CustomTkinter
Modern GUI library for Python with improved aesthetics over native Tkinter.
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How CustomTkinter is used
CustomTkinter is a dependency in 4 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 24 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is PySide6 (8 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Pillow (70.8%), psutil (58.3%), Requests (58.3%).
CustomTkinter popularity over time
Gid Score 38: downloads 48, use in agent projects 30, GitHub stars n/a, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with CustomTkinter
| Pillow | 70.8% of CustomTkinter projects · 18.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| psutil | 58.3% of CustomTkinter projects · 31.0× more than average |
| Requests | 58.3% of CustomTkinter projects · 8.6× more than average |
| NumPy | 54.2% of CustomTkinter projects · 9.3× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 54.2% of CustomTkinter projects · 5.9× more than average |
| pandas | 50.0% of CustomTkinter projects · 11.6× more than average |
| Pydantic | 41.7% of CustomTkinter projects · 4.8× more than average |
| Playwright (Python) | 41.7% of CustomTkinter projects · 35.0× more than average |
From all 24 projects in our scan that use CustomTkinter, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install customtkinter |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (24) |
| Example projects | kangoka/tiktodv3, ZeroHackz/cyberleek-viewer |
Alternatives to CustomTkinter
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside CustomTkinter are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PySide6 pypi Python bindings for Qt framework enabling cross-platform desktop GUI applications. |
47 | 8 (0.5%) | 930K | — | LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only |
| PyQt6 pypi Python bindings for Qt framework enabling cross-platform desktop application development. |
42 | 3 (0.2%) | 366K | — | GPL-3.0-only |
| PyQt5 pypi Python bindings for Qt framework for building desktop applications. |
44 | 2 (0.1%) | 439K | — | GPL v3 |
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