Top 10 Python GUI Frameworks for Developers

1

PyQt

When it comes to creating GUIs, the PyQt5 arsenal offers the impressive QtGui and the QtDesigner module, which provide numerous visual elements that the developer can implement with a simple drag and drop. Of course, the option of creating these elements by code also exists, allowing you to create both small-scale as well as large-scale applications with ease. Python’s modularity trickles down to PyQt5 in the form of extensions, giving you a lot more features than just GUI building. If you like what you see here, you can give PyQt5 a try with the command “pip install PyQt5”.

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2

Tkinter

Often referred to as the go-to GUI toolkit by a majority of Python developers, Tkinter was created to equip modern developers with a standard interface to the Tk GUI toolkit with its Python bindings. In Tkinter’s world, most of the visual elements that we’re familiar with are called widgets, and each of these widgets offers a different level of customizability.

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3

Kivy

With Kivy, interface designers can code once and deploy to multiple platforms, while the built-in support for OpenGL ES 2 allows them to use modern and powerful graphics and design techniques. The most common use of the Kivy GUI framework in the real-world can be seen in our Android and iOS applications. Other widespread implementations of the framework can be seen in the user interfaces of Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Mac OS devices. You can easily add this framework to your environment by following the installation instructions provided on their website.

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4

wxPython

wxPython is essentially a Python extension module that acts as a wrapper for the wxWidgets API. wxPython allows Python developers to create native user interfaces that add zero additional overhead to the application. The cross-platform capabilities of wxPython allow deployment to platforms like Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Unix-based systems with little to no modifications.

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5

libavg

Written in C++ by Ulrich Von Zadow, the open-source Libavg GUI framework uses Python as the scripting language of choice and serves as one of the best frameworks for developing user interfaces for modern touch-based devices. The graphics-intensive side of things such as video decoding, visual effects, and compositing, are all handled by the hardware-acceleration achieved via OpenGL and GPU shaders to deliver smooth and graphic-rich visuals.

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6

PySimpleGUI

Isn’t the name of this framework a dead giveaway of what it is meant to do? Getting back to the topic, those starting fresh with Python application development may find a lot of Python GUI frameworks daunting at first. Mike B. created PySimpleGUI in 2018 to make it easier for Python newbies to get into GUI development without spending too much time getting into the intricacies of the more advanced GUI development options available.

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7

Pyforms

The PyForms library is split into 3 different sections that include PyForms-GUI, PyForms-Web, and PyForms-Terminal. Each of these layers allows the execution of the PyForms application in Web, Terminal, and as Windows GUI. With a focus on modularity, PyForms becomes perfect for quickly creating prototypes, and it can also make short work of the maintenance at later stages of the application. Installation is handled with the command “pip install pyforms”, which adds all the three libraries, or if you want to use the libraries individually, that’s possible too.

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DebugMode WAX

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9

PySide

PySide2 is built by the same company that gave us the widely popular application development framework Qt. Upon looking closely, you’ll come across the term “Qt for Python Project”, which is nothing but the task of porting PySide to support Qt5, whereas the framework itself is now being called PySide2.

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The Python GUI Project, or the PyGUI framework as it is more commonly known, is a simple API that enables developers to create user interfaces using native elements for Python applications. Being a fairly lightweight API, the PyGUI framework adds very little additional code between the Python application and the target platform. PyGUI currently supports creating applications for Unix-based systems, Windows machines, and Mac OS devices.

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