--- title: Kivy Reviews meta\_title: 'Kivy Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 21 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Kivy works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 21 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Kivy Reviews & Product Details Kivy is an open source, cross platform Python library the development of application that make use of user interfaces such as multi-touch apps. * * * Seller [Kivy](https://www.g2.com/sellers/kivy) Discussions [Kivy Community](https://www.g2.com/products/kivy/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/kivy/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Django](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Django") Django 4.5/5(177) ](https://www.g2.com/products/django/reviews) [ ![Flask](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Flask") Flask 4.5/5(49) ](https://www.g2.com/products/flask/reviews) [ ![Tornado](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tornado") Tornado 3.8/5(20) ](https://www.g2.com/products/tornado/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/kivy/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 21 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Prakhar P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prakhar P.") PP Prakhar P. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/10/2020 "Kivy is best to use for app development if you are interested in Python" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Kivy? The Community support of kivy is awesome and the ease and fun with which we can create various applications attracts me a lot. I learned a lot how easy it is to develop an app using kivy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? It is difficult to finally get an apk for your Android using windows. There should be some easy features for windows users too. As every begineer doesn't use linux system. Rest of the things I found fine in my view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Do give it a try. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? I have developed a begineer app named Rock paper scissor during these lockdown period. And kivy I felt was easy and efficient for this. Having learnt python and I wanted to develop an app here kivy played an important role for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![David G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David G.") DG David G. Tutor Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/12/2020 "Been a long time since I used Kivy" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Kivy? Don't remember anything I liked about Kivy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? The lack of dynamic support; the inability to debug the code using standard Python debuggers; the attitude/unhelpfulness of the experts in the community. (Again, it's been 5 yrs since I used Kivy, so these things might have changed; additionally, I was tasked w/ doing things with Kivy, by someone who didn't really appreciate its limitations, that it wasn't really designed to do, and I think perhaps the unhelpful experts didn't want to tell me that outright, but also didn't like that the issues I was having were exposing design limitations.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Understand what Kivy can \_and cannot\_ do relative to your requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? None. (I haven't used Kivy in 5 yrs, and when I was using it, it was closer to being the problem than being the solution to our problems.) Negative benefit: I was fired because I couldn't figure out how to get Kivy to change the UI dynamically (I kept in touch w/ a colleague and learned that eventually the team abandoned Kivy and went to Qt: I guess the manager finally figured out Kivy was too static for implementing the desired UI). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/11/2020 "A brilliant library for creating multi-platform applications." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Kivy? I liked the easiness of the language used in it and also the interface which can be developed by using kivy is much good looking than tkinter library. It seems to be like languages like css which makes keywords more rememberable. Also it liked it to be a platform independent app as my friend uses kivy on his windows system and I use to work on Mac and we didn't feel much difference. I liked kivy for being adjustable as automatically manages its size according to available window it gets and also resizes its text which kind of amazes me. There are many libraries but kivy in a short span of time becomes one of mt favourite library to use with python programming language by its simplicity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? According to me it should use less processing power. Apart from that its all good . Also installation can be made easy (not necessarily) but everything needs improvement or can be improved. I disliked the the fact it sometimes during my execution of code it crashed which can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: I would say that if you are a new developer then you can go for kivy rather than tkinter as it creates better interface that tkinter would do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? I use kivy to create desktop applications as I have created a desktop application which wasn't there actually and I think kivy made it really easy for me to create one as it was the application of that kind that I made and it was really fun to do it with python programming language and kivy library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abhay G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhay G.") AG Abhay G. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/12/2020 "Kivy has no scalability and its also slower for android devices and even crashes too bit." 2/5 What do you like best about Kivy? I like the shorter syntaxes and readable code of kivy as anyone can understand them easily and lots of tools are there and community support is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? I dislike that it is very difficult to package the application to apk and ios because they crash too many times. The look of kivy applications looks very old style. Kivy MD is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Go for kivy if you know python and you are comfortable with it. Kivy is still in the development phase and updates are coming every 2-5 days. You should try kivy MD because it is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? I basically use kivy for small applications and games. There are benefits only in Kivy MD. Kivy MD is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/15/2020 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/11/2020 "Platform independence in Kivy" 4/5 What do you like best about Kivy? Kivy being an GUI library also has a sister project, Plyer. The one which I contributed to and the best part of that project is that it is build on top of buildozer (another sister project) which provides it the cross platform functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? Lack of awareness among the people and less community support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Make sure you follow the documentation properly otherwise it can be a pain for you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Any API built using plyer can be used on all the supported platforms (iOS, android, windows, mac, Linux) without changing any code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Luis B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Luis B.") LB Luis B. Fullstack developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/16/2020 "Simple cross platform python libray UI" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Kivy? The community around the project and her API documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? The examples are not really usefull but you can ever ask in the repository Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? I Made me an app for personal income tracking that work in macOS and linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SR Shubham R. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/13/2020 "It's serviceable if python is the only thing you can code in but there are better options out there" 2/5 What do you like best about Kivy? Ability to code in python and the huge library of packages that python puts at your disposal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? Pretty much everything else, flutter and Java are simply way better alternatives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Wanted to write a mobile app in python Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/24/2020 "Kivy is simple to develop so anyone can easily develop desktop or mobile apps. Height recommended" 4/5 What do you like best about Kivy? Ease of creating widgets. Simplest i had ever written. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? Widgets are not responsive. Relatively slower Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Kivy is easy to set up and develop. I would definitely use it for my next desktop applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? I had written a desktop app for venture management with kivy. That was so easy that i completed just in a week time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Shafat A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shafat A.") SA Shafat A. Software Quality Assurance Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/12/2020 "Kivy is the best python framework" 4/5 What do you like best about Kivy? Kivy is the best cross platform to build mobile and desktop application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? Resources are less than others popular platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Android application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/12/2020 "Ridiculously efficient." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Kivy? kivy helps in building applications like a charm, easy to use and can be learned in very easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Kivy? Additionals for kivyMD. This could have been included in kivy base module. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Kivy: Must give a try, its worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Kivy solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating applications that are hard to build using other modules and requires a lot of time and efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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