Qt Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Qt for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is GTK, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Qt and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Qt are Electron, React, React Native and Tauri.

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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.

    37 GTK alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
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  2. Electron icon
     116 likes

    If you can build a website, you can build a desktop app. Electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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  3. React Native icon
     45 likes

    React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about — learn once, write...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • React
     
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  4. Tauri icon
     27 likes

    Tauri is a toolkit that helps developers make applications for the major desktop platforms - using virtually any frontend framework in existence. The core is built with Rust and the CLI leverages Node.js making Tauri a genuinely polyglot approach to creating and maintaining...

    14 Tauri alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  5. wxWidgets icon
     22 likes

    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
     
  6. Kivy icon
     18 likes

    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)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPad
     
  7. Mono icon
     39 likes

    Mono is a free and open source project led by Xamarin (formerly by Novell and originally by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET Framework-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Oracle Solaris
    • Mono
     
  8. Photino icon
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    Photino is a lightweight open-source framework for building native, cross-platform desktop applications with Web UI technology.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Svelte Native is a new approach to building mobile applications using NativeScript. Where other JavaScript mobile development frameworks like React Native and NativeScript-Vue do the bulk of their work on the mobile device, Svelte Native shifts that work into a compile step that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • NativeScript
     
  10. 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.

    27 Avalonia UI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
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  11. The Qt for Python project aims to provide a complete port of the PySide module to Qt.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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