Awesome C++ 
A curated list of awesome C++ (or C) frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-... stuff.
Standard Libraries
C++ Standard Library - including STL Containers, STL Algorithm, STL Functional, etc.
Frameworks
C++ generic frameworks and libraries.
- abseil-cpp - Abseil C++ Common Libraries. [Apache2]
- Apache C++ Standard Library - STDCXX, A collection of algorithms, containers, iterators, and other fundamental components. [retired] [Apache2]
- APR - Apache Portable Runtime. Another library of cross-platform utility functions. [Apache2]
- ASL - Adobe Source Libraries provides peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries. [MIT]
- AUI - Declarative UI toolkit for C++20. [MPL2]
- Boost :zap: - A large collection of generic C++ libraries. [Boost] website
- BDE - The BDE Development Environment from Bloomberg Labs. [Apache2]
- C++ Workflow :zap: - C++ Parallel Computing and Asynchronous Networking Engine. [Apache2]
- CGraph - A cross-platform DAG framework based on C++ without any 3rd-party. [MIT]
- Cinder - A community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding. [BSD]
- Coost - A tiny boost library in C++11. [MIT]
- Cxxomfort - A small, header-only library that backports various facilities from more recent C++ Standards to C++03 and later. [MIT]
- Dlib :zap: - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++. [Boost] website
- EASTL - Electronic Arts Standard Template Library. [BSD]
- ETL - Embedded Template Library. [MIT]
- ffead-cpp - Framework for Enterprise Application Development. [Apache2]
- Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook. [Apache2]
- FunctionalPlus - Functional Programming Library for C++. Write concise and readable C++ code. [MIT]
- GLib - GLib provides the core application building blocks for libraries and applications written in C. [LGPL]
- itlib - A collection of std-like single-header C++ libraries [MIT]
- JUCE - An all-encompassing C++ class library for developing cross-platform software. [Core-Module: ISC, Rest: GPL2/GPL3/Proprietary] website
- Kigs framework - A free and open source C++ modular multi-purpose cross platform RAD framework. [MIT] website
- libPhenom - libPhenom is an eventing framework for building high performance and high scalability systems in C. [Apache2]
- LibSourcey - C++11 evented IO for real-time video streaming and high performance networking applications. [LGPL]
- LibU - A multiplatform utility library written in C. [BSD]
- libxutils - Simple and yet powerful cross-platform C library providing data structures, algorithms and much more. [MIT]
- Loki - A C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms. [MIT]
- micron.cpp - A pure C++ implementation (& redesign) of libc and the Standard Library. [Boost/MIT]
- MiLi - Minimal headers-only C++ Library. [Boost]
- OpenFrameworks - A cross platform open source toolkit for creative coding in C++. [MIT] website
- PhotonLibOS - A comprehensive C++ framework featuring efficient user-space threading (coroutine with work-stealing), I/O, networking, RPC, HTTP, etc., and used extensively in Alibaba. It is compatible with C++ 14/17/20/23, Linux, MacOS, x86-64, ARM64, gcc and clang. [Apache2] website
- Qt :zap: - A cross-platform application and UI framework. [GPL/LGPL/Proprietary] website
- Reason - A cross platform framework designed to bring the ease of use of Java, .Net, or Python to developers who require the performance and strength of C++. [GPL2]
- ROOT - A set of OO frameworks with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in a very efficient way. Used at CERN. [LGPL]
- rpp - Minimal Rust-inspired C++20 STL replacement. [MIT]
- SaneCppLibraries - a set of C++ platform abstraction libraries for macOS, Windows and Linux. [MIT] website
- Seastar - An advanced, open-source C++ framework for high-performance server applications on modern hardware. [Apache-2.0 License] seastar.io
- sfl library - a header-only C++11 library that provides several new or lesser-known containers, some of which can be used in C++20 constant expressions. [zlib]
- Siv3D - Siv3D (OpenSiv3D) is a C++20 framework for creative coding (2D/3D games, media art, visualizers, and simulators). [MIT] website
- STLport - An exemplary version of STL. [Free]
- STXXL - Standard Template Library for Extra Large Data Sets. [Boost]
- tbox - A glib-like multi-platform c library. [Apache2] website
- Ultimate++ - A C++ cross-platform rapid application development framework. [BSD]
- Windows Template Library - A C++ library for developing Windows applications and UI components. [Public]
- WUI - WUI (Window User Interface Library) is a cross-platform library for creating graphical user interfaces in C++17+ [Boost]website
- xtd - Modern C++20 framework to create console (CLI), forms (GUI) and unit tests (xUnit) applications on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, FreeBSD and Haiku. [MIT]
- Yomm2 - Fast, Orthogonal, Open multi-methods. Supersedes Yomm11 [Boost]
- YUP! - The modern framework optimized for realtime audio and GPU-native creative software [ISC]
Artificial Intelligence
- ANNetGPGPU - A GPU (CUDA) based Artificial Neural Network library. [LGPL]
- btsk - Game Behavior Tree Starter Kit. [zlib]
- cpp-mcp - Lightweight C++ MCP (Model Context Protocol) SDK. [MIT]
- Evolving Objects - A template-based, ANSI-C++ evolutionary computation library which helps you to write your own stochastic optimization algorithms insanely fast. [LGPL]
- fastmcpp - C++ port of the fastmcp Python library. [Apache2]
- frugally-deep - Header-only library for using Keras models in C++. [MIT]
- Genann - Simple neural network library in C. [zlib]
- MXNet - Lightweight, Portable, Flexible Distributed/Mobile Deep Learning with Dynamic, Mutation-aware Dataflow Dep Scheduler; for Python, R, Julia, Scala, Go, JavaScript and more. website
- PyTorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration. website
- flashlight - Flashlight is a fast, flexible machine learning library written entirely in C++. [BSD]
- Recast/Detour - (3D) Navigation mesh generator and pathfinder, mostly for games. [zlib]
- TensorFlow - An open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. [Apache]
- Txeo - A modern C++ wrapper for TensorFlow. [Apache]
- oneDNN - An open-source cross-platform performance library for deep learning applications. [Apache] website
- CNTK - Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), an open source deep-learning toolkit. [Boost]
- tiny-dnn - A header only, dependency-free deep learning framework in C++11. [BSD]
- Veles - Distributed platform for rapid Deep learning application development. [Apache]
- Kaldi - Toolkit for speech recognition. [Apache]
Asynchronous Event Loop
- Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming that provides developers with a consistent asynchronous model using a modern C++ approach. [Boost] website
- Boost.Asio - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. [Boost] website
- C++ Actor Framework - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- Ichor - An event queue which focuses on thread safety and provides dependency injection. [MIT]
- libev - A full-featured and high-performance event loop that is loosely modelled after libevent, but without its limitations and bugs. [BSD and GPL]
- libevent - An event notification library. [BSD]
- libhv - Cross-platform event loop library. [BSD]
- libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O. [BSD]
- promise-cpp - Header only library that implements Promise/A+ standard. [Anti-996]
- uvw - C++ wrapper for libuv. [MIT]
- uv-cpp - a simple interface, high-performance network library based on C++11. [MIT]
Audio
Audio, Sound, Music, Digitized Voice Libraries
- Amplitude Audio SDK - A cross-platform audio engine designed with the needs of games in mind. [Apache-2.0] website
- Aubio - A library for audio and music analysis.[GPL-3.0] website
- AudioFile - A simple C++ library for reading and writing audio files. [MIT]
- audioFlux - A C library for audio and music analysis, feature extraction. [MIT]
- dr_libs - Single file audio decoding libraries for C and C++. [Unlicense]
- FMOD - An easy to use crossplatform audio engine and audio content creation tool for games. [Free for non-commercial/Commercial]
- KFR - Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, FFT, FIR/IIR filters, Sample Rate Conversion. [GPL/Proprietary]
- LAME - LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder. [LGPL]
- libsndfile - C library with C++ wrapper for reading and writing files containing sampled sound through one standard library interface. [LGPL-2.1] website
- libsoundio - C library for cross-platform real-time audio input and output. [MIT] website
- Maximilian - C++ Audio and Music DSP Library. [MIT]
- OpenAL - Open Audio Library - A crossplatform audio API. [BSD/LGPL/Proprietary]
- miniaudio - Single file audio playback and capture library. [Unlicense] website
- ni-media - C++ library for reading and writing audio files. [MIT]
- Opus - A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec. [BSD]
- PortAudio - PortAudio is a free, cross-platform, open-source, audio I/O library. [MIT]
- rnnoise - Recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction. [BSD-3-Clause]
- SELA - SimplE Lossless Audio. [MIT]
- SoLoud - Easy, portable audio engine for games. [zlib]
- Speex - A free codec for free speech. Obsoleted by Opus. [BSD]
- Tonic - Easy and efficient audio synthesis in C++. [Unlicense]
- Vorbis - Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format. [BSD]
- minimp3 - Public domain, header-only MP3 decoder with clean-room implementation. [CC0]
- Verovio - Verovio is a fast and lightweight music notation engraving library. [LGPL] website
- Wav2Letter++ - Public domain, a fast open source speech processing toolkit written entirely in C++ and uses the ArrayFire tensor library and the flashlight machine learning library for maximum efficiency. [BSD]
- PocketSphinx - A lightweight speech recognition engine. [BSD-2-Clause] website
Biology
Bioinformatics, Genomics, Biotech
- BioC++ - C++ Computational Libraries for Bioinformatics. [BSD]
- Chaste - An open source C++ library for the computational simulation of mathematical models developed for physiology and biology. [BSD]
- libsequence - A C++ library for representing and analyzing population genetics data. [GPL]
- SeqAn - Algorithms and data structures for the analysis of sequences with the focus on biological data. [BSD/3-clause]
- Vcflib - A C++ library for parsing and manipulating VCF files. [MIT]
- Wham - Structural variants (SVs) in Genomes by directly applying association tests to BAM files. [MIT]
- htslib - A C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data. [MIT/BSD] website
BitTorrent
- jech/dht - BitTorrent DHT library in C. [MIT]
- libtorrent (a.k.a. libtorrent-rasterbar) - An efficient feature complete C++ bittorrent implementation. [BSD]
- LibTorrent (a.k.a. libtorrent-rakshasa) - BitTorrent library. [GPL]
- libutp - uTorrent Transport Protocol library. [MIT]
Chemistry
Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Solid-State Chemistry/Physics, Geochemistry, Biochemistry
- d-SEAMS - A molecular dynamics trajectory analysis engine in C++ and Lua with Nix. It is an acronym for Deferred Structural Elucidation Analysis for Molecular Simulations. [GPL] website
- gromacs - A message-passing parallel molecular dynamics implementation. [GPL] website
- Reaktoro - A computational framework in C++ and Python for modeling chemically reactive systems. [LGPL] website
- LAMMPS - A classical molecular dynamics code with a focus on materials modeling. It's an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. [GPL] website
- MADNESS - Multiresolution Adaptive Numerical Environment for Scientific Simulation. [GPL] website
- MPQC - The Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry program, MPQC, computes properties of atoms and molecules from first principles using the time independent Schrödinger equation. [GPL] website
- Psi - An ab initio computational chemistry package. [GPL] website
CLI
Console/Terminal User Interface, Command Line Interface
- Argh! - A minimalist, frustration-free, header-only argument handler. [BSD]
- argparse - Argument Parser for Modern C++. [MIT]
- args - A simple header-only C++ argument parser library. [MIT]
- Argy - Command-Line Argument Parsing Library for Modern C++ — Simple, Intuitive, and Header-only with Zero Dependencies [MIT]
- barkeep - Small C++ header to display async animations, counters, and progress bars. [Apache-2.0] website
- Boost.Program_options - A library to obtain program options via conventional methods such as command line and config file. [Boost] website
- cli - A cross-platform header only C++14 library for interactive command line interfaces (Cisco style). [Boost]
- CLI11 - Header only single or multi-file C++11 library for simple and advanced CLI parsing. [BSD]
- clipp - Easy to use, powerful and expressive command line argument handling for C++11/14/17 contained in a single header file. [MIT]
- cpp-terminal - Small header only C++ library for writing multiplatform terminal applications. [MIT]
- Crossline - A small, self-contained, zero-config, MIT licensed, cross-platform, readline and libedit replacement. [MIT]
- Ctrl+C - Crossplatform C++11 library to handle Ctrl+C event in custom functions. [MIT]
- cxxopts - Lightweight C++ command line option parser. [MIT]
- docopt.cpp - A library to generate option parser from docstring. [MIT/Boost]
- FINAL CUT - Library for creating terminal applications with text-based widgets. [LGPL]
- FTXUI - C++ Functional Terminal User Interface. [MIT]
- gflags - Commandline flags module for C++. [BSD]
- imtui - Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface. [MIT]
- indicators - Activity indicators for Modern C++. [MIT]
- linenoise - A small self-contained alternative to readline and libedit. [BSD-2-Clause]
- linenoise-ng - A small, portable GNU readline replacement for Linux, Windows and MacOS which is capable of handling UTF-8 characters. [BSD]
- Lyra - A simple to use, composable, command line parser for C++ 11 and beyond. [Boost]
- Ncurses - A terminal user interface. [MIT]
- oof - Convenient, high-performance RGB color and position control for console output. [MIT]
- PDCurses - Public domain curses library with both source code and pre-compiled library available. [PublicDomain]
- popl - A single-header templated command line arguments and ini file parser for C++ 11 and beyond. [MIT]
- replxx - A readline and libedit replacement that supports UTF-8, syntax highlighting, hints, works on Unix and Windows. [BSD]
- tabulate - Table Maker for Modern C++. [MIT]
- TCLAP - A mature, stable and feature-rich library for defining and accessing command line arguments in ANSI C++. [MIT]
- termbox - A C library for writing text-based user interfaces. [MIT]
- TermOx - C++17 Terminal User Interface(TUI) Library. [MIT]
- tuibox - A single-header terminal UI (TUI) library, capable of creating mouse-driven, interactive applications on the command line. [MIT]
- Ginseng - A C++ command-line argument parser. [MIT]
Compression
Compression and Archiving Libraries
- bit7z - A C++ static library offering a clean and simple interface to the 7-zip shared libraries. [MPL2]
- Brotli - Brotli compression format. Developed by Google. [MIT]
- bzip2 - A freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. [BSD]
- bzip3 - A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2. [LGPL]
- FastLZ - Small & portable byte-aligned LZ77 compression. [MIT]
- FiniteStateEntropy - New generation entropy codecs : Finite State Entropy and Huff0.
- FSST - efficient random-access string compression. [MIT]
- heatshrink - data compression library for embedded/real-time systems [ISC]
- Kanzi - a modern, modular, portable and efficient lossless data compressor implemented in C++. [Apache-2.0]
- KArchive - A library for creating, reading, writing and manipulating file archives like zip and tar. It also provides transparent compression and decompression of data, using formats like gzip, via a subclass of QIODevice. [LGPL]
- libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library. [New BSD] website
- LZ4 - Extremely Fast Compression algorithm. [BSD] website
- LZAV - Fast In-Memory Data Compression Algorithm. [MIT]
- LZFSE - LZFSE compression library and command line tool. Developed by Apple.
- LZHAM - Lossless data compression library with a compression ratio similar to LZMA but with much faster decompression. [BSD]
- LZMA :zap: - The default and general compression method of 7z format. [PublicDomain] website
- LZMAT - An extremely fast real-time lossless data compression library. [GPL]
- miniz - Single C source file Deflate/Inflate compression library with zlib-compatible API, ZIP archive reading/writing, PNG writing. [MIT]
- Minizip - Zlib with latest bug fixes that supports PKWARE disk spanning, AES encryption, and IO buffering. [zlib]
- minizip-ng - Fork of the popular zip manipulation library found in the zlib distribution. [zlib]
- misa77 - Ridiculously fast decompression at good ratios. [MIT]
- OpenZL - A novel data compression framework. [BSD] website
- PhysicsFS - A library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3's file subsystem. [zlib]
- Rapidgzip - Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines. [Apache-2/MIT]
- smaz - Small strings compression library. [BSD]
- Snappy - A fast compressor/decompressor. [BSD]
- ZLib - A very compact compression library for data streams. [zlib]
- zlib-ng - zlib for the "next generation" systems. Drop-In replacement with some serious optimizations. [zlib]
- zstd - Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm. Developed by Facebook. [BSD]
- ZXC - High-performance asymmetric lossless compression. [BSD-3-Clause]
- ZZIPlib - Provides read access on ZIP-archives. [MPL/LGPL]
- cmix - A lossless data compression program that aims for the highest compression ratios at the cost of speed. [GPL-3.0]
- LZSSE-SIMDe - A portable SIMD implementation of LZSSE compression. [BSD-2-Clause]
- Zopfli - A compression library that performs very good but slow deflate/zlib compression. [Apache-2.0]
Concurrency
Concurrency and Multithreading
- alpaka - Abstraction library for parallel kernel acceleration. [LGPLv3+]
- ArrayFire - A general purpose GPU library. [BSD]
- Async++ - A lightweight concurrency framework for C++11, inspired by the Microsoft PPL library and the N3428 C++ standard proposal. [MIT]
- atomic_queue - C++14 multiple-producer-multiple-consumer lock-free queues based on circular buffers and std::atomic. [MIT]
- Boost.Compute - A C++ GPU Computing Library for OpenCL. [Boost] website
- Bolt - A C++ template library optimized for GPUs. [Apache2]
- BS::thread_pool - A fast, lightweight, and easy-to-use C++17 thread pool library [MIT]
- Channel - Thread-safe container for sharing data between threads. [MIT]
- ck - Concurrency primitives, safe memory reclamation mechanisms and non-blocking data structures. [BSD]
- concurrentqueue - A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11. [BSD,Boost]
- Coros - An easy-to-use and fast library for task-based parallelism, utilizing coroutines. [BSL-1.0]
- CUB - CUB provides state-of-the-art, reusable software components for every layer of the CUDA programming mode. [New BSD]
- cuda-api-wrappers - Lightweight, Modern-C++ wrappers for the CUDA GPU programming runtime API. [BSD]
- cupla - C++ API to run CUDA/C++ on OpenMP, Threads, TBB, ... through Alpaka. [LGPLv3+]
- C++React - A reactive programming library for C++11. [Boost]
- dispenso - A high-performance C++ library for parallel programming with thread pools, parallel for loops, futures, task graphs, and concurrent containers. [MIT]
- FiberTaskingLib - Task-based multi-threading library that supports task graphs with arbitrary dependencies. [Apache]
- HPX - A general purpose C++ runtime system for parallel and distributed applications of any scale. [Boost]
- Intel Games Task Scheduler - A task scheduling framework designed for the needs of game developers. [MIT]
- Intel Parallel STL - Intel® implementation of C++17 STL for C++11 and above. [Apache2]
- Intel TBB - Intel® Threading Building Blocks. [Apache2]
- junction - A library of concurrent data structures in C++. [BSD]
- Kokkos - A performance portable programming model for parallel execution and memory abstraction. [BSD]
- libcds - A C++ library of Concurrent Data Structures. [BSD]
- Libclsph - An OpenCL based GPU accelerated SPH fluid simulation library. [MIT]
- libdill - Introduces structured concurrency in C. [MIT]
- libdispatch - Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), developed by Apple Inc., is a task parallelism technology based on the thread pool pattern. libdispatch is a library that provides the implementation of GCD's services. [Apache-2.0] website
- libfork - A bleeding-edge, lock-free, wait-free, continuation-stealing tasking library built on C++20's coroutines. [MPL-2.0] website
- libmill - Introduces Go-style concurrency in C. [MIT]
- marl - Marl is a hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11. [Apache-2.0]
- moderngpu - moderngpu is a productivity library for general-purpose computing on GPUs. It is a header-only C++ library written for CUDA. The unique value of the library is in its accelerated primitives for solving irregularly parallel problems. [FreeBSD & Copyright, Sean Baxter]
- NCCL - Optimized primitives for collective multi-GPU communication. [BSD]
- Neco - Concurrency library for C (coroutines). [MIT]
- OpenCL - The open standard for parallel programming of heterogeneous systems.
- OpenMP - The OpenMP API.
- rotor - Event loop friendly C++ actor micro framework. [MIT]
- SObjectizer - An implementation of Actor, Publish-Subscribe, and CSP models in one rather small C++ framework. [BSD-3-Clause]
- Quantum - A powerful C++ coroutine dispatcher framework built on top of Boost.Coroutine2.
- RaftLib - The RaftLib C++ library, streaming/dataflow concurrency via C++ iostream-like operators. [Apache2]
- readerwriterqueue - A fast single-producer, single-consumer lock-free queue for C++. [BSD]
- stdgpu - Efficient STL-like Data Structures on the GPU. [Apache2]
- Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System. (renamed from Cpp-Taskflow) [MIT]
- ThreadPool - A simple C++11 Thread Pool implementation [zlib]
- Thrust - A parallel algorithms library which resembles the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). [Apache2]
- TooManyCooks - High-performance C++20 coroutine framework with advanced hardware detection features. [BSL-1.0]
- transwarp - A header-only C++ library for task concurrency. [MIT]
- VexCL - A C++ vector expression template library for OpenCL/CUDA. [MIT]
- STAPL - A C++ parallel programming framework designed to work on both shared and distributed memory parallel computers. [BSD]
- concurrencpp - A general concurrency library containing tasks, executors, timers and C++20 coroutines to rule them all.
- libcu++ - The NVIDIA C++ Standard Library, providing heterogeneous implementation of C++ Standard Library facilities. [Apache-2.0]
- nvthreads - A library for enabling efficient and persistent threading in C/C++. [LGPL-2.1]
Configuration
Configuration files, INI files
- inifile-cpp - A header-only and easy to use Ini file parser for C++. [MIT]
- inih - Simple .INI file parser in C, good for embedded systems. [BSD-3-Clause]
- inih - Single header only C++ version of inih. [BSD-3-Clause]
- ini-cpp - Single header only C++ version, with some handy read/write interface, extend from inih. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- iniparser - INI file parser. [MIT]
- inipp - Simple header-only C++ ini parser and generator. [MIT]
- libconfig - C, C++ library for processing structured configuration files. [LGPL-2.1] website
- libconfuse - Small configuration file parser library for C. [ISC]
- mINI - INI file reader and writer. [MIT]
- simpleini - Cross-platform C++ library providing a simple API to read and write INI-style configuration files. [MIT]
- toml++ - Header-only TOML parser and serializer for C++17 and later. [MIT] website
- toml11 - a C++11 (or later) header-only toml parser/encoder depending only on C++ standard library. [MIT]
Containers
- CRoaring - Roaring bitmaps in C (and C++), with SIMD optimizations. [Apache-2.0]
- dynamic_bitset - Simple Useful Libraries: C++17/20 header-only dynamic bitset. [MIT] website
- fixed-containers - Header-only C++20 library that provides fixed capacity constexpr containers. [MIT]
- flat_hash_map - A very fast flat hashtable with Fibonacci hashing.
- frozen - a header-only, constexpr alternative to gperf for C++14 users. [Apache-2.0]
- Hashmaps - Implementation of open addressing hash table algorithms in C++. [MIT]
- hat-trie - C++ implementation of a fast and memory efficient HAT-trie. [MIT]
- Hopscotch map - A fast header-only hash map which uses hopscotch hashing for collisions resolution. [MIT]
- librb - C implementation of ring (circular) buffer, with full thread awareness that allows for concurrent read/write and can automatically grow in size when needed. [BSD] website
- LSHBOX - A c++ toolbox of locality-sensitive hashing (LSH), provides several popular LSH algorithms, also support Python and MATLAB. [GPL]
- marisa-trie - Matching Algorithm with Recursively Implemented StorAge. [BSD-2-Clause/LGPL-2.1]
- parallel-hashmap - A family of header-only, very fast and memory-friendly hashmap and btree containers [Apache2] website
- PGM-index - A data structure that enables fast lookup, predecessor, range searches and updates in arrays of billions of items using orders of magnitude less space than traditional indexes. [Apache2] website
- plf::colony - An unordered "bag"-type container which outperforms std containers in high-modification scenarios while maintaining permanent pointers to non-erased elements regardless of insertion/erasure. [zLib] website
- plf::list - A std::list implementation which removes range splicing in order to enable cache-friendlier structure, yielding significant performance gains. [zLib] website
- plf::stack - A replacement container for the std::stack container adaptor, with better performance than any std container in a stack context. [zLib] website
- ring_span lite - A simplified implementation of Arthur O'Dwyer's ring_span implementation ie. a circular buffer view. [MIT]
- robin-hood-hashing - Fast & memory efficient hashtable based on robin hood hashing for C++14. [MIT]
- robin-map - Fast hash map and hash set using robin hood hashing. [MIT]
- sparsepp - A fast, memory efficient hash map for C++. [BSD 3-clause]
- sqlitemap - Persistent map backed by SQLite. [MIT]
- st_tree - A fast and flexible c++ template class for tree data structures. [Apache-2.0]
- svector - Compact SVO optimized vector for C++17 or higher. [MIT]
- tree.hh - An STL-like C++ header-only tree library. [GPL2+]
- unordered_dense - A fast & densely stored hashmap and hashset based on robin-hood backward shift deletion. [MIT]
- fifo_map - A FIFO-ordered associative container for C++. [MIT]
- ordered-map - A C++ hash map and hash set which preserves the order of insertion. [MIT]
Cryptography
Cryptography and Encryption Libraries
- Bcrypt - A cross platform file encryption utility. Encrypted files are portable across all supported operating systems and processors. [BSD]
- BeeCrypt - A portable and fast cryptography library. [LGPLv2.1+]
- BoringSSL - A fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs. [Apache2]
- Botan - A crypto library for C++. [BSD-2]
- Crypto++ - A free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes. [Boost] website
- digestpp - C++11 header-only message digest (hash) library. [PublicDomain]
- GnuPG - A complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. [GPL]
- GnuTLS - A secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols. [LGPL2.1]
- Libgcrypt - A general purpose cryptographic library originally based on code from GnuPG. [LGPLv2.1+]
- LibreSSL - A free version of the SSL/TLS protocol forked from OpenSSL in 2014. [?]
- libsodium - P(ortable|ackageable) NaCl-based crypto library, opinionated and easy to use. [ISC]
- libhydrogen - A lightweight, secure, easy-to-use crypto library suitable for constrained environments. [ISC]
- LibTomCrypt - A fairly comprehensive, modular and portable cryptographic toolkit. [WTFPL]
- mbedTLS - An open source, portable, easy to use, readable and flexible SSL library, previously known as PolarSSL. [Apache2] website
- Nettle - A low-level cryptographic library. [LGPL]
- OpenSSL - A robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source cryptography library. [Apache] website
- retter - A collection of hash functions, ciphers, tools, libraries, and materials related to cryptography.
- s2n - An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols. [Apache]
- sha1collisiondetection - Library and command line tool to detect SHA-1 collision in a file. [MIT]
- stduuid - A C++17 cross-platform implementation for UUIDs. [MIT]
- Tink - A multi-language, cross-platform library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse. [Apache-2.0]
- Tiny AES in C - Small portable AES128/192/256 in C. [PublicDomain]
- tiny-ECDH-c - Small and portable implementation of the ECDH key agreement protocol in C. [PublicDomain]
- Themis - crypto library for painless data security, providing symmetric and asymmetric encryption, secure sockets with forward secrecy, for mobile and server platforms. [Apache2]
- HEhub - A library for homomorphic encryption and its applications. [Apache2]
- Qt-Secret - Simple encryption library based on Qt for C++ projects. [LGPL]
- micro-ecc - A small and fast ECDH and ECDSA implementation for 8-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit processors. [BSD-2-Clause]
- crypto-algorithms - Basic implementations of standard cryptography algorithms (AES, SHA, etc.) in C. [PublicDomain]
- aes-stream - A fast AES-based stream cipher for C. [ISC]
CSV
Libraries for parsing Comma Separated Value (CSV) files
- commata - Just another header-only C++17 CSV parser. [Unlicense]
- csv2 - Fast CSV parser for modern C++. [MIT]
- Csv::Parser - Compile-time and runtime CSV parser written in C++17. [Zlib]
- Fast C++ CSV Parser - Small, easy-to-use and fast header-only library for reading CSV files. [BSD-3-Clause]
- Glaze - High performance, header only, CSV library with reflection support. [MIT]
- lazycsv - A fast, lightweight and single-header csv parser for modern C++. [MIT]
- rapidcsv - An easy-to-use, header-only C++ CSV parser library. [BSD-3-Clause]
- ssp - A header only "csv" parser which is fast and versatile with modern C++ api. [MIT]
- Vince's CSV Parser - A fast, self-contained, streaming C++17 CSV parser with optional type-casting and statistics. [MIT]
- zsv - The world's fastest (simd) CSV parser, with an extensible CLI. [MIT]
Database
Database Libraries, SQL Servers, ODBC Drivers, and Tools
- ClickHouse - C++ client for ClickHouse DBMS. [Apache2]
- CrossDB - Ultra High-performance Lightweight Embedded and Server OLTP RDBMS. [MPL-2.0] website
- Doltlite - Version Controlled SQLite. [PublicDomain/Apache2]
- DuckDB - in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System. [MIT] website
- hiberlite - C++ Object-relational mapping for sqlite3. [BSD]
- Hiredis - A minimalistic C client library for the Redis database. [BSD]
- Infinity - The AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast vector and full-text search. [Apache2]
- Kuzu - Embeddable property graph database management system built for query speed and scalability. Implements Cypher. [MIT]
- Kvrocks - A distributed key value NoSQL database that uses RocksDB as storage engine and is compatible with Redis protocol. [Apache2]
- Ladybug - an embedded graph database built for query speed and scalability. [MIT] website
- LevelDB - A fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values. [BSD]
- libpg_query - C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment. [BSD-3-Clause]
- libpqxx - The official C++ client API for PostgreSQL. [BSD-3-Clause]
- LMDB - Very fast embedded key/value store with full ACID semantics. [OpenLDAP]
- LMDB++ - C++11 wrapper for the LMDB embedded database library. [PublicDomain]
- mgclient - C/C++ Memgraph Client. [Apache2]
- MongoDB C Driver - MongoDB client library for C. [Apache2]
- MongoDB C++ Driver - C++ driver for MongoDB. [Apache2]
- MongoDB Libbson - A BSON utility library. [Apache2]
- MySQL++ - A C++ wrapper for MySQL's C API. [LGPL]
- nanodbc - A small C++ wrapper for the native C ODBC API. [MIT]
- ODB - An open-source, cross-platform, and cross-database object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. [GPLv2]
- redis3m - Wrapper of hiredis with clean C++ interface, supporting sentinel and ready to use patterns. [Apache2]
- Reindexer - Embeddable, in-memory, document-oriented database with a high-level Query builder interface. [Apache2] website
- RocksDB - Embedded key-value store for fast storage from facebook. [BSD]
- SimDB - High performance, shared memory, lock free, cross platform, single file, minimal dependencies, C++11 key-value store. [Apache2]
- SlothDB - an embedded SQL database that runs everywhere: on your laptop, on a server, and in the browser. [MIT] website
- SOCI - A database abstraction layer for C++. [Boost]
- Speedb - Community-led project: A RocksDB compliant high performance scalable embedded key-value store. [Apache2]
- sqlgen - A reflection-based ORM and SQL query generator for C++-20, similar to Python's SQLAlchemy/SQLModel or Rust's Diesel. [MIT]
- SQLite - A completely embedded, full-featured relational database in a few 100k that you can include right into your project. [PublicDomain]
- SQLiteC++ - SQLiteC++ (SQLiteCpp) is a smart and easy to use C++ SQLite3 wrapper. [MIT]
- sqlite_modern_cpp - Header only C++14 wrapper around sqlite library. [MIT]
- sqlite_orm - SQLite ORM light header only library for modern C++. [AGPL + paid MIT]
- sqlpp11 - A type safe embedded domain specific language for SQL queries and results in C++. [BSD-2-Clause]
- sqlpp23 - A type safe SQL library for C++. [BSD-2-Clause]
- TidesDB - High-performance, durable, transactional embedded storage engine designed for flash and RAM optimization. [MPL-2.0] website
- TileDB - Fast Dense and Sparse Multidimensional Array DBMS. [MIT] website
- TinyORM - Modern C++ ORM library. [MIT] website
- UnQLite - A self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL engine. [BSD-2-Clause] website
- upscaledb - An embedded "typed" key/value store with a built-in query interface. [GPLv3]
- TigerBeetleDB C++ client (Community) - TigerBeetle is a financial accounting database designed for mission critical safety and performance to power the future of financial services. [BSL-1.0]
- Trilogy - a client library for MySQL-compatible database servers, designed for performance, flexibility, and ease of embedding. [MIT]
- UStore - Multi-Modal database for BLOBs, JSON, and graphs. [Apache2]
- Velox - A C++ vectorized database acceleration library aimed to optimizing query engines and data processing systems. [Apache-2.0] website
- Zvec - A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database. [Apache2] website
- constexpr-sql - A compile-time SQL query parser and executor in C++17. [MIT]
- NuDB - A fast, append-only key/value store for SSD drives. [Boost]
Data visualization
Data visualization Libraries
- gplot++ - Cross-platform header-only C++ plotting library that interfaces with Gnuplot. [MIT]
- matplotplusplus - C++ Graphics Library for Data Visualization. [MIT] website
- mathplot - C++ header-only graphing and data visualization with modern OpenGL. [Apache-2.0] website
- Plotly++ - A C++ interface to the Plotly.js figure spec, for creating interactive data visualizations. [MIT]
- matplotlib-cpp - A C++ wrapper around the matplotlib Python plotting library. [MIT]
Debug
Debugging Libraries, Memory Leak and Resource Leak Detection, Unit Testing
- Attest - Cross-platform, heap-free C test framework with parameterized and lifecycle-aware tests and assertions with ad-hoc formatted messages. [MIT]
- backward-cpp - A beautiful stack trace pretty printer for C++. [MIT]
- Bencher - A suite of continuous benchmarking tools designed to catch performance regressions in CI. [MIT]/[Apache2]
- benchmark - Google provided small microbenchmark support library. [Apache2]
- Boost.Test - Boost Test Library. [Boost] website
- check - Check is a unit testing framework for C. [LGPL-2.1] website
- doctest - The lightest feature rich C++ single header testing framework. [MIT]
- Catch2 - A modern, C++-native, test framework for unit-tests, TDD and BDD. [Boost]
- Celero - C++ Benchmarking Framework. [Apache2]
- cpp-dump - A C++ library for debugging purposes that can print any variable, even user-defined types. [MIT]
- CppUTest - Unit testing and mocking framework for C/C++. [BSD-3-clause]
- CUTE - C++ Unit Testing Easier. [LGPL3]
- CMocka - unit testing framework for C with support for mock objects. [Apache2]
- CppBenchmark - Performance benchmark framework for C++ with nanoseconds measure precision. [MIT]
- Cpptrace - A simple, portable, and self-contained C++ stacktrace library supporting C++11 and greater. [MIT]
- CppUnit - C++ port of JUnit. [LGPL2]
- CrashCatch - Single-header crash reporting for C++ that logs stack traces and creates
.dmp and .txt crash dumps. [MIT] website
- CTest - The CMake test driver program. [BSD]
- dbg-macro - A dbg(…) macro for C++. [MIT]
- DebugViewPP - Debug logging viewer. [Boost]
- Deleaker - A tool for resource leak detection, including memory, GDI and handle leaks.
- FakeIt - Simple mocking framework for C++. [MIT]
- fff - A micro-framework for creating fake C functions. [MIT]
- Google Mock - A library for writing and using C++ mock classes. [BSD]
- Google Test - Google C++ Testing Framework. [BSD]
- Hippomocks - Single-header mocking framework. [LGPL-2.1]
- IceCream-Cpp - Never use cout/printf to debug again [MIT]
- ig-debugheap - Multiplatform debug heap useful for tracking down memory errors. [BSD]
- libassert - The most over-engineered C++ assertion library. [MIT]
- libtap - Write tests in C. [GPL2]
- microprofile - Profiler with web-view for multiple platforms. [Unlicense]
- MinUnit - A minimal unit testing framework for C self-contained in a single header file. [MIT]
- nanobench - Simple, fast, accurate single-header microbenchmarking functionality for C++11/14/17/20. [MIT] website
- Nanotimer - A simple low-overhead cross-platform timer class for benchmarking. [zLib] website
- Nonius - A C++ micro-benchmarking framework. [CC]
- Remotery - Single C File Profiler with Web Viewer. [Apache2]
- snitch - Lightweight C++20 testing framework. [Boost]
- Touca - Open-source regression testing system that you can self-host. [Apache2] website
- UnitTest++ - A lightweight unit testing framework for C++. [MIT/X Consortium license]
- Unity - Simple Unit Testing for C. [MIT]
- utest.h - Single header unit testing framework for C and C++. [Unlicense]
- utl::profiler - Singe-header profiler for C++17. [MIT]
- μt - C++20 single header/single module, macro-free μ(micro)/Unit Testing Framework. [Boost]
- VLD - Visual Leak Detector. A free, robust, open-source memory leak detection system for Visual C++.
- heaptrack - A heap memory profiler for Linux. [LGPL-2.1]
Documentation
- Doxide - Modern documentation for modern C++, configure with YAML, output Markdown. [Apache 2.0] website
- doxygen :zap: - The de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources. [GPL2] website
- doxyrest - A compiler from Doxygen XML to reStructuredText for Sphinx. [MIT]
- hdoc - The modern documentation tool for C++. [AGPL/Proprietary] website
- Natural Docs - Natural Docs is an open source documentation generator for multiple programming languages. [AGPL/Proprietary] website
- Sourcey - Static documentation generator that consumes Doxygen XML alongside OpenAPI, godoc, MCP, and Markdown. [AGPL-3.0] website
- Sphinx - Sphinx makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation. [BSD-2-Clause] website
DSP
Digital signal processing.
- DSPFilters - A collection of useful C++ classes for digital signal processing. [MIT]
- fCWT - The fast Continuous Wavelet Transform (fCWT) is a library for fast calculation of CWT. [Apache-2.0]
- FFTW - A C library for computing the DFT in one or more dimensions. [GPL]
- iir1 - IIR Realtime C++ filter library. [MIT]
- kissfft - A Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) library that tries to Keep it Simple, Stupid. [BSD-3-Clause]
- pocketfft - FFT implementation based on FFTPack, but with several improvements. [BSD-3-Clause]
- wavelib - C implementation of 1D and 2D wavelet transforms. [BSD-3-Clause]
Font
Libraries for parsing and manipulating font files.
- Fontconfig - Font configuration and customization library. [MIT] website
- FreeType - FreeType is a freely available software library to render fonts. [FTL & GPLv2]
- otfcc - A C library and utility used for parsing and writing OpenType font files. [Apache-2.0]
- harfbuzz - A text shaping engine. [Old MIT]
- libschrift - A lightweight TrueType font rendering library. [ISC]
- SheenBidi - A sophisticated implementation of Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm. [Apache-2.0]
Game Engine
- Acid - A high speed C++17 Vulkan game engine. [MIT]
- Allegro - A cross-platform library mainly aimed for video games and multimedia programming. [zlib]
- Axmol Engine - A cross-platform game engine for desktop, mobile, and XBOX (UWP), derived from Cocos2d-x-4.0. [MIT] website
- Cocos2d-x - A multi-platform framework for building 2d games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications. [MIT]
- Corange - A game engine written in pure C, SDL and OpenGL. [BSD]
- crown - Crown is a general purpose data-driven game engine, written from scratch in orthodox C++ with a minimalistic and data-oriented design philosophy in mind. [MIT]
- delta3d - A robust simulation platform. [LGPL2]
- EnTT - Gaming meets modern C++. [MIT]
- GamePlay - A cross-platform native C++ game framework for creating 2D/3D mobile and desktop games. [Apache2]
- Godot - A fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. [MIT]
- Grit - Community project to build a free game engine for implementing open world 3D games. [MIT]
- Halley - A lightweight game engine written in C++14 with a "true" entity-component system. [Apache 2.0]
- Hazel Game Engine - Hazel is primarily an early-stage interactive application and rendering engine for Windows. [Apache-2.0 license]
- IX-Ray Platform - Fork of X-Ray 1.6 engine that aims to improve gaming experience and simplify development of modifications. [Modified MIT/non-commercial only]
- JNGL - 2D library for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Xbox, the Nintendo Switch and the Web. [zlib] website
- KlayGE - a cross-platform open source game engine with plugin-based architecture. [GPLv2] website
- nCine - A cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance, written in C++11 and optionally scriptable in Lua. [MIT] website
- o3de - An open-source, real-time, multi-platform 3D engine based on Amazon Lumberyard. [Apache2] website
- OpenXRay - a community-modified X-Ray engine used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series. [Modified BSD/non-commercial only]
- Oxygine - A cross-platform 2D C++ game engine. [MIT]
- Panda3D - A game engine, a framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++ programs. [Modified BSD] website
- PixelGameEngine - The official distribution of olcPixelGameEngine, a tool used in javidx9's YouTube videos and projects. [OLC3]
- Polycode - A cross-platform framework for creative code in C++ (with Lua bindings). [MIT]
- quakeforge - Actively maintained branch of the original Quake engine code with 20+ years of development. [GPL-2.0]
- raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming. [zlib/libpng] website
- Spring - A powerful free cross-platform RTS game engine. [GPLv2/GPLv3] website
- Torque2D - An open-source and cross-platform C++ engine built for 2D game development. [MIT] website
- Torque3D - An open-source C++ engine built for 3D game development. [MIT] website
- toy engine - toy is a thin and modular c++ game engine and offers simple expressive c++ idioms to design full featured 2D or 3D games in fast iterations.
- Urho3D - A free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine implemented in C++. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D. [MIT]
- Zodiac Engine - An open-source cross-platform 3D rendering engine and editor (ZEngine) written in C++20 with Vulkan. [MIT]
- ezEngine - Is a free, open-source game engine written in C++. Its philosophy is to be modular and flexible, such that it can be adapted to many different use cases. [MIT] website
Graph
- CXXGraph - free C++(17) graph header-only library for representation and algorithms execution. [AGPL-3.0]
- Graaf - A general-purpose lightweight C++20 graph library. [MIT] website
GUI
Graphic User Interface
- Boden - Native, mobile, cross-platform GUI Framework. [GPL/LGPL/Proprietary] website
- Brisk - Cross-platform C++20 GUI framework. MVVM, reactive capabilities. Scalable, accelerated GPU rendering [GPL/Proprietary] website
- CEGUI - Flexible, cross-platform GUI library.
- Elements - Lightweight, fine-grained, resolution independent, modular GUI library. [MIT]
- FLTK - Fast, light, cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. [LGPL2]
- FOX Toolkit - an open-source, cross-platform widget toolkit. [LGPL]
- GacUI - GPU Accelerated C++ User Interface, with WYSIWYG developing tools, XML supports, built-in data binding and MVVM features. [Ms-PL]
- GTK+ - A multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. [LGPL]
- gtkmm - The official C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. [LGPL]
- imgui - Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies. [MIT]
- implot - Immediate Mode Plotting widgets for imgui. [MIT]
- iup - Multi-platform toolkit for building graphical user interfaces. [MIT]
- libui - Simple and portable (but not inflexible) GUI library in C that uses the native GUI technologies of each platform it supports. [MIT]
- MyGUI - Fast, flexible and simple GUI. [MIT]
- nana - Nana is a cross-platform library for GUI programming in modern C++ style. [Boost]
- NanoGui - A minimalistic cross-platform widget library for OpenGL 3.x or higher. [BSD]
- NAppGUI - SDK for building cross-platform desktop apps in ANSI-C. [MIT] website
- nuklear - A single-header ANSI C gui library. [PublicDomain]
- QCustomPlot - Qt plotting widget without further dependencies. [GPLv3]
- Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications. [Own based on LGPL]
- QwtPlot3D - A feature-rich Qt/OpenGL-based C++ programming library, providing essentially a bunch of 3D-widgets. [zlib]
- RmlUi - The HTML/CSS User Interface library evolved. Fork of libRocket. [MIT]
- Saucer - A modern, cross-platform C++ webview library. [MIT]
- Sciter - Sciter is an embeddable HTML/CSS/scripting engine aimed to be used as an UI layer of modern desktop applications. [Free/Commercial]
- Slint - Lightweight GUI toolkit for desktop and embedded. [GPL/Free/Proprietary] website
- TGUI - Cross-platform modern c++ GUI. [Zlib] website
- WebUI - Use any web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend. [MIT] website
- wxCharts - A library to create charts in wxWidgets applications. [MIT] website
- wxWidgets - A C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. [Own LGPL]
- Yue - A library for creating native cross-platform GUI apps. [LGPLv2]
- GuiLite - The smallest header-only GUI library (5 KLOC) for all platforms. [Apache-2.0]
- LCUI - A small C library for building user interfaces with C, XML and CSS. [MIT]
Graphics
- assimp - Open Asset Import Library (assimp) is a cross-platform 3D model import library which aims to provide a common API for different 3D asset file formats. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- bgfx - A cross-platform rendering library. [BSD]
- Blend2D - 2D vector graphics engine powered by a JIT compiler. [Zlib] website
- Cairo - A 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. [LGPL2 or Mozilla MPL]
- C-Turtle - A C++11 header-only turtle graphics library acting as a CImg wrapper. [MIT]
- Diligent Engine - A modern cross-platform low-level 3D graphics library. [Apache2]
- DirectXTK - A collection of helper classes for writing DirectX 11.x code in C++. [MIT]
- GLFW - A simple, cross-platform OpenGL wrangling library. [zlib/libpng]
- GLFWPP - A thin modern C++17 header-only wrapper for GLFW. [MIT]
- Harfang 3D 3D visualization library usable in C++, Python, Lua and Go. Based on BGFX. [GPLv3/LGPLv3/Proprietary] website
- herebedragons - A basic 3D scene implemented with various engines, frameworks or APIs. [MIT] website
- Horde3D - A small 3D rendering and animation engine. [EPL]
- Ion - A small and efficient set of libraries for building cross-platform client or server applications that use 3D graphics. [Apache2] website
- Irrlicht - A high performance realtime 3D engine written in C++. [zlib]
- libigl - Simple C++ geometry processing library. [MPL2]
- LLGL - Low Level Graphics Library (LLGL) is a thin abstraction layer for the modern graphics APIs. [BSD-3-Clause]
- LunaSVG - a standalone SVG rendering library in C++. [MIT]
- magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11/C++14 graphics middleware for games and data visualization. [MIT] website
- MESHLIB - An SDK to Supercharge Your 3D Data Processing Efficiency. [Free/Commercial] website
- micro-gl - Realtime, Embeddable, Headers Only C++11 CPU vector graphics. no STD lib, no FPU and no GPU required. [CUSTOM] website
- NanoVG - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations. [Zlib]
- Ogre 3D :zap: - A scene-oriented, real-time, flexible 3D rendering engine (as opposed to a game engine) written in C++. [MIT] website
- OpenSceneGraph - An open source high performance 3D graphics toolkit. [OSGPL]
- OpenSubdiv - Pixar's library for evaluating and rendering subdivision surfaces on CPU and GPU. [Modified Apache2]
- OpenVDB - Library and tools for storing, editing, and rendering volumetric datasets. [MPL2]
- Panda3D - A framework for 3D rendering and game development for Python and C++. [BSD]
- Partio - Library for wrangling particle data, with support for most common file formats. [Modified BSD]
- Skia - A complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images. [BSD] website
- ThorVG - a platform-independent portable library that allows for drawing vector-based scenes and animations, including SVG and Lottie. [MIT] website
- TinySpline - A small, yet powerful ANSI C library for interpolating, transforming, and querying arbitrary NURBS, B-Splines, and Bézier curves. [MIT]
- urho3d - Cross-platform rendering and game engine. [Many different, mostly MIT]
- Yocto/GL - Tiny C++ Libraries for Data-Driven Physically-based Graphics. [MIT]
- olive.c - Simple 2D Graphics Library. [MIT]
Image Processing
- avir - High-quality Pro HDR image resizer and fast SIMD Lanczos resizer. [MIT]
- Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library. [Boost] website
- BitmapPlusPLus - Simple and Fast header only Bitmap C++ library. [MIT]
- CImg - A small, open source, C++ toolkit for image processing. [Own LGPL or GPL]
- CxImage - An image processing and conversion library to load, save, display, transform BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, MNG, ICO, PCX, TGA, WMF, WBMP, JBG, J2K images. [zlib]
- Dlib :zap: - A modern C++11 machine learning, computer vision, numerical optimization, and deep learning toolkit. [Boost] website
- fpng - Super fast C++ .PNG writer/reader. [Unlicense]
- FreeImage - An open source library that supports popular graphics image formats and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. [GPL2 or GPL3]
- GD - GD Graphics Library, famously used in PHP for image loading/manipulation & thumbnail generation. [custom permissive license, requires mention in user docs] website
- DCMTK - DICOM Toolkit.
- GDCM - Grassroots DICOM library.
- ITK - An open-source, cross-platform system for image analysis. [Apache2 from ITK 4.0]
- Jpegli - an improved JPEG encoder and decoder implementation. [BSD-3-Clause]
- Leptonica - Leptonica is an open source library containing software that is broadly useful for image processing and image analysis applications. [BSD-2-Clause] website
- libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files. [BSD-2-Clause]
- libfacedetection - Open source library for face detection in images. The face detection speed can reach 1500FPS. [BSD]
- libjpeg-turbo - A JPEG image codec that uses SIMD instructions to accelerate baseline JPEG encoding and decoding. [IJG & BSD-3-Clause & zlib] website
- libjxl - JPEG XL image format reference implementation. [BSD-3-Clause]
- libpng - the reference library for use in applications that read, create, and manipulate PNG (Portable Network Graphics) raster image files. [libpng-2.0] website
- libspng - Simple, modern libpng alternative. [BSD-2] website
- libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs. [LGPL] website
- LodePNG - PNG encoder and decoder in C and C++. [Zlib]
- Magick++ - ImageMagick program interfaces for C++. [Apache2]
- MagickWnd - ImageMagick program interfaces for C. [Apache2]
- MozJPEG - Improved JPEG encoder. [BSD/BSD-3-Clause/ZLIB]
- OpenCV :zap: - Open source computer vision. [Apache2] website
- OpenEXR - Cross-platform library for high dynamic range imaging. [Modified BSDF]
- OpenImageIO - Powerful image and texture wrangling library with support for a wide number of common lossy and RAW formats. [Modified BSD]
- OpenJPEG - an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. [BSD-2-Clause]
- PlutoFilter - A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C. [MIT]
- QOI - The “Quite OK Image Format” for fast, lossless image compression. [MIT]
- SAIL - Easy-to-use cross-platform image decoding library with pluggable image codecs. [MIT]
- Simd - C++ image processing library with using of SIMD: SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, VMX(Altivec) and VSX(Power7), NEON for ARM. [MIT]
- stb-image - STB single-header image loading library. [Public Domain]
- tesseract-ocr - An OCR engine. [Apache2]
- TinyDNG - Header-only Tiny DNG/TIFF loader and writer in C++. [MIT]
- TinyEXIF - Tiny ISO-compliant C++ EXIF and XMP parsing library for JPEG. [MIT]
- TinyTIFF - lightweight TIFF reader/writer library. [GPL-3.0]
- Video++ - A C++14 high performance video and image processing library. [MIT]
- VIGRA - A generic C++ computer vision library for image analysis. [MIT X11]
- VTK - Open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. [BSD]
- OpenImageDenoise - High-performance, high-quality denoising library for ray-traced images. [Apache-2.0] website
- bitmap - C++ Bitmap Library for reading, writing, and processing BMP image files. [MIT]
Internationalization
- gettext - GNU 'gettext'. [GPL2]
- IBM ICU - A set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support. [ICU]
- libiconv - An encoding conversion library between different character encodings. [GPL]
- simdutf - Unicode routines (UTF8, UTF16, UTF32): billions of characters per second using SSE2, AVX2, NEON, AVX-512. [Apache-2/MIT]
- uni-algo - Unicode Algorithms Implementation for C/C++. [Unlicense or MIT]
- utf8.h - Single header utf8 string functions for C and C++. [Unlicense]
- utf8proc - A clean C library for processing UTF-8 Unicode data. [MIT]
Inter-process communication
- Apache Thrift - Efficient cross-language IPC/RPC, works between C++, Java, Python, PHP, C#, and many more other languages. Originally developed by Facebook. [Apache2]
- Boost.Interprocess - Header-only Boost library that supports kernel-level shared memory and memory-mapped files, with in-built synchronization mechanisms (semaphores, mutexes, and more). [Boost] website
- bRPC - bRPC is an Industrial-grade RPC framework using C++ Language, which is often used in high performance system such as Search, Storage, Machine learning, Advertisement, Recommendation etc. [Apache2] website
- Cap'n Proto - Fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. [MIT] website
- eCAL - Pub/sub, client/server, C++/Python/C#, various message protocols (protobuf, capnproto ..). [Apache2] website
- gRPC - A high performance, open source, general-purpose RPC framework. [BSD] website
- Ice - Comprehensive RPC framework with support for C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python and more. [GPLv2]
- iceoryx - True zero-copy inter-process communication framework for safety critical systems with bindings for C, Rust. Runs on Linux, QNX, Windows, Mac OS, FreeBSD. [Apache2] website
- libjson-rpc-cpp - JSON-RPC framework for C++ servers and clients. [MIT]
- nanomsg - A simple high-performance implementation of several "scalability protocols". [MIT] website
- nng - nanomsg-next-generation, a light-weight brokerless messaging library. [MIT] website
- rpclib - A modern C++ msgpack-RPC server and client library. [MIT]
- simple-rpc-cpp - A simple RPC wrapper generator to C/C++ functions. [BSD]
- SRPC - A lightweight RPC system that supports multiple protocols and OpenTelemetry. [Apache2]
- WAMP - Provides RPC and pub/sub messaging patterns. (various implementations, various languages)
- xmlrpc-c - A lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP. [BSD]
JSON
- Boost.PropertyTree - A property tree parser/generator that can be used to parse XML/JSON/INI/Info files. [Boost] website
- cJSON - Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C. [MIT]
- DAW JSON Link - Fast, convenient JSON serialization and parsing in C++. [BSL-1.0]
- frozen - JSON parser and generator for C/C++. [GPL & GPL2]
- Glaze - Extremely fast, in memory, JSON and interface library for modern C++. [MIT]
- Jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data. [MIT]
- jbson - jbson is a library for building & iterating BSON data, and JSON documents in C++14. [Boost]
- JeayeSON - A very sane (header only) C++ JSON library. [BSD]
- Jsmn - A minimalistic JSON parser in C. [MIT]
- json :zap: - JSON for Modern C++. [MIT] website
- json.cpp - a baroque JSON parsing / serialization library for C++. [Apache-2.0]
- json.h - A simple one header/one source solution to parsing JSON in C and C++. [Unlicense]
- json-build - C89 tiny zero-allocation JSON serializer. [MIT]
- json-c - A JSON implementation in C. [MIT]
- jsoncons - A C++ header-only library for JSON and JSON-like binary formats with JSONPointer, JSONPatch, JSONPath and JMESPath. [Boost]
- JsonCpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON. [MIT]
- Jsonifier - A few classes for parsing and serializing objects from/into JSON - very rapidly. [MIT]
- jsonParse - A simple JSON parser in ANSI C. [MIT]
- json-parser - Very low footprint JSON parser written in portable ANSI C. [BSD]
- json-struct - High performance, single header JSON parser parsing to and from C++ structs. [MIT]
- json-voorhees - JSON library for C++. Support for C++11. No dependencies, fast and dev-friendly. [Apache2]
- JSON Toolkit - JSON, JSON Pointer, JSON Schema, and JSONL library for C++20. [AGPL/Commercial]
- jute - Very simple C++ JSON Parser. [PublicDomain]
- libjson - A JSON parser and printer library in C. easy to integrate with any model. [LGPL]
- libjson - Lightweight JSON library. [?]
- LIBUCL :zap: - Universal configuration library parser. [BSD-2-Clause]
- meojson - Next-gen C++ JSON/JSON5 Serialization Engine | Zero Dependency | Header-Only | Unleash JSON Potential. [MIT]
- parson - Parson is a lighweight json library written in C. [MIT]
- PicoJSON - A header-file-only, JSON parser serializer in C++. [BSD]
- qt-json - A simple class for parsing JSON data into a QVariant hierarchy and vice versa. [GPLv3]
- RapidJSON :zap: - A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API. [MIT] website
- sajson - Lightweight, extremely high-performance JSON parser for C++11. [MIT]
- simdjson - Extremely fast JSON library that can parse gigabytes of JSON per second. [Apache-2.0]
- Sonic-Cpp - A fast JSON serializing & deserializing library, accelerated by SIMD. [Apache-2.0]
- taoJSON - Zero-dependency C++ header-only JSON library. [MIT]
- ujson - µjson is a a small, C++11, UTF-8, JSON library. [MIT]
- UltraJSON - Ultra fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C. [BSD-3-Clause]
- YAJL - A fast streaming JSON parsing library in C. [ISC]
- yyjson - A high performance JSON library written in ANSI C. [MIT]
- libdart - A high-performance, network-optimized JSON manipulation library. [MIT]
Logging
- Abseil Logging - The Abseil Logging library provides facilities for writing log messages to stderr, files, or other sinks. [Apache-2.0]
- Blackhole - Attribute-based logging framework, which is designed to be fast, modular and highly customizable. [MIT]
- Boost.Log - Designed to be very modular and extensible. [Boost] website
- BqLog - A lightweight, high-performance logging system used in projects such as "Honor of Kings". [Apache-2.0]
- fmtlog - A performant fmtlib-style logging library with latency in nanoseconds. [MIT]
- G3log - Asynchronous logger with Dynamic Sinks. [PublicDomain]
- glog - C++ implementation of the Google logging module.
- haclog - An extremely fast plain C logging library. [MIT]
- Log4cpp - A library of C++ classes for flexible logging to files, syslog, IDSA and other destinations. [LGPL]
- log4cplus - A simple to use C++ logging API providing thread-safe, flexible, and arbitrarily granular control over log management and configuration. [BSD & Apache2]
- loguru - A lightweight C++ logging library. [PublicDomain]
- lwlog - Very fast synchronous and asynchronous C++17 logging library. [MIT]
- ng-log - C++14 library for application-level logging. [BSD-3-Clause]
- plog - Portable and simple log for C++ in less than 1000 lines of code. [MPL2]
- reckless - Low-latency, high-throughput, asynchronous logging library for C++. [MIT]
- spdlog - Super fast, header only, C++ logging library.
- templog - A very small and lightweight C++ library which you can use to add logging to your C++ applications. [Boost]
- P7Baical - An open source and cross-platform library for high-speed sending telemetry & trace data with minimal usage of CPU and memory. [LGPL]
- Quill - Asynchronous cross platform low latency logging library. [MIT]
- logfault - A simple, elegant and efficient C++ header-only logging library. [MIT]
Machine Learning
- Caffe - A fast framework for neural networks. [BSD]
- catboost - A fast, scalable, high performance Gradient Boosting on Decision Trees library. [Apache2]
- CCV - C-based/Cached/Core Computer Vision Library, A Modern Computer Vision Library. [BSD]
- darknet - Open source neural network framework written in C and CUDA. [PublicDomain] website
- Dlib :zap: - A modern C++11 machine learning, computer vision, numerical optimization, and deep learning toolkit. [Boost] website
- FAISS - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. [MIT]
- FANN - Fast Artificial Neural Network library in C. [LGPL]
- Fido - A highly-modular C++ machine learning library for embedded electronics and robotics. [MIT] website
- flashlight - A fast, flexible machine learning library from Facebook AI Research written entirely in C++ and based on the ArrayFire tensor library. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- ggml - Tensor library for machine learning with 16-bit and 4-bit quantization support. [MIT]
- libsvm - A simple, easy-to-use, efficient library for Support Vector Machines. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- m2cgen - A CLI tool to transpile trained classic ML models into a native C code with zero dependencies. [MIT]
- MeTA - A modern C++ data sciences toolkit. [MIT]
- Minerva - A fast and flexible system for deep learning. [Apache2]
- mlpack - A scalable c++ machine learning library. [LGPLv3] website
- ncnn - A high-performance neural network inference computing framework optimized for mobile platforms. [BSD]
- OpenCV :zap: - Open Source Computer Vision Library. [BSD] website
- oneDAL - A powerful machine learning library that helps speed up big data analysis. [Apache]
- ONNX runtime - C and C++ library for training and inference ONNX models. ONNX is a standard that AI models can be converted into, regardless of the library they are trained with. [MIT] website
- Recommender - C library for product recommendations/suggestions using collaborative filtering (CF). [BSD]
- RNNLIB - RNNLIB is a recurrent neural network library for sequence learning problems. [GPLv3]
- SHOGUN - The Shogun Machine Learning Toolbox. [GPLv3]
- sofia-ml - The suite of fast incremental algorithms for machine learning. [Apache2]
- USearch - Fast search and clustering library for vectors and strings. [Apache2]
- VLFeat - The VLFeat open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms specialising in image understanding and local featurexs extraction and matching. [BSD-2-Clause] website
- xgboost - Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Flink and DataFlow. [Apache2]
- TensorComprehensions - A fully-functional C++ library to automatically synthesize high-performance machine learning kernels. [Apache-2.0]
- kann - A lightweight C library for artificial neural networks. [MIT]
Math
- Apophenia - A C library for statistical and scientific computing. [GPL2]
- Armadillo - Fast C++ library for linear algebra & scientific computing. [Apache2] website
- autodiff - A modern, fast and expressive C++ library for automatic differentiation. [MIT] website
- blaze - high-performance C++ math library for dense and sparse arithmetic. [BSD]
- Boost.Multiprecision - provides higher-range/precision integer, rational and floating-point types in C++, header-only or with GMP/MPFR/LibTomMath backends. [Boost] website
- ceres-solver - C++ library for modeling and solving large complicated nonlinear least squares problems from google. [BSD]
- CGAL - Collection of efficient and reliable geometric algorithms. [LGPL&GPL] website
- cml - The configurable math library. [Boost]
- CNL - A Compositional Numeric Library for C++. [Boost]
- DirectXMath - An all inline SIMD C++ linear algebra library for use in games and graphics apps.
- Dlib :zap: - A modern C++11 machine learning, computer vision, numerical optimization, and deep learning toolkit. [Boost] website
- Eigen - A high-level C++ library of template headers for linear algebra, matrix and vector operations, numerical solvers and related algorithms. [MPL2]
- ExprTk - The C++ Mathematical Expression Toolkit Library (ExprTk) is a simple to use, easy to integrate and extremely efficient run-time mathematical expression parser and evaluation engine. [MIT]
- Fastor - A lightweight high performance tensor algebra framework for modern C++. [MIT]
- geo-utils-cpp - Header-only C++17 library for spherical lat/lng geometry: distance, bearing, area, point-in-polygon. [Apache2]
- Geometric Tools - C++ library for computing in the fields of mathematics, graphics, image analysis and physics. [Boost] website
- GLM - Header-only C++ math library that matches and inter-operates with OpenGL's GLSL math. [MIT] website
- GMTL - Graphics Math Template Library is a collection of tools implementing Graphics primitives in generalized ways. [GPL2]
- GMP - A C library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating-point numbers. [LGPL3 & GPL2]
- Klein - A fast, SIMD-optimized C++17 Geometric Algebra library for point, line, and plane projections, intersections, joins, rigid-body motion, and more. [MIT] website
- libfixmath - Cross Platform Fixed Point Maths Library. [MIT]
- linalg.h - Single header, public domain, short vector math library for C++. [Unlicense]
- MATIO - MATLAB MAT File I/O Library. [BSD-2-Clause] website
- MatX - A GPU-accelerated C++17 numerical computing library with a MATLAB/Python-like syntax. [BSD 3-clause]
- mexce - A single-header, dependency-free JIT compiler for scalar mathematical expressions that generates optimized x87 FPU machine code. [BSD]
- MIRACL - A Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic Cryptographic Library. [AGPL]
- NumCpp - A templatized header only C++ implementation of the Python Numpy library. [MIT]
- NumKong - SIMD-accelerated distances, dot products, matrix ops, geospatial & geometric kernels for 16 numeric types. [Apache2] (previously named SimSIMD)
- OMath - Cross-platform modern general purpose math library written in C++23 that suitable for cheat/game development. [ZLIB]
- muparser - muParser is an extensible high performance math expression parser library written in C++. [MIT]
- LibTomMath - A free open source portable number theoretic multiple-precision integer library written entirely in C. [PublicDomain & WTFPL] website
- linmath.h - A lean linear math library, aimed at graphics programming. [WTFPL]
- lp_solve - A library used to formulate and solve linear programming problems. [LGPL] website
- OpenBLAS - An optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version. [BSD 3-clause] website
- PCG-rand - PCG is a family of simple fast space-efficient statistically good algorithms for random number generation. Unlike many general-purpose RNGs, they are also hard to predict. [Apache]
- QuantLib - A free/open-source library for quantitative finance. [Modified BSD] website
- sebsjames/maths - A templated C++20 math library which emphasizes convenience and pleasure for the client programmer (used in mathplot). [Apache2] website
- StatsLib - A C++ header-only library of statistical distribution functions. [Apache2] website
- SymEngine - Fast symbolic manipulation library, a rewriting of SymPy's core in C++. [MIT]
- TinyExpr - A C library for parsing and evaluating math expressions from strings. [zlib]
- Vc - SIMD Vector Classes for C++. [BSD]
- Versor - A (fast) Generic C++ library for Geometric Algebras, including Euclidean, Projective, Conformal, Spacetime (etc).
- Wagyu - A general library for geometry operations of union, intersections, difference, and xor. [mapbox-wagyu original]
- wide-integer - Wide-Integer implements a generic C++ template for uint128_t, uint256_t, uint512_t, uint1024_t, etc. [BSL-1.0]
- Wykobi - A C++ library of efficient, robust and simple to use C++ 2D/3D oriented computational geometry routines. [MIT]
- xtensor - A C++14 library for numerical analysis with multi-dimensional array expressions, inspired by NumPy syntax. [BSD 3-clause] website
- universal - A C++14 header-only library implementing arbitrary posit arithmetic. The posit number system is a tapered floating point that is more efficient than IEEE floating point. Posits enable reproducible computational science. [MIT license]
- utl::random - A C++17 header-only library implementing fast random for Monte-Carlo simulations & gamedev. [MIT]
- XAD - Powerful Automatic Differentiation for C++. [AGPL] website
- geogram - A programming library of geometric algorithms. [BSD-3-Clause]
- std-simd - A portable implementation of std::experimental::simd for C++. [BSD-3-Clause]
- libdivide - Optimized integer division for C/C++ using libdivide. [zlib] website
- fpsqrt - Fast fixed point and floating point square root for C. [MIT]
- fastmod - Header-only fast C/C++ library for computing remainders and modular reductions. [Apache-2.0]
- Spectra - A C++ library for large scale eigenvalue problems, built on top of Eigen. [MPL2] website
- FastNoiseSIMD - A library for SIMD-accelerated noise generation functions. [MIT]
Memory Allocation
- Boehm GC - Conservative garbage collector for C and C++. [similar to X11] website
- C Smart Pointers - Smart pointers for the (GNU) C programming language. [MIT]
- Hoard - Fast, Scalable, and Memory-efficient Malloc for Linux, Windows, and Mac. [Apache-2.0] website
- jemalloc - General purpose malloc(3) implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support. [BSD] website
- memory - STL compatible C++ memory allocator library. [ZLib]
- memory-allocators - Custom memory allocators to improve the performance of dynamic memory allocation. [MIT]
- mimalloc - A compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance. [MIT]
- rpmalloc - Cross platform lock free thread caching 16-byte aligned memory allocator implemented in C. [PublicDomain]
- snmalloc - Message passing based high-performance allocator. [MIT]
- TCMalloc - Google's fast, multi-threaded malloc implementation. [Apache-2.0] website
- buddy_alloc - A single header buddy memory allocator for C with bounded allocation costs. [0BSD]
- tgc - A tiny garbage collector for C written in ~500 LOC. [BSD]
- Mesh - A memory allocator that automatically reduces the memory footprint of C/C++ applications. [Apache-2.0]
- rpmalloc - A public domain cross-platform lock-free thread-caching 16-byte aligned memory allocator. [PublicDomain]
- TLSF - Two-Level Segregated Fit memory allocator, a general purpose dynamic memory allocator. [BSD]
- GStreamer - A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. [LGPL]
- icey - Real-time media stack and lightweight libwebrtc alternative for RTSP ingest, media processing, signaling, TURN, and browser delivery, built in C++20. [LGPL v2.1+]
- libass - Portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA subtitle format. [ISC]
- libav - A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata. [LGPL v2.1+ and others] website
- LIVE555 Streaming Media - Multimedia streaming library using open standard protocols (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP). [LGPL]
- libVLC - libVLC (VLC SDK) media framework. [GPL]
- MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files. [BSD]
- QtAv - A multimedia playback framework based on Qt and FFmpeg to write a player easily. [LGPL] website
- SDL :zap: - Simple DirectMedia Layer. [zlib] website
- SFML :zap: - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library. [zlib] website
- TagLib - A library for reading and editing the metadata of several popular audio formats. [LGPL/MPL] website
Networking
- ada - WHATWG-compliant and fast URL parser written in modern C++. [Apache-2.0/MIT]
- ACE - An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++. [?MIT?]
- AGENT++ - C++ framework provides a complete tri-lingual SNMP v1/2c/3 protocol engine and dispatcher for the development of SNMP agents. [Apache-2.0]
- Boost.Asio :zap: - A cross-platform C++ library for network and low-level I/O programming. [Boost] website
- Boost.Beast :zap: - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11. [Boost] website
- Breep - Event based, high-level C++14 peer-to-peer library. [EUPL-1.1 (OSI approved)]
- C++ REST SDK - C++ REST SDK (previously named Casablanca). [Apache2]
- CZMQ - High-level C binding for ØMQ. [MPL2] website
- Restbed - C++11 Asynchronous RESTful framework. [AGPL]
- Restinio - A header-only C++14 library that gives you an embedded HTTP/Websocket server. [BSD]
- c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests. [MIT]
- cofetch - Chainable async HTTP client built on libcurl's multi interface and ASIO. Callbacks, coroutines and futures from one implementation. [MIT]
- cpp-httplib - A single file C++11 header-only HTTP/HTTPS server library. [MIT]
- cpp-netlib - A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming. [Boost]
- cpp-netlib/uri - URI parser/builder library for C++, compatible with RFC 3986 and RFC 3987. [Boost]
- CppServer - Ultra fast and low latency asynchronous socket server & client C++ library with support TCP, SSL, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket protocols and 10K connections problem solution. [MIT]
- cpr - A modern C++ HTTP requests library with a simple but powerful interface. Modeled after the Python Requests module. [MIT] website
- curlcpp - An object oriented C++ wrapper for CURL(libcurl). [MIT]
- curlpp -C++ wrapper around libcURL. [MIT]
- DPDK - Data Plane Development Kit, libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. [BSD-3-Clause & GPL-2.0] website
- ENet - Reliable UDP networking library. [MIT] website
- evpp - C++ high performance networking with TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols. [BSD]
- FTP client for C++ - C++ client for making FTP requests. [MIT]
- H2O - An optimized HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x and HTTP/2. It can also be used as a library. [MIT]
- KCP - A fast and reliable ARQ protocol that helps applications to reduce network latency. [MIT]
- libcurl - Multiprotocol file transfer library. [MIT/X derivate license]
- libhttpserver - C++ library for creating an embedded Rest HTTP server (and more). [LGPL2.1]
- Libmicrohttpd - GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. [LGPL v2.1+]
- libpcap - A portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture. [BSD] website
- libquic - A QUIC protocol library extracted from Chromium's QUIC Implementation. [BSD]
- librdkafka - Apache Kafka client library for C and C++. [BSD-2-Clause]
- libwebsockets - A lightweight pure C WebSocket implementation that provides both client and server libraries. [LGPL2.1 + static link exception] website
- Lithium - Build high performance C++ HTTP servers without being a C++ expert. [MIT]
- lwIP - A lightweight TCP/IP stack. [Modified BSD]
- mailio - mailio is a cross platform C++ library for MIME format and SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols. [BSD]
- Mongoose - Extremely lightweight webserver. [GPL2]
- MQTT-C - A portable MQTT C client for embedded systems and PCs alike. [MIT] website
- mTCP - Highly scalable user-level TCP stack for multicore systems. [Modified BSD]
- Muduo - A C++ non-blocking network library for multi-threaded server in Linux. [BSD]
- nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library. [MIT] website
- nghttp3 - HTTP/3 library written in C. [MIT] website
- Onion - HTTP server library in C designed to be lightweight and easy to use. [Apache2/GPL2]
- OpenDDS - An open source C++ implementation of the Object Management Group (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS). [Apache2]
- PF_RING™ - High-speed packet processing framework. [LGPL-2.1] website
- PicoHTTPParser - A tiny, primitive, fast HTTP request/response parser. [MIT]
- POCO :zap: - C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. [Boost] website
- Proxygen - Facebook's collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server. [BSD]
- RedPanda - Streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. [BSL]
- RakNet - A cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers. [BSD]
- restclient-cpp - Simple REST client for C++. It wraps libcurl for HTTP requests. [MIT]
- Seasocks - Simple, small, C++ embeddable webserver with WebSockets support. [BSD]
- SNMP++ - a C++ API which supports SNMP v1/2c/v3. [custom permissive license]
- tlse - Single C file TLS 1.2/1.3 implementation, using tomcrypt as crypto library [BSD-2-Clause]
- TQUIC - A high-performance, lightweight, and cross-platform QUIC library, exposed to C and C++. [Apache2]
- Tufão - An asynchronous web framework for C++ built on top of Qt. [LGPL2]
- uriparser - Strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing and handling library. [BSD-3-Clause]
- uWebSockets - µWS is one of the most lightweight, efficient & scalable WebSocket & HTTP server implementations available. [Zlib]
- UCall - A high-performance SIMD-accelerated RPC library on io_uring. [Apache2]
- WAFer - A C language-based ultra-light software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. Think node.js for C programmers. [GPL2]
- Wangle - A client/server application framework to build asynchronous, event-driven modern C++ services. [Apache-2.0]
- wdt - An embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths. [BSD-3-Clause]
- WebSocket++ - C++/Boost Asio based websocket client/server library. [BSD]
- wspp - a zero-dependency single-header, modern WebSocket client & server, ws/wss library. [MIT]
- PcapPlusPlus - a multiplatform C++ network sniffing and packet parsing and crafting framework. [Unlicense]
- ZeroMQ - High-speed, modular asynchronous communication library. [LGPL3/MPL2] website
- Zyre - Local Area Clustering for Peer-to-Peer Applications. [MPL2]
- easyhttpcpp - A cross-platform HTTP client library providing a caching facility from Sony. [MIT]
- GameNetworkingSockets - Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP by Valve. Connection-oriented API (like TCP). [BSD-3-Clause]
- wepoll - A Windows epoll wrapper based on Winsock. [BSD-2-Clause]
Office Open XML
Libraries for parsing and manipulating xlsx, pptx, docx, etc.
- DuckX - C++ library for creating and modifying Microsoft Word (.docx) files. [MIT]
- FreeXL - an open source library to extract valid data from within Spreadsheets. [MPL/GPL-2/LGPL-2]
- libxls - Read binary Excel files from C/C++ [BSD-2-Clause]
- libxlsxwriter - A C library for creating Excel XLSX files. [BSD-2-Clause] website
- OpenXLSX - A C++ library for reading, writing, creating and modifying Microsoft Excel® (.xlsx) files. [BSD-3-Clause]
- SimpleXlsxWriter - XLSX files writer for Microsoft Excel 2007 and above. [zlib]
- XLSX I/O - C library for reading and writing .xlsx files. [MIT]
PDF
Libraries for parsing and manipulating PDF documents.
- libharu - A free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF. [zlib]
- litePDF - Library to create and edit PDF documents that uses GDI functions through a device context to draw the page content. [LGPL v3 and zlib]
- MuPDF - A lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer. [AGPL/Proprietary]
- PDF-Writer - High performance library for creating, modiyfing and parsing PDF files in C++ [Apache-2.0] website
- pdfio - A simple C library for reading and writing PDF files. [Apache-2] website
- PDFium - PDF generation and rendering library. [BSD-3-Clause]
- PoDoFo - A library to work with the PDF file format. [LGPL]
- Poppler - Open-source multi-backend PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. [GPLv2/GPLv3]
- QPDF - A tool and C++ library for content-preserving transformations of PDF files. [Apache-2.0] website
- Xpdf - Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more. [GPL v2/GPL v3]
- DynaPDF - An easy-to-use PDF generation library. [Commercial]
Physics
Dynamics simulation engines
- Box2D - A 2D physics engine for games. [BSD-like]
- Bullet - A 3D physics engine for games. [zlib] website
- Chipmunk - A fast and lightweight 2D game physics library. [MIT] website
- Jolt Physics - A multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library. [MIT]
- Kratos - framework for building parallel, multi-disciplinary simulation software, aiming at modularity, extensibility, and high performance. [BSD] website
- LiquidFun - A 2D physics engine for games. [BSD-like]
- Newton Dynamics - An integrated solution for real time simulation of physics environments. [zlib]
- ODE - Open Dynamics Engine - An open source, high performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics. [BSD&LGPL]
- ofxBox2d - openFrameworks wrapper for Box2D. [BSD-like]
- PhysX - An open-source realtime physics engine middleware SDK developed by Nvidia as a part of Nvidia GameWorks software suite. [BSD-3-Clause]
- PlayRho - An interactive physics engine & library. [Zlib]
- Project Chrono - An open source multi-physics simulation engine. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- Quantum++ - A modern C++11 quantum computing library. [MIT]
- QuarkPhysics - A 2D Soft Body and Rigid Body Physics Engine. [MIT]
- Simbody - High-performance C++ multibody dynamics/physics library for simulating articulated biomechanical and mechanical systems like vehicles, robots, and the human skeleton. [Apache2]
- SOFA - SOFA is an open-source framework targeting at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. [LGPL] website
- tungsten - A high-performance physically based renderer in C++. [zlib]
Reflection
- config-loader - A C++17 static reflection framework, from parse configuration file to native data structure. [MIT]
- Better Enums - Reflective enums (to string, iteration). Single header. [BSD] website
- clReflect - C++ Reflection using clang. [MIT]
- CPFG - A C++03 library for reflection, callback and script binding. [Apache2]
- CPP-Reflection - C++ Reflection using clang. [MIT]
- Easy Reflection - Easy and fast reflection + serialization solution like in Rust, Java or Go. [Apache]
- Enchantum - modern C++17 header-only library for compile-time enum reflection. [MIT]
- Magic Enum - Header-only C++17 library provides static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration), work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code. [MIT]
- magic_get - std::tuple like methods for user defined types without any macro or boilerplate code. [Boost]
- meta - Header-only, non-intrusive and macro-free runtime reflection system in C++. [MIT]
- Nameof - Header-only C++17 library provides nameof macros and functions to obtain the simple name of variable, type, function, macro, and enum. [MIT]
- REFLECT - C++20 Static Reflection library. [MIT]
- reflect-cpp - Serialization through reflection, including automatic field name retrieval from structs. [MIT]
- RTTR - A C++11 library for reflection. [MIT] website
- simple_enum - An Fast, Intuitive and Type-Safe C++ Enumeration Support Library. [BSL-1.0] website
- TSMP - An intrusion and macro-free C++20 library for static reflection. It uses libclang to extract reflection data from your source code and makes it usable via template specialization. [MIT]
- visit_struct - A miniature library for struct-field reflection in C++. [Boost]
- Refureku - A C++17 runtime reflection and code generation library. [MIT]
Regular Expression
- CppVerbalExpressions - C++ regular expressions made easy. [MIT]
- CTRE - A Compile time PCRE (almost) compatible regular expression matcher. [MIT]
- Hyperscan - Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library by Intel. Provides simultaneous matching of large numbers of regexps (up to tens of thousands). Typically used in a DPI library stack. [BSD]
- Oniguruma - A modern and flexible regular expressions library that supports a variety of character encodings. [BSD]
- PCRE - A regular expression C library inspired by the regular expression capabilities in Perl. [BSD]
- PCRE2 - a set of C functions that implement
regular expression pattern matching. [BSD] website
- PIRE - Perl Incompatible Regular Expressions library by Yandex. Can be really fast (more than 400 MB/s). [LPGL v3.0]
- RE2 - A software library for regular expressions via a finite-state machine using automata theory. [BSD-3-Clause]
- SLRE - Super Light Regexp engine for C/C++. [GPLv2/Proprietary]
- sregex - A non-backtracking NFA/DFA-based Perl-compatible regex engine library for matching on large data streams. [BSD]
- SRELL - Unicode-aware regular expression template library for C++. [BSD]
- TRE - The approximate regex matching library and agrep command line tool. [BSD-2-Clause]
- Vectorscan - A portable fork of the high-performance regular expression matching library. [BSD-3-Clause]
- Pawn.Regex - A Pawn plugin that provides support for regular expressions using C++11 std::regex. [MIT]
Robotics
- FusionCore - ROS 2 UKF sensor fusion library fusing GPS, IMU, and wheel odometry with adaptive noise and outlier rejection for robust outdoor localization. [Apache2]
- MOOS-IvP - A set of open source C++ modules for providing autonomy on robotic platforms, in particular autonomous marine vehicles.
- MRPT - Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit. [BSD]
- PCL - Point Cloud Library is a standalone, large scale, open project for 2D/3D image and point cloud processing. [BSD] website
- Robotics Library (RL) - A self-contained C++ library for robot kinematics, motion planning and control. [BSD]
- RobWork - A collection of C++ libraries for simulation and control of robot systems. [Apache2] website
- ROS - Robot Operating System provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. [BSD]
- Ruckig - Real-time motion generation for robots and machines. [MIT] website
- YARP (Yet Another Robot Platform) - Library and toolkit for communication and device interfaces. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- SPICE Toolkit - Library and toolkit for computing geometric information used in planning and analyzing science observations obtained from robotic spacecraft. [MIT] website
Scientific Computing
- AMGCL - a header-only C++ library for solving large sparse linear systems with algebraic multigrid. [MIT]
- Au - A C++14-compatible physical units library with no dependencies and a single-file delivery option. Emphasis on safety, accessibility, performance, and developer experience. [Apache 2.0] website
- FFTW - A C library for computing the DFT in one or more dimensions. [GPL]
- GSL - GNU scientific library. [GPL]
- preCICE - Coupling library for partitioned multi-physics simulations (FSI, CHT, and more). [LGPL] website
- TileDB - Fast Dense and Sparse Multidimensional Array DBMS. [MIT] website
- Trilinos - High performance PDE solvers. [BSD]
- Torch - A scientific computing framework with wide support for machine learning algorithms that puts GPUs first. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- volesti - High dimensional sampling from truncated distributions, convex optimization and volume computation.
Scripting
- AngelScript - AngelScript is a game-oriented interpreted/compiled scripting language. [zlib]
- Boost.Python - A C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language. [Boost] website
- cppimport - Import C++ files directly from Python! [MIT]
- CppSharp - Tools and libraries to glue C/C++ APIs to high-level languages. [MIT]
- ChaiScript - An easy to use embedded scripting language for C++. [BSD] website
- ctypes.sh - A foreign function interface for bash. [MIT]
- Cython - Cython is an optimising static compiler for both the Python programming language and the extended Cython programming language (based on Pyrex). It makes writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself. [Apache] website
- djinni - A tool for generating cross-language type declarations and interface bindings. [Apache2]
- Duktape - An embeddable JavaScript engine with compact footprint. [MIT] website
- JavaCpp - The missing bridge between Java and native C++. [Apache2]
- JerryScript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things. [Apache-2.0] website
- libffi - A portable foreign-function interface library. [MIT] website
- Lua - A minimal and fast scripting engine for configuration files and basic application scripting. [MIT]
- LuaBridge - A lightweight, dependency-free library for binding Lua to C++. [MIT]
- LuaBridge3 - A lightweight, dependency-free library for binding Lua, LuaJIT, Luau and Ravi to C++. [MIT]
- luacxx - C++11 API for creating Lua bindings. [MIT]
- Luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua. [MIT] website
- MicroQuickJS - MicroQuickJS (aka. MQuickJS) is a JavaScript engine targeted at embedded systems. [MIT]
- MiniScript - scripting language modern, elegant, easy to learn, and easy to embed in your own C# or C++ projects. [MIT]
- nanobind - tiny and efficient C++/Python bindings. [BSD-3-Clause]
- nbind - Magical headers that make your C++ library accessible from JavaScript. [MIT]
- PHP-CPP - A library to build PHP extensions with C++. [Apache2] website
- pocketpy - C++17 header-only Python interpreter for game scripting. [MIT] website
- pybind11 - Seamless operability between C++11 and Python. [BSD]
- QuickJS - a small and embeddable JavaScript engine. [MIT]
- SIP - C or C++ Bindings Generator for Python v2 and v3. [GPL]
- sol2 - A C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance. [MIT]
- SWIG - A wrapper/interface Generator that let you link your c++ code to JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and Ruby. [GPL/Output not licensed] website
- txiki.js - A tiny JavaScript runtime. [MIT]
- V7 - An embedded JavaScript engine. [GPL2]
- V8 - A fast JavaScript engine by Google that can be embedded into any C++ application. [BSD]
- v8pp - Header-only library to expose C++ classes and functions into V8 to use them in JavaScript code. [BOOST] website
- ChakraCore -A JavaScript engine by Microsoft that can be embedded into nodejs. [MIT]
- MuJS - An embeddable Javascript interpreter in C. [ISC] website
- hobbes - A language and an embedded JIT compiler from Morgan Stanley. [Apache-2.0]
Serialization
- BitSerializer - Multi-format serialization library (JSON, XML, YAML, CSV, MsgPack) [MIT]
- Bitsery - Header only C++ binary serialization library. [MIT]
- Bond - An open source, cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. [MIT]
- Boost.Serialization - Boost Serialization Library. [Boost] website
- Cap'n Proto - Fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. [MIT] website
- cereal - A C++11 library for serialization. [BSD]
- cista - A C++17 library for zero-copy high-performance (de-)serialization. [MIT]
- cppcodec - Header-only C++11 library to encode/decode base64, base32 and hex with consistent, flexible API. [MIT]
- FastBinaryEncoding - Fast Binary Encoding is ultra fast and universal serialization solution for C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, Swift. [MIT]
- FlatBuffers - A Memory efficient serialization library. [Apache2]
- Kaitai Struct - A declarative language to describe various binary data structures and a compiler to generate C++ parser code. [GPLv3+][MIT][Apache2]
- iguana - a modern, universal and easy-to-use serialization engine developed in C++20 and C++17. [Apache2]
- MessagePack - Efficient binary serialization format "like JSON" for C and C++. [Apache2] website
- mrpt-serialization - Versioned serialization to binary or text formats. [BSD] website
- nanopb - Small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation in ANSI C. [Zlib]
- protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format. [BSD]
- protobuf-c - Protocol Buffers implementation in C. [BSD]
- Protocol Puffers - A little, highly templated, and protobuf-compatible serialization/deserialization header-only library written in C++20. [Apache-2.0]
- SimpleBinaryEncoding - encoding and decoding application messages in binary format for low-latency applications. [Apache2]
- upb - A small protobuf implementation in C. [BSD]
- Wirehair - O(N) Fountain Code for Large Data. [BSD-3-Clause]
- YAS - Very fast Yet Another Serialization library supports the binary/text/json formats. [Boost]
- zpp_bits - Actually, the fastest modern Serialization library. Just check this video.
- fbthrift - Facebook's branch of Apache Thrift, including a serialization library and RPC framework. [Apache-2.0]
Serial Port
- Asio - Asio includes classes for creating and manipulating serial ports in a portable manner. [Boost] website
- Boost.Asio - Boost.Asio includes classes for creating and manipulating serial ports in a portable manner. [Boost] website
- CSerialPort - lightweight cross-platform serial port library. [LGPL3]
- Libserial - Serial Port Programming in C++. [BSD-3-Clause]
- Serial Communication Library - Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++. [MIT] website
Sorting
- cpp-sort - Sorting algorithms & related tools for C++14. [MIT]
- pdqsort - Pattern-defeating quicksort. [zlib]
- Timsort - A templated stable sorting function which outperforms quicksort-based algorithms including std::sort, for reversed or semi-sorted data. [MIT]
- Indiesort - A sort wrapper which enables the use of std::sort (& other random-access sort functions) with non-random-access containers, and also improves sort performance for large/non-trivially-copyable types in random-access containers and arrays. [zLib] website
- x86-simd-sort - C++ template library for high performance SIMD based sorting algorithms. [BSD-3-Clause]
Video
- libvpx - VP8/VP9 Codec SDK. [BSD]
- FFmpeg - A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. [LGPL2/GPL2]
- avcpp - Modern C++ wrapper around FFmpeg. [MIT]
- libde265 - Open h.265 video codec implementation. [LGPL] website
- x265 - Open h.265 video codec implementation. [GPL2] website
- OpenH264 - Open Source H.264 Codec. [BSD] website
- Theora - A free and open video compression format. [BSD]
- Vireo - A lightweight and versatile video processing library by Twitter. [MIT]
- libuvc - A cross-platform library for USB video devices. [BSD]
Virtual Machines
- CarpVM - "interesting" VM in C. Let's see how this goes. [GPLv3]
- MicroPython - Aims to put an implementation of Python 3.x on a microcontroller. [MIT]
- TinyVM - A small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C. [MIT]
Web Application Framework
- aeronet - High-performance, modular C++ HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSocket microservices framework focused on performance and scalability. [MIT]
- Civetweb - Provides easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support. [MIT]
- C++ REST SDK - Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. [MIT]
- CppCMS - A Free High Performance Web Development Framework (not a CMS). [LGPLv3]
- Crow - Crow is a C++ microframework for running web services. It uses routing similar to Python's Flask. [BSD] website
- Cutelyst - A C++ Web Framework built on top of Qt, using the simple approach of Catalyst (Perl) framework. [BSD-3-Clause] website
- Drogon - A C++17/20 based, high-performance HTTP application framework. [MIT]
- C++ wfrest - C++ Web Framework REST API. [Apache2]
- facil.io - Evented, high performance C web framework supporting HTTP, WebSockets, SSE and more. [MIT] website
- Kore - ultra fast and flexible web server / framework for web applications developed in C. [ISC]
- libOnion - lightweight library to help you create webservers in C programming language. [LGPLv3]
- lwan - Experimental, scalable,
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