Glade Alternatives

Glade is described as 'RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Glade for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and GNOME apps. The best Glade alternative is Qt Creator. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Cambalache or GNOME Workbench. Other great apps like Glade are Anjuta, Yad, wxFormBuilder and wxDev-C++.

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  1. Qt Creator icon
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    Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) built for the maximum developer experience. Qt Creator runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS desktop operating systems and allows developers to create software across desktop, mobile, and embedded platforms.

    129 Qt Creator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
    • Qt Creator is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Glade.

    • Qt Creator is the most popular Open Source & commercial alternative to Glade.

    • Qt Creator is Paid and Open SourceGlade is Free and Open Source
  2. Cambalache icon
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    Cambalache is a new RAD tool that allow development of user interfaces for Gtk 4 and Gtk 3 toolkit. It was born as a substitute for Glade.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Cambalache as an Alternative to Glade
    Barrett
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    It's an up-to-date (GTK4/adw) replacement for the now-unmaintained Glade! With 0.12, there's custom widgets, so I see a lot more use! :)

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    • Cambalache is the most popular free alternative to Glade.

    • Cambalache is Free and Open SourceGlade is also Free and Open Source
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    Workbench lets you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a GTK user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  4. Anjuta icon
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    Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been written for GTK/GNOME and features a number of advanced programming facilities including project management, application wizards, an interactive debugger and a powerful source...

    62 Anjuta alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  5. Yad icon
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    Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.

    22 Yad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. wxFormBuilder icon
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    wxWidgets is an excellent framework that enables the creation of multi-platform applications with and without a graphical user interface. There are several applications that help create dialogs visually, even so, some practical problems have led me to start the development of a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. wxDev-C++ icon
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    wxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
     
  8. KDialog icon
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    kdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. wxGlade icon
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    wxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. wxSmith icon
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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
     
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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    22 whiptail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

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    • Linux
     
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    Comments about whiptail as an Alternative to Glade
    Barrett
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    These are not related whatsoever - whiptail doesn't do any RAD.

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    • whiptail is Free and Open SourceGlade is also Free and Open Source
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    Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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