Toga vs PySide

Toga

A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit. (by beeware)

GUI

Source Code

toga.readthedocs.io

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PySide

ATTENTION: This project is deprecated, please refer to PySide2 (by pyside)

GUI

Source Code

wiki.qt.io

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Toga		PySide
	Project
2	Mentions	-
4,129	Stars	285
0.9%	Growth	0.7%
9.9	Activity	0.0
about 9 hours ago	Latest Commit	over 7 years ago
Python	Language	Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Toga

Posts with mentions or reviews of Toga. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-04.

BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
Creating Python Android/iOS Apps
3 projects | /r/learnpython | 25 Mar 2022

PS: While I'm at it, I'm wondering if there's a better Python-friendly UI framework than Toga. It seems to be very basic and focused on cross-platform compatibility - which is nice, but if there's something better, that would be nice to know too.

PySide

Posts with mentions or reviews of PySide. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning PySide yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Toga and PySide you can also consider the following projects:

kivy - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS

PySimpleGUI - 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, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.

wxPython

urwid - Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

PyGObject - Tutorial for using GTK+ 3 in Python

DearPyGui - Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

pywebview - Build GUI for your Python program with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

enaml - Declarative User Interfaces for Python