • If you’re simply after native macOS, you could use my crate cacao. Should be fine for your purposes here, I wanna say - you could use any of the examples as a starting point. Cargo bundle is your friend if you wanna package and ship it.

  • Slint

    Discontinued Slint is a toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for any display: embedded devices and desktop applications. We support multiple programming languages, such as Rust, C++ or JavaScript. [Moved to: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint]

  • I would like to try this someday https://github.com/sixtyfpsui/sixtyfps

  • Epic-Asset-Manager

    A frontend to Assets purchased on Epic Games Store

  • I have used the GTK rust bindings to great effect, powerful and should be multi platform. See Github for my app

  • Relm4

    Discontinued An idiomatic GUI library inspired by Elm and based on gtk4-rs [Moved to: https://github.com/Relm4/Relm4] (by AaronErhardt)

  • Creator of [Relm4](https://github.com/AaronErhardt/relm4 here. Of course I might be a bit biased but I honestly think Relm4 has currently the best cross-platform and full-featured GUI experience for Rust programmers :)

  • areweguiyet

    A website built for the Rust community

  • Lots of pending pull requests, though.

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  • gtk4-rs

    Rust bindings of GTK 4

  • It's actually quite simple when you use the GNU toolchain. With MSVC it's a bit more complicated. Anyway, I've added a PR for this: https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/pull/606

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