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There's also ImGui which is maybe a bit of a compromise, where it might not be the "best looking GUI with cool animations" but also gives you a visual interface that you can handcraft and manipulate. I don't want to undersell it though, there is some really cool stuff out there built with ImGui. If your a data analytics/charts/graphing type of person, there are a lot of toys to play with in ImGui's toolkit.
There is also SDL, which is a bit of a behemoth library, but gives you a lot of firepower if you want to get down to the nuts and bolts of building something from scratch with media. It provides a framework for working with graphics, sound, input hardware, etc., and is cross-platform. I haven't personally used SDL but it's a pretty well-utilized library. It's written in C so the same caveats apply as before, but works just fine with C++.