Ultra App Kit Reviews

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I have been using Ultra App Kit for about a week now. I love the simplicity of the API and ease of laying out your Widgets. I have recently came up against a use case that I couldn't figure out on my own. I posted on the official forum and with in minutes the developer of the software was responding to me pointing me in the right direction. He even released the source code for the Widgets on Github to allow myself and others to learn from and build our own widgets. All of this being said, if you are comfortable in an all code situation and are fairly decent at C++ then I think there are no other UI libraries that compare to the simplicity of UAK. If you are expecting a Unity or Unreal like experience then this might not be for you. It is targeted for desktop application development not necessarily game development (can be done) and the UI and layout is built 100% in code which I actually like. 300% worth it for me, no regrets at all. Solid stable API that produces nice looking UI with minimal layout code.

Ultra App Kit gave me everything I need to make my GUI's quickly and efficiently. In addition to all this, you receive a very good support when asking for help in the forum with any problem you have, plus the very good attention that the developer gives to the issues and the constant updates.

I Bought Leadwerks which made me look at this because of the Cross platform Use of this software. Only thing I wished is to see how to use it in the Formats of Mac & Windows like it shows how in Windows so People like me can understand how to access it fully in other platforms, But other than that it is Great to be able to make things.

Why do i have to create a new account on the developer website just to use this piece of software ? It's not even funny.

Honestly an awesome library for creating C++ Desktop apps, I am excited to learn the ins and outs of the API! Would also love to extend it with something like tables, web view and other UI elements. Documentation is pretty good too! (Although there are a few 404 Not found pages.... Example Networking)

TLDR; very happy with the purchase, and have had no issues getting up and running with it. Highly recommended. I was a C++ dev for many years until I learned C# back in the mid 2000's. C# has since become my favorite language by far. Still, I did miss the bare-metal feeling of C++ and needed it for my project. Finding a suitable cross-platform GUI framework turned out to be nearly impossible....until I found this library. Ultra App Kit is well-documented, and there are many examples for the various things I needed to do. It has been less than a day since my purchase and I'm already very productive with it, and the cobwebs are slowly but surely falling off my C++ knowledge. It has been more than a decade since I've written any full C++ project. Things I really appreciate with this library: DPI scaling, ancillary cross-platform classes for file handling, downloading data remotely (something I needed to do), and the default look-and-feel. For $13 (on sale this weekend)??? Forget about it...it's a no-brainer. If you have been looking at IMGUI, wxWidgets, and others ad nauseum and keep running into horrible, complex APIs, endless dependencies, or just general torture while trying to get up and running, the simple (but oh-so helpful) wizard will make you very happy. I can see the wizard blossoming into a tool giving you a bunch of different startup options to generate an even more complete skeleton. And yes, the skeleton loaded and built with no issues in Visual Studio. My only fear is that it's closed source, and if the product becomes discontinued, I'll be orphaned. I'm less worried about this given that LeadWorks has had some success with the game engine. Nonetheless, I'm hopeful that the author would open source it rather than let it disappear into the abyss.

i just feel betrayed. FU josh :) Library is not supported at all and linux is not working :) :) also creator is talking about that steam is not generating money so f*ck all users of ultra app kit.

I don't recommend this for Linux in it's current state. On the surface it looks great, and it definitely appears to have a lot of potential, but there are a lot of issues I started running into with certain elements, and it's looking like it's probably a regular thing with Linux for there to be problems after system updates, from what I'm reading on the UAK forum, and there is an older post from the developer there as well that's addressing this, I don't know if it's still the case, but as of 2019, he made it clear that keeping up with the Linux side is not a priority, and after nearly a week since I requested help in the forums with no response, I assume that's still the case. Because of that, I cannot recommend this.

This SDK is quite promising. It doesn't have the features or abilities of anything you might find that was built for c#, java, or any of the full stack stuff. But it's charming and mostly usable for something c++ based. It's subjectively better than qt or gtk. However, the support and documentation is terrible. Absolutely terrible. Free toolkits are better documented. My first request about the missing event types was answered quickly and remedied. However, when I couldn't find any documentation regarding a set of functions, I was told that they are not worried about the missing documentation because it's an advanced topic. One could successfully argue that an advanced topic would warrant more documentation and not less. If this was a free toolkit floating around on github, I could understand. But for a paid product I expect to have at least the level of documentation a high school programming assignment would require.