Tkinter Alternatives

Apps similar to Tkinter include Qt, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Electron, GTK, wxWidgets and PyQt. You can choose from more than 10 Software Frameworks like Tkinter for Mac, Windows, Linux, self-hosting and Android.

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  1. Qt icon
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    Qt is a cross-platform application framework that is widely used for developing application software that can be run on various software and hardware platforms with little or no change in the underlying codebase, while having the power and speed of native applications.

    58 Qt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. Electron icon
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    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.

    48 Electron alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. 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.

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    • Linux
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  4. 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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  5. PyQt icon
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    PyQt combines all the advantages of Qt and Python .

    23 PyQt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. CustomTkinter icon
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    A modern and customizable python UI-library based on Tkinter.

    9 CustomTkinter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. 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...

    24 wxPython alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Iced icon
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    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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  9. Dear ImGui icon
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    Dear ImGui is a bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++. It outputs optimized vertex buffers that you can render anytime in your 3D-pipeline enabled application. It is fast, portable, renderer agnostic and self-contained (no external dependencies).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. PyGTK icon
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    PyGTK lets you to easily create programs with a graphical user interface using the Python programming language. The underlying GTK+ library provides all kind of visual elements and utilities for it and, if needed, you can develop full featured applications for the GNOME Desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • GTK+
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  11. PySimpleGUI is a wrapper for tkinter (and other GUI libraries) that transforms the GUI SDK into a simpler, more compact architecture while still providing detailed customization. No prior GUI programming experience needed.

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    • Python
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  12. Gio icon
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    Gio is a library for writing cross-platform immediate mode GUI-s in Go. Gio supports all the major platforms: Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and WebAssembly.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
    • WebAssembly
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • Self-Hosted
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