# iced-rs/iced

A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm

Repository: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/iced
Homepage: https://iced.rs
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gui, graphics, rust, elm, interface, widget, widgets, toolkit, user-interface, renderer-agnostic
Last push: 2026-08-16T21:29:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2606, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 269, "gap_med": 222.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 31367, forks 1652 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:56.739588+00:00)

## What it is
Iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust inspired by The Elm Architecture, offering a simple, type-safe, reactive programming model with a batteries-included widget set. It is renderer-agnostic, with built-in GPU (wgpu) and software (tiny-skia) renderers, and supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and the Web.

## Use cases
- build a desktop app in rust
- cross-platform gui toolkit for rust
- elm-style reactive ui in rust
- create custom widgets with a rust gui library
- build a web gui with webassembly in rust
- gpu-accelerated native app ui

## When to choose
- you want a simple, type-safe, Elm-inspired UI model in Rust
- you need one codebase targeting desktop and the web
- you want built-in widgets plus easy custom widget support
- you need first-class async/futures support in your UI

## When to avoid
- you need a fully stable, production-hardened toolkit (the project self-describes as experimental)
- you need complex data grids or enterprise widget sets out of the box
- you prefer immediate-mode GUIs like egui
- you need mature mobile (iOS/Android) support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: gui, ui-components, graphics, state-management, animation
- domain: cross-platform, web-development, developer-tools, graphics
- platform: rust, cross-platform, windows, wasm
- tags: elm-architecture, widget-toolkit, renderer-agnostic, reactive-ui, wgpu, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- iced-rs/iced (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:56.739588+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:52:17.908339+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/iced-rs/iced (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:56.739588+00:00, sha e676bc05f0d6)
  - homepage: https://iced.rs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:22.487876+00:00, sha 6c5524676b58)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/iced (fetched 2026-08-29T07:49:22.496850+00:00, sha 4edf70851837)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.