Development Environments With GUI Designers For Linux
Designing GUI applications on Linux can be a learning curve. If you are used to products like Visual Studio finding similar tools on Linux can be difficult until you know what’s available. Let this guide make that search quicker with these IDE options that have WYSIWYG and visual designers built in. As a bonus, many of these tools also run on Windows and/or Mac and can compile applications for multiple platforms. A couple also have ARM versions.
| Anjuta DevStudio | Open source IDE with integrated Glade GUI designer. | Linux, Unix | C/C++, Python, Vala, more |
| Anubias | Mobile\Desktop app designer. | Web | Generates JavaScript |
| Basic for Qt | Commercial\free for Linux, Basic Qt IDE. | Linux, Windows, OS X | Basic |
| Boa Constructor | Open source Python IDE | Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X | Python |
| CEED\CEGUI | Open source IDE\GUI designer for C languages geared more for games. | Linux, Windows, OS X | C++, Lua |
| Code::Blocks \ WXCrafter | Open source IDE with WX GUI designer plugin. | Linux, Unix, Windows. OS X | C/C++ |
| Codelite \ WXCrafter | Open source IDE with WX GUI designer plugin. | Linux, Unix, Windows. OS X | C/C++, Rust, Python, JavaScript |
| Cambalache | GUI designer for GTK3/4. Not an IDE. | Linux | XML |
| Ecere | Open source ec-lang IDE. | Linux, Unix, Windows. OS X | C/C++, eC |
| FireMonkey | Proprietary RAD Studio/Delphi Linux GUI tools. | Linux | Delphi Pascal, C++ |
| Gambas3 | Open Source Basic IDE. | Linux, Unix | Basic |
| Glade | Glade is not an IDE it is purely a GTK GUI designer but it can generate interfaces that can be used with a ton of languages. | Linux, Unix | XML, C source code |
| Gnome Builder | Open source IDE. | Linux, Unix | C/C++, Python, Vala, C#, Rust, more |
| Godot | Visual designer and property assignment, IDE, and compilers for game development. | Linux, Windows. OS X | GDScript, C++, C#, more |
| Lazarus | Open source Free Pascal IDE. | Linux, Windows. OS X | FreePascal, C/C++ |
| MonoDevelop | Open source\Commercial IDE with Gtk# and WinForms visual designers. | Linux, Windows. OS X | C#, F#, more |
| Netbeans | Open source Java IDE Swing visual editor or JFormDesigner. | Linux, Windows. OS X | C/C++, PHP, Java, JavaScript |
| PoshGUI | Mostly a Winforms GUI designer that Generates PowerShell. | Web | Powershell |
| Pure Basic | Commercial Basic IDE. | Linux, Windows. OS X | Basic |
| pygubu | Open source Python Tk Interface builder inspired by Glade. | Linux, Windows. OS X | Python |
| QT | Commercial/Open source. | Linux, Windows. OS X | C++, Python |
| Xojo | Commercial Basic IDE. | Linux, Windows. OS X | Basic |