Zenity Alternatives for Windows

Zenity is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is wxFormBuilder, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Zenity and 12 are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Zenity are wxDev-C++, wxGlade, wxSmith and dialog.

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Free • Open Source

Zenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.

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Zenity alternatives page was last updated Jul 25, 2024

wxFormBuilder
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...
20 wxFormBuilder alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
wxFormBuilder Features
Rad
C++
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wxFormBuilder VS Zenity
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- wxFormBuilder is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Zenity.
- wxFormBuilder is Free and Open SourceZenity is also Free and Open Source

wxDev-C++
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.
15 wxDev-C++ alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Bloodshed Dev-C++
wxDev-C++ Features
C++
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Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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wxGlade
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.
17 wxGlade alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
wxGlade Features
C++
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wxSmith
wxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
16 wxSmith alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Code::Blocks
wxSmith Features
GUI Designer
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dialog
display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.
21 dialog alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Shell
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
dialog Features
Command line interface
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MessagePop
MessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.
15 MessagePop alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
MessagePop Features
Command line interface
Portable
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VisualWX
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.
16 VisualWX alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
VisualWX Features
Rad
C++
Ruby
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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.

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gxmessage
a GTK-based xmessage clone.
12 gxmessage alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Shell
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
gxmessage Features
Command line interface
Gtk
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XRCed
XRCed is a simple resource editor for wxWidgets/wxPython GUI development which supports creating and editing files in XRC format It is written in Python and uses wxPython GUI toolkit.
16 XRCed alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Discontinued
The latest version (1.8.4) is from 2007.

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xdialog
Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g.
21 xdialog alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- Shell
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
xdialog Features
Command line interface
Gtk
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Dialogblocks
Anthemion DialogBlocks is a sizer-based resource editor that quickly gets you creating professional-looking dialogs, wizards and frames for deployment on Windows, Linux, Mac or any other supported wxWidgets platform.
17 Dialogblocks alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Dialogblocks Features
Rad
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Dialogblocks VS Zenity
Is Dialogblocks a good alternative to Zenity?
- Dialogblocks is the most popular commercial alternative to Zenity.
- Dialogblocks is Paid and ProprietaryZenity is Free and Open Source

PyDialog
My problem was that the KDialog code is still not ported to Qt5 and it depends on various Qt4/KDE4 components. The kdialog has big dependency sizes so we made an alternate dialogs like kdialog switches, options.
8 PyDialog alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Python
- Qt
PyDialog VS Zenity
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