diff --git a/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml b/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
index 538ea1e..f28164f 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ pre-release-replacements = [
 ]
 
 [features]
-default = ["regex"]
-regex = ["dep:regex"]
+default = ["std", "regex"]
+regex = ["std", "dep:regex"]
+std = []
 
 [dependencies]
-log = { version = "0.4.8", features = ["std"] }
-regex = { version = "1.0.3", optional = true, default-features=false, features=["std", "perf"] }
+log = { version = "0.4.8", default-features = false }
+regex = { version = "1.0.3", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["std", "perf"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 snapbox = "0.6"
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs
index 3721ef7..4d2baa2 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+use alloc::string::String;
+
 use log::Level;
 use log::LevelFilter;
 
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs
index fa28ebd..c81d676 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-use std::env;
-use std::fmt;
-use std::mem;
+use alloc::borrow::ToOwned;
+use alloc::string::ToString;
+use alloc::vec::Vec;
+
+use core::fmt;
+use core::mem;
 
 use log::{LevelFilter, Metadata, Record};
 
 use crate::enabled;
 use crate::parse_spec;
-use crate::parser::ParseResult;
 use crate::Directive;
 use crate::FilterOp;
 use crate::ParseError;
@@ -48,10 +50,11 @@ impl Builder {
     }
 
     /// Initializes the filter builder from an environment.
+    #[cfg(feature = "std")]
     pub fn from_env(env: &str) -> Builder {
         let mut builder = Builder::new();
 
-        if let Ok(s) = env::var(env) {
+        if let Ok(s) = std::env::var(env) {
             builder.parse(&s);
         }
 
@@ -98,10 +101,11 @@ impl Builder {
     /// See the [Enabling Logging] section for more details.
     ///
     /// [Enabling Logging]: ../index.html#enabling-logging
+    #[cfg(feature = "std")]
     pub fn parse(&mut self, filters: &str) -> &mut Self {
         #![allow(clippy::print_stderr)] // compatibility
 
-        let ParseResult {
+        let crate::parser::ParseResult {
             directives,
             filter,
             errors,
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
index bdc7c8e..744621d 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
@@ -37,11 +37,14 @@
 //! let logger = env_filter::FilteredLog::new(PrintLogger, builder.build());
 //! ```
 
+#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]
 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_auto_cfg))]
 #![warn(missing_docs)]
 #![warn(clippy::print_stderr)]
 #![warn(clippy::print_stdout)]
 
+extern crate alloc;
+
 mod directive;
 mod filter;
 mod filtered_log;
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
index fc10f7d..6d89704 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-use std::fmt;
+use alloc::string::{String, ToString};
+
+use core::fmt;
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub(crate) struct FilterOp {
@@ -24,13 +26,13 @@ impl FilterOp {
 
 #[cfg(not(feature = "regex"))]
 impl FilterOp {
-    pub fn new(spec: &str) -> Result<Self, String> {
+    pub(crate) fn new(spec: &str) -> Result<Self, String> {
         Ok(Self {
             inner: spec.to_string(),
         })
     }
 
-    pub fn is_match(&self, s: &str) -> bool {
+    pub(crate) fn is_match(&self, s: &str) -> bool {
         s.contains(&self.inner)
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs
index 097058d..ae298d6 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+use alloc::borrow::ToOwned;
+use alloc::format;
+use alloc::string::String;
+use alloc::vec::Vec;
+
+use core::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 use log::LevelFilter;
-use std::error::Error;
-use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
 
 use crate::Directive;
 use crate::FilterOp;
@@ -46,12 +50,16 @@ pub struct ParseError {
 }
 
 impl Display for ParseError {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> core::fmt::Result {
         write!(f, "error parsing logger filter: {}", self.details)
     }
 }
 
-impl Error for ParseError {}
+#[cfg(feature = "std")]
+impl std::error::Error for ParseError {}
+
+#[cfg(not(feature = "std"))]
+impl core::error::Error for ParseError {}
 
 /// Parse a logging specification string (e.g: `crate1,crate2::mod3,crate3::x=error/foo`)
 /// and return a vector with log directives.