diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 76b92e7..ea46b6d 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ unstable-kv = ["kv"]
 
 [dependencies]
 log = { version = "0.4.29", features = ["std"] }
-env_filter = { version = "1.0.0", path = "crates/env_filter", default-features = false }
+env_filter = { version = "1.0.0", path = "crates/env_filter", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 jiff = { version = "0.2.22", default-features = false, features = ["std"], optional = true }
 anstream = { version = "1.0.0", default-features = false, features = ["wincon"], optional = true }
 anstyle = { version = "1.0.13", optional = true }
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml b/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
index 54c1af4..3ccfa9e 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/env_filter/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,12 +26,13 @@ pre-release-replacements = [
 ]
 
 [features]
-default = ["regex"]
+default = ["std", "regex"]
 regex = ["dep:regex"]
+std = ["log/std", "regex/std"]
 
 [dependencies]
-log = { version = "0.4.29", features = ["std"] }
-regex = { version = "1.12.3", optional = true, default-features=false, features=["std", "perf"] }
+log = { version = "0.4.29" }
+regex = { version = "1.12.3", optional = true, default-features=false, features=["perf"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 snapbox = "1.0"
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/directive.rs
index c24fef2..77c12ed 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 60bcf7a..a102ce4 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/filter.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-use std::env;
-use std::fmt;
-use std::mem;
+use alloc::{borrow::ToOwned, string::ToString, vec::Vec};
+use core::{fmt, mem};
 
 use log::{LevelFilter, Metadata, Record};
 
@@ -48,10 +47,11 @@ 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);
         }
 
@@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ impl Builder {
         } = parse_spec(filters);
 
         for error in errors {
+            #[cfg(feature = "std")]
             eprintln!("warning: {error}, ignoring it");
+            #[cfg(not(feature = "std"))]
+            log::warn!("{error}, ignoring it");
         }
 
         self.filter = filter;
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
index 0b35088..9e7dffc 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/lib.rs
@@ -38,9 +38,14 @@
 //! ```
 
 #![cfg_attr(docsrs, feature(doc_cfg))]
+#![cfg_attr(all(not(feature = "std"), not(test)), no_std)]
 #![warn(missing_docs)]
 #![warn(clippy::print_stderr)]
 #![warn(clippy::print_stdout)]
+#![warn(clippy::std_instead_of_core)]
+#![warn(clippy::std_instead_of_alloc)]
+
+extern crate alloc;
 
 mod directive;
 mod filter;
diff --git a/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs b/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
index bfc6a5c..e805edf 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/op.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use std::fmt;
+use alloc::string::{String, ToString};
+use core::fmt;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub(crate) struct FilterOp {
@@ -24,13 +25,13 @@ 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..b55490c 100644
--- a/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs
+++ b/crates/env_filter/src/parser.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
+use alloc::{borrow::ToOwned, format, string::String, 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 +47,13 @@ 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 {}
 
 /// Parse a logging specification string (e.g: `crate1,crate2::mod3,crate3::x=error/foo`)
 /// and return a vector with log directives.