Which Rust GUI Framework is the Best? Popular Frameworks and Their Features

Rust's GUI ecosystem has developed rapidly in recent years, with several mature and popular libraries emerging for different use cases. This article lists the currently popular Rust GUI libraries and their characteristics.

Dioxus

Dioxus is a full-stack application framework for web, desktop, and mobile devices;

• Easily build cross-platform applications (web, desktop, mobile, server, etc.)
• Ergonomic state management combining the best of React, Solid and Svelte
• Type-safe routing and server functions guaranteed by Rust's powerful compile-time capabilities
• Integrated packaging tools for Web, macOS, Linux and Windows
• Instant hot-reloading
• First-class Android and iOS support

Slint

Slint is an open-source declarative GUI toolkit for building user interfaces for embedded systems, desktop and mobile platforms;

• Responsive UI design allowing cross-platform use across operating systems and processor architectures
• Low resource requirements for memory and processing power
• Stable API

Tauri

Tauri is a framework for building extremely small, ultra-fast binaries for all major desktop platforms. Developers can use any frontend framework that compiles to HTML, JS and CSS to build user interfaces, while the application backend is a Rust binary whose API can interact with the frontend.

• Cross-platform: Supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, Android
• Frontend agnostic: Works with all frontend frameworks
• Built-in application bundler
• Native WebView protocol

Egui

Egui is a simple, fast and highly lightweight immediate mode GUI library written in pure Rust, specifically designed for Rust; it runs smoothly on web, native environments and various major game engines.

• Immediate mode GUI
• Supports writing programs for Web, Linux, Mac, Windows, and Android

Iced

Iced is a cross-platform Rust GUI library focused on simplicity and type safety.

• Simple, batteries-included API
• Type-safe, reactive programming model
• Cross-platform support (Windows, macOS, Linux, and Web)
• Responsive layout
• Built-in widget library
• Custom widget support
• Debug overlay with performance metrics
• Native async support

Ratatui

Ratatui is a Rust-based terminal user interface (TUI) development library. It provides a simple and flexible way to help developers build text-based interactive interfaces in terminals, suitable for command line tools (CLI), real-time dashboards and other console interactive programs.

• Build beautiful terminal user interfaces
• Built-in widgets