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title Support Unity UI Extensions
description Unity UI Extensions is free and open source, forever. Here is why the project is worth supporting, how to chip in — with money or with code — and our promise that every contribution goes straight back into keeping it alive and well.
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Free Forever — Powered by the Community

Support Unity UI Extensions

For more than a decade this project has given Unity developers the controls they would otherwise rebuild on every project — free, open source, no strings. It stays that way. If it has saved you time, here is how you can help keep it alive and growing.

Our promise

Unity UI Extensions is, and always will be, 100% free and open source. There is no paid tier, no premium controls, and nothing locked behind a paywall — on any Unity version, for any project, commercial or not.

Every contribution goes straight back into keeping the project alive and well: the maintainer time to review and merge community fixes, keep pace with new Unity releases, answer questions, refresh the examples, and grow both libraries. There are no shareholders and no salaries — just a project that thousands of developers rely on.

Supporting is always optional. The code is yours either way. This page is simply here for the people who have asked, over the years, how they can give something back.

Why it is worth supporting

A free project still costs something to keep healthy — mostly time.

🎉

A decade of real-world use

Community-driven since 2015. Hundreds of contributions, bug reports and fixes have turned rough scripts into controls that ship in real games and apps.

🔨

Maintained, not abandoned

Keeping 126 controls working across new Unity releases — like the move to Unity 6 — takes ongoing, unglamorous maintenance. Your support pays for that time.

🤝

Free for the next developer

Backing the project keeps it free and open for everyone who comes after you — no subscriptions, no royalties, no catch. Ever.

Ways to give

Pick whatever suits you — a recurring pledge, a one-off coffee, or whatever you can spare.

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  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">Recurring &middot; or one-off</span>
    <h3>&#10084;&#65039; GitHub Sponsors</h3>
    <p>Sponsor monthly or make a one-off gift, right from GitHub — the simplest option if your work already lives there.</p>
    <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/SimonDarksideJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-u btn-sm">Sponsor on GitHub</a>
  </div>

  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">Recurring</span>
    <h3>&#127853; Patreon</h3>
    <p>Back ongoing development with a monthly pledge and follow along with project updates.</p>
    <a href="https://www.patreon.com/UnityUIExtensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-u btn-sm">Support on Patreon</a>
  </div>

  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">One-off</span>
    <h3>&#9749; Ko-fi</h3>
    <p>Buy the maintainer a coffee. Quick, one-off, and no account required.</p>
    <a href="https://ko-fi.com/uiextensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-t btn-sm">Buy a Coffee</a>
  </div>

  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">One-off</span>
    <h3>&#128179; PayPal</h3>
    <p>Send a one-off tip of any size via PayPal.me — no PayPal account needed, and you can stay anonymous.</p>
    <a href="https://paypal.me/unityuiextensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-t btn-sm">Give via PayPal</a>
  </div>

  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">Pay what you want</span>
    <h3>&#127918; itch.io</h3>
    <p>Grab the package on itch.io and name your price — a friendly way to support and get the asset in one go.</p>
    <a href="https://unityuiextensions.itch.io/uiextensions2-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-t btn-sm">View on itch.io</a>
  </div>

  <div class="donate-card">
    <span class="donate-tag">Get it &amp; support</span>
    <h3>&#128230; Unity Asset Store</h3>
    <p>Prefer the Asset Store? Grab the uGUI package there to keep it on your Unity account — a simple way to support the project. The UI Toolkit listing is coming soon.</p>
    <a href="https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/gui/ui-extensions-175295" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="btn btn-u btn-sm">uGUI on the Asset Store</a>
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<p class="donate-note">Any amount helps — truly — and you are welcome to stay anonymous. There are no tiers you "have" to hit.</p>

Not all contributions are cash

Honestly? Money is only one way to help — and rarely the most valuable. These count just as much.

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    <h3>&#128025; Contribute code &amp; fixes</h3>
    <p>Found a bug or built a control you would have wanted? Open a pull request on
    <a href="https://github.com/Unity-UI-Extensions/com.unity.uiextensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uGUI</a> or
    <a href="https://github.com/Unity-UI-Extensions/com.unity.uitoolkitextensions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UI Toolkit</a>.
    Every contributor is credited.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="donate-help-item">
    <h3>&#128027; Report bugs &amp; ideas</h3>
    <p>A clear, reproducible <a href="https://github.com/Unity-UI-Extensions/com.unity.uiextensions/issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issue report</a>
    is worth its weight in gold — it is often the difference between a control that "works in a demo" and one that ships.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="donate-help-item">
    <h3>&#128221; Improve the docs &amp; examples</h3>
    <p>Fix a typo, clarify a step, add a sample scene or a screenshot. Documentation help makes the project easier for the next developer to pick up.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="donate-help-item">
    <h3>&#128172; Help other developers</h3>
    <p>Answer a question in <a href="https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#Unity-UI-Extensions_Lobby:gitter.im" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gitter</a> or
    <a href="https://github.com/Unity-UI-Extensions/com.unity.uiextensions/discussions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GitHub Discussions</a>.
    A welcoming community is what keeps an open-source project alive.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="donate-help-item">
    <h3>&#11088; Star &amp; share</h3>
    <p>Star the repos and tell the next team rebuilding a colour picker from scratch. It costs nothing and grows the project's reach.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="donate-help-item">
    <h3>&#128483;&#65039; Spread the word</h3>
    <p>Wrote a tutorial, shipped a game, or gave a talk using the controls? Let us know — we love featuring community work.</p>
  </div>
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Every bit helps. Thank you.

Money, code, a bug report, or just a kind word in Gitter — it all keeps the project free and well.

Unity UI Extensions is community-maintained and not affiliated with Unity Technologies. The code is, and will remain, free under BSD-3-Clause (uGUI) & MIT (UI Toolkit).