It acts as a general purpose glue, wrapping together various commonly used libraries in areas such as graphics, audio, fonts, image saving and loading, video playback and grabbing, utilities, and computer vision. This cross-compatible toolkit supports five operating systems and four IDEs, making it accessible to a wide range of users. Its design philosophy focuses on collaboration, usability, simplicity, consistency, cross-platform compatibility, power, and extensibility.

With openFrameworks, making things with code becomes much easier, making it a valuable tool for creative individuals looking to unleash their ideas