Intelligent Input Bus

IBus
Original authorPeng Huang
DeveloperPeng Huang
Initial releaseAugust 2008 (2008-08)
Stable release
1.5.33  / 5 October 2025 (5 October 2025)
Written inC, Python
Operating systemUnix-like
Available inMultilingual
TypeInput method
LicenseGNU LGPL v2 or later
Websitegithub.com/ibus/ibus
Repository

The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus, pronounced as I-Bus) is an input method (IM) framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating-systems. The name "Bus" comes from its bus-like architecture.