Your Quark handbook.

Friendly explanations, useful screenshots, and the answers you need.

Build your first project Back to the welcome page

Welcome! Start with a small project, learn how the workspace works, or look up a specific feature whenever you need a hand.

Start here

Getting started

Install Quark and create or open your first Hydrogen project.

Find your way around

Take a tour of the workspace and learn what the panes, tabs and menus do.

Build and run

Connect the Hydrogen compiler and read your build results in Output.

Design an interface

Explore the HYUI designer, XML source and separate native preview.

Personalise Quark

Learn about themes, extensions and customisation.

Need a hand?

Browse common questions, screenshots and development status.

A note about development builds

Quark is moving toward a native desktop frontend. Features that are still being verified on Linux, Windows or macOS are labelled as development work, not promised as release-ready. Screenshots on this site are genuine Quark development captures, and some show the previous interface.

See what works today and what still needs testing, or suggest an improvement on GitHub.