Tkinter
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
1warn against
Nov 10, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Tkinter or other Tk based GUI interfaces are the immediate tool I reach for”
Python daily driveron “Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk”
“I love how you stuck with pure Python libraries - tkinter, numpy, and sounddevice.”
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“I used Python and tkinter, which works really well”
“I feel both tools are great fwiw”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“registering my Tkinter/Pyinstaller app with windows”
Threads where it came up
- Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) 2 mentions
- Show HN: Scryptian – A lightweight, local AI bar for Windows (Python and Ollama) 1 mention
- Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI 1 mention
- Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly 1 mention
- The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing 1 mention
Also written as tkinter. Data: tkinter.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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A collection of Tk resources for Scheme: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Scheme This is quite old, but I always remember seeing it in the BSD packages collection: https://conservatory.scheme.org/stk/ Then there is Portable Scheme / Tk, a library for several Scheme implementations: https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/pstk PS/Tk provides an interface to the Tk toolkit, and is an effective tool for creating graphical inter
“Tkinter or other Tk based GUI interfaces are the immediate tool I reach for”
“Python + Tkinter”
“I love how you stuck with pure Python libraries - tkinter, numpy, and sounddevice.”
“I used Python and tkinter, which works really well”
“I feel both tools are great fwiw”
“a simple Tkinter/ttkbootstrap UI”
“the browser does render using a GUI package, namely tkinter”
“Originally it was using tkinter for the GUI toolkit”
If anyone stumbles upon this in a search for Python UI libaries, also check out Textural. It's a TUI setup that can also be displayed in web browsers because it uses CSS for styling. At least for fairly uncomplicated UIs, it seems pretty simple, and has good event hook support. It has some features like event bubbling, and reactivity, which smack of JS front-end framework workflows on the data side, for better or wor
“build an application using Tkinter”
“built in Python with a simple Tkinter GUI”
“The app is written in Python and tkinter.”