Design desktop and web apps.
Like VB5, for 2026.
Draw a form, double-click a button, write what it does, press F5. Visualised builds real apps for Windows and Linux, and the same file runs in a browser.
Draw a form, double-click a button, write what it does, press F5. Visualised builds real apps for Windows and Linux, and the same file runs in a browser.
Simpler than a website form builder, and it builds real desktop apps. The designer is itself written in VML, Visualised's own markup.
No toolbox to hunt through. Right-click the form, choose a control, drag it into place. Snaps to the grid.
Pin controls to the form's edges and they move and stretch as the window resizes, on the desktop and in the browser.
Drop controls into a Frame and they travel with it. Anchor the frame too, and whole areas stretch together.
Add Menu gives you File, Edit and Help. Click to edit, right-click to add. Or use the VB5-style Menu Editor.
Every property, grouped, with the right editor for each. Never stale: change something anywhere and it shows.
Forms open forms, modal or not, read each other's controls, and hand back dialog results.
One click for a Windows app, a Linux app, or a web page that works offline. Double-click and it runs: no installer, no runtime to find.
Press F6 and your form opens as a web page: one self-contained file, no server, no framework. Anchors become CSS; your Lua scripts run unchanged in WebAssembly.
Try the live demo → Type your name, open the menus, and resize the window.
Every script, in every language, talks to the form through one simple function: Vml().
vml command-- Lua local name = Vml("GetProperty", "txtName", "Text") Vml("SetProperty", "lblHello", "Text", "Hello, " .. name) // C# Vml("SetProperty", "lblTime", "Text", $"{DateTime.Now:HH:mm}"); # Bash name=$(vml get txtName Text) vml set lblHello Text "Hello, $name"
@Window MainWindow Title=My Application @Button SaveBtn Parent=MainWindow Content=Save OnClick=SaveScript @Script SaveScript Interpreter=lua Vml("InfoDialog", "Saved!")
Visualised apps are written in VML, a flat markup: no nesting, no closing tags. Each control names its parent. Easy to read, easy to diff, easy to generate.
A Visualised app is a single readable file. Soon you'll be able to publish yours to visualised.org, the community app store, and install other people's apps in one click, on the desktop or straight in the browser.
Coming soon.
Apps made with Visualised, by the people who use it. Free to share, easy to read before you run them, and every one runs on Windows, Linux and the web.
Free for individuals. Windows 10 and 11, and Linux.
Installs for you only, no admin needed. Associates .vml files and can add vml to your PATH. Windows may show a SmartScreen warning: click More info, then Run anyway. Or get the portable zip.
curl -fsSL https://github.com/wallisoft/vml-releases/releases/latest/download/install.sh | bashUbuntu 22.04+ and similar. Installs into your home folder: the designer in your app menu, vml in your terminal, and .vml files opening in VML.