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Top 7 .NET MAUI Libraries for Your Project
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Top Libraries for Your .NET MAUI Project
A key strength in .NET MAUI is its rich ecosystem of libraries that accelerate development and enhance user experience. Here’s a carefully curated selection by our team to help boost your next project:
Disclaimer: This list was created based on an internal survey among our developers, followed by a final iteration. Not every library will fit your project, but we’re confident at least one will make your development process easier.
1. Community Toolkit
NuGet Package | 5.8M downloads | Oct 2025
The must-have toolkit for every project. It provides extra controls, animations, converters, and helpers that eliminate repetitive code.
👉 Perfect for: streamlining MVVM patterns, simplifying common tasks like validation, behaviors, and UI polish, and speeding up development.
💬 “It’s essential in any project. It has saved me time when creating basic components needed for the proper functioning of the app.”
Juan Navia, Horus Studio
2. SkiaSharp
NuGet Package | 192M downloads | Oct 2025
A 2D graphics library powered by Google’s Skia engine. It allows you to draw custom graphics, charts, and complex UI effects with high performance.
👉 Perfect for: apps that need advanced graphics beyond standard controls.
💬 “A practical way to implement advanced graphics or draw custom elements on screen without relying on native APIs.”
Agustin Bonilla, Horus Studio
3. SQLite
NuGet Package | 19.8M downloads | Oct 2025
A lightweight, cross-platform SQLite library (ORM) that offers a simple API for CRUD operations, table creation, and queries over SQLite databases.
👉 Perfect for: apps that need local data persistence without the overhead of Entity Framework or heavy abstractions: think offline data storage, caching, simple relational data.
💬 “Ideal for all project types, used both for storing app data as well as working offline. Safe and easy to use.”
Agustin Touceda, Horus Studio
4. Sentry
NuGet Package | 802K downloads | Oct 2025
Sentry is an error-monitoring and crash-reporting SDK that helps you capture, triage, and resolve runtime exceptions and performance issues in real time.
👉 Perfect for: monitoring exceptions, crashes and performance issues, ideal when structured logging and deep diagnostics are required.
💬 “Extremely helpful for tracking errors in the app, both during debugging and in release builds.”
Agustin Touceda, Horus Studio
5. Serilog
NuGet Package | 2.1B downloads | Oct 2025
Serilog is a structured logging library for .NET that uses message templates and captures rich, queryable log data (rather than plain text).
👉 Perfect for: logging structured data like properties, identifiers and metrics, ideal for projects that need real-time tracking and fast error resolution.
💬 “Serilog allowed me to efficiently integrate logging across the entire application, without being limited to a single logging service and enabling smooth switching between providers.”
Juan Navia, Horus Studio
6. Mopups
NuGet Package | 1.2M downloads | Oct 2025
Mopups is a lightweight popup/dialog library for .NET MAUI, designed as a successor to Rg.Plugins.Popup from Xamarin. It gives you flexibility to show custom pages as popups, supports simple animations, and cleans up some of the legacy complexity.
👉 Perfect for: apps that require custom modal overlays, dialogs, or transient popup interactions beyond the built-in UI toolkit capabilities. Think confirmation dialogs, custom alerts, input popups, or anything requiring popup-style interactivity.
💬 “The most practical way to display modal content without breaking the app’s navigation.”
Agustin Bonilla, Horus Studio
7. Refit
NuGet Package | 132M downloads | Oct 2025
Refit is a type-safe REST library for .NET (inspired by Square’s Retrofit) that lets you define API endpoints via interfaces and auto-generates the client boilerplate under the hood. It handles HTTP method attributes, serialization/deserialization, and integrates with HttpClientFactory for DI scenarios.
👉 Perfect for: creating clean, maintainable API clients with minimal boilerplate. Ideal when you consume REST endpoints frequently, want strong typing, and prefer interface-driven design.
💬 “Refit has greatly simplified my API requests, allowing me to propagate configuration and manage the HTTP lifecycle with ease.”
Juan Navia, Horus Studio
Bonus: Material Design Controls (by Horus Studio 😉)
NuGet Package | 2.1K downloads | Oct 2025
A collection of UI controls following Material Design 3 guidelines. The toolkit is the evolution of our Material Design Controls for Xamarin (80K+ downloads), now rebuilt for .NET MAUI. It helps developers build modern, consistent, and beautiful UIs faster, and it is under constant improvement, with support for .NET 10 currently being tested.
👉 Perfect for: accelerating cross-platform UI development and creating beautiful interfaces with less effort.
💬 “If I want my app to have a modern UI with Material Design 3, this library provides all the components I need.”
Agustin Bonilla, Horus Studio
Conclusions
Not all these libraries will fit every project, but we’re confident that at least one will make your development process easier. And of course, these aren’t the only options, there are hundreds of libraries in the .NET MAUI ecosystem waiting to be explored.
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