GUing: A Mobile GUI Search Engine using a Vision-Language Model
Abstract
We introduce GUing, a GUI search engine that allows developers to retrieve relevant app designs using natural language queries. This system is powered by GUIClip, a specialized vision-language model trained on a novel dataset of 135k screenshots and captions extracted from Google Play. By integrating both visual and textual data, this approach significantly outperforms traditional text-only models, delivering high accuracy for text-to-GUI retrieval.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
Software Engineering Research
Usability and User Interface Design
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN