List of platform-independent GUI libraries

This is a list of notable library packages implementing a graphical user interface (GUI) platform-independent GUI library (PIGUI). These can be used to develop software that can be ported to multiple computing platforms with no change to its source code.

In C, C++

Name Owner Platforms License
Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) CEF Project Page Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows Free: BSD
CEGUI CEGUI team Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows Free: MIT
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) Enlightenment.org X11, Wayland, Microsoft Windows, macOS, DirectFB, Tizen Free: BSD, LGPL, GPL
Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK) Bill Spitzak, et al. X11, Wayland, Microsoft Windows, macOS Free: LGPL
GTK
formerly GIMP Toolkit 		GNOME Foundation Linux (X11, Wayland), Microsoft Windows, macOS, HTML5 Free: LGPL
IUP Tecgraf, PUC-Rio X11, GTK, Microsoft Windows Free: MIT
JUCE PACE Anti-Piracy Inc. X11, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows Mixed: GPL, proprietary
LiveCode LiveCode, Ltd. X11, macOS, Microsoft Windows Proprietary
Qt Qt Project Linux (X11, Wayland), OS/2, macOS, iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, WebAssembly (partial) Mixed: LGPL, GPL, or proprietary
U++ U++ team Linux (X11, GTK), macOS, Microsoft Windows Free: BSD
wxWidgets
formerly wxWindows 		wxWidgets team X11, Wayland, OpenLook, macOS, iOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 Free: wxWindows

In other languages

Name Owner Programming language Platforms License
Apache Flex
Formerly Adobe Flex 		Apache Software Foundation ActionScript, Flash, Adobe AIR Windows (x86, x64), macOS, Android (ARM, x86), iOS, Web (SWF) Free: Apache
Apache Pivot Apache Software Foundation Java Windows, macOS, Linux Free: Apache
Avalonia AvaloniaUI OÜ C#, XAML, WASM Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web (WebAssembly), Samsung Tizen Free: MIT
Delphi, FireMonkey Embarcadero Technologies Object Pascal, Python[1] Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android Proprietary
Flutter Google C, C++, Dart Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web[2][3] Free: New BSD License
Fyne Open source Go Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Android, iOS (experimental: Web) Free: New BSD License
Godot (game engine) Open source GDScript, C++, C#, GDNative Linux, macOS, Windows, BSD, Haiku, iOS, Android, HTML5, WebAssembly, Xbox One, Universal Windows Platform, also useful for making GUI apps in VR (OpenXR and WebXR) Free: MIT
PureBasic Fantaisie Software BASIC Windows, Linux and OSX Proprietary
JavaFX Oracle Corporation Java Windows, Linux X11, macOS, Android, iOS Free: CDDL, GPL with linking exception
Kivy Kivy Python Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS Free: MIT
LCL, Lazarus Open source Free Pascal Windows (Win32, Qt), Linux (GTK, Qt), macOS (Qt, Carbon, Cocoa) Free: GPL, LGPL
Mono, GTK# Xamarin C# Windows, Linux (X11, Wayland), macOS Free: MIT, LGPLv2, GPLv2 (dual license)
Swing Oracle Corporation Java Windows, Linux X11, macOS Free: CDDL, GPL with linking exception
SWT Eclipse Foundation Java Windows (Win32), Linux (GTK), macOS (Cocoa) Free: Eclipse
Tcl/Tk Open source Tcl Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac, Android Free: BSD-style
Unity Unity Technologies C#, JavaScript, Boo Windows, X11, macOS, Android, iOS
also features cross-platform Web player 		Proprietary, based on open-source
Uno Platform nventive C#, XAML, WASM Windows, iOS, Android, Web (WebAssembly), experimental macOS Free: Apache
VisualWorks Cincom Smalltalk Windows, OS/2, Linux (X11), OpenLook, Mac Proprietary
Xojo Xojo, Inc. Xojo Windows, macOS, Linux (X11), iOS, web Proprietary
LispWorks CAPI LispWorks, Ltd. Common Lisp Windows, macOS, Linux (Gtk+), Motif Proprietary

No longer available or supported

Name Owner Comment
VisualAge IBM Discontinued by IBM in 2007.
AppWare Novell Has been de-emphasized (commonly viewed as dropped) by Novell
Open Interface Neuron Data One of the earliest PIGUI supported DOS, macOS, OS/2, VMS, Microsoft Windows 3.0
Zinc Application Framework Professional Software Associates May still be supported, but no new sales

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "Delphi VCL & FMX Libraries for Python".
  2. ^ "Multi-Platform". flutter.dev. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  3. ^ Sneath, Tim (2022-05-11). "Introducing Flutter 3". Medium. Archived from the original on 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2024-05-27.