nanoui
Desktop apps in Zig, with native UI drawn on the GPU or a web frontend
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nanoui launched on 18 October 2026. It ranked #118 on Daily Launch on 4 November 2026 with a Launch Score of 18, from 761 stars in 17 days on GitHub. It was new in the ranking that day.
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What is nanoui?
Apps are single binaries. Nothing polls, so an idle app uses no CPU. You need Zig 0.17.0, plus the macOS SDK on a Mac (Xcode or the Command Line Tools). Linux apps need GTK 3 at run time and nothing at build time.
From its README on GitHub
nanoui is a repo by justrach on GitHub. It is written in Zig and released under the MIT license.
How to get nanoui
Get it from its repository on GitHub.
Launch timeline
Launch Score, last 7 days
Ranked on one day so far: 18 of 100 on 4 November.