pywebview
Desktop GUIs for Python apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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How pywebview is used
pywebview is a dependency in 8 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 25 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 (60.0%), Uvicorn (60.0%), python-dotenv (56.0%).
pywebview popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 56, use in agent projects 31, GitHub stars 42, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with pywebview
| Pillow | 60.0% of pywebview projects · 15.7× more than average |
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| Uvicorn | 60.0% of pywebview projects · 7.8× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 56.0% of pywebview projects · 6.1× more than average |
| Playwright (Python) | 44.0% of pywebview projects · 36.9× more than average |
| Requests | 40.0% of pywebview projects · 5.9× more than average |
| cryptography | 40.0% of pywebview projects · 17.0× more than average |
| Google GenAI Python SDK | 40.0% of pywebview projects · 24.3× more than average |
| PyYAML | 40.0% of pywebview projects · 6.7× more than average |
From all 25 projects in our scan that use pywebview, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| OpenClaw | 2.0% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list pywebview as a dependency.
How pywebview is funded
Open Collective: pywebview
| Received, last 12 months | $374 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
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| Estimated annual budget | $960 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $489 |
| Raised since the start | $1,520 · $1,031 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $43 · $0 over 24 months |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time, 6 companies in total
| Wim van de Brug | $580 since Jan 2022 |
|---|---|
| TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest) | $450 since Oct 2025 |
| Real Targeted Traffic | $28 since Nov 2021 |
| Organic Traffic To Website | $22 since Nov 2021 |
| Website Traffic | $11 since Nov 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Jan 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @r0x0r | 1 current sponsor |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work.
Ways to fund pywebview
GitHub Sponsors Patreon Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install pywebview |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (25) |
| Example projects | iniwap/AIWriteX, wojiadexiaoming-copy/AIWeChatauto, lb08111/nexora-ai-platform, ilyasstrougouty/Tikkocampus, SolitudeZY/QuickModel |
Alternatives to pywebview
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside pywebview 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 |
| CustomTkinter pypi Modern GUI library for Python with improved aesthetics over native Tkinter. |
38 | 4 (0.2%) | 170K | — | MIT |
| 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 |
| Flet pypi · new in the catalog Builds web, desktop and mobile apps in Python with Flutter UI. |
41 | 1 (0.1%) | 75.3K | 17.4K | Apache-2.0 |
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