awesome-qt

The official website for the Qt framework

Official Qt documentation. Massive and comprehensive

The best of Qt, straight to your spam filter

If you think you've found a bug with Qt or one of its related projects, report it here (or see if someone else already has)

See how the Qt maintainers ensure their code is well-written

Browse the various source trees that comprise the Qt project. Has mirrors at several GitHub organizations:

Mailing lists for users and developers of Qt alike. Arguably the best place to communicate directly with Qt's maintainers. Sees frequent activity

If e-mail's not your thing, then you might also consider getting help or sharing knowledge on the forums

The premier source for user-contributed Qt knowledge

For real-time chat with other Qt developers and users. The most popular channels are on Freenode, and include , , , and

For a full list of Qt-related IRC channels, see

Not to be confused with the official

By no means does Qt lock you into its provided IDE, but its firm integration with the framework makes it a good sell. Among other things, it provides a UI designer, modeling tools, a documentation browser, and great QML support if you're into that sort of thing. There's also a plugin system, but third-party plugins are unfortunately scarce

If you'd rather just design the interfaces and let someone else hook them up to logic, the GUI designer is available as a separate application

So is the documentation viewer, for that matter

If you'd rather stick to Visual Studio, this add-in will let you do that

Qt provides excellent internationalization/localization support, and this tool is very much responsible for it. Write translatable strings in your code with special macros, and this tool will aggregate them all for you so you or your translator(s) can broaden your software's audience

Nobody seems to talk about this, but Qt also provides a way to write an installer for your application. Does not support creation of macOS disk images, app bundles, or Linux packages, so be mindful of that when considering your project's distribution

Generates macOS application bundles for Qt projects

The bundled build system designed for Qt, though it can be used for non-Qt projects

If QML is more your style, consider this alternative build system

Don't forget about Qt's mobile support!

qt/qttools

Command-line tool that prints out a lot of information pertaining to both your Qt installation and your system in general. No link because there's no dedicated web page; just run on the command line. Excellent for troubleshooting

qt/qtdeclarative

Lets you make easing curves suitable for QML, though if you understand the underlying math there's no reason you couldn't use the resulting numbers elsewhere

General C++ build tool that happens to have great Qt support

Powerful debugger and general inspection tool for Qt-built software. Lets you inspect and manipulate the hierarchy, view object properties, edit widgets at runtime, and far, more. A two-sentence blurb can't do it justice, seriously check it out

moc-ng

Alternative implementation of that's binary-compatible with Qt's version

Qt-Inspector

Inspection tool with similar goals to GammaRay, though much simpler

Generates Python bindings for C or C++ libraries. Has special support for Qt signals and slots, and was used to create

linuxdeployqt

Lets you bundle your Qt based application as an AppDir or , making it possible to ship it to users of many desktop Linux distributions. Similar to the official and tools but for Linux

Qompoter

Dependency manager for Qt / C++

Arguably the most comprehensive and well-known binding of Qt to another language

Another binding for Python, which has been officially adopted by the Qt project

I've never heard of this language either, honestly

Mono/.NET languages (via QtSharp)

Experimental wrapper for Qt that allows it to be used by .NET-based languages such as C#. Young, but active

Qt wrapper for the PDF viewer

neiasound

OpenAL wrapper designed for games, with and support

Script your Qt applications with Python. Not to be confused with or

Absurdly versatile and customizable text editor widget that provides syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding, recordable macros, and more. Built around . Created by the same company that developed

QtAwesome

Add icons to your Qt application. Other icon sets are supported, too

Use Lua as a scripting language for Qt-based software

qtruby

Use Ruby as a scripting language within your application

Read from and write to ZIP archives. Uses under the hood

Wrapper for that lets you add a VLC-like media player to your application

SCodes

Qt & QML wrapper for with ready-made QML items for decoding and generating 1D and 2D barcodes (aka. QR codes)

Cross-platform IRC framework. We've got enough IRC clients out there already, but I suppose this could also be used to implement a chat function in your application (e.g. for community support)

Web framework that takes some ideas from Perl's Catalyst framework

DiceParser

Dice Roller framework based on its own syntax

DOtherSide

Binding for QML in C, primarily designed as an API for languages to support QML

Cross-platform game engine and app framework that relies heavily on QML. Has a lot of tools and resources, and may even deserve its own list

glraw

Convert images from any Qt-supported format to OpenGL-format textures. Useful for speeding up texture loading in graphics applications

grantlee

Django-inspired text templating

injeqt

Dependency injection for Qt

Metric ass-ton of libraries for KDE, but many of them can be used with regular Qt applications as well. Cross-platform, for the most part

Virtual globe and map that can be used standalone or embedded within other applications

qgexedit2

Embed a hex editor in your application

qml-material

Material Design implemented in QML

QNodeView

Widget that lets you create and edit nodes in a graph similar to the kind provided by Unreal Engine, Substance Designer, or PureData

QSimpleUpdater

Let your application update itself

qt-maybe

Fans of type theory will enjoy these sum and optional types

qt-mustache

Render templates

Actively developed multimedia framework

Powerful set of libraries that provide GUI, logging, testing, configuration, and project functionality (among other things) for your application

Chart generation framework. Commercial

For fans of the ribbons that Microsoft uses in their software. Commercial

qtnotify

Notification framework

QtTerminalWidget

Make your application capable of

QtVerbalExpressions

Create regular expressions using natural English expressions. Part of the project, which does the same thing for a wide variety of languages

qtwebserver

If you need to write a web application server in Qt for some reason, this'll help you along

Read and write spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format

Qt widgets designed for scientific and technical applications

verdigris

Experimental library to write Qt applications using the

The most well-known aggregation of Qt-centric libraries out there. A package manager is also available

QtPods

Another Qt-centric package manager. If you want to see the offerings without using QtPods, the full list is available , and can be added to by submitting a pull request

Despite the name, Linux-Apps.com aggregates a wide variety of Qt-based tools and libraries for both end-users and developers

Ubuntu users who are hesitant to install anything outside of their package managers can obtain any recent version of Qt from these repositories. Instructions for adding them are found within

Official aggregation of first-party and third-party Qt-related blogs

Qt-centric software consulting firm with a really neat blog. Specializes in graphics applications

Qt Tips and Tricks [ , ] - Odds and ends that might be nice to keep in your back pocket

Sometimes you need different variations of the same asset, but you won't know which ones to load until runtime. This class will decide for you

Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands [ , , , , ] - You don't find hidden gems by staying on the beaten path

Trust nobody

Talk to your scripting language. That's what it's there for

Qt and OpenGL: Loading a 3D Model with Open Asset Import Library (Assimp) [ , ] - Assimp supports a lot of different model types; these articles will help you support all of them

This feature's been around for a few years, but it's still useful enough to warrant an entry on this list

Another oldie, but still a goodie

Another software consulting firm that also contributes code to Qt. They seem to specialize in Qt's core architecture

The magic that Qt appears to rely in is really just a bunch of code generators. This post will bring you up to speed on the reality of the , the most notable one

How Qt Signals and Slots Work [ , , ] - Qt's signals/slots system lets any object talk to any other object. Understanding these three articles will help you take full advantage of the feature

C++ isn't known for having good run-time type information, so Qt brings its own

Stop writing C++ like it's 2003; learn how you can take advantage of recent C++ features in your Qt applications

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String literals are widely used in many applications; wouldn't it be nice if you could make them faster to access?

It's nice to be able to read your application's logs

consulting firm that specializes in Qt

Talk about and how it can help you dissect your Qt applications. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by

I want to make my application do more than once thing at once. What could possibly go wrong? Talk given at QtCon 2016 by

How to make your Qt application faster, Linux-style. Talk given at QtCon 2016 by

Yet another consulting company specialized in Qt

Convenient document for improving your familiarity with Qt Creator IDE

Series about practical usage of Qt Installer framework with in-depth overview of different features

Getting wild and "native" with Android code in your Qt application

Have you ever wondered how to use NFC in Qt/Qml application? This blog post will give you a complex overview of the concept of near-field communication technology with examples of its usage in real life

, by - Overview of advanced GUI programming techniques for those familiar (but not satisfied) with the basics. The source code used in the book is available for free

by Witold Wysota and Lorenz Haas - Good place to start learning how to program games with QML

, by - Beginner's guide to Qt, with a lot of focus on Qt Creator and its associated tools

, by - Seems to be about the overall structure of a Qt project

, by and - Not your daddy's Qt. Tips and tricks for the experienced. The source code used in the book is available for free

, by Gopinath Jaganmohan and Venkateshwaran Loganathan - Imagine these other books, but in Python

Free book that focuses on QML, named for this town in northeastern Spain that the authors vacationed to once

, by Johan Thelin, Jürgen Bocklage-Ryannel and Cyril Lorquet - Free book created by Qt Company. It provides you with a walk through of the different aspects of application development using the new Qt 6. It focuses on the Qt Quick technology, but also provides necessary information about writing C++ back-ends and extension for Qt Quick

3D animation and design software that has been used to create visual effects for some of the most popular movies and TV shows of all time

Non-linear video editing freeware with commercial plan used to create some Hollywood movies

The closest thing to a standard C++ build system out there. The bundled GUI uses Qt

But can it run Crysis? Some auxillary tools use Qt

The most popular documentation generator for C++, though it supports other languages as well. The bundled GUI uses Qt

virtual globe

One of the most popular desktop environments for Linux

Digital audio workstation

Your Windows desktop's personal bodyguard

Music notation software

Consumer-focused virtualization

Something something eating your own dog food. Listed in the , but not listing it here doesn't feel right

Virtual tabletop for remote Role Playing Games

Video editor

Level design tool for any game that uses the Box2D physics engine

When gamers want to voice chat in a game that doesn't support it, they'll use this

Secure your conversations so well, you'll raise the blood pressure of potential eavesdroppers. The desktop client uses Qt and is open source

Perhaps the world's most popular tilemap editor. Suitable for level design in games

Virtualization software for x86/64 processors. The bundled GUI uses Qt

One of the most flexible open source video players in existence

— Realtime visual programming language for interactive media

The most popular packet-sniffer out there. You going to use this for good and not evil, right?

Programming language, symbolic calculator, and an engineer's best friend

Sega Saturn emulator

Slicer application used to prepare your 3D models for printing with a 3D printer. Built with Uranium framework which is based on Qt 5 and Python 3

Awesome C/C++

There's no reason you can't use C++ libraries that weren't designed for Qt. Sometimes they might even suit your needs better than what Qt offers

Awesome C

Same goes for C libraries; might wanna brush up on those RAII techniques while you're at it

Awesome CMake

If you're not using qmake for your project, you're likely using CMake instead

Awesome OpenGL

Qt is commonly used for graphics applications, even providing its own wrappers around OpenGL