--- title: Qt Reviews meta_title: 'Qt Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 54 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Qt works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 54 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-24' parent_category: name: Application Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/application-development --- # Qt Reviews **Vendor:** Qt Group **Category:** [Application Development Platforms ](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-development-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 54 ## About Qt Read more about our product here: https://www.qt.io/product Programming should be fast, easy and fun. That’s why we have been focusing on improving software development for the last 25 years, and with the amount of applications and devices growing every day, efficiency has become more important than ever. Qt has everything you need to quickly and cost-effectively design, develop, test, deploy and maintain your software for any project. Focus on creating the best user experiences instead of coding what’s already been coded for you. Qt Group (Nasdaq Helsinki: QTCOM) is a global software company with a strong presence in more than 70 industries and is the leading independent technology behind millions of devices and applications. Qt is used by major global companies and developers worldwide, and the technology enables its customers to deliver exceptional user experiences and advance their digital transformation initiatives. Qt achieves this through its cross-platform software framework for the development of apps and devices, under both commercial and open source licenses. ## Qt Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** of Qt, enabling smooth development and deployment across various platforms effortlessly. (3 reviews) - Users value the **compatibility** of Qt, allowing seamless deployment across multiple devices with a single code base. (2 reviews) - Users value the **cross-platform compatibility** of Qt, enabling development and deployment across multiple devices seamlessly. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fast development** capabilities of Qt, allowing quick creation of user-aligned features across platforms. (2 reviews) - Users value the **agile development of professional interfaces** with Qt, benefiting from a unified code base and easy deployment. (2 reviews) - App Development (1 reviews) - Capabilities Variety (1 reviews) - Components (1 reviews) - Users value the **custom dashboards** feature of Qt for enabling agile and dynamic graphical interface development. (1 reviews) - Deployment Ease (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **learning curve steep** with Qt, requiring persistence to grasp essential concepts for optimal use. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex usability** of Qt frustrating, especially with difficulties in resizing windows during creation. (1 reviews) - Users find the **initial difficulty** of starting with Qt overwhelming, but persistence leads to rewarding outcomes. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of window customization** limits their control over the interface and can hinder productivity. (1 reviews) - Users face challenges due to **limited window resizing features** , which complicate their design experiences with Qt. (1 reviews) - Users find the **missing window resizing feature** frustrating, especially with large resolutions during creation. (1 reviews) - Users find the **window creation non-intuitive** , as resizing options limit usability with large resolutions. (1 reviews) - Technical Difficulties (1 reviews) - Understanding Difficulty (1 reviews) - User Difficulty (1 reviews) ## Qt Reviews ### 1. Cross complier platform for multiple os and mobile device **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Qt?** Design application for multi platforms like windows,linux,maxis,web development, android . Design 3d texture for gaming development. Making installer facilities with all standard features like desktop shortcut, customized ui of setup pages **What do you dislike about Qt?** The application size is enormous. Because of DLL size is high. High space required by drive. Would you please try to compress the library file? I want to improve in Qt-related DLL. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Please build application in release mode.so generated low size application with executable. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quickly and helpful UI designer,3d designer. Quick qml is beneficial for gaming development. Yes, this is a more effective platform. Yes, My business performance is increased. ### 2. QT UI Development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Setup and initial project creation is seamless, user interaction with tool and menus is intuitive. The UI creation tool is really useful. **What do you dislike about Qt?** There are some challenging limitations when third party libraries are brought in to a QT project. There are quirks with certain hardware platforms that we struggled with initially but through some forums posts were able to come up with solutions that worked for our embedded UI development team. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** I would definitely recommend seriously consider QT as a viable tool for UI development, especially if time to market is a higher priority. There is a learning curve to the library interaction but it's not insurmountable and with some persistence can easily be overcome. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** UI development. We were able to install the application from the QT Creator website (by googling it from our web browser) and bring it up on several embedded firmware engineer's personal laptops. From there getting the project going was quite easy and quick, within the first day we had code running on hardware and could start implementation and user experience feedback with the team. ### 3. Qt creator is a solid IDE for C++ development **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** The ease by which a GUI can be added to already existing C++ code base **What do you dislike about Qt?** The complexity. The code base of Qt has grown and morphed over time including all sorts of trends which makes it sometimes hard to find the best solution that will work in a modern setting. It has a clunky Microsoft feeling to it. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** The fast turnaround. For very simple problems such as adding sim GUI elements for a client it is usually very easy to simply use the graphical user interface of the qt editor rather than type the code itself. Yet when projects grow making GUI inside another GUI is not beneficial and there is the strength because it is easy to convert the XML to C/C++ code. ### 4. Simple & elegant GUI editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex S. | Research Assistant, Biotechnology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Responsive and nice looking UI makes functions easy to find. **What do you dislike about Qt?** There is a distinct lack of refactoring features compared to similar GUI editors. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am creating a network of biological pathways. The network flow is coded with C++ and visualized using qt. ### 5. Best software for GUI application development. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kshitij K. | CIS Grader and Research Aide, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** It is a great software for handling UI and it's working, all at one place. Very useful once you get yo know all it's details. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Everything about this software is good except that there are too many files to handle all at once. Takes some time to learn all the modules. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used this for designing and implementation of various forms. It has a visual debugger along with GUI layout and form designer. ### 6. QT review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** I like how it delivers everything I need for a qt application and adds additional tools compared to text editors. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The user interface can be a little difficult to use. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prototyping gui applications. It’s easy to get a quick prototype up and running. ### 7. A worthy alternative to visual studio **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** Integrate multiple compilers, with support for cmake and qt's own project handling system-qmake for a seamless project handling experience. IDE comes with all tools expected out of a modern IDE. Additionally, creation of UI is easy with the designer. The plugin to VS is an added bonus **What do you dislike about Qt?** The debugger can sometimes be messy. Atom performs much better with respect to version control. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Qt is a great alternative to many IDE out there if you are planning to develop a front end and a back end product on the same platform of C++ **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing code for research project in computational mechanics. Interface with GPU computing. ### 8. QT Creator, an IDE based on the Qt application framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben H. | Freelance painter, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator's interface is clean and easy to understand. It has all the tools you need for console output, debugging, tracebacks and also includes useful functionality for jumping between functions and their definitions, and also between source and header files. The debugging and traceback functionality is extremely useful when trying to find where a problem lies in your code. You can easily set breakpoints and jump to the section of code you believe is causing the problem and see the local variables and their contents in real-time. The UI/form designer is a huge time saver when building complex interfaces, such things would require time-consuming manual XML entry by hand otherwise. You can also preview any UI you design by pressing alt+shift+R which is helpful when testing out how the sizing options of the window will work and how it will affect your controls. **What do you dislike about Qt?** It can occasionally crash, but this is fairly rare. Making sure you have the latest version on Linux can be a bit tricky if you're using a software manager, usually best to grab it from the website if you can. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** I'd recommend Qt Creator as a good quality, low-cost multi-platform IDE. I've certainly used worse! **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qt Creator to program our core application and it's form designed to build the GUI interface. The form builder is especially helpful and time saving for building the complex user interfaces we need. Qt Creator also allows you to easily decide which libraries and compilers you wish to use, and you can easily save these settings in their own profiles for easy switching ### 9. Great software for User Interface Design **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** This is the best software for User Interface design and development. I have been using this since last 3 years now and it is very easy to use. All the in-built components and properties makes it much more faster to develop software **What do you dislike about Qt?** Sometime I have to go through the web and get the information of all the pre-defined properties and methods **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great platform for User Interface development in this generation where Internet of Things is taking over. Very useful to integrate with Raspberry Pi ### 10. The IDE for human beings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amine L. | Web Application Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** I like that Qt Creator is a modern IDE with all the modern features that a developer in 2016 should have. Simple interface, great functionalities, awesome debugger, god-like auto-completion, and a lot more features. **What do you dislike about Qt?** I dislike maybe the lack of fuzzy search for files and jump to files directly by typing their name. I worked a lot with Sublime Text, and this is a feature that I uses a lot in big projects. I find the lack of it somehow disturbing. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you are building an application with a Graphical User Interface, Qt is the framework to look for. With their amazing IDE, Qt Creator, building these applications will be a breeze. It works just perfectly. And the applications are portable, something very important if your user base is using different OSs. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building a graphical application for a computer vision solution in which the user needs to work with multiple tabs and videos and annotations ... etc. Qt and Qt creator style of building these GUI applications make it easy for me to quickly build and add features to the application. ### 11. Best IDE for creating apps in Qt **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joji J. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** The flexibility it provides to the users is great. Features like Auto complete, Debug, Build, Clean, provision to attach Valgrind etc..are mind blowing. It sticks on to the same standard shortcuts for compile, build, auto complete etc which most of the other applications use. QML support and other supports it provides are very much appreciable. Excellent for cross platform app development. Qt Designer- The best application user interface with the integrated editor. Makes a user Build, run, and deploy Qt projects that target multiple desktop and mobile platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, BlackBerry 10, embedded Linux, iOS, and QNX Great that Python, Ruby, Java bindings can be used to this. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Occasional Crashing and freezing disrupts its name a little. It could be great if there was a provision to integrate other text editors to it so that developers who have expertise in other editors could easily use the same. Qt is growing very big so it is hard to learn it without external help. Fortunately once you get the hang of things, all becomes much easier Destroying developers skill to do things: CPP developers are forced to think the Qt way rather than proper CPP way to do the development. In fact ruining a CPP developers skill on pure CPP application development. Issues with installing database drivers. Very Heavy: requires vast memory for compilation Single Threaded: ui updations can only be handled from a single thread which really makes it hard to develop multi threaded applications effectively. QMake is outdated (and complicated for more advanced projects) and everyone knows that. Trolls are looking for a better build tool even now. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Refer the Qt documentation. An excellent unavoidable thing a Qt developer should try with. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing embedded Linux applications as well as windows desktop applications. Cross platform development capability is the main thing I like about it. ### 12. Great IDE for C/C++ **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David K. | Instructor, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** I am using Qt Creator both on Windows and Linux and I have found this IDE as quite fast and easy-to-use, great for C/C++ programming (and of course stuff using Qt). It's lightweight and offers enough options to set up your programming environment. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Qt Creator does not have a lot of themes and settings of default content for *.pro files could be also a bit easier to find (so the user will not have to look it up in program files). **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you are searching for good IDE for C/C++, Qt Creator should be one of the adepts - one of the great features is it's support for most modern compilers (MinGW on Windows for example, GCC/Clang on Linux). **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Programming in C/C++, mainly pure without Qt. Great as an IDE for Linux because of integration of valgrind memory analyzer. ### 13. Great C++ editor **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** Integration with Qt libraries Cross platform **What do you dislike about Qt?** autocompletion not always perfect (at least not as Visual Studio) rare crashes **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** development of fast prototyped state machines for embedded products. We mocked up the low-level drivers and Qt creator allowed us to use the same libraries as in the embedded product to design the state machine. Team uses different OSes, therefore Qt creator was the ideal choice ### 14. Good IDE for cross-platform development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 佳亮 . | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator is an advanced and free IDE on Linux/Win/Mac, which is actually very rare. If you are on Linux platform, it'll be hard to find another IDE comparable to Qt Creator. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The speed is sometimes not very good. And it occasionally crashes. Also, CJK support is not good enough, especially on Linux platform. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used Qt Creator for C/C++ development. The cross-platform feature of Qt Libraries is just overwhelming. I think it's probably the only usable GUI library for cross-platform application development. ### 15. Fast and User-friendly IDE **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Сергей . | Junior Software Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** It's faster than many other IDEs It provides easy-to-use build system and interface to use it Code completion is great, especially for Qt-only features **What do you dislike about Qt?** Qt Designer is awful - no raw XML edit, few possibilities in designer itself Few ways to customize UX **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you wish to use C/C++ IDE I suggest you looking at Qt Creator instead of CLion or any other - it's faster and has as many features. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating GUI interfaces - easy to debug and deploy ### 16. Great software for C/C++ development. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** The user interface is pretty neat. The QMake facility makes the linking job a lot easier than traditional tools. for GUI development, drag-and-drop is super easy to use. Plus, it's cross-platform. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Is buggy at times. The way it saves and reads the user config file is not good. 64-bit binaries of older versions are difficult to find. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Please consider using it for quick GUI prototyping and even for daily C/C++ applications. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly for creating GUI for different applications. 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