Open-source rust software
2007 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged rust, ranked by how closely rust 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.
2007 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| enkimute/ganja.js ganja.js is a JavaScript Geometric Algebra code generator that creates Clifford algebras of any signature with operator overloading and alg… | 23 | 1608 | stable |
| actionbook/actionbook Actionbook is an AI agent that lives in a Chrome side panel and operates websites on your behalf, reading data behind logins and paywalls a… | 71 | 1607 | active |
| Wulf/create-rust-app A CLI scaffolding tool that generates a modern fullstack web app with a Rust backend (actix-web or poem) and a React/TypeScript frontend in… | 41 | 1607 | active |
| hwittenborn/celeste Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client built with Rust, GTK4, and Libadwaita that can connect to virtually any cloud provider. It is … | 10 | 1605 | active |
| kevinmehall/rust-peg rust-peg is a Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) parser generator for Rust, provided as a proc macro that builds a recursive descent parser f… | 67 | 1604 | stable |
| chojs23/concord Concord is a feature-rich terminal user interface (TUI) client for Discord, written in Rust with ratatui. It supports chat, voice playback,… | 76 | 1602 | active |
| EmbarkStudios/quilkin Quilkin is a non-transparent UDP proxy built in Rust for large-scale multiplayer dedicated game server deployments. It adds security, acces… | 92 | 1594 | active |
| matheus-git/systemd-manager-tui A terminal user interface (TUI) application written in Rust for managing systemd services. It lets users view logs, list services, inspect … | 88 | 1594 | active |
| crate-ci/cargo-release cargo-release is a Cargo subcommand that streamlines releasing Rust crates by extending `cargo publish` with validation, version bumping, t… | 97 | 1593 | stable |
| la10736/rstest rstest is a fixture-based test framework for Rust built on procedural macros. It provides dependency injection via fixtures, table-based/pa… | 96 | 1593 | stable |
| nabijaczleweli/cargo-update A cargo subcommand (installed as cargo-update, invoked as cargo install-update) that checks and applies updates to executables installed vi… | 89 | 1592 | active |
| nasa/spacewasm SpaceWasm is a no_std WebAssembly 1.0 decoder, validator, and interpreter written in Rust, developed at NASA JPL for executing Wasm binarie… | 77 | 1591 | active |
| m1guelpf/plz-cli plz is a Rust-based CLI tool that acts as 'Copilot for your terminal', generating bash shell scripts from natural language descriptions usi… | 23 | 1590 | active |
| nacos-group/r-nacos r-nacos is a Nacos server re-implemented in Rust, providing service discovery (registry), configuration center, MCP server capabilities, an… | 92 | 1586 | active |
| egoist/dum Dum is a fast npm scripts runner written in Rust that replaces `npm run` and `npx` with near-instant startup. It also forwards install/add/… | 23 | 1585 | active |
| bodil/im-rs im-rs is a Rust library providing fast immutable (persistent) collection datatypes such as vectors, hash maps, and hash sets with structura… | 10 | 1585 | stable |
| dtolnay/quote A Rust crate providing the quote! macro for turning Rust syntax tree data structures into token streams of source code. It is primarily use… | 86 | 1582 | stable |
| losfair/mvsqlite mvSQLite is a distributed, MVCC layer that runs SQLite on top of FoundationDB via a custom VFS, providing scalable lock-free transactions a… | 91 | 1581 | active |
| paradigmxyz/cryo cryo is a Rust-based CLI tool (also available as a Python package) that extracts Ethereum/EVM blockchain data into parquet, csv, , or Pytho… | 20 | 1581 | active |
| BurntSushi/memchr A Rust library providing heavily optimized byte and substring search routines, accelerated with SIMD on x86_64, aarch64, and wasm32. It ope… | 72 | 1580 | stable |
| Equim-chan/Mortal Mortal is a free and open-source AI for Japanese (riichi) mahjong powered by deep reinforcement learning, written in Rust with a Python int… | 48 | 1580 | active |
| nohajc/anylinuxfs A Rust CLI utility for macOS that mounts any Linux-supported filesystem (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ZFS, NTFS, exFAT, etc.) with full read-write acc… | 84 | 1579 | active |
| wooorm/markdown-rs markdown-rs is a CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser written in safe Rust, exposing both an mdast syntax tree and direct HTML compilation.… | 38 | 1579 | stable |
| getdozer/dozer Dozer is a real-time data movement tool written in Rust that captures change data (CDC) from sources like Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, and K… | 23 | 1578 | active |
| aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia A browser extension (with an optional Rust redirect script) that redirects domains ending in `.idk` by looking up the site's Wikipedia arti… | 49 | 1577 | active |
| servo/rust-url rust-url is the standard URL parsing and manipulation library for Rust, implementing the WHATWG URL Standard. It provides the `Url` type wi… | 73 | 1575 | stable |
| PolyMeilex/Neothesia Neothesia is a cross-platform MIDI visualizer built in Rust that displays notes from MIDI files as colorful falling blocks on a virtual pia… | 91 | 1573 | active |
| moq-dev/moq An open-source implementation of Media over QUIC (MoQ), a next-generation live media protocol delivering WebRTC-like real-time latency at m… | 95 | 1572 | active |
| tafia/quick-xml quick-xml is a high-performance XML pull reader and writer library for Rust, featuring near zero-copy parsing with Cow types and buffer reu… | 89 | 1570 | stable |
| ricosjp/truck Truck is an open-source CAD kernel written in Rust, providing geometric and topological data structures for shape processing such as B-spli… | 74 | 1569 | active |
| egoist/waku Waku is a fast, native desktop application (built in Rust with GPUI) for managing multiple local coding agent CLIs like Claude Code, Codex,… | 79 | 1568 | active |
| ccbrown/iocraft iocraft is a Rust crate for building beautiful CLIs, TUIs, and text-based output using a declarative, React-like component API. It supports… | 91 | 1566 | active |
| ThisSeanZhang/landscape Landscape is a Linux router application built in Rust with eBPF that routes traffic by domain rather than just IP. It uses a userspace DNS … | 87 | 1561 | active |
| KDAB/cxx-qt CXX-Qt is a set of Rust crates providing safe bidirectional bindings between Rust and Qt via CXX. It lets developers implement QObject subc… | 92 | 1559 | active |
| m4b/goblin Goblin is a Rust library for parsing and loading binary executable formats including ELF, Mach-O, PE, and Unix/BSD archives. It offers zero… | 74 | 1556 | stable |
| hyperium/h2 H2 is a Tokio-based HTTP/2 client and server implementation for Rust that implements the full HTTP/2 specification. It serves as the low-le… | 94 | 1555 | stable |
| dtolnay/typetag A Rust crate providing macros to make Serde trait objects serializable and deserializable. It lets you serialize &dyn Trait and round-trip … | 81 | 1553 | stable |
| BurntSushi/walkdir Walkdir is a cross-platform Rust library for efficiently walking a directory tree recursively. It supports following symbolic links, contro… | 68 | 1551 | stable |
| cupcakearmy/cryptgeon Cryptgeon is a secure, open-source note and file sharing service inspired by PrivNote, built with Rust and Svelte. Notes are encrypted clie… | 93 | 1547 | active |
| silverstein/minutes Minutes is an open-source, privacy-first conversation memory app that records meetings, voice memos, and dictation, transcribes them locall… | 78 | 1545 | active |
| bgreenwell/lstr A fast, minimalist directory tree viewer written in Rust, inspired by the classic tree command. It offers an optional interactive TUI mode … | 69 | 1545 | active |
| rust-crdt/rust-crdt A Rust library providing a family of well-tested, serializable CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) supporting both state-based (CvR… | 23 | 1544 | active |
| colin-kiegel/rust-derive-builder A Rust crate providing a derive macro that automatically generates builder-pattern code for structs. It creates fluent setter methods and a… | 46 | 1542 | active |
| iceiix/stevenarella Stevenarella is a multi-protocol Minecraft-compatible client written in Rust, supporting Minecraft server protocol versions from 1.7.10 thr… | 77 | 1541 | active |
| jamesmunns/postcard Postcard is a no_std-focused serializer and deserializer for Serde in Rust, designed for embedded and other constrained environments. It pr… | 77 | 1541 | stable |
| AccessKit/accesskit AccessKit is a Rust-based accessibility infrastructure library that provides a cross-platform, cross-language abstraction over platform acc… | 94 | 1540 | active |
| nats-io/nats.rs async-nats is a Rust client library for the NATS cloud-native messaging system, built on Tokio. It supports Core NATS, JetStream, Key-Value… | 91 | 1540 | active |
| elringus/sprite-dicing A cross-engine tool written in Rust for losslessly compressing sprite textures by splitting them into units, discarding identical regions, … | 84 | 1537 | active |
| occlum/occlum Occlum is a memory-safe, multi-process library OS (LibOS) written in Rust for Intel SGX enclaves. It lets legacy applications run inside se… | 48 | 1534 | active |
| firedancer-io/firedancer Firedancer is Jump Crypto's from-scratch Solana validator client written in C, designed for extreme performance and security with a restric… | 95 | 1531 | active |
| dtolnay/watt Watt is a Rust runtime for executing procedural macros that have been compiled ahead-of-time to WebAssembly. It lets downstream users run m… | 61 | 1531 | active |
| ros2-rust/ros2_rust Rust bindings for ROS 2, providing the rclrs client library, code generator, and examples for writing ROS 2 robotics applications in Rust. … | 93 | 1530 | active |
| erweixin/RaTeX RaTeX is a KaTeX-compatible LaTeX math rendering engine written in pure Rust, with no JavaScript, WebView, or DOM dependency. A single Rust… | 78 | 1529 | active |
| hudikhq/hoodik Hoodik is a self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted cloud storage server written in Rust with a Vue 3 frontend, where all encryption happens in t… | 99 | 1528 | active |
| mxsm/rocketmq-rust An unofficial, high-performance Rust implementation of Apache RocketMQ, providing message broker, NameServer, producer, and consumer compon… | 85 | 1528 | active |
| rvben/rumdl rumdl is a fast Markdown linter and formatter written in Rust, inspired by ruff's approach to Python linting. It provides 82 lint rules, au… | 81 | 1528 | active |
| peteonrails/voxtype Voxtype is a local, offline voice-to-text dictation tool for Linux with push-to-talk hotkey support across Wayland compositors like Hyprlan… | 81 | 1528 | active |
| kyutai-labs/hibiki Hibiki is a decoder-only model for streaming (simultaneous) speech-to-speech translation, built on the multistream Moshi architecture. It p… | 63 | 1527 | active |
| workany-ai/workany WorkAny is a cross-platform desktop AI agent application (built with Tauri, React, and Hono) that executes tasks from natural language inst… | 65 | 1524 | active |
| copper-project/copper-rs Copper is a Rust runtime and SDK for building, running, recording, and deterministically replaying static robot task graphs, from Linux dow… | 100 | 1522 | active |
| golemcloud/golem Golem is an open-source durable agent runtime and serverless platform for running WebAssembly components in a distributed cloud environment… | 91 | 1522 | active |
| mike-engel/jwt-cli jwt-cli is a fast command-line tool written in Rust for decoding and encoding JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). It supports custom headers, arbitrary… | 68 | 1520 | active |
| Criterion.rs Criterion.rs is a statistics-driven microbenchmarking library for Rust that measures and analyzes code performance with rigorous statistica… | 64 | 5535 | maintenance |
| mongodb/mongo-rust-driver The officially supported MongoDB driver for Rust, providing a fully async API built on tokio plus an optional sync API for interacting with… | 91 | 1516 | stable |
| Bareflank Hypervisor Bareflank is an open-source hypervisor SDK written in C++ (with Rust support) for rapidly prototyping custom hypervisors on 64-bit Intel an… | 23 | 1515 | active |
| cabinpkg/cabin Cabin is an opinionated package manager and build system for C and C++ projects, inspired by Rust's Cargo. It uses a declarative cabin.toml… | 94 | 1514 | active |
| helix-editor/nucleo Nucleo is a high-performance fuzzy matcher library for Rust, filling the same role as fzf and skim but with a faster matching algorithm and… | 56 | 1512 | active |
| grovesNL/glow glow is a Rust library providing unified bindings to OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and WebGL, letting you write GL code once and run it anywhere. It a… | 70 | 1510 | stable |
| databricks/click Click is a command-line REPL for Kubernetes written in Rust that manages clusters and objects interactively. It maintains an active context… | 52 | 1510 | active |
| corrosion-rs/corrosion Corrosion is a tool for integrating Rust into existing CMake projects, automatically importing Rust executables, static libraries, and dyna… | 81 | 1504 | active |
| project-oak/oak Oak is a Rust-based platform for building distributed systems whose components can produce externally verifiable claims about their behavio… | 75 | 1504 | active |
| tokio-rs/tokio-uring tokio-uring is a Rust library that provides an io_uring-backed runtime compatible with the Tokio ecosystem, exposing new resource types (st… | 33 | 1500 | active |
| metrics-rs/metrics A high-performance, protocol-agnostic metrics ecosystem for Rust, centered on a lightweight metrics facade similar to the log crate. It let… | 77 | 1494 | stable |
| fawney19/Aether Aether is a self-hosted AI API gateway written in Rust that provides a unified entry point for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and their CLI client… | 79 | 1492 | active |
| JakeStanger/ironbar Ironbar is a customisable GTK4 status bar and desktop panel for Wayland compositors, written in Rust. It supports Sway, Hyprland, and Niri … | 90 | 1490 | active |
| yituorou/meatshell MeatShell is a lightweight, low-memory SSH and terminal client written in Rust with Slint, inspired by FinalShell. It offers multi-tab term… | 76 | 1490 | active |
| handlebars-rust A Rust implementation of the Handlebars templating language, published as the `handlebars` crate. It supports template registration, render… | 90 | 1488 | stable |
| gfx-rs/gfx gfx-rs is a low-level, Vulkan-like GPU hardware abstraction layer for Rust that translates to native backends including Vulkan, DirectX 11/… | 32 | 5394 | maintenance |
| shuttle-hq/synth Synth is a declarative data generator written in Rust that produces realistic synthetic test data from a version-controllable data model. I… | 23 | 1486 | active |
| yc-duan/fastctx FastCtx is a Rust-based local runtime that exposes fast, context-efficient repository tools (file reading, grep, glob, batch replacement, s… | 78 | 1485 | active |
| dust-tt/dust Dust is an open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing custom AI agents powered by large language models. It combines a web … | 95 | 1484 | active |
| lakekeeper/lakekeeper Lakekeeper is an Apache Iceberg REST Catalog implementation written in Rust that provides centralized access control, credential vending, a… | 93 | 1483 | active |
| nagisa/rust_libloading libloading is a Rust crate providing safe, cross-platform bindings around dynamic library loading primitives (dlopen/LoadLibrary). It lets … | 71 | 1475 | stable |
| amir20/dtop dtop is a fast, lightweight terminal dashboard written in Rust for monitoring Docker containers in real time across multiple hosts via loca… | 82 | 1471 | active |
| napi-rs A collection of Node.js native addons written in Rust using napi-rs, providing packages like @node-rs/bcrypt, @node-rs/argon2, @node-rs/crc… | 96 | 1470 | active |
| nix-community/nix-init nix-init is a Rust CLI tool that generates Nix package expressions from a source URL. It automates hash prefetching, dependency inference f… | 85 | 1470 | active |
| orhun/systeroid systeroid is a Rust-based CLI and TUI tool that serves as a more powerful alternative to sysctl(8) for reading and modifying Linux kernel p… | 62 | 1470 | active |
| postgresml/korvus Korvus is an open-source search SDK that unifies the entire RAG pipeline—embedding generation, vector search, reranking, summarization, and… | 24 | 1470 | active |
| taiki-e/cargo-llvm-cov cargo-llvm-cov is a Cargo subcommand that wraps rustc's -C instrument-coverage to generate precise LLVM source-based code coverage reports … | 94 | 1469 | stable |
| bytecodealliance/wit-bindgen A suite of bindings generators that produce guest-language bindings from WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) files for the WebAssembly Compon… | 97 | 1468 | active |
| Stebalien/tempfile A secure, cross-platform Rust library for creating and managing temporary files and directories. It supports anonymous temporary files, nam… | 75 | 1468 | stable |
| JoasASantos/NeuroSploit NeuroSploit is an AI-powered penetration testing framework written in Rust that turns a URL, repository, app, or host into an autonomous se… | 86 | 1462 | active |
| gabotechs/MusicGPT MusicGPT is a Rust application that runs music generation AI models (currently Meta's MusicGen) locally, generating music from natural lang… | 27 | 1462 | active |
| lloydmeta/frunk Frunk is a Rust library providing functional programming and type-level programming tools such as HLists, Coproducts, Generic/LabelledGener… | 77 | 1461 | stable |
| ratatui/ratzilla Ratzilla is a Rust framework for building terminal-themed web applications using Ratatui widgets compiled to WebAssembly. It renders TUI-st… | 74 | 1460 | active |
| wez/govee2mqtt A Rust-based bridge that connects Govee smart lights and devices to Home Assistant via the MQTT integration. It uses LAN control, Govee's u… | 62 | 1457 | active |
| lnx-search/lnx lnx is an open-source, self-hosted search database that exposes the Tantivy full-text search engine through a REST API. It offers typo-tole… | 40 | 1457 | active |
| ferrilab/bitvec A Rust crate that provides bit-addressed memory management, specializing slices, arrays, and vectors to store one bit per bool, similar to … | 32 | 1457 | stable |
| kafka-rust/kafka-rust A Rust client library for Apache Kafka providing producer and consumer APIs with offset management and TLS support via rustls. It is a crat… | 60 | 1455 | active |
| plotly/plotly.rs Plotly.rs is a plotting library for Rust powered by Plotly.js, providing a native Rust API for building interactive charts such as scatter … | 84 | 1454 | active |