Building a modern desktop app with Python

[clstaudt]

The case for a Python-based desktop app

Why not...

... a web app? Primarily because your business data is none of our business. We do not want to host anyone's business and financial data on a server. The Tuttle app will work with local data on your desktop.

... a command line tool? We do not believe that a command line tool is accessible enough for the wide range of freelancers in our target group.

... a native app? We want the project to be cross-platform.

Core library*

Tech stack:

• pandas - transforming tabular data
• sqlmodel - object-relational mapper
• altair - interactive data visualization
• various Python libraries, e.g. ics, fints,

Candiate frameworks for the GUI App

• Beeware (https://beeware.org)
• Electron (https://www.electronjs.org) via Pyodide (https://pyodide.org/en/stable/)