Eel vs wxPython

Eel

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

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Eel		wxPython
	Project
1	Mentions	-
4,108	Stars	284
-	Growth	-
5.4	Activity	0.1
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	-
Python	Language	C++
MIT License	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.

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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.

wxPython

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

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Eel and wxPython 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

PyGObject - Tutorial for using GTK+ 3 in Python

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

Toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.

EasyGUI - easygui for Python