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

tauri vs egui

Short answerBy steady daily use, tauri runs at 159,875 downloads on a quiet day against 80,493 for egui (2.0x), and 742 crates depend on tauri against 1,341. Pick tauri if you want a web frontend (React, Svelte, Vue) in a small desktop or mobile app with a Rust backend. Pick egui if you want pure Rust UI with no webview.

Bottom line: Web skills or a polished app UI: tauri. Rust-only tools: egui.

16Ktauri quiet-day downloads/day

80.5Kegui quiet-day downloads/day

742crates depend on tauri

1,341crates depend on egui

Side by side

	tauri	egui
Quiet-day baseline (downloads/day)	159,875	80,493
Downloads in the window	15,545,115	7,657,478
Share within 2 days of a release	25%	9%
Baseline trend (first 30 vs last 30 days)	+59%	+59%
Reverse dependencies	742	1,341
All-time downloads	38.8M	28M
Releases in the window	13	4
Latest version	2.12.5	0.37.0
Latest release	Oct 21, 2026	Oct 15, 2026
MSRV (latest)	1.90	1.95
License	Apache-2.0 OR MIT	MIT OR Apache-2.0
First published	Nov 27, 2019	May 30, 2020

tauri: daily downloads

egui: daily downloads

release windowquiet dayquiet-day median

Which to pick

tauri if you want a web frontend (React, Svelte, Vue) in a small desktop or mobile app with a Rust backend.
egui if you want pure Rust UI with no webview.

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

tauri: Make tiny, secure apps for all desktop platforms with Tauri
egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI that runs on both web and native

Other comparisons

Sources

crates.io: tauri: crates.io/crates/tauri (fetched Oct 24, 2026)
crates.io: egui: crates.io/crates/egui (fetched Oct 24, 2026)
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