GUI Programming in Python
Python has a huge number of GUI frameworks (or toolkits) available for it, from TkInter (traditionally bundled with Python, using Tk) to a number of other cross-platform solutions, as well as bindings to platform-specific (also known as "native") technologies.
Cross-Browser Frameworks
Package
Target
Latest version
Latest update date
Notes
All major Web Browsers
1.7.0
2022年5月30日
Full-stack web apps using only Python and a free online drag-and-drop GUI builder, with built-in (freemium) hosting for your apps.
All major Web Browsers
0.13.3
2023年09月11日
World's lightest toolkit to quickly and easily add a GUI to your Python programs and bring them online.
All major Web Browsers
0.1.5
2020年10月14日
An object oriented high-level Python Web Framework that requires no frontend programming.
All major Web Browsers
1.1.3
2022年07月12日
Mercury converts Python code in Jupyter Notebook into web applications. The interactive widgets are added based on YAML header. The end-user can tweak widgets values and execute notebook with new parameters. It allows to hide code, export executed notebook to PDF, schedule notebook, add authentication.
All major Web Browsers
1.2.15
2023年05月27日
NiceGUI provides a unique combination of gentle learning curve and advanced customization capabilites. Operating as a webserver or Electron-like in a native window, it's also designed for hardware integration like USB cameras and GPIO pins, making it ideal for home automation and robotics.
All major Web Browsers
3.5.4
2024年03月22日
Trame seamlessly exposes vue.js templates to Python. Many widget libraries are available for complex visualizations and interactive graphical user interfaces. Created applications can be deployed in the cloud, in a native window (Tauri), on HPC or within Jupyter Lab.
Cross-Platform Frameworks
The major cross-platform technologies upon which Python frameworks are based include GTK, Qt, Tk and wxWidgets, although many other technologies provide actively maintained Python bindings.
Package
Target
Latest version
Latest update
Notes
Windows, macOS, Linux
0.94
2019年05月26日
Simple & intuitive wrapper for Tkinter. In active development, designed for educational purposes, heavily documented & feature rich!
Linux / many
0.11.0
2016年02月16日
Fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables.
Windows, macOS, Linux
66.1
2021年02月16日
Python bindings for the CEF Framework. CEF is based on Google Chromium and focuses on facilitating embedded browser use cases in third-party applications. With CEF you can create a light-weight native "shell" application that hosts a user interface developed primarily using Web technologies. Examples of embedding CEF browser control are available for many popular GUI toolkits such as PyQt, PySide, wxPython, PyGTK, PyGObject, Kivy and PyGame/PyOpenGL.
0.9.16
2016年08月16日
Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit
Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi 4
1.7.3
2022年10月22日
A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies. At its’ core it is a Python implementation of Dear ImGui. Docs are located at Read The Docs.
Windows, MacOSX, Linux, Android, iOS
0.21.2
2024年03月18日
An easy to learn Python framework for building realtime web, mobile and desktop apps with a beautiful Flutter UI.
Qt
1.2.0
2020年08月10日
A tiny Python module for creating form dialogs/widgets to edit various type of parameters with having to write any GUI code
0.9.5
2016年08月17日
Both a framework and visual tools: GUI Designer, Inspector and Property Editor. Supports Python 2.5 to Python 3.2; wxPython 2.8 "stable", 2.9 "classic" and "phoenix" (py3k). Features advanced pythonic MVC controls (ListView, GridView, TreeView) using list- and dict-like objects; masked and date picker controls; common dialogs; fluid layout using sizers & basic HTML; simplified event model (similar to JavaScript). Can include wxPython code in apps. Modern PythonCard "fork" hugely enhanced.
Qt
2.2.1
2022年06月05日
Based on the Qt library, guidata is a Python library generating graphical user interfaces for easy dataset editing and display. It also provides helpers and application development tools for Qt (PyQt5, PySide2, PyQt6, PySide6).
Qt
1.4.0
2022年03月31日
A Qt wrapper that makes it extremely easy to create simple graphical interfaces.
wxPython
1.0.8.1
2021年06月12日
Converts most argparse based CLI programs into wxPython GUI programs with a single import and decorator.
Windows, macOS, Linux (Tkinter based)
1.3.0
2022年01月01日
guizero is a Python 3 library for creating simple GUIs. The aim of guizero is to make the process of creating simple GUIs quick, accessible and understandable for new learners.
Java
2.7.2
2020年03月21日
Jython is an implementation of Python seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. See Jython
Windows, MacOSX, Linux, Android, iOS
2.1.0
2022年03月06日
OpenGL ES 2 accelerated framework for creating innovative user interfaces. Kivy have a native multitouch support for every platform, mouse simulator, widgets multitouch ready, integrated virtual keyboard, rst renderer...
JUCE (Windows, MacOSX, Linux)
0.9.6
2024年02月21日
Python 3 bindings for the JUCE application framework.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Raspberry Pi OS (Wraps C++ FLTK)
1.3.9
2024年01月07日
Fast and Easy to learn. OOP extensible widgets. Provides access to OpenGL features. Stands for Fast, Light Toolkit.(Python 3)
Qt & OpenGL
2016年12月20日
A Python framework to develop GUI application, which promotes modular software design and code reusability with minimal effort.
2.1.2
2021年12月27日
Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the SDL library.
Windows, macOS, Linux
1.5.24
2022年06月12日
pyglet is a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python, for developing games and other visually rich applications.
GTK
3.42.1
2022年04月17日
PyGObject is a Python package which provides bindings for GObject based libraries such as GTK, GStreamer, WebKitGTK, GLib, GIO and many more. See PyGobject. Replacement for PyGtk.
Windows, macOS, Linux (via Sciter)
4.4.7.0
2021年04月27日
Python bindings for the Sciter (embeddable HTML/CSS/JavaScript engine).
Qt
6.3.0
2022年04月13日
Qt for Python (formerly known as PySide) offers the official Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
tkinter, Qt, wxPython,Browser, Win, Mac, Linux, Pi, PyDroid3, Trinket, replit
5.0.7
2024年10月20日 (discontinued)
Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018 and actively developed, maintained, and supported in 2024. Transforms tkinter, Qt (pyside2 & pyside6), WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users. Extensive 5.0 Documentation - 2025年08月15日: PySimpleGUI was stopped, see: https://www.pysimplegui.com/#notice
Cocoa / Win32 / Qt / GTK
3.6.3
2022年04月05日
pywebview is a lightweight cross-platform wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native GUI window.
Windows, macOS, Linux (GTK), Android, iOS
0.4.8
2024年10月16日
Cross platform, Python native GUI toolkit that uses native system widgets. Part of the BeeWare project.
Qt or Wx on Windows, macOS, Linux
7.3.1
2022年03月14日
The Traits/TraitsUI package offers the ability to build scalable and cross-platforms GUIs simply by focusing on the model being viewed, and offering default widgets for various types of objects. It abstracts away the implementation, which can currently use PyQt, Pyside2 or WxPython. In the simplest case, it can automatically generate a user interface for editing a (Traits-based) object, with no additional coding on the part of the programmer-user. In more sophisticated uses, it can implement a Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern for Traits-based objects.
many
9.1.0
2021年11月04日
The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is open source software for manipulating and displaying scientific data. It comes with state-of-the-art tools for 3D rendering, a suite of widgets for 3D interaction, and extensive 2D plotting capability.
Platform-specific Frameworks
Package
Target
Latest version
Latest update
Notes
16.0.0
2024年10月15日
A plugin for Android Studio’s standard Gradle build system. Provides complete APIs for calling Python code from Java/Kotlin and vice versa, and a wide range of third-party Python packages.
GUI Design Tools and IDEs
IDE
Target
Latest version
Latest update date
Notes
Web
2023年1月30日
Free online drag-and-drop GUI builder for full-stack web apps all in Python, with built-in (freemium) hosting for apps.
7 (22.6)
2022年06月01日
Eric is a full featured Python editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt UI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control.
https://github.com/reingart/gui2py
0.9.6.1
2016年09月05日
Visual GUI Designer, Inspector and Property Editor (embeddable). PythonCard "fork". LGPL3.
3.38.2
2020年11月20日
Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.
macOS, Win, Linux
3.0.53
2022年02月18日
Cross-platform, node-based GUI for efficient data visualizations and generative design.
TkInter, ttk
7.4
2022年05月04日
PAGE is a cross-platform drag-and-drop GUI generator, bearing a resemblance to Visual Basic. It allows one to easily create Python GUI windows containing a selection of Tk and ttk widgets.
Windows
4.0.0
2021年05月21日
MIT Open Source IDE developed using Python and Delphi. See PyScripter. (Python 3)
3.10.1
2021年10月22日
GPL cross-platform WYSIWYG GUI builder. Can produce XRC/XML, wxWidgets/C++, or wxPython/python.
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#Python - Wikipedia article describing several IDE's and GUI Builders.
Editorial Notes
The above lists should be arranged in ascending alphabetical order - please respect this when adding new frameworks or tools.