--- 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: '2026-07-17' 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 find Qt's **ease of use** invaluable, enabling streamlined development across multiple platforms with a single code base. (3 reviews) - Users value the **high compatibility** of Qt, enabling seamless deployment across multiple devices with a single code base. (2 reviews) - Users value the **cross-platform compatibility** of Qt, allowing seamless deployment on various devices with a single code base. (2 reviews) - Users value the **fast development** capabilities of Qt, enabling swift creation of cross-platform graphical interfaces. (2 reviews) - Users value the **agile and dynamic UI development** capabilities of Qt, streamlining multi-platform deployment effectively. (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, necessitating persistence to fully grasp its vast framework. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex usability** of Qt challenging, especially with rigid window resizing during creation. (1 reviews) - Users find Qt's vastness a bit **daunting to start with** , requiring persistence to navigate its complexity. (1 reviews) - Users find the **lack of window resizing customization** challenging, particularly with large resolutions affecting usability. (1 reviews) - Users find it challenging due to **limited window resizing features** in Qt, impacting usability with large resolutions. (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. QT: Complete Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad W. | Software Engineer, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2026 **What do you like best about Qt?** QT is an awesome piece of software for software development, and it works well as an IDE. **What do you dislike about Qt?** There’s nothing I dislike about QT, but it can be complex to handle and takes some time to get used to. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** This is one of the oldest IDEs and a platform-independent system for developing software and systems. ### 2. Agile UI Development, But Window Resizing Needs Improvement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danilo D. | Technical Support Analyst, Government Administration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Qt?** Facilitating the development of professional graphical interfaces, in a more agile and dynamic way **What do you dislike about Qt?** In the version I use, I can't resize the windows at the time of creation, and this makes things difficult sometimes when the window resolution is very large. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ease of creating professional UX-focused graphical interfaces. ### 3. Excellent product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlo M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt is an exceptional framework that offers developers a lot out of the box. One of the best aspects of Qt is its versatility and cross-platform capabilities. The most helpful feature of Qt is its extensive collection of ready-to-use widgets and tools, which significantly accelerates the development process. The framework comes with QML which speeds up GUI development significantly. The framework also provides a rich set of functionalities, including GUI, networking, database integration, and multimedia support, which simplifies the implementation of complex applications. Overall, the upsides of using Qt include its excellent documentation, a supportive community, and a vast ecosystem of third-party libraries and plugins, making it a reliable choice for building high-quality applications. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Qt's licensing model is a bit restrictive. While it offers a commercial license for proprietary applications, the open-source version (LGPL) requires dynamic linking, which may impose limitations on certain types of projects. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes it very quick to build professional cross platform desktop applications allowing us to ship new products at a fast pace and with a lot of tools usable out of the box. ### 4. Qt Framework Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike T. | Senior Qt/QML/C++ Application Architect and Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Qt?** The Qt Framework allows me to concentrate on developing the user-aligned features from the UI all the way down to the wire using a single code base and be able to deploy the solutions to all our different platforms with relative ease. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Qt is a vast framework covering a multitude of areas which to begin with, makes it a little daunting to get started with, but you soon realise that there's more than likely an API suitable for your requirements and most likely a worked example of how to do use them. Persistence is required but it does pay off. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qt is helping our business continue to be a global market leader by ensuring our developers are equipped and skilled in the very latest technologies and able to make informed long range design decisions. Qt assists with the abstraction of hardware so facilitate feature development. Qt also makes it possible to streamline the UX Design Process. ### 5. 15 years of Qt and loving it! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pier-Antoine G. | Développeur, chef technique, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Qt?** The multiplatform guarantee, the idiomatic API (almost) all round, the feeling it gives me to be a super-programmer, being able to integrate Https servers, concurrency, UI, in the same framework is empowering! **What do you dislike about Qt?** The size of the deployed libraries (in shared). The binary size of the static executables. Less "copy" api of re-implemented standard when available. (ex: QVector) **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the same code base for a library for windows, linux, ios and android ### 6. Mixed feelings **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gideon A. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Qt?** Provides an amazing evinvironmet to develop in C++ for cross platform. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The price is too high and may leave some developers out **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to write cross platform apps for both windoes and mac ### 7. One framework for almost everything **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rutger B. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Qt?** Based on C++, libraries well structured, well documented, works on many devices with one code base **What do you dislike about Qt?** Some concepts need to be understood otherwise the advantages will not be obvious, like the QObject, signal slot approach, and the model view solution **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ready to use C++ implementation for most basic and more advanced UI and tools ### 8. Universal tool for quick creating apps in C++ **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Алексей . | Chief Technology Officer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt is a complex (visual and non-visual) multiplatform development framework, which allows you to develop your C++ in a fast and convenient manner. It contains not only the libraries but also a nice-looking integrated development environment called Qt Creator. Qt Creator helps you to create apps in a visual way (almost a what-you-see-is-what-you-get way), which is helpful when you are creating business applications like SFA, CRM, or ERP systems. QDataTable, QDataBrowser, and QDataView data-aware widgets (aka controls/components in Win32/VCL paradigm) are very advanced and easy to understand. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The slots-and-signals system is not as much as stable and predictable as its analogs in the .Net and VCL framework, so you need to code more and test more, so your development will not be as fast as you can imagine. Also, cross-version compatibility is sometimes poor, so you should stay with your Qt (major) version as long as you can. The compiler is not reliable sometimes, and CI (continuous integration) tools integration is not as easy as it could be. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you need more classic and yet more intuitive UI components, you should consider getting RAD Studio (VCL) over Qt Creator and Qt. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Qt, we began to code faster, and the simplicity of our processes evolved to a new level. Qt helped us to develop better and faster-working stable products in a shorter time. ### 9. A real Multiplatform development environment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon P. | Design & Development Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Qt?** Over the year's a lot of products have claimed to be multi-platform and none of them come close to Qt. Write it once, compile for the target using the platform compiler, the job is done. **What do you dislike about Qt?** It's a fantastic package, what's not to like? **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qt both professionally on contract roles using clients development license and also on my projects, professionally I've used Qt on Red-Hat Linux and Ubuntu. For my own projects I develop on iMAC. ### 10. 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. ### 11. It was fun **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Qt?** There is a whole lot of resources online for help with new projects. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The syntax was very close to other programming languages I have used but not the same. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating 3D environments ### 12. Qt Creator is my home **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Qt?** For me, the most killer feature of Qt Creator is that it its humble resource needs and lightning quick response. It never leaves me waiting for anything. It has consistently felt responsive and stable as long as I have been using it (5 years) . Another important feature that Qt Creator has is that it's native and cross platform. This means that it does not need any bloaty VM to be installed such as .NET framework, Java VM or similar. When you install Qt Creator it is a statically linked C++ application built natively for your platform. Qt Creator is tightly linked to the Qt framework and has many features built in to support Qt such as graphical UI designers, UI resource manager, 3D asset management, Internationalization manager, debugger integration with support for Qt native types. It also has a test harness built in and support forthe Qt spesific build systems (qmake and qbs). **What do you dislike about Qt?** I would love to see support for more languages out of the box. I know there are plugins and available customizations for this. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Give it a shot, and log in to #qt on freenode if you have any questions. Usually the developers of Qt and Qt Creator lurk there and area happy to answer your questions. Also if you hit on a bug, remember that Qt and Qt Creator are open source projects and will happily receive bug reports. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I build software all day(work) and all night(fun). I find myself using Qt Creator even for tasks that it was not designed for. I edit and inspect sources. I manage software projects. I debug my code and manage the git repo from Qt Creator. ### 13. 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. ### 14. ""The best stage to develop an application "" **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David M. | Project Manager, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator is a cross-organize C++, JavaScript and QML joined enhancement condition. What I like most is the huge extent of potential results that this stage offers: It consolidates a visual debugger, default compilers and bundles of libraries that makes it amazingly easy to use.I used it to make interfaces to connect with 3D and physical models, and it is particularly easy to use and learn. You can implant gets, layers and all that you need to make an easy to-use window that changes with resizing and keeping the things set up.The investigating and traceback usefulness is incredibly helpful when attempting to discover where an issue lies in your code. You can undoubtedly set breakpoints and hop to the segment of code you accept is causing the issue and see the neighborhood factors and their substance continuously. The UI/structure architect is a gigantic help when building complex interfaces, such things would require tedious manual XML section by hand generally. You can likewise review any UI you configuration by squeezing alt+shift+R which is useful when trying out how the measuring alternatives of the window will work and how it will influence your controls. **What do you dislike about Qt?** At times it is a pinch of dumbfounding how to set the layers to keep all of the gets and parts together or at a settled division. Regardless, it's to some degree straightforward and you learn it really quick.It isn't the most adjustable IDE contrasted with Eclipse and Visual Studio, nonetheless, despite everything it works well. I use it on Ubuntu and Windows and dependably locate the last sets aside greater opportunity to setup before use. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Give it a shot as it is free and straightforward. A great many people code in C++, nonetheless, there are language ties that permit different dialects, for example, Java, Python, and Go which is the thing that we use. So don't be put off if C++ isn't your thing.Qt is appropriate for each kind of venture. For extremely little ones ( like activities for school ) or for enormous ones ( a total venture with different conditions ). It's free for an individual or an understudy use so it remains viable. It is especially appropriate for Graphical User Interfaces ( GUI ) and obviously, for Qt improvement. Try not to disregard Qt Creator for Android advancement as it has a fresh out of the box new help in that issue. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We principally build up a cloud based framework that communicates through an internet browser. In any case, a customer in a remote African nation needed an adaptation that kept running on their nearby servers as there are steady web issues. We utilized Qt Creator to make the UI and it was anything but difficult to utilize and actualized the majority of our highlights rapidly. Without it we would not have possessed the capacity to create as quick as we did.We use Qt Creator to program our center application and it's structure intended to manufacture the GUI interface. The structure manufacturer is particularly useful and efficient for building the intricate UIs we need. Qt Creator additionally enables you to effectively choose which libraries and compilers you wish to utilize, and you can without much of a stretch spare these settings in their very own profiles for simple exchanging ### 15. "The best stage to build up an application " **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jordan n. | Supervisor, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator is a cross-stage C++, JavaScript and QML incorporated improvement condition. What I like most is the immense scope of potential outcomes that this stage offers: It incorporates a visual debugger, default compilers and bunches of libraries that makes it extremely simple to use.I utilized it to make interfaces to associate with 3D and physical models, and it is exceptionally simple to utilize and learn. You can embed catches, layers and all that you have to make a simple to-utilize window that adjusts to resizing and keeping the items set up. **What do you dislike about Qt?** In some cases it is a touch of befuddling how to set the layers to keep every one of the catches and parts together or at a settled separation. In any case, it's somewhat simple and you learn it truly quick. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Give it a shot as it is free and straightforward. The vast majority code in C++, in any case, there are language ties that permit different dialects, for example, Java, Python, and Go which is the thing that we use. So don't be put off if C++ isn't your thing. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qt Creator to program our center application and it's structure intended to fabricate the GUI interface. The structure developer is particularly useful and efficient for building the mind boggling UIs we need. Qt Creator likewise enables you to effortlessly choose which libraries and compilers you wish to utilize, and you can without much of a stretch spare these settings in their own profiles for simple exchanging ### 16. Qt Creator is exactly what you need if you want to use the Qt framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** The ease at which I can make a functioning UI and changes makes it my preferred IDE when I'm developing a UI. This is thanks to the form designer which saves you a lot of xml coding time and makes it easy to preview your changes. **What do you dislike about Qt?** It is not the most customizable IDE compared to Eclipse and Visual Studio, however, it still functions well. I use it on Ubuntu and Windows and always find the latter takes more time to setup before use. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Try it out as it is free and easy to understand. Most people code in C++, however, there are language bindings that allow other languages such as Java, Python, and Go which is what we use. So don't be put off if C++ isn't your thing. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We primarily develop a cloud based system that interacts through a web browser. However, a client in a remote African country wanted a version that ran on their local servers as there are constant internet issues. We used Qt Creator to create the UI and it was easy to use and implemented all of our features quickly. Without it we would not have been able to develop as fast as we did. ### 17. Best C++ library and IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan G. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** This is my first C++ UI design and programming IDE. I absolutely love it. It has powerful library the can make nearly every of your idea true. With the clear and instructive documents, C++ is not that intimidating anymore. I recommend it to intermediate C++ developer who want to start UI design. **What do you dislike about Qt?** I have not found anything I don't like yet. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** To those who want to develop cross platform desktop application with C++, this is the perfect IDE to start. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its library is powerful and easy to use. It also has lots of tutorials that help you start. ### 18. 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. ### 19. 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. ### 20. 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. ### 21. Great syntax highlighting and auto-completion  **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator uses normal .pro-files, CMakeLists.txt, Makefiles.am, etc. for its projects and rarely needs special configuration for projects. Projects can be built on the command line as usual. Responsive UI, no need to use the mouse for the power users. Allows for the creation of a window based UI in a graphical editor, no code required to build the UI. **What do you dislike about Qt?** QtCreator has lack of refactoring features. It's not even close to Resharper++ or CLion. Totally outdated, still doesn't support C++11 features such as auto statements when using "Find Usage", etc. **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. ### 22. Not that much attractive IDE **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** It has very vast collection of libraries and property you can use. So if target is Qt compatible, building an application is very easy. **What do you dislike about Qt?** There are so many other compatible IDEs are out there so Qt creator lacks some features which visual studio or eclipse has. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Windows compatibility could be better **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version my company used was free so may be price is zero. ### 23. It is a powerful and amazing software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eva A. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** I used it to create interfaces to interact with 3D and physical models, and it is very easy to use and learn. You can insert buttons, layers and everything you need to create an easy-to-use window that adapts to resizing and keeping the objects in place. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Sometimes it is a little confusing how to set the layers to keep all the buttons and parts together or at a fixed distance. But it's a bit easy and you learn it really fast. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you want to work with OpenGL and interact with 3D models, lights, physics and this, this is your application. Easy to use, free and really complete. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to create an interface where users load 3D models, they can move them and activate or deactivate gravity, collision and transparency, insert lights, a lot of different objects to interact with models to take snapshots. ### 24. Must-have for a Qt developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Easy-to-use UI designer and a full-fledged IDE. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The project setup is too complicated for a new user. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Qt Creator has an active user and developer community. I am happy to see it recently adds CMake integration. It is a must-have for developers using Qt. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating Qt-based software. Efficient and reliable. ### 25. QT **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** This software is one of the most powerful IDE to develop with using C++ **What do you dislike about Qt?** A lot of plugin to download and install and the installation process can take more than 3hr **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing solid software for the company ### 26. Gets the job done, works well for GUIs **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan G. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Has a large feature set, decent UI, pretty easy to use **What do you dislike about Qt?** The WISIWIG builder tool is awful. Feature set could be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Okay for GUIs, I wouldn't use it for other projects. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating GUIs ### 27. It's a really powerful and awesome software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** I used it for interface creation to interact with 3D models and physics and it's so easy to use and learn. You can insert buttons, layers and all you need to create a user friendly window that adapts when you resize it and keeps the objects on its place. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Sometimes it's a little confusing how to styablish the layers to keep all the buttons and parts together or at a fixed distance. But it's a minor easy and you learn it really fast. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you want to work with opengl and interact with 3D models, lights, physics and this stuff, this isd your app. Easy to use, free and really complete. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I had to create an interface where users load 3D models, can move them and activate or deactivate gravity, collision and transparency, insert lights, a lots of different objects to interact with the models to take snapshots. ### 28. QT Creator for GUI Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyrone T. B. | ____________________________________________________________________________________________, Writing and Editing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator provides you with tools for accomplishing your tasks throughout the whole application development life-cycle, from creating a project to deploying the application to the target platforms. Qt Creator is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides you with tools to design and develop applications with the Qt application framework. Qt is designed for developing applications and user interfaces once and deploying them to several desktop, embedded, and mobile operating systems. **What do you dislike about Qt?** You must make sure that the package contents meet the requirements for publishing on a 3rd party channel. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Qt Creator is integrated with cross-platform systems. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Graphical User Interface Development. ### 29. Best IDE in market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** allows cross platform C++, javascript and QML with sdk **What do you dislike about Qt?** to be honest, I like pretty much everything about it **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits are, It includes a visual debugger and an integrated GUI layout and forms designer. The editor's features include syntax highlighting and autocompletion. ### 30. 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. ### 31. Qt creator for C++ projects **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** The debugger is helpful, as is the project navigator. **What do you dislike about Qt?** I find it difficult to find and set c++ compiler settings for an imported project to get it to compile. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Research and development. Being able to organize and navigate large projects. ### 32. 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. ### 33. Perfect for Qt development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** Native IDE unlike Eclipse. Fast auto complete. Integrates to GDB for debugging and SVN for code versioning. **What do you dislike about Qt?** It does crash once in a while. It does do an auto save so it is not too bad **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to compile C++ projects ### 34. Creating GUI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Qt?** Support for multiple languages for GUI creation **What do you dislike about Qt?** Documentation can be more streamlined and easier to understand **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Definitely try it **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating GUI for testing ### 35. 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 ### 36. The best platform to develop an application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alberto Q. | Data Scientist, Program Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator is a cross-platform C++, JavaScript and QML integrated development environment. What I like most is the huge range of possibilities that this platform offers: It includes a visual debugger, default compilers and lots of libraries that makes it really easy to use. **What do you dislike about Qt?** On the other hand, what I like least about Qt creator is the lack of updates in their own libraries. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** I recommend Qtcreator to other programmers since this tool is really powerful and they will get really good results. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Thanks to the Qt creator platform we have been able to develop different applications of predictive analytics, obtaining great results. ### 37. 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 ### 38. QT is great for small projects **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Qt?** Tutorials and online help are easily available. Great documentation and is platform independent. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Need to support Third party add-ins like Visual Assist for Visual Studio **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on individual projects to create UI prototypes ### 39. More than an IDE, it's everything you need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Killian H. | Internship Software Engineer C++, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** The Qmake system is really reliable, I used it for many projects, even complex ones and it's really simple to link multiple projects, to create test versions, especially with Qt Test. Moreover, it's compatible with almost everything, and allows to use qt really easily. **What do you dislike about Qt?** I feel it weird that the search engine (to search a word in files or to find a file) is not more obvious to find. It's not easy to find in the interface, in visual studio it's very intuitive, reliable and fast. The interface personnalisation is quite poor and it's not especially easy to configure all the settings. Moreover, it's not easy to share your settings with others or simple with another desktop. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Qt is suited for every type of project. For very small ones ( like exercises for school ) or for big ones ( a complete project with multiple dependencies ). It's free for a personal or a student use so it stays very practical. It is particularly suited for Graphical User Interfaces ( GUI ) and of course, for Qt development. Don't overlook Qt Creator for Android development as it has a brand new support in that matter. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed to create a user interface and qt is clearly the framework to look for. It has a an enormous support, and a graphical design interface. It's ### 40. Non starter **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** Qt Creator is a product I was able to download once I had a license. It had no additional cost. **What do you dislike about Qt?** I have not yet discovered how to create a project with it. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** As with any new API, most of the documentation that I find assumes that I already can read their minds. I struggle to determine the basic information that other documentation writers deem to "go without saying". **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating a GUI app as a frontend for a process-intensive task so that a non-technical person could use it. ### 41. The most advanced Linux C++ IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** It's a wonderful IDE to use for developing C++ applications, let alone developing with Qt. It's comparable to Visual Studio on Windows. **What do you dislike about Qt?** No global menu support on Ubuntu. It also needs better built in support for ccache. Editing pro files can be tricky cross platform. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** IDE for development ### 42. Good IDE with great facilities **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fernando G. | Research & Development Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** The easy configuration of the compilation stuff and the good facilities of the Qt libraries **What do you dislike about Qt?** Hard to change the compiler in some cases **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** The easy GUI modeling has provided us a good visualization of our software ### 43. 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. ### 44. 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. ### 45. qt review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** chedi t. | Consultant, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** Simply put, Qt creator is the best (and arguably the only reasonable) solution to develop Qt based application with multiplatform in mind. In addition to the polished interface, Qt creator have a good code completion and debugger integration. In can also be used for many other sort of development in python and java, and with the new android platform support it become a serious competitor for more fledged IDE. **What do you dislike about Qt?** It would be nice if if the interface was less clumped with the vertical bar to the left that take a large porting of the screen real estate. The plugins system is not as rich as other IDE or editor and that's a shame. There is a vim but no emacs keybinding integration by default **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** If you plan to develop a multi platform application with a gui interface, Qt is a very serious option. With that in mind, nothing beats Qt-creator for Qt development. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing GUI application for linux can be a very painful experience if you adopt the classic editors as emacs and vim. Using Qt creator is a nice boost to productivity with a tool that can work as an interface designer and code editor. ### 46. 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. ### 47. Excellent IDE for developing C++ applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Qt?** Ability to interface with gdb debugger. Multi window capability. **What do you dislike about Qt?** inability to handle multiple data breakpoints **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing a novel tool to aid surgery planning ### 48. Amazing IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** The standard libraries and the signals-and-slots feature are just amazing. **What do you dislike about Qt?** Actually, there is nothing that I dislike. **What problems is Qt solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop a data analysis software. The main benefits is that the QtCreator is easy to learn and use, the code can be written in C++ and it is multi platform. ### 49. 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 ### 50. Qt Creator **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luís V. | Digital Projects Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Qt?** GUI, debugger, text editor, project tree, version control( git, github ), cmake, qmake, color themes, documentation, hotkeys, full screen mode, many examples. **What do you dislike about Qt?** The open documents window below the project window. I think it would be better if it were possible to organize open documents in a bar above the editor like a open documents bar. **Recommendations to others considering Qt:** Qt is a great choice for C e C++ development. 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