# hoffstadt/DearPyGui

Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

Repository: https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dearpygui
Homepage: https://dearpygui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cpp, python, imgui, toolkit, native, tools, gui, graphics, macos, linux, ui, python-gui, cross-platform, windows, dearpygui
Last push: 2026-05-13T12:24:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 58, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2288, "days_push": 112, "days_rel": 123, "gap_med": 91, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 15586, forks 782 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:12.454434+00:00)

## What it is
Dear PyGui is a fast, GPU-accelerated, cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit for Python built on Dear ImGui. It provides traditional widgets, dynamic plots, tables, a node editor, theming, and developer tools with minimal dependencies.

## Use cases
- build a desktop gui app in python
- plot a million datapoints at 60fps
- create an interactive dashboard with plots and tables
- make a node editor interface
- build a scientific or engineering tool with a fast ui
- theme and style a python desktop application

## When to choose
- you need a fast, GPU-rendered Python GUI with minimal dependencies
- you need high-performance plotting of large datasets
- you want cross-platform desktop apps on Windows, Linux, and macOS
- you want an immediate-mode style UI similar to Dear ImGui in Python

## When to avoid
- you need native OS look-and-feel widgets
- you are building a web or mobile application
- you need deep accessibility support
- you prefer declarative retained-mode frameworks like Qt

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: gui, graphics, data-visualization, ui-components
- domain: desktop-applications, web-development, data-visualization, cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: windows, python, cross-platform
- tags: imgui, gpu-rendering, python-gui, plots, node-editor, toolkit, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- hoffstadt/DearPyGui (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:12.454434+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:05:38.350632+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hoffstadt/DearPyGui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:12.454434+00:00, sha d177048dacad)
  - homepage: https://dearpygui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:03:39.099831+00:00, sha 21c239983c6d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.