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 GNOME Workbench or Cambalache. Other great apps like Glade are Anjuta, Yad, wxFormBuilder and KDialog.

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Glade alternatives page was last updated Nov 13, 2023
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  1. Qt Creator icon

    Qt Creator

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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

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    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • FI flagFinland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Qt Creator screenshot 1

    Qt Creator Features

    1.  Autocompletion
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  Syntax Highlighting
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Code Formatting
    6.  C++
    7.  QT Based
    8.  Visual studio intergration
    9.  Debugging
    10.  Refactoring

    Qt Creator VS Glade

     

    • 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. GNOME Workbench icon

    GNOME Workbench

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
    GNOME Workbench screenshot 1

    GNOME Workbench Features

    1.  Linting
    2.  Rust
    3.  Gtk

    GNOME Workbench VS Glade

     

    • GNOME Workbench is the most popular free alternative to Glade.

    • GNOME Workbench is Free and Open SourceGlade is also Free and Open Source
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    Cambalache

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • CL flagChile

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    Cambalache Features

    1.  Live Preview
    2.  Rad
    3.  C++
    4.  Gtk
    5.  C-sharp

    Cambalache VS Glade

     
    Comments about Cambalache as an Alternative to Glade
    Barrett
    Positive •Jun 17, 2023
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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 Free and Open SourceGlade is also Free and Open Source
  5. Anjuta icon

    Anjuta

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    Anjuta is very powerful, customizable and yet simple to use Integrated Development Environment for GNOME.

    Anjuta Features

    1.  C++
    2.  Gtk

    Anjuta VS Glade

     
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    Yad

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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.

    21 Yad alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Sample dialog with tabs from YAD's SourceForge.

    Yad Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Portable

    Yad VS Glade

     
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    wxFormBuilder

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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...

    21 wxFormBuilder alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    wxFormBuilder screenshot 1

    wxFormBuilder Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++

    wxFormBuilder VS Glade

     
  9. KDialog icon

    KDialog

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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).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    KDialog screenshot 1

    KDialog Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  KDE

    KDialog VS Glade

     
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    wxDev-C++

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Bloodshed Dev-C++
    wxDev-C++ screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

    wxDev-C++ Features

    1.  C++

    wxDev-C++ VS Glade

     
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    wxGlade

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    A sample session

    wxGlade Features

    1.  C++

    wxGlade VS Glade

     
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    wxSmith

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    wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Code::Blocks
    wxSmith screenshot 1

    wxSmith Features

    1.  GUI Designer

    wxSmith VS Glade

     

  13. whiptail

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    display dialog boxes from shell scripts.

    21 whiptail alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    whiptail Features

    1.  Command line interface

    whiptail VS Glade

     
    Comments about whiptail as an Alternative to Glade
    Barrett
    Negative •Jun 17, 2023
    0

    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

  14. VisualWX

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    VisualWX screenshot 1
    Discontinued

    Last version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.

    VisualWX Features

    1.  Rad
    2.  C++

    VisualWX VS Glade

     
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