Qt Documentation | Tools (original) (raw)

Qt Tools run on all supported development platforms and facilitate the design, development, testing, and deployment of applications.

• Qt Creator

A cross-platform, complete integrated development environment (IDE) for application development targeting desktop, embedded, and mobile platforms.

• Qt Design Studio

A UI design and development environment for creating animated UIs.

• Qt Quick Studio Components

Preset components for creating UIs that inherit Qt Quick Shapes QML Types.

• Qt 3D Studio

A compositing tool for the creation of interactive 3D presentations, UIs and applications.

• Extending Qt Creator

A manual documenting the various ways Qt Creator can be extended in functionality.

• Qt Designer

A tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces with Qt Widgets.

• Qt Linguist

A tool for translating Qt C++ and Qt Quick applications into local languages.

• Qt Assistant

A tool for viewing documentation in Qt help file format.

• Qt Extensions for VS Code

Develop Qt and Qt Quick applications for the desktop and WebAssembly with VS Code.

• Qt VS Tools

Integration of Qt development tools into Microsoft Visual Studio.

• QML Live

A local and remote Qt Quick live reloading system.

• Qt Installer Framework

A set of tools and utilities to create installers for desktop platforms.

• Build tools: CMake

Documentation for using the CMake build tool with Qt.

• Build tools: qmake

Documentation for the qmake build tool.

• Build tools: Qbs

Documentation for the Qbs build tool.

• Qt Tools for Android Studio

Provides support for building and deploying QML projects in Android Studio.

• Qt Gradle Plugin

Allows building Qt projects as an Android Library using the Gradle build system.

• QDoc Manual

Users' manual for the documentation build tool.

• Qt Insight

An analytics solution that provides real user insights on the usage of Qt applications.

• Qt License Server

Runtime license management and usage report collection for Qt products.

Quality Assurance Tools

GUI Test automation and code coverage tools.

• Squish

A professional automated GUI testing framework. Squish makes it possible to test GUI applications based on various toolkits, including Qt.

• Coco

A code coverage tool chain for C/C++, C# and QML.

• Test Center

A result server that provides a central place to store all test results.

Documentation overview

• Get Qt

  • Get and install Qt
  • Build Qt from source
  • Qt Debian packages (Technology Preview)

• Framework

  • Qt modules
  • Additional libraries
  • Long-term support releases

• Get started

  • New to Qt
  • Port from 5 to 6

  • API reference

    * [C++](/qt/reference-overview.html)  
    * [QML](/qt/qmlreference.html)  
    * [Python](qt.html#qtforpython)

• Tools

  • Qt Creator
  • Design Studio
  • Qt Insight

  • Quality Assurance

    * [Squish](/squish/index.html)  
    * [Coco](/coco/index.html)  
    * [Test Center](/testcenter/index.html)  

  • All tools

• Embedded

  • Qt for MCUs
  • Boot to Qt
  • Qt for Android Automotive
  • All embedded topics
• • All Qt Documentation

© 2025 The Qt Company. The Qt logo as well as Qt®, Qt Quick®, Built with Qt®, Boot to Qt®, Qt Quick Compiler®, Qt Enterprise®, Qt Mobile® and Qt Embedded® are registered trademarks of The Qt Company Ltd.