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omar edited this page Mar 17, 2024 · 19 revisions

Software doesn't maintain itself

Your contributions are keeping this project good. Dear ImGui is used by many projects. The library is available under a free and permissive license, but continued maintenance and development have been a many-years full-time endeavor for me, which I'd like to sustain and grow (e.g. hire focused contributors more often). In addition to maintenance and stability there are many desirable features yet to be added. We are consistently doing R&D and sitting on unfinished features needing work. We are answering community questions/issues in the open and in one centralized place in order to create a database of knowledge. We have created a test engine & test suite. We are ensuring at every moment that the library is the most efficient it can be (with strict standards such as: 0 allocation on most frames). We are designing easy and well-documented transition to updated APIs when changes are necessary etc.

Dear ImGui has first been conceptualized and prototyped in 2012, first released and developed as a side-project from 2014, then became my main focus from the end of 2017. Thanks to sponsors, in 2020, we poured ~2500 hours of work into Dear ImGui R&D. In 2021 ~1600 hours.

How to financially support Dear ImGui ?

  • Businesses: support continued development and maintenance via invoiced sponsoring.
  • Businesses: support continued development and maintenance via invoiced technical support, enterprise support, maintenance contracts. Your engineering team will be able to reach to me directly, save time, minimize issues and benefit from all sorts of technical support.
  • Businesses: you may also purchase commercial license for Dear ImGui Test Engine, the scheme is designed to support funding the main library.
  • Individuals: support continued development and maintenance here.

E-mail: contact AT dearimgui dot com
If your company is using Dear ImGui, please consider reaching out today to say hello!. All B2B transactions are invoiced and handled by Disco Hello. I am disclosed for a variety of systems and work closely with several major studios.

Past and present supporters

(Recent-ish supporters with links)

Double-chocolate sponsors

Chocolate sponsors

Salty-caramel sponsors

Patreon supporters (2015-2019) <3

From November 2014 to December 2019, the development of Dear ImGui has been financially supported by generous users on Patreon. Here's a list of those supporters, roughly ordered by joining date (some people opted out of this list, please reach out to be added/removed). (Note that the sponsoring levels here don't match the ones used for corps above)

Double Chocolate

  • Greggman, Aras Pranckevičius, Runner, Aiden Koss.

Salty Caramel

  • Jetha Chan, Wild Sheep Studio, Pastagames, Mārtiņš Možeiko, Daniel Collin, Chris Genova, Glenn Fiedler, Dakko Dakko, ikrima, Geoffrey Evans, Mercury Labs, Singularity Demo Group, Mischa Alff, Sebastien Ronsse, Lionel Landwerlin, Nikolay Ivanov, Ron Gilbert, Brandon Townsend, Morten Skaaning, G3DVu, Cort Stratton, drudru, Harfang 3D, Jeff Roberts, Rainway inc, Ondra Voves, Neil Bickford, Bill Six, Graham Manders.

Caramel

  • Michel Courtine, César Leblic, Dale Kim, Alex Evans, Rui Figueira, Paul Patrashcu, Jerome Lanquetot, Ctrl Alt Ninja, Paul Fleming, Neil Henning, Stephan Dilly, Neil Blakey-Milner, Aleksei, NeiloGD, Justin Paver, FiniteSol, Vincent Pancaldi, James Billot, Robin Hübner, furrtek, Eric, Simon Barratt, Game Atelier, Julian Bosch, Simon Lundmark, Vincent Hamm, Farhan Wali, Matt Reyer, Colin Riley, Victor Martins, Josh Simmons, Garrett Hoofman, Sergio Gonzales, Andrew Berridge, Roy Eltham, Game Preservation Society, Kit framework, Josh Faust, Martin Donlon, Quinton, Felix, Andrew Belt, Codecat, Claudio Canepa, Doug McNabb, Emmanuel Julien, Guillaume Chereau, Jeffrey Slutter, Jeremiah Deckard, r-lyeh, Roger Clark, Nekith, Joshua Fisher, Malte Hoffmann, Mustafa Karaalioglu, Merlyn Morgan-Graham, Per Vognsen, Fabian Giesen, Jan Staubach, Matt Hargett, John Shearer, Jesse Chounard, kingcoopa, Miloš Tošić, Jonas Bernemann, Johan Andersson, Nathan Hartman, Michael Labbe, Tomasz Golebiowski, Louis Schnellbach, Felipe Alfonso, Jimmy Andrews, Bojan Endrovski, Robin Berg Pettersen, Rachel Crawford, Edsel Malasig, Andrew Johnson, Sean Hunter, Jordan Mellow, Nefarius Software Solutions, Laura Wieme, Robert Nix, Mick Honey, Astrofra, Jonas Lehmann, Steven Kah Hien Wong, Bartosz Bielecki, Oscar Penas, A M, Liam Moynihan, Artometa, Mark Lee, Dimitri Diakopoulos, Pete Goodwin, Johnathan Roatch, nyu lea, Oswald Hurlem, Semyon Smelyanskiy, Le Bach, Jeong MyeongSoo, Chris Matthews, Frederik De Bleser, Anticrisis, Matt Reyer.

And all other past and present supporters; THANK YOU!

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