Best of / Rust crates / GUI and graphics
Best of · ranked by real use · data Oct 24, 2026
Best Rust crates for GUI and graphics
Short answerBy real use, the top Rust crates for GUI and graphics are tauri (160K a day), wgpu (151K a day), egui (80.5K a day). tauri is our default pick: 159,875 real downloads a day and 742 dependents. Gaining fastest against the field: slint (+103%). 5 of these 6 shipped in the last 90 days.
Our picks
- Default pick: tauri. The most used that still ships releases, so the most answered questions and the likeliest to already be in your tree.
- Rising: slint. +103% on quiet days against the field over 90 days.
- Most recently released: egui (9 days ago).
The ranking
| # | Crate | Real downloads a day | Dependents | Trend vs field | Last release | What it is (its own description) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tauri Established | 159,875 | 742 | +15% | 3d | Make tiny, secure apps for all desktop platforms with Tauri |
| 2 | wgpu Widely used | 150,503 | 1,896 | +26% | 2mo | Cross-platform, safe, pure-rust graphics API |
| 3 | egui Widely used | 80,493 | 1,341 | +15% | 9d | An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI that runs on both web and native |
| 4 | bevy Widely used | 19,723 | 2,146 | +17% | 16d | A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine and app framework |
| 5 | iced Established | 7,474 | 405 | +1% | 11mo | A cross-platform GUI library inspired by Elm |
| 6 | slint Established | 6,795 | 112 | +103% | 33d | GUI toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for embedded devices and desktop applications |
Rules
Candidates: crates whose own README says they do this job, picked by hand (egui, iced, slint, tauri, wgpu, winit, bevy, eframe, gtk, macroquad, ggez); one appears when we have 80+ days of crates.io data for it. Ranked by real downloads a day (quiet-day median, release-day spikes removed), crates.io data Oct 24, 2026. The default pick is the top crate that shipped a release in the last 2 years. Downloads measure use, not quality, and crates that other libraries pull in rank above tools you add yourself: read each description for fit.
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