One of the nice side effects of building an Avalonia backend for .NET MAUI is that Avalonia itself gains new features! To implement MAUI's SwipeView, we had to extend the Swipe Control found in the Avalonia Labs project. github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

EMU by ENTTEC: Real-time stage lighting powered by Avalonia! ✨ Controls 8 universes (4,096 channels) ✨ Audio-reactive lighting ✨ MIDI/VST3 integration ✨ Cross-platform Pro lighting engineers trust Avalonia for mission-critical shows. enttec.com/product/dmx...

Say hello to our newest team member, Michael. He’s joining us to strengthen operations at Avalonia, bringing that rare mix of deep technical expertise and operational discipline. We’re excited to have him on board to help scale Avalonia’s next chapter of growth. 🔥

Thrilled to welcome Javier Suárez to Avalonia UI. Javier joins us from Microsoft, where he worked on the .NET MAUI team, and will be helping us advance mobile support, rendering performance and developer experience. Explore his GitHub profile: github.com/jsuarezruiz

AMD's GPU Reshape: Debugging shaders with Avalonia! ✅ API agnostic (Vulkan/D3D12) ✅ Instruction-level validation ✅ Real-time GPU→CPU messaging ✅ Cross-platform UI Professional graphics debugging powered by .NET & Avalonia. github.com/GPUOpen-Too...

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia. After years of community requests, we are delivering: – Linux desktop – WebAssembly – up to 2× faster performance on macOS Try the live demo and register your interest for early access: avaloniaui.net/blog/net-ma...

Azure Key Vault Explorer: Security meets simplicity with Avalonia! 🔐 ✅ Aggregate secrets across vaults ✅ Auto-clear clipboard ✅ Encrypted SQLite storage ✅ Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux) Managing Azure secrets has never looked this good! github.com/sidestep-la...

We’re teaming up with Google’s Flutter team to bring Impeller to .NET Impeller is Flutters new GPU-optimised renderer, replacing Skia for better performance on mobile and embedded devices. This is what open collaboration looks like 🚀 avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

Native gRPC testing across platforms? FintX does it with Avalonia! Proto file parsing, code generation, real-time performance graphs - all in a slick cross-platform UI. When you need serious tooling for microservices, you build with .NET & Avalonia. github.com/namigop/FintX

Most WPF apps don't need a rewrite. They need XPF. ✓ Keep your XAML ✓ Keep your C# logic ✓ Keep your dependencies ✓ Ship to Mac & Linux Same proven codebase. New platforms. Learn how: avaloniaui.net/xpf?utm_sou...

We’ve sent two of our best engineers, Julien and Benedikt, to Techorama, armed with hundreds of bars of Tony’s Chocolonely 🍫 If you’re there, swing by the stand for a chat, some chocolate, and a look at what’s next for .NET UI.

JetBrains rewrote dotMemory & dotTrace with Avalonia! From WPF to cross-platform - now their profilers run natively on Mac & Linux. Even JetBrains knows Avalonia is the future of .NET desktop development. jetbrains.com/dotmemory/

Just wrapped an incredible Azure Dev Summit! Loved connecting with so many of you and hearing about the amazing things you're building. Can't wait to continue the conversations at Techorama later this month! 👋

Avalonia Accelerate just got better! 🚀 What's new: - Brand new VS extension for streamlined workflows - One-click app packaging - Markdown viewer control - Enhanced TreeDataGrid component - OnScreenKeyboard control Learn more: avaloniaui.net/blog/accele...

Plot twist: That slick Windows 11 app with Mica effects? It's built with Avalonia! Fluent Search looks so native that users think it's UWP. Nope - just Avalonia delivering native Windows performance. Even Windows-only apps deserve better than Electron. fluentsearch.net

The next iteration of Accelerate launches on Monday. Brand new tooling, a free Community Edition for 67% of users, trials, startup discounts, and new pro UI controls. Here's what's changing with licensing: avaloniaui.net/blog/buildi...

Excited to announce Avalonia UI's investment in Wilderness Labs Combining Meadow's IoT platform with Avalonia means .NET across the entire stack. Read more: avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

KubeUI: Kubernetes management made simple with Avalonia! ⚓ ✅ Multi-cluster support ✅ YAML editing ✅ Pod logs & console ✅ Port forwarding ✅ Cross-platform (Win/Mac/Linux) Managing K8s clusters has never looked this good. Built with .NET & Avalonia! github.com/IvanJosipov...

Readiris PDF 23 runs on Avalonia! This powerful PDF tool with OCR, editing, and signing features started as WPF but went cross-platform with Avalonia! iriscorporate.com/softwares/r...

Wayland is becoming the default display protocol on Linux. Avalonia is getting native Wayland support. Embedded comes first. Compositors follow. Existing apps remain safe through XWayland. Explore the challenges: avaloniaui.net/blog/bringi...

We're experimenting with additional rendering backends for Avalonia. SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform. Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...

> 101M package downloads! - 101,477,309 NuGet downloads across all Avalonia UI packages - 1,700,000+ unique projects in 2025 alone Real production packages only. We keep our nightlies off NuGet to give you honest numbers, not inflated stats. This is all thanks to you. Thank you ❤️ #dotnet

UXDivers showcases what's possible with Avalonia! 🎨 Their HMI sample features: ✨ Real-time weather data ✨ LiveCharts gauges ✨ Glass effects ✨ AOT compilation ✨ MVVM patterns Professional UI/UX meets cross-platform .NET. This is the future! uxdivers.com/avalonia

A big welcome to Luke who's joining our team! 🎉 He's here to help developers succeed with Avalonia! You may know him better as AngelSix. He's been creating content that helps .NET developers build amazing apps for years.

Pleased to share that we'll be at Azure Dev Summit next month (Oct 13-16). Just in time as we've been working on some new swag 👀 While these beauties are for our team members, we'll have some exclusive goodies to give away at our booth. See you there! azuredevsummit.com/

Enscape uses Avalonia! 🏗️ The real-time rendering plugin trusted by architects worldwide for Revit, SketchUp & Rhino relies on our UI framework. When industry leaders like @ChaosGroup need cross-platform performance, they choose .NET & Avalonia. chaos.com/enscape

Release alert: Avalonia 11.3.6 is here. A small release, but one your macOS users will appreciate. github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Unity's Plastic SCM is powered by Avalonia! 🤯 Game studios managing massive repos with a .NET app - that's the power of modern cross-platform development. Native performance > Electron bloat, every time. plasticscm.com

Text rendering remains one of the most challenging aspects of building cross-platform UI frameworks We've built a small test app to make it easier to identify and resolve text rendering issues ❤️

It's a modest release this time with 11.3.5 Just 2 new features and 16 fixes. github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Lunacy: The Figma alternative that's ACTUALLY native! 🎨 Built with Avalonia. No Electron bloat here! ✨ Import from Figma ✨ Real-time collab ✨ Built-in icons/photos ✨ AI tools ✨ FREE forever This is what native .NET apps can do! icons8.com/lunacy

Still get a huge smile seeing LINQPad running on macOS via Avalonia XPF! 😊 One of .NET's most essential tools, now available on macOS, without requiring a full rewrite! This is why we built XPF, to free incredible Windows apps from being Windows-only.

The Git client you should be using! 🚀 Everything you need: ✓ Interactive rebase ✓ GitFlow ✓ AI commits ✓ 12 languages ✓ Custom themes ✓ 100% free & open source. This is how Git GUIs should be built! github.com/sourcegit-s...

Consolonia brings Avalonia to your terminal! Build beautiful TUI apps with rich controls, data binding, and responsive layouts, all the power of Avalonia, but now in text mode. github.com/jinek/conso...

Meet Artemis! 🌈 One Avalonia app to control ALL your RGB gear - Razer, Corsair, Logitech, everything! ✨ Keyframe animations ✨ Game sync ✨ Plugin system ✨ Cross-platform Stop juggling 5 apps. This is peak .NET desktop dev! github.com/Artemis-RGB...

Want to see what's cooking in Avalonia's kitchen? 👨‍🍳 Check out Avalonia Labs - 12 experimental controls built by our core team. Test drive tomorrow's features today! ⚡ Real controls ⚡ Real code ⚡ Ready to experiment github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Do you use LiteDB? Then you NEED OneBella! 🔥 It's a modern GUI database manager built with Avalonia that runs on Windows, Mac AND Linux. Browse tables, run queries, edit data - all with a slick interface. This is how you work with LiteDB in 2025! github.com/namigop/One...

Check out this Avalonia implementation of Apple's liquid glass morphing effect 👀 github.com/KaranocaVe/...

🎉 Excited to welcome Jan and Matt to the Avalonia team! Jan brings invaluable experience from Microsoft Research, while Matt joins us as a long-time Microsoft MVP with deep XAML expertise. Can't wait to see what amazing things we'll build together!

Avalonia is quietly dominating the HMI space: 🏭 Factory control panels 🏥 Medical device interfaces 🔬 Scientific instrument displays The reason? Direct GPU rendering on embedded Linux. No desktop environment needed, just beautiful, responsive UIs on minimal hardware.

Many said the ancient knowledge was lost to time... the sacred arts forgotten... but against all odds, we have done it! We have implemented a GroupBox for Avalonia 🧵⚡️ github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Mailbird chose Avalonia to build their award-winning email client ✨ Millions of users ✨ Cross-platform ✨ Integrates 30+ apps ✨ AI-powered features ✨ Native performance When you need to ship a polished app that users love, you build with Avalonia 💪 www.getmailbird.com/

We're introducing free Community editions of all our Accelerate tooling. Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost! github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

After a 2-year hiatus, join Mike & Steven for an exclusive preview of the upcoming Visual Studio extension, discussions on v12, and we'll answer any questions you have about Avalonia! Live stream starts at 15:00 CET www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo1e...

🚀 Big news: The Avalonia team is growing! We're thrilled to welcome: → Two senior engineers bringing deep expertise → Our first full-time technical writer (finally! 📚) Huge thanks to Devolutions for their continued support in making this growth possible!

Nothing beats a little in-person collaboration! A few of the team met in Bologna this week and it sparked some great ideas that we're looking forward to sharing with you all 😍

Sometimes the data says everything you want to. Avalonia has more GitHub stars than Microsoft's official solution.
 ✕ No marketing team ✕ No corporate push ✓ Just developers choosing the framework that works best for them 
 Build great tech → devs will come.

Massive props to Julien for the incredible clipboard rework! But we need to talk about how PHENOMENAL the PR description is! The level of detail, architectural reasoning, and documentation is absolutely chef's kiss. 😚 This is how you write a PR description, folks! github.com/AvaloniaUI/...

Meet Beutl - a FOSS video editor built with Avalonia! 🎬 ✅ Runs on Windows, macOS & Linux ✅ GPU-accelerated compositing ✅ Keyframes & pro effects ✅ Extensible plugin system ✅ 100% .NET This is what modern cross-platform looks like! 🚀 github.com/b-editor/beutl

Tired of debugging blind? ✓ 3D Layout Inspector ✓ Real-time Event Tracking ✓ Live Asset Browser ✓ Structured Logging Level up today → avaloniaui.net/accelerate