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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| redis-rs/redis-rs redis-rs is a high-level Rust client library for Redis, Valkey, and any RESP-compliant server. It offers both sync and async APIs (tokio/sm… | 97 | 4256 | stable |
| teloxide Teloxide is a full-featured Rust framework for building Telegram bots, built on the dptree chain-of-responsibility pattern for declarative … | 76 | 4243 | active |
| crossterm-rs/crossterm Crossterm is a pure-Rust, cross-platform terminal manipulation library for building text-based user interfaces. It provides cursor control,… | 67 | 4241 | stable |
| ivanceras/svgbob Svgbob is a Rust library and CLI that converts ASCII art diagrams into clean SVG graphics. It parses text-based diagram scribbles and rende… | 54 | 4233 | active |
| oxipng/oxipng Oxipng is a multithreaded, lossless PNG/APNG compression optimizer written in Rust. It can be used as a command-line utility or as a Rust l… | 90 | 4231 | stable |
| evanw/thumbhash ThumbHash is a compact encoding of an image placeholder that can be stored inline with data and rendered while the real image loads. It is … | 31 | 4221 | stable |
| ironcalc/IronCalc IronCalc is an open-source spreadsheet engine written in Rust with xlsx import/export, usable headlessly or embedded via Rust, Python, Java… | 95 | 4217 | active |
| moonrepo/moon moon is a monorepo management, task orchestration, and build system tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust and inspired by Bazel. It p… | 95 | 4157 | active |
| xiph/rav1e rav1e is an open-source AV1 video encoder written in Rust with assembly optimizations, developed by Xiph.Org. It offers a CLI binary and a … | 78 | 4155 | active |
| lumina-ai-inc/chunkr Chunkr is an open-source document intelligence API that performs layout analysis, OCR, and semantic chunking to convert PDFs, presentations… | 63 | 4148 | active |
| linebender/resvg resvg is a fast, portable SVG rendering library written entirely in safe Rust, usable as a Rust library, C library, or CLI application for … | 92 | 4144 | stable |
| harry0703/MangoDisk MangoDisk is a safety-first desktop application for macOS and Windows that combines disk cleanup, storage analysis, duplicate file finding,… | 80 | 4138 | active |
| CozoDB CozoDB is a transactional, relational-graph-vector database written in Rust that uses Datalog as its query language. It runs embedded or as… | 23 | 4135 | active |
| marcelroed/gigatoken Gigatoken is a Rust-based tokenizer library for language modeling that tokenizes text at GB/s throughput, claiming ~1000x speedups over Hug… | 58 | 4134 | active |
| arxanas/git-branchless git-branchless is a suite of Rust-based tools that enhances Git with a branchless, commit-graph-centric workflow. It provides commands like… | 91 | 4133 | active |
| juhaku/utoipa Utoipa is a Rust library that auto-generates OpenAPI documentation at compile time using proc macros, treating a code-first approach as a f… | 99 | 4132 | stable |
| Amp Amp is a modal, Vim-inspired text editor that runs entirely in the terminal, written in Rust. It bundles essential features like syntax hig… | 58 | 4131 | active |
| xacrimon/dashmap DashMap is a blazingly fast concurrent HashMap implementation for Rust with an API similar to std::collections::HashMap. It serves as a dir… | 69 | 4119 | stable |
| zhom/donutbrowser Donut Browser is an open-source anti-detect desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux that creates unlimited isolated browser profiles,… | 83 | 4088 | active |
| ekzhang/rustpad Rustpad is a self-hosted collaborative code editor built on the operational transformation algorithm, with a Rust backend using warp and a … | 32 | 4078 | stable |
| Fredolx/open-tv Fred TV (formerly Open TV) is a cross-platform IPTV desktop/mobile application written in Rust for watching IPTV channels from M3U files, M… | 76 | 4075 | active |
| wild-linker/wild Wild is a very fast linker for Linux written in Rust, designed to speed up iterative development builds. It works as a drop-in replacement … | 86 | 4045 | active |
| rust-lang/regex The standard regular expression crate for Rust, built on finite automata (DFAs/NFAs) to guarantee worst-case linear-time matching. It suppo… | 62 | 4038 | stable |
| Codex-X Codex-X is a cross-platform desktop GUI tool built with Tauri 2, React, and Rust for managing OpenAI Codex desktop and CLI configurations. … | 79 | 4036 | active |
| Dora Dora is a Rust-based dataflow middleware framework for building real-time robotics and AI applications, where applications are modeled as d… | 95 | 4030 | active |
| postgresml/pgcat PgCat is a PostgreSQL connection pooler and proxy written in Rust, similar to PgBouncer, with support for sharding, load balancing, failove… | 34 | 4022 | stable |
| RON RON (Rusty Object Notation) is a readable data serialization format that resembles Rust syntax and supports the full Serde data model, incl… | 87 | 4021 | stable |
| petgraph/petgraph Petgraph is a Rust library providing fast, flexible graph data structures (Graph, StableGraph, GraphMap, MatrixGraph) with directed and und… | 73 | 4019 | stable |
| MapLibre Martin is a fast, lightweight Rust-based tile server that serves Mapbox Vector Tiles from PostGIS databases, MBTiles, PMTiles, GeoJSON, and… | 95 | 4012 | stable |
| rust-postgres/rust-postgres A native PostgreSQL client library for Rust, offering both synchronous (postgres) and asynchronous (tokio-postgres) drivers. It includes su… | 87 | 4001 | stable |
| YS-L/csvlens csvlens is a command-line CSV file viewer built in Rust, functioning like `less` but tailored for CSV files. It supports scrolling, regex s… | 73 | 3998 | active |
| touchHLE/touchHLE touchHLE is a high-level emulator that runs early iPhone OS (2.x/3.0) apps, primarily games, on modern desktop operating systems and Androi… | 87 | 3972 | active |
| ordinals/ord ord is an index, block explorer, and command-line wallet for Bitcoin ordinals, which assign serial numbers to satoshis based on mining orde… | 96 | 3969 | active |
| RustAudio/cpal CPAL is a low-level cross-platform audio input/output library written in Rust. It provides device enumeration, stream configuration, and bu… | 90 | 3948 | stable |
| zenbu-labs/terminal-browser terminal-browser is a real Chromium-based browser that renders inside your terminal using the kitty graphics protocol and Electron's offscr… | 80 | 3933 | active |
| chronotope/chrono Chrono is a date and time library for Rust providing timezone-aware DateTime types, timezone-naive variants, and strftime-style parsing and… | 86 | 3921 | stable |
| safetensors/safetensors Safetensors is a simple, secure file format and library for storing and distributing tensors, designed as a fast zero-copy alternative to p… | 87 | 3901 | stable |
| servo/pathfinder Pathfinder 3 is a fast GPU-based rasterizer for fonts and vector graphics, usable from Rust or C/C++ via a canvas-like API. It supports Ope… | 54 | 3896 | active |
| silvia-odwyer/photon Photon is a high-performance image processing library written in pure Rust that compiles to WebAssembly. It provides over 90 functions for … | 75 | 3895 | active |
| Redlib Redlib is a private, privacy-focused front-end for Reddit written in Rust, forked from Libreddit. It proxies all requests (including media)… | 62 | 3870 | active |
| yvgude/lean-ctx LeanCTX is a local-first Rust binary that acts as a context engineering layer for AI coding agents, providing an MCP server, shell output c… | 76 | 3868 | active |
| misprit7/computerraria Computerraria is a fully compliant RISC-V (rv32i) computer built entirely inside the wiring system of the game Terraria, paired with a Rust… | 70 | 3861 | active |
| owu/wsl-dashboard WSL Dashboard is a native Windows GUI application built with Rust and Slint for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux instances. It provides… | 79 | 3855 | active |
| golutra/golutra Golutra is a Tauri-based desktop application (Vue 3 + Rust) that orchestrates multiple AI coding CLI agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI,… | 81 | 3853 | active |
| kube-rs/kube kube is a Rust client for Kubernetes, modeled after client-go, with an async controller runtime inspired by controller-runtime and derive m… | 91 | 3847 | stable |
| dathere/qsv qsv is a blazing-fast, Rust-based command-line data-wrangling toolkit with 50+ composable commands for querying, transforming, validating, … | 100 | 3813 | active |
| Open-Less/openless OpenLess is an open-source cross-platform voice input application that lets users hold a hotkey, speak, and have AI-polished text inserted … | 79 | 3811 | active |
| 01mf02/jaq jaq is a clone of the jq JSON processing tool written in Rust, focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity, usable as a drop-in replaceme… | 91 | 3786 | active |
| bgreenwell/doxx doxx is a fast, terminal-native viewer for .docx Word documents built in Rust with Ratatui. It renders formatting, tables, lists, images, a… | 64 | 3771 | active |
| graykode/abtop A terminal-based monitor (like htop/btop) for AI coding agent sessions such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode. It shows token usage, … | 78 | 3750 | active |
| google/tarpc tarpc is an RPC framework for Rust focused on ease of use, letting you define services directly in code without a separate schema language … | 72 | 3746 | active |
| sozu-proxy/sozu Sōzu is a fast, always-up HTTP and TCP reverse proxy written in Rust that can be reconfigured at runtime without reloads and upgrades itsel… | 99 | 3742 | active |
| kamiyaa/joshuto Joshuto is a ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust with a TUI interface. It supports clipboard integration, optional fzf and zo… | 67 | 3737 | active |
| cloudflare/workers-rs Ergonomic Rust bindings for the Cloudflare Workers runtime, letting developers write entire Workers in Rust compiled to WebAssembly. It pro… | 97 | 3720 | active |
| rust-lang/crates.io The source code and infrastructure for crates.io, the official package registry for the Rust programming language. It includes a Rust backe… | 77 | 3720 | stable |
| psmux/psmux psmux is a native Windows terminal multiplexer written in Rust that implements the tmux command language, reads .tmux.conf, and uses Window… | 84 | 3703 | active |
| DioxusLabs/taffy Taffy is a high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library written in Rust that implements the CSS Flexbox, Grid, and Block layout algor… | 100 | 3685 | active |
| async-graphql A high-performance, fully specification-compliant GraphQL server library for Rust built on async/await. It integrates with web frameworks l… | 64 | 3685 | stable |
| WithSecureLabs/chainsaw Chainsaw is a Rust-based CLI tool for rapidly searching and hunting through Windows forensic artefacts such as Event Logs, MFT, and registr… | 95 | 3680 | active |
| rage rage is a Rust implementation of the age file encryption format, providing a simple, secure CLI tool and library with small explicit keys, … | 90 | 3672 | active |
| DataDog/glommio Glommio is a Rust async runtime crate implementing a cooperative thread-per-core architecture built on Linux io_uring. It lets developers w… | 64 | 3663 | active |
| mini-software/MiniExcel MiniExcel is a lightweight .NET library (with a Rust variant) for reading and writing Excel XLSX and CSV files using row-by-row streaming t… | 97 | 3650 | active |
| TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow A modular Rust implementation of the timely dataflow computational model from the Naiad paper, providing a low-latency cyclic data-parallel… | 89 | 3649 | active |
| Martichou/rquickshare A Rust implementation of Android's Nearby Share/Quick Share protocol for Linux and macOS, distributed as desktop apps (deb, rpm, AppImage, … | 60 | 3646 | active |
| apache/arrow-rs The official Rust implementation of Apache Arrow, providing the in-memory columnar format, and of Apache Parquet for columnar file reading … | 100 | 3641 | active |
| aws/aws-lambda-rust-runtime A set of Rust crates providing a runtime for running AWS Lambda functions written in Rust, including HTTP support, extensions, and typed ev… | 97 | 3617 | active |
| AtalayaLabs/OxiCloud OxiCloud is a lightweight, self-hosted cloud storage platform written in Rust that provides files, photos, calendars, and contacts in a sin… | 86 | 3607 | active |
| icedland/iced iced is a fast and correct x86/x64 (16/32/64-bit) instruction decoder, disassembler, and assembler library with bindings for Rust, .NET, Ja… | 67 | 3592 | active |
| Aloxaf/silicon Silicon is a Rust CLI tool that renders source code into beautiful, shareable images, serving as an offline alternative to the Carbon web a… | 23 | 3591 | active |
| LGFae/swww swww (now renamed awww) is an efficient animated wallpaper daemon for Wayland, controlled at runtime via a CLI client. It supports animated… | 10 | 3584 | active |
| mTvare6/hello-world.rs A satirical 'hello world' program written in Rust that mocks the Rust ecosystem's dependency bloat and 'blazingly fast, memory safe' market… | 39 | 3580 | active |
| maciejhirsz/logos Logos is a Rust lexer generator library that derives fast tokenizers from enum definitions using token and regex attributes. It combines al… | 79 | 3578 | stable |
| model-checking/kani Kani is a bit-precise model checker for Rust that formally verifies safety and correctness properties of Rust programs. It uses proof harne… | 94 | 3572 | active |
| ashvardanian/StringZilla StringZilla is a high-performance string processing library for C, C++, Python, Rust, Swift, JS, and Go that uses SIMD, SWAR, and GPU instr… | 94 | 3570 | active |
| hoowhoami/EchoMusic EchoMusic is an open-source, minimalist third-party desktop music player client for Kugou Concept Edition, built with Electron, Vue 3, Type… | 81 | 3545 | active |
| AmrDeveloper/GQL GitQL is a SQL-like query language with an in-memory query engine, implemented in Rust, that executes queries directly on .git files withou… | 72 | 3512 | active |
| onecli/onecli OneCLI is an open-source platform that gives every employee a personal, sandboxed AI agent, with all tool calls routed through a gateway th… | 74 | 3511 | active |
| matthart1983/netwatch NetWatch is a zero-config terminal TUI for real-time network diagnostics, written in Rust and distributed as a single static binary. It sho… | 79 | 3504 | active |
| lalrpop/lalrpop LALRPOP is an LR(1) parser generator for Rust focused on usability, letting you write compact, DRY, readable grammars with macros, type inf… | 77 | 3504 | stable |
| cloudhead/rx rx is a modern, minimalist pixel art editor and animator written in Rust with an extensible command-driven interface. It targets pixel arti… | 23 | 3491 | active |
| TrustTunnel TrustTunnel is a modern open-source VPN protocol originally developed by AdGuard VPN, with this repository containing the VPN endpoint (ser… | 81 | 3489 | active |
| notify-rs/notify Notify is a cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust that watches files and directories and emits events using native OS bac… | 82 | 3478 | stable |
| sigp/lighthouse Lighthouse is an open-source Ethereum consensus (beacon chain) client written in Rust, maintained by Sigma Prime. It implements the Ethereu… | 98 | 3477 | stable |
| namhyung/uftrace uftrace is a function call graph tracer for C, C++, Rust, and Python programs that records function entry/exit with timestamps, arguments, … | 83 | 3474 | active |
| Haleclipse/CCometixLine A high-performance statusline tool for Claude Code written in Rust, displaying model, directory, Git branch status, and context window usag… | 58 | 3474 | active |
| lakehq/sail Sail is an open-source, Rust-native multimodal compute engine that serves as a drop-in replacement for Apache Spark, unifying batch process… | 94 | 3465 | active |
| apache/datafusion-sqlparser-rs An extensible SQL lexer and parser library for Rust that produces an AST conforming to the ANSI/ISO SQL standard and various vendor dialect… | 76 | 3464 | active |
| killercup/cargo-edit cargo-edit is a Rust CLI tool extending Cargo with subcommands to modify Cargo.toml, such as upgrading dependency versions. Several of its … | 84 | 3462 | active |
| TheWaWaR/simple-http-server A simple static file HTTP server written in Rust, built on axum/tokio. It supports directory listing, file upload, basic auth, range reques… | 76 | 3459 | active |
| slatedb/slatedb SlateDB is an embedded key-value storage engine implemented in Rust as a log-structured merge-tree (LSM) that persists all data to object s… | 91 | 3458 | active |
| haimgel/display-switch A Rust utility that watches USB device connect/disconnect events and switches monitor inputs via DDC/CI, turning a cheap USB switch into a … | 65 | 3458 | active |
| svix/svix-webhooks Svix is an open-source, enterprise-ready webhooks-as-a-service platform written in Rust that lets developers send webhooks with a single AP… | 96 | 3457 | active |
| gluon Gluon is a small, statically-typed functional programming language with type inference, implemented in Rust and designed for embedding in a… | 91 | 3451 | active |
| google/OpenSK OpenSK is an open-source Rust implementation of a FIDO2/FIDO U2F security key, developed by Google as a research platform. It can run as fi… | 67 | 3451 | active |
| patriciogonzalezvivo/lygia LYGIA is a granular, multi-language shader library of reusable functions supporting GLSL, HLSL, Metal, WGSL, WESL, and CUDA. It is designed… | 73 | 3446 | active |
| Canop/bacon Bacon is a background code checker for Rust that watches source directories and reruns cargo check, clippy, tests, or custom jobs on file c… | 97 | 3438 | active |
| roapi/roapi ROAPI automatically spins up read-only REST, GraphQL, SQL, and FlightSQL query APIs over static or slowly moving datasets without writing a… | 73 | 3434 | active |
| dtolnay/syn Syn is a Rust parsing library that converts a stream of Rust tokens into a syntax tree of Rust source code. It is primarily designed for us… | 99 | 3433 | stable |
| mierak/rmpc rmpc is a modern, highly configurable terminal-based client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD), written in Rust. It supports album art via K… | 76 | 3433 | active |
| tursodatabase/agentfs AgentFS is a filesystem designed for AI agents that stores an agent's entire files, state, and operation history in a single SQLite file. I… | 64 | 3430 | active |