BUI Alternatives

Apps similar to BUI include Nuxt UI, which is free and open source. Other options are Iced, Gova, Azul.rs and Gio. You can choose from more than 10 Android Development Tools like BUI for Mac, Windows, Linux, self-hosting and iPad.

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  1. Nuxt UI icon
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    Create beautiful, responsive & accessible web apps quickly with Vue or Nuxt. Nuxt UI is an open-source UI library of 100+ customizable components built with Tailwind CSS and Reka UI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Figma
    • Vue.js
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Nuxt.js
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  2. Iced icon
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    iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust. It is inspired by Elm, a delightful functional language for building web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Rust
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  3. Gova icon
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    The declarative GUI framework for Go. Build native desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux from a single Go codebase — typed components, reactive state, real platform dialogs, and one static binary. No JavaScript runtime, no embedded browser, no C++ toolchain to learn.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Go (Programming Language)
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  4. Azul.rs icon
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    Azul is a free, functional, immediate-mode GUI framework for rapid development of desktop applications written in Rust, supported by the Mozilla WebRender rendering engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. Gio icon
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    Gio is a library for writing cross-platform immediate mode GUI-s in Go. Gio supports all the major platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  6. WaterUI icon
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    A modern, cross-platform UI framework for Rust that renders to native platform widgets (UIKit/AppKit on Apple, Android View on Android) rather than drawing its own pixels. Build reactive, declarative UIs with Rust's type safety and performance.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Ribir icon
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    Ribir is a Rust GUI framework that helps you build beautiful and native multi-platform applications from a single codebase.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. OrbTk icon
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    The Orbital Widget Toolkit is a multi platform (G)UI toolkit for building scalable user interfaces with the programming language Rust. It's based on the Entity Component System Pattern and provides a functional-reactive like API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Aberdeen icon
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    A TypeScript/JavaScript library for quickly building performant declarative user interfaces without the use of a virtual DOM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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  10. Conrod icon
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    Conrod is a portable, 2D, GUI library for the Rust programming language. It provides an immediate-mode API that wraps a retained-mode widget state graph. This allows us to expose a simple, robust and reactive interface while approaching the performance of traditional, retained...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. Sauron native is a cross platform, truly native GUI library for Rust. It extends the Sauron web framework which is heavily inspired by The Elm Architecture.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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