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Top 23 Qt Open-Source Projects
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I used to really like this software, and I still do. But there were a couple of dealbreakers for me.
1) As others mentioned, Wayland support. But it seems that it's gotten a lot better since I last used it. I resisted using Wayland for a long time because of several software breaking, but I've switched over now that most of the things I use now work (or because I've stopped using things that don't work).
2) it was broken for me with fractional scaling. This is the main reason why I switched, I started using fractional scaling on my second monitor and could not properly fix it for the life of me. I haven't tested it recently, but I just checked, and the github issue seems to still be open. https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/issues/564
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Not exactly, there is cool retro term: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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Project mention: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-13
Another fascinating thing that the Reddit thread discussing the original PR pointed out is that whoever owns that AI account opened another PR (same commits) and later posted this comment: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138#issuecom...
> Original PR from #31132 but now with 100% more meat. Do you need me to upload a birth certificate to prove that I'm human?
It’s a bit wild to me that people are siding with the AI agent / whoever is commanding it. Combined with the LLM hallucinated reporting and all the discussion this has spawned, I think this is making out to be a great case study on the social impact of LLM tooling.
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MuseScore
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Project mention: Cough sound artifact on Musesounds Alto Sax Staccato concert E4 note | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-17 -
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My "Notepad++ for Mac" so far has been NotepadNext (https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext). I will give this one a try as well, and wish them best of luck. I hope they release the Linux version as well.
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PySimpleGUI
Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018. NEW for 2026 - the LGPL3 Version 6. Transforms tkinter, Qt, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.
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Zeal (open source, free) is a free/libre/open source docset viewer that runs on Windows, Linux, and BSD. While it is possible to build Zeal for MacOS, the recommendation is to download Dash.
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FileCentipede
Cross-platform internet upload/download manager for HTTP(S), FTP(S), SSH, magnet-link, BitTorrent, m3u8, ed2k, and online videos. WebDAV client, FTP client, SSH client.
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qt
Qt binding for Go (Golang) with support for Windows / macOS / Linux / FreeBSD / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi / AsteroidOS / Ubuntu Touch / JavaScript / WebAssembly
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easyeffects
Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
Project mention: CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-30 -
PrismLauncher
A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC)
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nodegui
A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org
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Project mention: Show HN: A Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-13
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PyQt-Fluent-Widgets
A fluent design widgets library based on C++ Qt/PyQt/PySide. Make Qt Great Again.
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so many unknowns...
1. macOS and Windows require installation of Xcode and Visual Studio respectively, and if in Apple's case you kinda can install these tools headlessly and choose to install only the "build tools" package, Microsoft's creature is gonna daze and confuse you with a crap-ton of checkboxes and no easy "just install whatever is minimally needed to compile my code" button, and I don't recall if there is way to install build tools on Windows through terminal.
2. what is going to be distributed? source code itself or actual binaries? and what will the security model of Glaze store be? same as extensions, "everything is open-source and undergoes Raycast's and community review"?
3. Glaze is going to come to Windows and Linux, if we trust the Q&A section at the end. what will Glaze build upon? separate frameworks and languages for each platform or something multi-platform [1] like Tauri or Kotlin Multiplatform? or are you going to copy the Raycast extension model - just run Node, expose some platform integration, and parse React render trees through "Glaze Runtime"? I've been working on a bug in Vicinae [2][3], and I've seen this model in action. it's very hard to make it perform well, but all it takes to achieve native look and feel is to just map React render trees to whatever system component OS offers. (in Vicinae's case, it's Qt. bet that it's done with SwiftUI on macOS and WinUI 3 on Windows.)
[1]: there is a difference between "cross-platform" and "multi-platform". "cross-platform" means "I behave equally across platforms and have no awareness of native look and feel" (e.g. Electron, Unity, Flutter), while "multi-platform" means "I can adapt across platforms to the degree you need" (e.g. C/C++, Rust, KMP)
[2]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae
[3]: https://github.com/vicinaehq/vicinae/pull/1158
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Qt projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | flameshot | 30,075 |
| 2 | QtScrcpy | 29,712 |
| 3 | cool-retro-term | 25,623 |
| 4 | matplotlib | 22,867 |
| 5 | moonlight-qt | 17,435 |
| 6 | MuseScore | 14,675 |
| 7 | openage | 14,239 |
| 8 | NotepadNext | 14,211 |
| 9 | PySimpleGUI | 13,799 |
| 10 | zeal | 12,653 |
| 11 | tiled | 12,626 |
| 12 | qutebrowser | 11,535 |
| 13 | FileCentipede | 10,875 |
| 14 | qt | 10,790 |
| 15 | easyeffects | 9,580 |
| 16 | PrismLauncher | 9,538 |
| 17 | Spyder | 9,231 |
| 18 | nodegui | 9,220 |
| 19 | olive | 9,040 |
| 20 | albert | 7,936 |
| 21 | PyQt-Fluent-Widgets | 7,936 |
| 22 | vicinae | 7,935 |
| 23 | LiteIDE | 7,756 |
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