Eel vs Toga

Eel

A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps [Moved to: https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Eel] (by samuelhwilliams)

GUI

DISCONTINUED

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Toga

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

GUI

Source Code

toga.readthedocs.io

Suggest alternative

Edit details

Our great sponsors

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews

Our great sponsors

Eel		Toga
	Project
1	Mentions	2
4,108	Stars	4,092
-	Growth	1.1%
5.4	Activity	9.9
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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.

Eel

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

Eel options
1 project | dev.to | 20 Jan 2021

In a previous post, we explore Eel, which is a cool python library that allow us to create web based GUI's for our python scripts.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Flexx - Write desktop and web apps in pure Python

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.

PySide - ATTENTION: This project is deprecated, please refer to PySide2

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

Qt Style Sheet Inspector - A inspector to be able to view and edit Qt style sheet while an application is running

wxPython