Uno Platform
Ranked 11 of 13 cross-platform UI frameworks by recommenders
Free C# framework for building one app that runs on several platforms; people often choose it over MAUI, though one reports Wayland drag-and-drop problems.
Free C# framework for building one app that runs on several platforms; people often choose it over MAUI, though one reports Wayland drag-and-drop problems.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Recommended alongside Avalonia
“regardless of the great work done by Avalonia, and Uno as well”
Comment from 12 Sep 2026 in “JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation” “Otherwise, Qt, VCL, Firemonkey, Avalonia, Uno, ImGUI”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “Windows native app development is a mess” “or reach out to Avalonia and Uno”
Comment from 29 Jan 2026 in “Winapp, the Windows App Development CLI – Windows Developer Blog”
Other cross-platform UI frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other cross-platform UI frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flutter | 171 | 106 | 62% | 12 | 3 yrs11 owners | — |
| React Native | 98 | 128 | 43% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | — |
| Kotlin Multiplatform | 27 | 12 | 69% | 9 | 2 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| Expo | 21 | 10 | 68% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Uno PlatformThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“regardless of the great work done by Avalonia, and Uno as well”
“Otherwise, Qt, VCL, Firemonkey, Avalonia, Uno, ImGUI”
“They are both quite mature and have many great controls and features built in.”
“I had similar problems there with external drag 'n' drop not working on Wayland”
“or reach out to Avalonia and Uno”
“cool to get things working across five different platforms at once, you can note the difference, especially on scroll”
“using MAUI instead of Avalonia or Uno was the mistake”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.