Open-source graphics software
2100 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged graphics, ranked by how closely graphics is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
2100 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| facebookresearch/pytorch3d PyTorch3D is Facebook AI Research's library of efficient, reusable components for deep learning with 3D data, built on PyTorch. It provides… | 70 | 9983 | active |
| pmndrs/drei Drei is a collection of useful helpers, hooks, and ready-made abstractions for react-three-fiber, the React renderer for Three.js. It provi… | 90 | 9891 | active |
| Cocos (Cocos Creator Engine) Cocos Engine is the open-source runtime engine behind Cocos Creator, a free cross-platform 2D/3D game development tool built with a C++ cor… | 75 | 9852 | stable |
| DiceBear DiceBear is an open source avatar library that deterministically converts seed strings (usernames, emails, IDs) into customizable SVG avata… | 97 | 9831 | stable |
| pixel-agents-hq/pixel-agents Pixel Agents is a VS Code extension and standalone CLI that visualizes AI coding agents (like Claude Code) as animated pixel-art characters… | 83 | 9811 | active |
| Open 3D Engine (O3DE) Open 3D Engine (O3DE) is an Apache 2.0-licensed, multi-platform 3D game engine for building AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds, and high-f… | 88 | 9739 | active |
| H-M-H/Weylus Weylus is a Rust application that turns a tablet or smartphone into a graphic tablet/touch screen for your computer, streaming screen conte… | 54 | 9671 | active |
| android-gif-drawable An Android library providing Views and Drawables for displaying animated GIFs, using bundled GIFLib via JNI for efficient frame rendering. … | 89 | 9645 | stable |
| Fyrox Fyrox is a feature-rich, general-purpose 2D and 3D game engine written in Rust, formerly known as rg3d. It includes a scene editor, GUI sys… | 80 | 9594 | active |
| domlysz/BlenderGIS A collection of Blender addons that bridge Blender with geographic data, enabling import of GIS formats like Shapefile, GeoTIFF DEM, and Op… | 61 | 9468 | active |
| projectstorm/react-diagrams A diagramming library for React written in TypeScript for building flow and process-oriented diagrams with draggable nodes and links. It is… | 26 | 9427 | active |
| flightlessmango/MangoHud MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay that displays real-time performance metrics like FPS, frametimes, CPU/GPU load, and temperatures in… | 88 | 9128 | active |
| tsParticles tsParticles is a lightweight, dependency-free TypeScript library for creating customizable particle effects, confetti explosions, and firew… | 96 | 8983 | stable |
| apple/ml-sharp SHARP is a Python tool from Apple that synthesizes a photorealistic 3D Gaussian splat representation from a single photograph in under a se… | 59 | 8931 | active |
| LÖVE LÖVE is a free, open-source 2D game framework for Lua (LuaJIT), written in C++. It provides APIs for graphics, audio, input, and physics, l… | 66 | 8850 | stable |
| draw.io draw.io Desktop is an open‑source, cross‑platform diagramming application built with Electron. It provides a full‑featured offline editor f… | 94 | 8838 | active |
| jonobr1/two.js Two.js is a renderer-agnostic two-dimensional drawing API for modern web browsers, letting the same code render via SVG, Canvas 2D, or WebG… | 93 | 8672 | stable |
| Shopify/react-native-skia A React Native library that brings the Skia 2D graphics engine to mobile apps, enabling high-performance drawing, rendering, and animation.… | 93 | 8611 | active |
| LibreSprite/LibreSprite LibreSprite is a free, open-source animated sprite editor and pixel art tool, forked from the last GPLv2 commit of Aseprite. It supports la… | 88 | 8608 | active |
| sindresorhus/Gifski Gifski is a macOS app wrapping the gifski encoder to convert videos into high-quality animated GIFs using pngquant's cross-frame palettes a… | 91 | 8568 | active |
| zeux/meshoptimizer A C/C++ library providing algorithms to optimize triangle meshes for GPU rendering, including vertex cache optimization, overdraw reduction… | 94 | 8518 | stable |
| photopea/photopea Photopea is a free online image editor for raster and vector graphics that runs entirely in the browser, supporting PSD, AI, Sketch, and do… | 42 | 8445 | active |
| vietnh1009/ASCII-generator A Python tool that converts images and videos into ASCII art, outputting text files or image/video files in grayscale or color. It supports… | 32 | 8344 | stable |
| google/model-viewer Google's <model-viewer> is a web component for easily displaying interactive 3D models (glTF/GLB) on the web with built-in AR support via W… | 91 | 8274 | stable |
| lightningpixel/modly Modly is an open-source desktop application that generates textured 3D meshes from images or text prompts using open-source AI models (Huny… | 82 | 8255 | active |
| carson-katri/dream-textures A Blender add-on that integrates Stable Diffusion for generating textures, concept art, and background assets directly inside Blender. It s… | 66 | 8213 | active |
| mxgmn/MarkovJunior MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language based on rewrite rules and constraint propagation, implemented in C#. It ships with an… | 52 | 8197 | active |
| PixiEditor PixiEditor is a free, open-source, cross-platform desktop 2D graphics editor built in C# with Avalonia. It combines pixel art, painting, an… | 96 | 8057 | active |
| SixLabors/ImageSharp ImageSharp is a fully managed, high-performance 2D graphics and image processing library for .NET 8+. It provides loading, resizing, format… | 93 | 8034 | stable |
| fontforge/fontforge FontForge is a free (libre) font editor for creating, editing, and converting fonts. It supports OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multip… | 69 | 8021 | active |
| davemorrissey/subsampling-scale-image-view An Android library providing a highly configurable, extendable image view for displaying very large images with deep zoom support. It uses … | 23 | 8010 | stable |
| ikuaitu/vue-fabric-editor An open-source web-based image and graphic editor built on fabric.js and Vue 3 with a plugin-based architecture. It supports custom fonts, … | 61 | 7995 | active |
| alvr-org/ALVR ALVR (Air Light VR) is an open-source application that streams PC VR games to standalone VR headsets over Wi-Fi, acting as a SteamVR driver… | 74 | 7980 | active |
| bestony/logoly Logoly is a web application that generates parody logos in the style of Pornhub or OnlyFans, with customizable text, colors, and font sizes… | 70 | 7940 | active |
| stride3d/stride Stride (formerly Xenko) is a free, open-source, cross-platform C# game engine for building 2D and 3D games, VR experiences, and interactive… | 100 | 7885 | active |
| SVG-Edit/svgedit SVGEdit is a fast, web-based SVG drawing editor that runs in any modern browser, built on the @svgedit/svgcanvas library. It can be used di… | 62 | 7851 | active |
| opentoonz/opentoonz OpenToonz is a free, open-source, full-featured 2D animation production application based on the Toonz software customized by Studio Ghibli… | 94 | 7838 | active |
| beeradmoore/dlss-swapper DLSS Swapper is a Windows desktop application for downloading, managing, and swapping DLSS, FSR, and XeSS DLL files in games. It lets users… | 97 | 7731 | active |
| zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin An Obsidian plugin that integrates the Excalidraw sketching and diagramming tool into Obsidian vaults. It lets users create, edit, store, a… | 94 | 7678 | active |
| UIEffect UIEffect is a Unity package for applying rich visual effects like grayscale, blur, and dissolve to UI elements directly from the Inspector … | 93 | 7660 | active |
| EmbarkStudios/rust-gpu rust-gpu is a compiler toolchain that makes Rust a first-class language for writing GPU graphics and compute shaders, compiling Rust code t… | 10 | 7557 | active |
| PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD OpenUSD is Pixar's Universal Scene Description, an efficient and scalable system for authoring, reading, and streaming time-sampled 3D scen… | 91 | 7541 | stable |
| phoboslab/qoi QOI is the 'Quite OK Image Format', a fast, lossless image compression format with a single-file MIT-licensed C/C++ reference implementatio… | 66 | 7529 | stable |
| google/draco Draco is an open-source C++ library from Google for compressing and decompressing 3D geometric meshes and point clouds. It improves the sto… | 67 | 7515 | stable |
| FastLED/FastLED FastLED is a fast, efficient C++ library for controlling addressable LED strips and pixels (WS2812/Neopixel, APA102, LPD8806, and many more… | 100 | 7513 | stable |
| LiamGvchi/gc-minimal-zine-poster A Codex skill that turns themes, sentences, photos, or reference sets into minimal zine-style editorial poster prompts and generated images… | 73 | 7365 | active |
| princeton-vl/infinigen Infinigen is a procedural generator of infinite photorealistic 3D worlds and scenes, built on Blender by the Princeton Vision & Learning La… | 88 | 7277 | active |
| visioncortex/vtracer VTracer is an open-source tool and library that converts raster images (JPG, PNG) into vector graphics (SVG), handling both colored images … | 97 | 7263 | active |
| Wicked Engine Wicked Engine is an open-source C++ 3D game engine with modern graphics features like ray tracing, global illumination, and physically base… | 96 | 7258 | active |
| makepad/makepad Makepad is a creative software development platform for Rust that provides a cross-platform UI runtime with a live-editable design DSL, com… | 68 | 7205 | active |
| threestudio-project/threestudio threestudio is a unified open-source framework for 3D content generation from text prompts, single images, and few-shot images by lifting 2… | 21 | 7069 | active |
| Flax Engine Flax Engine is a modern, multi-platform 3D game engine written in C++ and C# with full source code available. It provides an editor, real-t… | 80 | 7050 | active |
| VAST-AI-Research/TripoSR TripoSR is an open-source model for fast feedforward 3D object reconstruction from a single image, developed by Tripo AI and Stability AI. … | 61 | 7005 | active |
| klange/toaruos ToaruOS is a complete, independent hobby operating system for x86-64 PCs and ARMv8 VM environments, built entirely from original code with … | 92 | 6863 | active |
| rxi/microui microui is a tiny, portable immediate-mode UI library written in around 1100 sloc of ANSI C. It works within a fixed-size memory region and… | 32 | 6856 | stable |
| mbrlabs/Lorien Lorien is an open-source infinite canvas drawing and note-taking application built with the Godot game engine. It stores brush strokes as v… | 39 | 6803 | active |
| nannou-org/nannou Nannou is an open-source creative coding framework for Rust, inspired by Processing, openFrameworks, and Cinder, now built as a set of Bevy… | 75 | 6756 | active |
| BoomingTech/Piccolo Piccolo (formerly Pilot) is a small open-source C++ game engine built for the GAMES104 course. It includes a Vulkan-based renderer, physics… | 23 | 6727 | active |
| U8g2 U8g2 is a monochrome graphics library for embedded devices, supporting a wide range of OLED and LCD display controllers with drawing primit… | 75 | 6691 | stable |
| erincatto/box3d Box3D is a 3D rigid body physics engine for games, written in portable C17 with a data-oriented design. It provides collision detection, jo… | 65 | 6587 | active |
| openMVG/openMVG OpenMVG is a C++ library for multiple view geometry and Structure from Motion (SfM), providing end-to-end 3D reconstruction from images. It… | 64 | 6558 | active |
| GNOME/gimp GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free, open-source raster graphics editor for photo retouching, image composition, and authoring.… | 77 | 6527 | active |
| LibreCAD LibreCAD is a free, open-source, cross-platform 2D CAD application built on Qt, based on the QCAD community edition. It reads and writes DX… | 91 | 6514 | active |
| sharkdp/pastel pastel is a command-line tool written in Rust to generate, analyze, convert, and manipulate colors. It supports many color formats and spac… | 66 | 6509 | stable |
| OpenDroneMap/ODM OpenDroneMap (ODM) is an open source command line toolkit that processes aerial drone, balloon, or kite imagery into classified point cloud… | 86 | 6487 | active |
| Konva React Konva is a React library providing declarative components for the Konva 2D HTML5 canvas framework. It lets developers build interacti… | 99 | 6435 | stable |
| VincentGarreau/particles.js A lightweight JavaScript library for rendering animated particle effects on an HTML canvas, configurable via JSON. It supports interactive … | 23 | 30204 | maintenance |
| Iconify Iconify is a universal icon framework unifying 200+ open source icon sets (300k+ icons) behind one syntax, with a web component, framework … | 77 | 6366 | active |
| ecomfe/zrender ZRender is a lightweight 2D graphics rendering engine for the web, supporting Canvas, SVG, and VML backends. It serves as the underlying re… | 77 | 6309 | active |
| ImPlot ImPlot is an immediate mode, GPU-accelerated plotting library built on Dear ImGui for rendering interactive real-time charts in C++ applica… | 78 | 6247 | active |
| jakearchibald/svgomg SVGOMG is a web-based GUI for SVGO, the SVG optimizer, exposing most of SVGO's configuration options through a friendly interface. It lets … | 48 | 6207 | active |
| rust-windowing/winit winit is a cross-platform window creation and management library written in pure Rust. It provides a unified API for creating windows and h… | 84 | 6205 | active |
| HarfBuzz HarfBuzz is a text shaping engine that converts Unicode text into properly positioned glyph output for any writing system, supporting OpenT… | 99 | 6165 | stable |
| Redot Engine Redot Engine is a free, open-source, community-driven fork of Godot for building 2D and 3D games from a unified node-based editor. It suppo… | 91 | 6136 | active |
| davidmerfield/randomColor A tiny JavaScript library that generates attractive random colors, with options to control hue, luminosity, count, seed, and output format.… | 48 | 6120 | stable |
| snk A tool that pulls a GitHub user's contribution graph and renders it as an animated snake game, outputting an animated SVG or GIF. It is dis… | 69 | 6098 | active |
| chaiNNer chaiNNer is a free, open-source, node-based desktop application for building image processing pipelines by connecting nodes on a canvas. Or… | 89 | 6094 | active |
| Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator A free web application that procedurally generates and edits interactive, highly customizable fantasy maps. It is aimed at fantasy writers,… | 99 | 6080 | active |
| CGAL/cgal CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library) is a mature C++ library providing efficient and reliable algorithms for computational geom… | 97 | 6071 | stable |
| css-doodle css-doodle is a web component for drawing generative patterns and visual art with CSS. It generates a grid of cells styled by CSS rules wit… | 100 | 6066 | active |
| Blockbench Blockbench is a free, open-source desktop and web application for editing low-poly 3D models with pixel art textures. It includes modeling,… | 99 | 6065 | active |
| jvalen/pixel-art-react Pixel Art to CSS is a web-based pixel art drawing and animation editor built with React and Redux. It generates ready-to-use CSS code from … | 49 | 6041 | active |
| MengTo/threeui ThreeUI Community is an open-source catalog of React components built with Three.js, WebGL, and shaders, featuring live interactive rendere… | 55 | 6002 | active |
| mob-sakai/ParticleEffectForUGUI A Unity package that renders ParticleSystem effects directly within UnityUI (uGUI) via CanvasRenderer, without needing extra Camera, Render… | 94 | 6000 | stable |
| AR-js-org/AR.js AR.js is a lightweight JavaScript library for augmented reality on the web, supporting image tracking, marker tracking, and location-based … | 69 | 5997 | active |
| jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler (FFDec) is an open-source Java application for decompiling and editing Adobe Flash SWF files. It extracts resou… | 98 | 5948 | active |
| RodZill4/material-maker Material Maker is a free, open-source desktop application for authoring procedural PBR textures and painting 3D models, built on the Godot … | 89 | 5943 | active |
| google/highway Highway is a C++ library providing performance-portable SIMD/vector intrinsics that work across seven CPU architectures. It supports runtim… | 79 | 5929 | stable |
| Galacean Engine Galacean Engine is a high-performance, real-time interactive 2D/3D engine written in TypeScript, built on WebGL/WebGL2 with support for ani… | 84 | 5901 | active |
| image-rs/image A Rust library providing encoding and decoding for many common image formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, and more) plus basic image … | 75 | 5893 | stable |
| KhronosGroup/MoltenVK MoltenVK is a layered implementation of the Vulkan 1.4 graphics and compute API built on top of Apple's Metal framework, enabling Vulkan ap… | 95 | 5892 | active |
| KDE/kdenlive Kdenlive is a free and open-source non-linear video editor built on the MLT framework with a Qt/KDE Frameworks GUI. It provides professiona… | 77 | 5891 | stable |
| pmndrs/gltfjsx A command-line tool that converts GLTF/GLB 3D model assets into declarative, reusable React Three Fiber JSX components. It builds a pruned … | 32 | 5869 | active |
| MeshLab MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for processing and editing unstructured large 3D triangular meshes, built on the… | 64 | 5858 | active |
| Rapier Rapier is a set of high-performance 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust, providing rigid-body dynamics, joint constraints, collision … | 77 | 5848 | stable |
| ZzzLc0405/photo-abstract-editorial A Codex Skill / prompt template that transforms a photo into a vertical editorial composition combining the original photo with an abstract… | 54 | 5830 | active |
| Tencent/libpag libpag is Tencent's official real-time rendering library for PAG (Portable Animated Graphics) files, a format exported from Adobe After Eff… | 97 | 5795 | active |
| disintegration/imaging Imaging is a Go library providing basic image processing functions such as resize, rotate, crop, and brightness/contrast adjustments. It wo… | 23 | 5765 | stable |
| kornelski/pngquant pngquant is a command-line lossy PNG compressor that converts images to efficient 8-bit palette PNGs with alpha support, often reducing fil… | 68 | 5757 | stable |
| Slang Slang is a shading language and compiler for building large, modular, high-performance GPU shader codebases. It compiles to D3D12, Vulkan, … | 96 | 5752 | active |