yappologistic/CUI
Native UI components for C: about 150 of them, with spring motion and full keyboard support. Windows, macOS and Linux, no dependencies.
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Native UI components for C. About 170 components with spring motion and full keyboard support. Windows, macOS and Linux from one C99 codebase. No dependencies, about 250 KB. [](https://github.com/yappologistic/CUI/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](LICENSE) Getting started · Components · Live docs · Examples · Design principles Every image on this page is drawn by CUI itself, from plain C. Components are functions. They draw themselves, handle input and return what happened. Options are named arguments, so the common case stays short and everything else is one .field = value away. Your variables are the state. The screen is described again every frame, so there is nothing to keep in sync. A complete library Buttons, fields, pickers, dialogs and tables, plus a command palette, a virtualized data grid, kanban boards, gantt charts, a dozen kinds of chart, AI chat components, and tool panels such as docking, a node editor, a code editor, a terminal and…
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- CUI
- Your interface is plain C
- Why CUI
- Install
- Components
- Showcase
- Example apps
- Light, dark and eight accents
- Size and speed
- Platforms
- Status and limitations
- Documentation
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What this repository does
Native UI components for C: about 150 of them, with spring motion and full keyboard support. Windows, macOS and Linux, no dependencies.
Repository facts
- Owner
- yappologistic
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 322
- Forks
- 12
- Open issues + pull requests
- 9
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-11-05T08:18:08.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-08T11:58:37.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: c, c99, cross-platform, gui, native, ui-components
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