The Best 12 SDL Alternatives

  • Vulkan icon

    Vulkan

    Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Chrome OS Tizen OS SteamOS

  • Microsoft DirectX icon

    Microsoft DirectX

    Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

    Free Windows

  • LibGDX icon

    LibGDX

    Libgdx is a Java game development framework that provides a unified API that works across all supported platforms.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • WebGL icon

    WebGL

    WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.

    Free Open Source Web

  • SFML icon

    SFML

    SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) is a portable and easy-to-use API for multimedia programming.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Allegro icon

    Allegro

    Allegro 4 and Allegro 5 are cross-platform, libraries mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux iPhone

  • GLFW icon

    GLFW

    GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the desktop. It provides a simple API for creating windows, contexts and surfaces, receiving input and events.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • GDI icon

    GDI

    GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better font-smoothing capability, just like Mac OS X. Note: It runs as a...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • SDL Game Engine icon

    SDL Game Engine

    A platform independent 2d game programming framework for c/c++ programmers with least possible dependencies for easy porting and with focus on easy API calls and the...

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted C++ SDL

  • Crystal Space icon

    Crystal Space

    Crystal Space is a mature, full-featured Software Development Kit (SDK) providing real-time 3D graphics for applications such as games and virtual reality. It is free...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux