# tpecholt/imrad

ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui library

Repository: https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/imrad
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: cpp, gui-builder, imgui, dear-imgui, gui, gui-creator, linux, windows, android
Last push: 2026-06-11T00:22:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 68/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 86, release rhythm 33, longevity 90
- inputs: {"age_days": 1269, "days_push": 84, "days_rel": 238, "gap_med": 232.5, "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 1389, forks 60 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:35.508329+00:00)

## What it is
ImRAD is a GUI builder for the ImGui (Dear ImGui) library that lets developers visually design windows, popups, and layouts. It generates and parses C++ code directly usable in applications, supporting continuous round-trip editing with data binding and event handlers.

## Use cases
- visually design ImGui interfaces without hand-writing code
- generate C++ UI code for a Dear ImGui application
- build modal dialogs and popups with box layouts for ImGui
- create Android ImGui apps with generated MainActivity and CMake templates
- round-trip edit generated UI code while keeping manual additions
- bind widget properties to C++ expressions and member variables

## When to choose
- you use Dear ImGui and want a visual designer instead of writing layout code by hand
- you need generated C++ UI code that remains editable and re-parseable
- you want box layout and data binding features not available in stock ImGui
- you target Windows, Linux, macOS, or Android with ImGui

## When to avoid
- you don't use ImGui for your UI
- you need a GPL-3.0-incompatible license for your tooling
- you want a designer for non-ImGui toolkits like Qt or GTK

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, desktop-applications, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: imgui, dear-imgui, gui-builder, wysiwyg, code-generation, data-binding, glfw, linux, macos, android

## Member repositories
- tpecholt/imrad (main) score 68

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.508329+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 2026-08-30T04:39:43.982348+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tpecholt/imrad (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.508329+00:00, sha 1443a189e2b5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.