Open-source graphics software
2502 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.
2502 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bacon/BaconQrCode BaconQrCode is a PHP library for generating QR codes, ported from the encoder portion of the ZXing library. It renders QR codes to PNG (via… | 88 | 2110 | stable |
| adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306 An Arduino library for driving monochrome OLED displays based on the SSD1306 controller chip, supporting 128x64 and 128x32 panels over I2C … | 73 | 2108 | stable |
| dai-shi/excalidraw-animate A web-based tool and npm package that converts Excalidraw drawings into animations, with configurable per-element animation order and durat… | 75 | 2106 | active |
| joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch Sensor Watch is an open-source replacement main board for the classic Casio F-91W wristwatch, built around a Microchip SAM L22 ARM Cortex-M… | 77 | 2098 | active |
| tgdwyer/WebCola WebCola is a JavaScript/TypeScript library for constraint-based graph layout, producing high-quality interactive graph visualizations in th… | 55 | 2098 | stable |
| RenderKit/oidn Intel Open Image Denoise is an open-source library of high-performance, deep-learning-based denoising filters for images rendered with ray … | 88 | 2097 | stable |
| HarbourMasters/Starship Starship is a PC port of Star Fox 64 (SF64) built from a reverse-engineered codebase, requiring users to supply their own legally dumped RO… | 61 | 2097 | active |
| rlxone/Equinox Equinox is a free, open-source native macOS app for creating dynamic wallpapers such as Dynamic Desktop and Light & Dark Desktop. Users cho… | 88 | 2096 | active |
| freerouting/freerouting Freerouting is an open-source, advanced PCB auto-router that works with any EDA tool supporting the Specctra or Electra DSN interface, such… | 99 | 2093 | active |
| Special K Special K is a Windows DLL injection framework for PC games that fixes and enhances graphics, adds HDR support, framerate capping, and deta… | 94 | 2093 | active |
| 3rd/image.nvim A Neovim plugin written in Lua that adds image display support inside the editor using Kitty's Graphics Protocol, ueberzugpp, or Sixel back… | 77 | 2091 | active |
| gosu/gosu Gosu is a lightweight 2D game development library for Ruby and C++, providing a window/main loop, 2D graphics and text via OpenGL, sound an… | 67 | 2090 | active |
| rust-windowing/glutin Glutin is a low-level, cross-platform Rust library for creating OpenGL contexts and surfaces on top of native windows. It serves as a build… | 69 | 2087 | active |
| Revery Revery is a framework for building native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop applications using Reason (OCaml), with React-like and … | 32 | 8039 | maintenance |
| TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV The open-sourced source code of VVVVVV, Terry Cavanagh's 2010 indie 2D puzzle-platformer, released in 2020. The desktop version is a C++/SD… | 75 | 8025 | maintenance |
| psychopy/psychopy PsychoPy is an open-source Python package for creating and running psychology and neuroscience experiments, offering both a graphical Build… | 92 | 2083 | stable |
| cage-kiosk/cage Cage is a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs a single maximized application and prevents user interaction with anything else. It is built o… | 82 | 2082 | active |
| joogps/Glur Glur is a Swift package that adds progressive (graduated) blur effects to SwiftUI views via a .glur() modifier, implemented with custom Met… | 78 | 2081 | active |
| GPUOpen-Effects/FidelityFX-FSR2 AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2) is an open-source, high-quality temporal upscaling solution that reconstructs high-resolution fra… | 23 | 2080 | stable |
| pythonarcade/arcade Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games, built on top of pyglet and OpenGL. It is designed for beginning prog… | 94 | 2078 | active |
| Nez Nez is a free, feature-rich 2D game framework built on top of MonoGame and FNA in C#. It provides an Entity/Component system, physics, rend… | 60 | 2075 | active |
| bitshifter/glam-rs glam is a fast linear algebra library for Rust providing vectors, matrices, quaternions, and affine transformation types for games and grap… | 76 | 2071 | stable |
| ful1e5/apple_cursor A free and open-source collection of macOS-style mouse cursors for Windows and Linux with HiDPI support. It provides prebuilt cursor themes… | 23 | 2071 | active |
| ValveSoftware/wine Valve's fork of Wine, a compatibility layer that runs Microsoft Windows executables (DOS, Win32, Win64) on Unix-like systems by translating… | 76 | 2069 | active |
| ClassiCube/ClassiCube ClassiCube is a custom Minecraft Classic compatible client written from scratch in C, replicating the 2009 Minecraft Classic experience wit… | 75 | 2069 | active |
| esimov/triangle A Go CLI tool and library that converts images into abstract computer-generated art using Delaunay triangulation. It blurs, grayscales, and… | 23 | 2069 | active |
| miniquad Miniquad is a lightweight cross-platform graphics and window context library for Rust, abstracting OpenGL, Metal, and WebGL behind a single… | 71 | 2059 | active |
| ScenicFramework/scenic Scenic is a client application UI framework for Elixir/Erlang/OTP that renders 2D retained-mode interfaces directly on top of OpenGL. It ta… | 42 | 2059 | active |
| bramp/js-sequence-diagrams A JavaScript library that parses simple text descriptions of UML sequence diagrams and renders them as SVG in the browser. It uses Jison fo… | 32 | 7833 | maintenance |
| elishacloud/dxwrapper A DLL wrapper that fixes compatibility issues with older DirectX games running on Windows 10/11 by translating legacy DirectDraw/Direct3D c… | 95 | 2040 | active |
| a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator A Blender add-on script that procedurally generates 3D spaceship models from a random seed. It builds hulls, adds details like engines, ant… | 23 | 7825 | maintenance |
| PPet PPet is a cross-platform desktop pet application that displays animated Live2D characters (v2 and v3) on your desktop. Built with Electron,… | 23 | 2034 | active |
| ezEngine/ezEngine ezEngine is a free, open source C++ game engine with a modular, plugin-based architecture and a feature-rich editor. It provides a full ECS… | 88 | 2032 | active |
| ErLinErYi/PlantsVsZombies A Plants vs. Zombies clone built entirely in C++ on Cocos2d-x 3.16, with 104 levels, 13 plants, and 14 zombies. It doubles as a learning re… | 23 | 2028 | active |
| jsPlumb jsPlumb is a JavaScript library for building visual connectivity and diagramming features in web applications, letting developers draw and … | 32 | 7762 | maintenance |
| cyanharlow/purecss-francine Pure CSS Francine is a hand-coded artwork depicting an 18th-century oil painting style portrait created entirely with HTML and CSS, with no… | 32 | 7758 | maintenance |
| BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp A native PC port of Banjo-Kazooie built by statically recompiling the original N64 ROM using N64: Recompiled, with RT64 as the rendering en… | 74 | 2021 | active |
| NVIDIA-RTX/NVRHI NVRHI (NVIDIA Rendering Hardware Interface) is a C++ library providing a common abstraction layer over Direct3D 11, Direct3D 12, and Vulkan… | 75 | 2020 | active |
| jkuhlmann/cgltf cgltf is a single-file, stb-style C99 library for parsing and writing glTF 2.0 and GLB 3D asset files. It is widely adopted in graphics eng… | 48 | 2015 | stable |
| fogleman/sdf A Python library for generating 3D meshes from signed distance functions (SDFs) with a simple, operator-based API supporting constructive s… | 76 | 2011 | stable |
| KyryloKuzyk/PrimeTween PrimeTween is a high-performance, allocation-free tweening library for Unity that lets developers animate transforms, values, and materials… | 75 | 2007 | stable |
| flutter-pi A lightweight Flutter Engine embedder for Linux embedded systems, primarily the Raspberry Pi, that runs Flutter apps directly on the frameb… | 73 | 2003 | active |
| bsnes-emu/bsnes bsnes is a multi-platform Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) emulator originally developed by Near, emphasizing accuracy, performance, features… | 80 | 2001 | active |
| RQRCode RQRCode is a Ruby library for generating QR codes with a simple interface exposing standard QR code options like error correction level, si… | 70 | 2001 | stable |
| djhworld/simple-computer A Go-based simulator of the 16-bit CPU described in 'But How Do It Know?' by J. Clark Scott, built from NAND gates up through registers, RA… | 66 | 1998 | active |
| blend2d/blend2d Blend2D is a high-performance 2D vector graphics engine written in C++ that uses a built-in JIT compiler (via AsmJit) to generate optimized… | 74 | 1996 | active |
| thx/resvg-js A high-performance SVG renderer and toolkit for Node.js, Deno, and browsers, built on the Rust resvg library via napi-rs with a WebAssembly… | 78 | 1995 | active |
| ruyo/VRM4U VRM4U is an Unreal Engine (UE4/UE5) plugin that imports VRM 3D avatar files at runtime and in-editor. It generates skeletal rigs, morph tar… | 100 | 1994 | active |
| miroiu/nodify Nodify is a collection of highly performant WPF controls for building node-based editors, designed for data-binding and MVVM. It supports s… | 76 | 1994 | active |
| orbitersim/orbiter Orbiter is an open-source space flight simulator based on Newtonian mechanics, letting users pilot historic, hypothetical, or fictional spa… | 66 | 1986 | active |
| opensheetmusicdisplay/opensheetmusicdisplay OpenSheetMusicDisplay (OSMD) is a TypeScript library that renders MusicXML sheet music in the browser and headlessly with NodeJS, built on … | 99 | 1984 | active |
| sudoevolve/EUI-NEO EUI-NEO is a cross-platform, high-performance, low-overhead C++17 UI framework with GLFW/SDL2 windowing backends and OpenGL/Vulkan renderin… | 80 | 1983 | active |
| pythonOCC pythonocc-core is a Python package providing 3D modeling and data exchange features based on the OpenCascade Technology (OCCT) CAD kernel. … | 87 | 1980 | active |
| ChefKissInc/NootedRed NootedRed is a macOS kernel extension (kext) that provides GPU bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and extended hardware support for A… | 91 | 1978 | active |
| Q1K3 Q1K3 is a tiny Quake-inspired first-person shooter built in under 13KB of JavaScript for the 2021 js13k competition. It features two levels… | 32 | 1976 | stable |
| protectwise/troika Troika is a JavaScript framework and toolset for building interactive 3D and 2D graphics in the browser, built on Three.js/WebGL and optimi… | 71 | 1974 | active |
| jberg/butterchurn Butterchurn is a WebGL2-based JavaScript library that reimplements the MilkDrop music visualizer in the browser. It renders audio-reactive … | 64 | 1969 | active |
| sdlpal/sdlpal SDLPAL is an SDL-based cross-platform reimplementation of the classic Chinese RPG Legend of Sword and Fairy (PAL), written in C. It require… | 64 | 1966 | active |
| cimgui/cimgui A programmatically generated thin C API wrapper around Dear ImGui, the C++ immediate mode GUI library. It enables using Dear ImGui from any… | 65 | 1964 | active |
| MahApps/MahApps.Metro.IconPacks A .NET library providing a large collection of icon packs (Material Design, FontAwesome, Octicons, and more) as XAML controls, markup exten… | 64 | 1963 | active |
| Multiavatar Multiavatar is an open-source multicultural avatar generator library that converts any input string into a unique SVG avatar, capable of pr… | 32 | 1960 | stable |
| rlguy/Blender-FLIP-Fluids A Blender addon providing a high-quality FLIP-based liquid fluid simulation engine, developed since 2016 and tightly integrated into Blende… | 83 | 1953 | active |
| EPDiy EPDiy is a driver board and accompanying software library for driving affordable E-Paper (E-Ink) display modules, typically salvaged from e… | 92 | 1946 | active |
| lgarron/folderify A Rust CLI tool that generates pixel-perfect macOS folder icons in the native style from a PNG mask file, producing .icns and .iconset file… | 91 | 1945 | active |
| BenjaminAster/CSS-Minecraft A Minecraft clone implemented entirely in pure HTML and CSS with no JavaScript, using CSS logic like the :has() pseudo-class. It runs in th… | 32 | 1941 | active |
| B3D Framework B3D Framework (formerly Banshee 3D) is a modern C++17 library providing a foundation for high-performance game engines and real-time graphi… | 77 | 1938 | active |
| CGE GPUImage Plus A C++ and Java library for Android that applies GPU-accelerated image, camera, and video filters using OpenGL shaders. It supports rule-str… | 82 | 1932 | active |
| zeux/volk volk is a meta-loader for the Vulkan API written in C89 that dynamically loads Vulkan entrypoints without linking to the Vulkan loader libr… | 79 | 1931 | active |
| moesoha/debian-media-box A printable box design and instruction manual for packaging Debian installation media, styled as a medicine box (a joke referencing the Deb… | 35 | 1931 | active |
| mgerdes/Open-Golf Open Golf is a cross-platform 3D minigolf game written in C using the Sokol libraries, with custom physics for ball collision and a built-i… | 32 | 1931 | active |
| bpmn-io/diagram-js diagram-js is a JavaScript toolbox for displaying and modifying diagrams on the web, built on SVG. It serves as the foundation framework fo… | 98 | 1927 | stable |
| NVlabs/nvdiffrast Nvdiffrast is a PyTorch library from NVIDIA providing high-performance, GPU-accelerated primitive operations for rasterization-based differ… | 49 | 1922 | stable |
| OpenLoco/OpenLoco OpenLoco is an open-source C++ re-implementation of Chris Sawyer's Locomotion, a transport company construction and management simulation g… | 96 | 1918 | active |
| pioneerspacesim/pioneer Pioneer is an open-source, open-ended space adventure game set in the Milky Way galaxy, inspired by Elite and Frontier. It features procedu… | 86 | 1918 | active |
| brunosimon/folio-2025 Folio 2025 is Bruno Simon's interactive 3D portfolio website, a drivable open-world experience built with Three.js (WebGL/WebGPU via TSL) a… | 53 | 1915 | active |
| Vue Cesium Vue-cesium is a Vue 3.x component library wrapping CesiumJS for building 3D geospatial and globe-rendering web applications. It provides ty… | 88 | 1914 | active |
| sixthsurge/photon Photon is a gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft written in GLSL, adding realistic lighting, shadows, water, clouds, and post-process… | 71 | 1913 | active |
| gkjohnson/three-gpu-pathtracer A GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer for three.js built on three-mesh-bvh and WebGL 2. It provides physically based rendering with GGX m… | 99 | 1912 | active |
| ButzYung/SystemAnimatorOnline XR Animator is an AI-based full-body motion capture application that uses a single webcam with MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js to drive MMD/VRM… | 92 | 1912 | active |
| lightspark/lightspark Lightspark is an open source Flash player implementation written in C++ that plays SWF files and supports all versions of ActionScript. It … | 89 | 1907 | active |
| InteractiveComputerGraphics/SPlisHSPlasH SPlisHSPlasH is an open-source C++ library for physically-based fluid simulation using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method. It… | 95 | 1906 | active |
| flibitijibibo/RogueLegacy1 The released source code of Rogue Legacy, a roguelite platformer by Cellar Door Games, provided as a C# codebase built on the FNA (XNA reim… | 61 | 1901 | stable |
| Win2D Win2D is a Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration, built on Direct2D. It supports C#, C++, and … | 61 | 1901 | active |
| gradientspace/geometry3Sharp geometry3Sharp is an open-source (Boost license) C# library for 2D/3D geometric computation and triangle mesh algorithms, with transparent … | 56 | 1901 | active |
| Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card A business card built on an RP2350 microcontroller that runs a FLIP (fluid-implicit-particle) fluid simulation on its display, including Ki… | 54 | 1900 | active |
| HashLips Art Engine HashLips Art Engine is a Node.js tool that generates multiple unique instances of generative artwork by compositing user-provided image lay… | 23 | 7198 | maintenance |
| RGFW RGFW is a lightweight single-header C99 library for cross-platform window creation, graphics context setup (OpenGL, Vulkan, WebGPU, Metal, … | 77 | 1899 | active |
| mmatyas/pegasus-frontend Pegasus is a cross-platform graphical frontend for browsing a game library and launching emulators from a single interface. It emphasizes c… | 84 | 1894 | active |
| jgarff/rpi_ws281x A userspace C library for controlling WS281X LED strips (WS2812, SK6812 RGB/RGBW) from a Raspberry Pi via PWM, PCM, or SPI with DMA. It inc… | 55 | 1889 | stable |
| raylib-zig/raylib-zig Zig bindings for the raylib game programming library, auto-generated and manually tweaked for idiomatic Zig usage. It also includes raygui … | 70 | 1886 | active |
| LiberatedPixelCup/Universal-LPC-Spritesheet-Character-Generator A web-based character generator that assembles Liberated Pixel Cup (LPC) pixel art assets into customizable, game-ready character spriteshe… | 77 | 1885 | active |
| koide3/glim GLIM is a versatile and extensible point cloud-based 3D localization and mapping (SLAM) framework written in C++. It performs direct multi-… | 76 | 1881 | active |
| paintdotnet/release The official download repository for Paint.NET, providing offline installer EXEs, portable ZIPs, and deployment MSIs for the Windows image … | 75 | 1880 | active |
| tengbao/vanta Vanta is a JavaScript library that adds animated 3D background effects to any HTML element using three.js (WebGL) or p5.js. It offers many … | 32 | 7094 | maintenance |
| react-designer/react-designer A lightweight React library for embedding editable vector graphics canvases in web apps. It supports drawing and manipulating shapes, paths… | 23 | 1875 | active |
| fontello/fontello Fontello is a web application for building custom icon fonts by selecting and merging glyphs from multiple open-source icon sets into a sin… | 32 | 7081 | maintenance |
| joelibaceta/video-to-ascii A Python package and CLI tool that plays video files in the terminal by rendering frames as ASCII characters, with optional ANSI color and … | 39 | 1867 | active |
| NVlabs/curobo cuRobo is a CUDA-accelerated Python library for robot motion generation built on PyTorch, CUDA, and Warp. It provides GPU-parallel algorith… | 75 | 1865 | active |
| CoderLine/alphaTab alphaTab is a cross-platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library available for JavaScript, .NET, and Android. It loads sc… | 90 | 1863 | active |
| fltk-rs Rust bindings for the FLTK 1.4 cross-platform GUI library, providing around 80 customizable widgets with static linking support. It produce… | 80 | 1861 | active |