LVGL vs. Wing Python IDE vs. pygame vs. µGUI Comparison Chart

LVGL is the most popular free and open source embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU, and display type. Use SquareLine Studio, our drag-and-drop UI editor, to simplify the development. 30+ built-in widgets, 100+ style properties, web-inspired layout managers, and a typography system supporting many languages. LVGL is fully open source and has no external dependencies which makes its porting incredibly simple. It works with any modern MCU or MPU and can be used with any (RT)OS or bare metal setup to drive ePaper, monochrome, OLED, or TFT displays, and even monitors. Besides, it's free even for commercial projects. SquareLine Studio is an easy-to-use drag-and-drop UI editor tool for LVGL where even designers can create fully functional UIs. Just like LVGL, SquareLine Studio is also fully vendor-agnostic. We have a great network of people and companies who can help you design and develop your UIs, implement drivers, or the whole application.

Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing video games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python language. Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system. Pygame is free. Released under the LGPL license, you can create open-source, freeware, shareware, and commercial games with it. With dual-core CPUs common, and 8-core CPUs cheaply available on desktop systems, making use of multi-core CPUs allows you to do more in your game. Selected pygame functions release the dreaded python GIL, which is something you can do from C code. Uses optimized C and assembly code for core functions. C code is often 10-20 times faster than python code, and assembly code can easily be 100x or more times faster than python code. Comes with many operating systems. Just an apt-get, emerge, pkg_add, or just install away.