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Rust crates · head to head · data Oct 24, 2026

egui vs slint

Short answerBy steady daily use, egui runs at 80,493 downloads on a quiet day against 6,795 for slint (11.8x), and 1,341 crates depend on egui against 112. Pick egui if you want UI in plain Rust code, MIT/Apache licensed, native and web. Pick slint if you want a declarative .slint markup language, designer tooling and support down to microcontrollers.

Bottom line: Check slint's license options (GPL, royalty-free or commercial) before you ship.

80.5Kegui quiet-day downloads/day
6.8Kslint quiet-day downloads/day
1,341crates depend on egui
112crates depend on slint

Side by side

eguislint
Quiet-day baseline (downloads/day)80,4936,795
Downloads in the window7,657,478785,548
Share within 2 days of a release9%4%
Baseline trend (first 30 vs last 30 days)+59%+182%
Reverse dependencies1,341112
All-time downloads28M2.2M
Releases in the window42
Latest version0.37.01.18.1
Latest releaseOct 15, 2026Sep 21, 2026
MSRV (latest)1.951.92
LicenseMIT OR Apache-2.0GPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Slint-Royalty-free-2.0 OR LicenseRef-Slint-Software-3.0
First publishedMay 30, 2020Feb 1, 2022

egui: daily downloads

1K2K2026-07-27: 69,4952026-07-28: 81,9132026-07-29: 62,0692026-07-30: 65,1242026-07-31: 60,0112026-08-01: 44,4692026-08-02: 34,8022026-08-03: 63,8662026-08-04: 65,2962026-08-05: 63,520 (release window)2026-08-06: 59,494 (release window)2026-08-07: 68,517 (release window)2026-08-08: 38,519 (release window)2026-08-09: 34,7362026-08-10: 62,8092026-08-11: 69,7572026-08-12: 71,5612026-08-13: 80,4932026-08-14: 67,9692026-08-15: 38,1682026-08-16: 37,7032026-08-17: 82,9052026-08-18: 77,2062026-08-19: 72,4192026-08-20: 78,8622026-08-21: 66,9682026-08-22: 39,5942026-08-23: 45,7132026-08-24: 65,0342026-08-25: 67,8262026-08-26: 71,8982026-08-27: 75,8612026-08-28: 84,3202026-08-29: 42,8682026-08-30: 33,4632026-08-31: 71,4552026-09-01: 87,0052026-09-02: 80,9162026-09-03: 85,8242026-09-04: 79,7872026-09-05: 39,8932026-09-06: 42,7312026-09-07: 60,1932026-09-08: 80,894 (release window)2026-09-09: 83,540 (release window)2026-09-10: 89,1942026-09-11: 85,1572026-09-12: 49,0282026-09-13: 50,4402026-09-14: 87,1402026-09-15: 85,4542026-09-16: 88,3082026-09-17: 85,9492026-09-18: 82,0422026-09-19: 47,0702026-09-20: 50,4002026-09-21: 82,5462026-09-22: 90,2462026-09-23: 94,6412026-09-24: 88,1802026-09-25: 91,1502026-09-26: 55,6992026-09-27: 48,3442026-09-28: 92,0272026-09-29: 103,3372026-09-30: 98,0142026-10-01: 97,4372026-10-02: 97,1692026-10-03: 59,4172026-10-04: 59,7512026-10-05: 90,3612026-10-06: 111,0722026-10-07: 128,9992026-10-08: 129,9882026-10-09: 122,1932026-10-10: 87,5532026-10-11: 81,7002026-10-12: 121,0662026-10-13: 145,6622026-10-14: 163,4262026-10-15: 161,745 (release window)2026-10-16: 164,016 (release window)2026-10-17: 112,0192026-10-18: 104,4462026-10-19: 162,0442026-10-20: 177,6462026-10-21: 250,0502026-10-22: 276,6702026-10-23: 251,216Jul 27Aug 1Sep 1Oct 1

slint: daily downloads

10K20K2026-07-27: 5,3922026-07-28: 6,1762026-07-29: 6,3592026-07-30: 3,9792026-07-31: 4,3882026-08-01: 4,6752026-08-02: 2,5172026-08-03: 4,8282026-08-04: 5,7512026-08-05: 3,7102026-08-06: 4,1652026-08-07: 5,8272026-08-08: 4,2462026-08-09: 3,9942026-08-10: 5,9152026-08-11: 4,7532026-08-12: 5,2332026-08-13: 7,6552026-08-14: 5,6032026-08-15: 5,1082026-08-16: 5,4802026-08-17: 6,0712026-08-18: 4,7962026-08-19: 5,2042026-08-20: 5,2832026-08-21: 5,5252026-08-22: 5,8152026-08-23: 4,7672026-08-24: 7,1302026-08-25: 8,6472026-08-26: 8,6962026-08-27: 8,6872026-08-28: 7,7302026-08-29: 3,4442026-08-30: 3,2342026-08-31: 9,1682026-09-01: 10,5132026-09-02: 8,9662026-09-03: 8,8212026-09-04: 7,2442026-09-05: 4,2492026-09-06: 5,9752026-09-07: 7,1112026-09-08: 8,4312026-09-09: 10,1652026-09-10: 6,7952026-09-11: 6,2302026-09-12: 8,3822026-09-13: 4,5252026-09-14: 6,6342026-09-15: 6,5032026-09-16: 6,952 (release window)2026-09-17: 6,718 (release window)2026-09-18: 6,7192026-09-19: 4,4752026-09-20: 4,8572026-09-21: 9,022 (release window)2026-09-22: 7,197 (release window)2026-09-23: 6,5642026-09-24: 8,7012026-09-25: 7,4792026-09-26: 4,9602026-09-27: 5,5462026-09-28: 8,2192026-09-29: 8,1072026-09-30: 10,0372026-10-01: 10,4852026-10-02: 9,4872026-10-03: 6,6322026-10-04: 8,9762026-10-05: 14,0942026-10-06: 13,0532026-10-07: 21,6062026-10-08: 17,8232026-10-09: 17,0682026-10-10: 19,7472026-10-11: 22,8362026-10-12: 16,7602026-10-13: 19,6492026-10-14: 20,0512026-10-15: 17,7912026-10-16: 17,3782026-10-17: 12,2892026-10-18: 11,5422026-10-19: 15,5572026-10-20: 17,8452026-10-21: 20,6562026-10-22: 17,7602026-10-23: 20,415Jul 27Aug 1Sep 1Oct 1

release windowquiet dayquiet-day median

Which to pick

  • egui if you want UI in plain Rust code, MIT/Apache licensed, native and web.
  • slint if you want a declarative .slint markup language, designer tooling and support down to microcontrollers.

Downloads are not quality. The quiet-day baseline is our steadiest public number for real use (release-day spikes from mirrors and CI removed), and reverse dependencies count maintainers who chose the crate. How we compute it.

Each crate in detail

  • egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI that runs on both web and native
  • slint: GUI toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for embedded devices and desktop applications

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