List of platform-independent GUI libraries

This is a list of packages implementing a platform-independent GUI (PIGUI). These can be used to develop software that can be ported to multiple platforms without changes to its source code.

C / C++ packages

Name Owner Platforms License
Chromium Embedded Framework CEF Project Page Windows, Mac, Linux BSD
CEGUI CEGUI team Windows, Mac, Linux MIT License
EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) Enlightenment.org X11, Wayland, Windows, Mac, DirectFB, Tizen BSD, LGPL, GPL
FLTK (Fast, Light Toolkit) Bill Spitzak, et. al. X11, Windows, Mac LGPL
Skia Skia Inc, Google Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows BSD
GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) GNOME Foundation Linux (X11, Wayland), Windows, macOS, HTML5 LGPL
Guiliani TES Electronic Solutions Windows, X11, Mac, DirectFB, BareMetal, Android, IOS Proprietary
IUP Tecgraf/PUC-Rio Windows, X11 MIT License
JUCE Roli Ltd. Windows, X11, Mac, iOS, Android GPL, Proprietary
LiveCode LiveCode, Ltd. Windows, X11, Mac Proprietary
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
(formerly NuTCRACKER)		 DataFocus, Inc. Windows from X11 code Proprietary
Nana Jinhao Windows, Linux Boost Software License
Qt Qt Project Windows, Linux (X11, Wayland), OS/2 , OS X, iOS, Android LGPL, GPL or Proprietary
Ultimate++ Ultimate++ Windows, X11, PocketPC, WindowsCE BSD-like
Views Rogue Wave Software Windows, X11 Proprietary
wxWidgets
(formerly wxWindows) 		wxWidgets team Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac OS X, iOS wxWindows License
XVT Portability Toolkit XVT Software Inc. Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac Proprietary
Nuklear Micha Mettke Windows GDI, GDI+, Linux X11, OpenGL, SDL, Allegro Public Domain

Packages in other languages

Name Owner Platforms License
Java / Swing / JavaFX Oracle Corporation Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS CDDL, GPL with linking exception
Java / SWT Eclipse Foundation Windows (Win32), Linux (GTK+), Mac OS X (Cocoa) Eclipse Public License
Java / Apache Pivot™ Apache Software Foundation Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Apache Software License
Oberon / F / Blackbox Oberon Microsystems Windows, Mac Proprietary
Tcl/Tk Open source Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac BSD style license
Ecere SDK
eC		 Ecere Corporation
(Open source)		 Windows (GDI, OpenGL, Direct3D, DirectDraw, Text Console), Linux/Mac OS X/FreeBSD (X11, OpenGL, NCurses), Android, Web (Emscripten/WebGL) New BSD license
LCL / Lazarus Open source Windows (Win32, Qt), Linux (GTK+, Qt), Mac OS X (Qt, Carbon, Cocoa) GPL, LGPL
Delphi/Firemonkey Embarcadero Technologies Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android Proprietary
VisualWorks
Smalltalk		 Cincom Windows, OS/2, X11, OpenLook, Mac Proprietary
Pharo
Smalltalk		 Pharo community Windows, X11, Mac MIT, partially Apache License 2.0
Mono / GTK#
C#		 Xamarin Windows, X11, Mac MIT, LGPLv2, GPLv2 (Dual license)
Kivy
Python		 Kivy Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS MIT License
Xamarin Forms
C#		 Xamarin Android, iOS, Windows Mobile MIT, Proprietary
Unity3D
C# (Mono based) / JavaScript / Boo		 Unity Technologies Windows, X11, Mac OS X, Android, iOS
(also features a multi-platform Web Player) 		Proprietary, based on open-source

Requiring verification (may be unsupported)

Name Owner Platforms License
VisualAge
for C++ and Smalltalk		 IBM Various Proprietary software

No longer available or supported

Name Owner Comment
AppWare Novell This product has been de-emphasized (which is commonly believed to mean "dropped") by Novell.
Zinc Professional Software Associates May still be supporting, but no new sales.
zApp Application Framework zApp and later RogueWave Had a very modern architecture, was ahead of its time. Was popular around 1993/1994.
Open Interface Neuron Data One of the earliest PIGUI supported DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, VMS, and Microsoft Windows 3.0.

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