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

iced vs slint

Short answerBy steady daily use, iced runs at 7,474 downloads on a quiet day against 6,795 for slint (1.1x), and 405 crates depend on iced against 112. Pick iced if you want everything in Rust with the Elm architecture. Pick slint if you want a separate markup language and embedded targets.

Bottom line: Both retained-mode; iced is Rust-only, slint is markup plus Rust.

7.5Kiced quiet-day downloads/day
6.8Kslint quiet-day downloads/day
405crates depend on iced
112crates depend on slint

Side by side

icedslint
Quiet-day baseline (downloads/day)7,4746,795
Downloads in the window696,694785,548
Share within 2 days of a release0%4%
Baseline trend (first 30 vs last 30 days)+40%+182%
Reverse dependencies405112
All-time downloads3.1M2.2M
Releases in the window02
Latest version0.14.01.18.1
Latest releaseDec 7, 2025Sep 21, 2026
MSRV (latest)1.881.92
LicenseMITGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Slint-Royalty-free-2.0 OR LicenseRef-Slint-Software-3.0
First publishedMay 29, 2019Feb 1, 2022

iced: daily downloads

10K2026-07-27: 9,2362026-07-28: 8,8002026-07-29: 7,2732026-07-30: 6,8532026-07-31: 5,8342026-08-01: 6,6102026-08-02: 6,9502026-08-03: 7,1042026-08-04: 6,8942026-08-05: 6,0862026-08-06: 6,5552026-08-07: 7,4942026-08-08: 6,5292026-08-09: 5,2152026-08-10: 6,6082026-08-11: 7,5692026-08-12: 7,1722026-08-13: 7,7542026-08-14: 7,2452026-08-15: 5,7342026-08-16: 5,4732026-08-17: 9,9012026-08-18: 7,2592026-08-19: 5,8982026-08-20: 7,0112026-08-21: 6,6182026-08-22: 5,6542026-08-23: 6,5242026-08-24: 5,7772026-08-25: 6,1032026-08-26: 6,6952026-08-27: 7,6002026-08-28: 5,2852026-08-29: 4,6182026-08-30: 4,7442026-08-31: 5,9722026-09-01: 8,3582026-09-02: 9,1132026-09-03: 7,4742026-09-04: 7,2732026-09-05: 5,8032026-09-06: 7,1732026-09-07: 9,2292026-09-08: 9,2182026-09-09: 9,0942026-09-10: 8,5182026-09-11: 7,7422026-09-12: 6,7302026-09-13: 5,6502026-09-14: 7,5542026-09-15: 7,9722026-09-16: 8,3222026-09-17: 6,8512026-09-18: 7,3442026-09-19: 6,5502026-09-20: 6,8082026-09-21: 7,1392026-09-22: 7,4092026-09-23: 6,3672026-09-24: 6,9232026-09-25: 7,7292026-09-26: 6,8222026-09-27: 7,6922026-09-28: 8,7042026-09-29: 9,5112026-09-30: 7,0302026-10-01: 8,7072026-10-02: 8,3842026-10-03: 7,9632026-10-04: 9,2932026-10-05: 9,7502026-10-06: 7,9432026-10-07: 9,9192026-10-08: 11,9092026-10-09: 9,3952026-10-10: 8,6442026-10-11: 9,0772026-10-12: 9,8612026-10-13: 10,1172026-10-14: 10,0912026-10-15: 9,7352026-10-16: 10,8502026-10-17: 8,2972026-10-18: 9,5122026-10-19: 11,9652026-10-20: 11,2682026-10-21: 13,6352026-10-22: 11,9242026-10-23: 9,706Jul 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

  • iced if you want everything in Rust with the Elm architecture.
  • slint if you want a separate markup language and embedded targets.

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

  • iced: A cross-platform GUI library inspired by Elm
  • slint: GUI toolkit to efficiently develop fluid graphical user interfaces for embedded devices and desktop applications

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