PyQt Alternatives

Apps similar to PyQt include GTK, which is free and open source. Other options are Kivy, wxWidgets, Cambalache and Avalonia UI. Software Frameworks like PyQt are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and Android.

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  1. GTK icon
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    GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.

    38 GTK alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
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  2. Kivy icon
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    Kivy is a Python library for development of multi-touch enabled media rich applications. The aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototyping, while making your code reusable and deployable.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPad
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  3. wxWidgets icon
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    wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, OS X, Linux and UNIX on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures as well as several mobile platforms including Windows Mobile, iPhone SDK and embedded GTK+.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. 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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  5. Avalonia UI icon
     10 likes

    Avalonia is a WPF-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of platforms including: Windows, Linux (desktop & embedded), macOS, Android, iOS and Browser.

    31 Avalonia UI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  6. CustomTkinter icon
     3 likes

    A modern and customizable python UI-library based on Tkinter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Workbench lets you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a GTK user interface.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  8. The Qt for Python project aims to provide a complete port of the PySide module to Qt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. BeeWare icon
     4 likes

    Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS using rich, native user interfaces. Multiple apps, one codebase, with a fully native user experience on every platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. wxPython icon
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    wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module (native code) that wraps the popular...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Iced icon
     1 like

    iced is a cross-platform GUI library for Rust. It is inspired by Elm, a delightful functional language for building web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Tkinter icon
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    The tkinter package (“Tk interface”) is the standard Python interface to the Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit. Both Tk and tkinter are available on most Unix platforms, including macOS, as well as on Windows systems.

    12 Tkinter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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