QtAwesome
FontAwesome icons integration for PyQt and PySide desktop applications.
UI components and icons PyPI MIT
How QtAwesome is used
QtAwesome is a dependency in 0 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. Projects that use it most often also use cryptography (100.0%), psutil (100.0%), CFFI (96.0%).
QtAwesome popularity over time
Gid Score 29: downloads 35, use in agent projects 31, GitHub stars 11, downloads trend 42 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with QtAwesome
| cryptography | 100.0% of QtAwesome projects · 42.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| psutil | 100.0% of QtAwesome projects · 53.1× more than average |
| CFFI | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 149.0× more than average |
| Click | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 38.4× more than average |
| Colorama | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 104.6× more than average |
| greenlet | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 186.2× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 44.1× more than average |
| jsonschema | 96.0% of QtAwesome projects · 59.0× more than average |
From all 25 projects in our scan that use QtAwesome, including the dependency samples.
How QtAwesome is funded
Open Collective: Spyder IDE
| Received, last 12 months | $19,757 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $21,603 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,611 |
| Raised since the start | $130,802 · $126,191 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $336 · $1,340 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +10% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 78 |
Top company backers all time, 15 companies in total
| NumFOCUS | $58,761 since Sep 2024 |
|---|---|
| Python Software Foundation | $4,000 since Jul 2021 |
| Levitronix GmbH | $900 since Nov 2018 |
| EAF LLC | $300 since Mar 2020 |
| Aeonsemi, Inc | $300 since Jul 2020 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Nov 2017. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: QtPy, Spyder Kernels.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund QtAwesome
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install qtawesome |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (25) |
| Example projects | rsanshierli/EasyBert, AbhilashPal/MuseNet, mhd-medfa/NoisyStudent-Based-Object-Recognition, maks-mk/kgbagent |
Alternatives to QtAwesome
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