Open-source embedded software
1164 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged embedded, ranked by how closely embedded 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.
1164 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| SergiusTheBest/plog Plog is a portable, header-only C++ logging library in about 1000 lines of code. It offers multiple formatters (txt, CSV) and appenders (ro… | 62 | 2593 | stable |
| Eclipse iceoryx iceoryx2 is an ultra-low latency inter-process communication middleware with a Rust core, offering true zero-copy, lock-free messaging via … | 80 | 2592 | active |
| FluidSynth/fluidsynth FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 (and 3) specifications, with support for DLS and MIDI file playback… | 94 | 2513 | stable |
| mavlink/mavlink MAVLink is a lightweight, header-only message marshalling library and protocol for communication between drones, onboard components, and gr… | 77 | 2465 | stable |
| symisc/unqlite UnQLite is a self-contained, serverless, transactional NoSQL database engine implemented as an embeddable C library. It provides both a bin… | 77 | 2315 | stable |
| Stephane-D/SGDK SGDK is a free, open-source development kit for writing Sega Mega Drive / Genesis software in C (with optional 68000 assembly). It bundles … | 77 | 2201 | active |
| OSQP OSQP is a C library for solving convex quadratic programs using an ADMM-based operator splitting method, with interfaces to Python, Julia, … | 47 | 2201 | stable |
| pop-os/cosmic-text cosmic-text is a pure Rust library providing advanced multi-line text handling, including shaping (via HarfRust), font discovery and fallba… | 88 | 2157 | active |
| pocketpy/pocketpy pocketpy is a portable Python 3.x interpreter written in C11 with no dependencies beyond the C standard library, designed as a Lua alternat… | 92 | 2125 | active |
| sisong/HDiffPatch HDiffPatch is a C/C++ library and command-line tools for creating and applying binary diffs (deltas) between files or directories. It produ… | 90 | 2108 | stable |
| 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 |
| mborgerding/kissfft KISS FFT is a mixed-radix Fast Fourier Transform library written in C that supports fixed-point and floating-point data types. It is design… | 70 | 2000 | stable |
| Start9Labs/start-technologies Start Technologies is the monorepo for Start9's products, headlined by StartOS, an open-source Linux distribution that turns any PC into a … | 96 | 1994 | active |
| Linzaer/Ultra-Light-Fast-Generic-Face-Detector-1MB An ultra-lightweight face detection model (~1MB FP32, ~300KB quantized) designed for edge computing devices, with slim and RFB variants tra… | 32 | 7548 | maintenance |
| mackyle/sqlite An unofficial Git mirror of the complete SQLite source code, a self-contained C library implementing an embedded SQL database engine suppor… | 72 | 1956 | stable |
| unicode-org/icu4x ICU4X is a Rust implementation of Internationalization Components of Unicode (ICU) built on CLDR data, designed to be small, modular, and f… | 91 | 1866 | active |
| ThorVG ThorVG is a lightweight, production-ready C++ vector graphics engine for rendering SVG, Lottie animations, and vector scenes across embedde… | 97 | 1849 | stable |
| security-union/videocall-rs videocall.rs is an open-source, low-latency video conferencing platform and streaming API written entirely in Rust, built on WebTransport (… | 90 | 1795 | active |
| libtom/libtomcrypt LibTomCrypt is a comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit written in C, providing block ciphers, hash functions, chaining … | 64 | 1795 | stable |
| k2-fsa/sherpa-ncnn A C++ library for real-time offline speech recognition, text-to-speech, and voice activity detection built on the ncnn inference framework … | 52 | 1794 | active |
| pocket-stack/pocketjs PocketJS is a portable application runtime that compiles Solid, Vue Vapor, or Octane component code into a native UI tree rendered by a no_… | 81 | 1768 | active |
| micronucleus/micronucleus Micronucleus is a compact USB bootloader for AVR ATtiny microcontrollers, built on V-USB with all configurations under 2KB. It includes a c… | 49 | 1765 | active |
| mooman219/fontdue Fontdue is a pure Rust, no_std TrueType and OpenType font rasterizer and layout library focused on minimal end-to-end latency. It is design… | 77 | 1709 | stable |
| micknoise/Maximilian Maximilian is a cross-platform C++ audio synthesis and signal processing (DSP) library with JavaScript bindings for Web Audio. It provides … | 23 | 1707 | active |
| svaarala/duktape Duktape is an embeddable JavaScript (ECMAScript E5/E5.1 with partial ES2015+) engine written in C, focused on portability and a compact foo… | 65 | 6215 | maintenance |
| rulego/rulego RuleGo is a lightweight, high-performance, embedded rule engine and component orchestration framework for Go. It lets developers compose re… | 88 | 1621 | active |
| UbiquitousLearning/mllm MLLM is a fast, lightweight multimodal LLM inference engine written in C++ for mobile and edge devices, with backends for ARM CPU, Qualcomm… | 71 | 1617 | active |
| unosquare/embedio EmbedIO is a tiny, cross-platform, module-based web server library for .NET Framework and .NET Core, written entirely in C#. It supports RE… | 10 | 1577 | stable |
| aduros/wasm4 WASM-4 is a low-level fantasy game console for building small retro games with WebAssembly. Games are self-contained .wasm cartridges built… | 65 | 1538 | active |
| Csound Csound is a sound and music computing system, originally an audio programming language descended from the MUSIC-N family, with a core C lib… | 98 | 1510 | active |
| acados/acados acados is a modular C library providing fast embedded solvers for nonlinear optimal control problems, designed for real-time applications l… | 91 | 1493 | active |
| eclipse-mraa/mraa Eclipse MRAA is a C/C++ library with bindings for Python, Node.js, and Java for controlling low-speed I/O (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART) on GNU/Lin… | 72 | 1409 | active |
| pantor/ruckig Ruckig is a C++ (with Python bindings) motion generation library that calculates jerk-constrained, time-optimal trajectories on-the-fly for… | 82 | 1380 | active |
| ridiculousfish/libdivide libdivide is a single-header C/C++ library that replaces expensive integer division instructions with precomputed multiply-and-shift sequen… | 83 | 1359 | stable |
| json-parser/json-parser A very low footprint DOM-style JSON parser written in portable ANSI C (C89). It ships as just json.c and json.h with no dependencies and a … | 75 | 1339 | stable |
| wpilibsuite/allwpilib WPILib is the official software library suite for programming robots in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) and FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC)… | 81 | 1313 | stable |
| Roc Roc Toolkit is a C library and set of command-line tools for real-time audio streaming over IP networks, with guaranteed latency, Forward E… | 64 | 1257 | stable |
| Duino-Coin Duino-Coin is a centralized, eco-friendly proof-of-work cryptocurrency (DUCO) designed to be mined with low-power devices such as Arduino b… | 66 | 1233 | active |
| qualcomm/ai-hub-models Qualcomm AI Hub Models is a curated collection of 300+ state-of-the-art machine learning models (vision, audio, speech, generative AI) pre-… | 90 | 1230 | active |
| graphitemaster/incbin A single-header C/C++ library that embeds binary and text files directly into executables at compile time via macros and inline assembly. I… | 39 | 1187 | stable |
| babelouest/ulfius Ulfius is an HTTP framework for building REST APIs, webservices, and HTTP endpoints in C, built on libmicrohttpd, Jansson, and libcurl. It … | 61 | 1145 | active |
| PSn00bSDK PSn00bSDK is an open source homebrew software development kit for the original Sony PlayStation, providing a GCC-based C/C++ toolchain, lib… | 23 | 1142 | active |
| libriscv/libriscv libriscv is an embeddable C++20 RISC-V (RVA23) userspace emulator and sandboxing library focused on ultra-low-latency VM function calls and… | 93 | 1130 | active |
| Xilinx/Vitis_Libraries A collection of open-source, performance-optimized accelerated libraries for the AMD Vitis Unified Software Platform, offering out-of-the-b… | 90 | 1130 | active |
| albertodemichelis/squirrel Squirrel is a high-level imperative, object-oriented scripting language implemented in C++, designed to be lightweight enough to embed in a… | 50 | 1055 | stable |
| tidwall/hashmap.c A single-file hash map (hash table) implementation in C99 using open addressing with Robin Hood hashing. It offers a generic interface for … | 69 | 1053 | stable |
| quickjs-zh/QuickJS QuickJS is a small, embeddable JavaScript engine written in C supporting ES2023 (including modules, async generators, and proxies), with a … | 43 | 3518 | maintenance |
| Project Flogo Project Flogo is an ultra-light, Go-based open source ecosystem for building event-driven applications using triggers and actions. It suppo… | 23 | 2489 | maintenance |
| icexin/eggos Eggos is a unikernel written almost entirely in Go that runs Go applications directly on x86 bare metal, supporting Go features like GC, go… | 23 | 2328 | maintenance |
| microsoft/ELL ELL (Embedded Learning Library) is a C++ library and toolset from Microsoft Research for designing and deploying machine-learned models ont… | 10 | 2305 | maintenance |
| Corvusoft/restbed Restbed is a C++ framework for building asynchronous RESTful server-side applications with secure, scalable HTTP communication. It supports… | 70 | 1998 | maintenance |
| symisc/sod SOD is an embedded, cross-platform computer vision and machine learning library written in C, distributed as a single dependency-free amalg… | 23 | 1802 | maintenance |
| microsoft/EdgeML A library from Microsoft Research India implementing resource-efficient machine learning algorithms (Bonsai, ProtoNN, FastGRNN, EMI-RNN, DR… | 23 | 1694 | maintenance |
| mntmn/interim Interim OS is a minimalist experimental operating system with a language-based kernel inspired by Lisp machines and Plan 9. It boots to a J… | 32 | 1322 | maintenance |
| OpenCat Quadruped Robot OpenCat is an open-source Arduino/Raspberry Pi framework for building and programming quadruped robot pets like the Bittle robot dog and Ny… | 74 | 429 | active |
| Open Interpreter 01 An open-source voice interface platform that lets users control computers conversationally, powered by Open Interpreter. It pairs a Python … | 17 | 5158 | experimental |
| rossmann-engineering/EasyModbusTCP.NET A .NET library implementing Modbus TCP, UDP, and RTU client and server communication. It enables fast access to PLCs and other industrial a… | 23 | 1126 | maintenance |
| riker-rs/riker Riker is an Actor Model framework for Rust for building concurrent, resilient applications with actor supervision, pub/sub messaging, and e… | 32 | 1073 | maintenance |
| orbitinghail/graft Graft is an open-source transactional storage engine written in Rust that turns object storage into a transactional system with lazy, parti… | 72 | 1547 | experimental |
| tiny-dnn/tiny-dnn tiny-dnn is a header-only, dependency-free deep learning framework written in C++14, designed for training and running neural networks on r… | 23 | 6028 | abandoned |
| Kitt-AI/snowboy Snowboy is a C++-based hotword (wake word) detection library by KITT.AI with bindings for Python, Android, and other platforms, enabling al… | 23 | 3361 | abandoned |
| AlexaPi AlexaPi is an open-source Python client for Amazon's Alexa voice service designed to run on devices like Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, CHIP, and… | 10 | 1326 | abandoned |
| sitewhere/sitewhere SiteWhere is an open-source, multi-tenant IoT application enablement platform built on Java/Spring microservices, offering device and asset… | 10 | 1046 | abandoned |
| PS4-SDK An open source PlayStation 4 SDK for writing userland homebrew applications in C, run via the PS4-playground loader. It provides system cal… | 10 | 1041 | abandoned |
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