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24 alternatives to Tkui – Python GUI maker that simulaneously edits the GUI and its editor

A visual introspective GUI maker with live editing of the GUI and its editor at the same time - asrp/tkui

Tkui is a Python GUI development tool that allows developers to design graphical interfaces while simultaneously editing the underlying code. Built for Python programmers, it combines visual GUI editing with direct… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Tkui – Python GUI maker that simulaneously edits the GUI and its editor launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey all, I am Paul, an indie-dev, I am working on this web based Drag and drop GUI builder tool for python. It's still in beta and currently supports tkinter and customtk. It can generate clean code python for the UI you build. You can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/PyUIBuilder Feel free to check it out. Thanks!

    2025 · pyuibuilder.com · its alternatives →

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    No-code solution for Python GUI's

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Modern declarative (React-like) Tcl/Tk interface for Python - leontrolski/tkintergalactic

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Edit web apps visually in the Cursor Browser

    Dec 2025 · cursor.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! I'm a solo developer who's been doing UI/UX work since 2007. Over the years, I watched design tools evolve from lightweight products into bloated feature-heavy platforms. I kept finding myself using a small amount of the features while the rest just mostly got in the way. So a few years ago I set out to build a design tool just like I wanted. So I built Vecti with what I actually need: pixel-perfect grid snapping, a performant canvas renderer, shared asset libraries, and export/presentation features. No collaborative whiteboarding. No plugin ecosystem. No enterprise…

    Feb 2026 · vecti.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate, edit, lint & test your API workflow in one place

    2025 · app.getelva.ai · its alternatives →

  7. 7PT

    2012 · pytools.codeplex.com · its alternatives →

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    kuku▲539

    Your open-source, local second brain for every AI

    Jan 2026 · kuku.mom · its alternatives →

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    OpenUI▲543

    Describe UI and see it rendered live

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Scripton (https://scripton.dev) is a Python IDE built for fast, interactive visualizations and exploratory programming — without the constraints of notebooks. Why another Python IDE? Scripton hopes to fill a gap in the Python development ecosystem by being an IDE that: 1. Focuses on easy, fast, and interactive visualizations (and exposes rich JS plotting libraries like Observable Plot and Plotly directly to Python) 2. Provides a tightly integrated REPL for rapid prototyping and exploration 3. Is script-centric (as opposed to, say, notebook-style) A historical detour for why…

    2025 · scripton.dev · its alternatives →

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    The top-like text-based user interface for Austin. Contribute to P403n1x87/austin-tui development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Go based GUI framework: practical, immediate mode, flexbox model - hasenj/go-shirei

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PyTermGUI is a highly modular framework offering most of the features one would expect from a GUI library, such as a mature and open Widget API, animations, mouse support and other goodies, right inside the terminal! The markup language is another great feature of the library, and is used by practically all elements of it. It is based on Rich's implementation, but uses a more concise and easier to humanly parse syntax, while being over 10 times faster at parsing due to a long list of optimizations. There is a full Window Manager API included as well, allowing the user to move, resize and…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I'm releasing Hyperdiv (https://hyperdiv.io), a framework for rapidly developing reactive browser UIs in Python, with immediate-mode syntax and using Shoelace (https://shoelace.style) as its built-in component system. This short coding video will give you a good idea of what it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XJKfxaqvGE I wrote a brief article about the motivation and approach: https://hyperdiv.io/intro.html Hyperdiv doesn't aim to compete with serious full-stack frameworks. The core aim was to make it easy and fast to…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m a solo content-creator/Blender user and developed this tool as an easy way to manage and render multiple Blender renders locally. The TUI portion is written in TypeScript because it gave me a good way to build the front end that allowed for some complex components in a language that I was intimately familiar with, and the portions that interact with Blender are actually Python scripts.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're developing Burr (github.com/dagworks-inc/burr), an open-source python framework that makes it easier to build and debug GenAI applications. Burr is a lightweight library that can integrate with your favorite tools and comes with a debugging UI. If you prefer a video introduction, you can watch me build a chatbot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEZ4oDN0GdU. Common friction points we’ve seen with GenAI applications include logically modeling application flow, debugging and recreating error cases, and curating data for testing/evaluation (see…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I started building a couple of years ago because I found no easy existing solution to build Slack bots that can be composed from/organized into plugins. Existing libraries like Bolt make it pretty easy to develop Slack bots, but hard to organize and scale the code base of your bot. I was also missing some crucial features such as scheduling actions for your bot. So I wrote my own framework! I recently rewrote the complete framework to make use of asyncio and the newest Slack SDK Let me know what you think!

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Nogic, a VSCode extension currently, because AI tools make code grow faster than developers can build a mental model by jumping between files. Exploring structure visually has been helping me onboard to unfamiliar codebases faster. It’s early and rough, but usable. Would love feedback on whether this is useful and what relationships are most valuable to visualize.

    Jan 2026 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    MakeUI▲145

    The world’s first Sketch UI kit generator with themes

    2019 · makeui.design · its alternatives →

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    This unofficial extension integrates Draw.io (also known as diagrams.net) into VS Code. - vscode-drawio/README.md at 14209ad462028cbf7013bc8e094bf0fc6e811d30 · hediet/vscode-drawio

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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