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Lightweight Python Virtual Environment Manager with modern GUI

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🐍 VenvStudio

Lightweight Python Virtual Environment Manager
Create, manage, and launch your Python environments — all from a modern GUI

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📦 Install

pip install venvstudio
venvstudio

Or download the standalone binary — no Python required:

Platform File Notes
🪟 Windows VenvStudio.exe Portable — just run
🐧 Linux VenvStudio-x86_64.AppImage chmod +x then run
🍎 macOS VenvStudio-macOS Apple Silicon + Rosetta 2

✨ Features

🗂️ Environment Management

  • Create, rename, clone, delete virtual environments with a modern GUI
  • Auto-detect existing environments on disk at startup
  • Per-environment cache — instant load, no subprocess delays
  • Set a Default Environment that opens automatically on launch
  • Open terminal with environment pre-activated (cmd, PowerShell, pwsh, bash, zsh, fish...)
  • Export as requirements.txt, Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, pyproject.toml, environment.yml

📦 Package Management

  • Installed tab — filter, select, uninstall, export, import packages
  • Catalog tab — 200+ curated packages across 15 categories with PyPI & Docs links
  • Presets tab — one-click install bundles (Data Science, Web API, Django, Flask, ML, NLP, CV, Testing...)
  • Manual Install tab — paste package names or version specs (numpy==1.24, pandas>=2.0)
  • pip or uv backend (uv is 10–100× faster)

🚀 Quick Launch

  • Sidebar shows installed apps for the active environment
  • One-click launch: JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder IDE, IPython, Orange Data Mining, Streamlit, Gradio, Dash, FastAPI, TensorBoard, MLflow, and more
  • Jupyter Working Directory — configurable (Home / Env Folder / Custom Path)
  • Create Desktop Shortcut for any app
  • Instant sync between sidebar dropdown, environment table, and package panel

🐍 Python Management

  • Auto-detect all system Python installations
  • Add custom Python paths
  • Set User Default or System Default Python (PATH management with optional admin elevation)
  • Download standalone Python builds from python-build-standalone

⚙️ Settings & Customization

  • 🌙 Dark (Catppuccin) and ☀️ Light themes
  • Font family and size customization
  • 🌍 Interface language: English / Turkish
  • Custom venv base directory
  • Custom terminal, catalog categories, and packages
  • CLI/TUI Tools: Starship, Oh My Posh, Nerd Fonts
  • Auto-check for updates on startup

🚀 Quick Start

From PyPI

pip install venvstudio
venvstudio

From Source

git clone https://github.com/bayramkotan/VenvStudio.git
cd VenvStudio
pip install PySide6
python main.py

CLI

venvstudio          # Launch GUI
venvstudio -V       # Show version
venvstudio -h       # Help

📤 Export Formats

Export your environment in multiple formats from the Export ▾ dropdown:

Format File(s) Use Case
📄 requirements.txt requirements.txt Standard pip
🐳 Dockerfile Dockerfile + requirements.txt Docker container
🐳 docker-compose.yml 3 files Docker Compose
📦 pyproject.toml pyproject.toml Modern Python packaging
🐍 environment.yml environment.yml Conda compatibility
📋 Clipboard Quick copy-paste

⬇️ Python Downloader

Download standalone Python builds from python-build-standalone (same builds used by uv):

  • User Install — no admin required, stored in VenvStudio config
  • System Install — Windows (C:\Program Files), Linux (/opt/python), macOS (/usr/local/python)

🏗️ Build from Source

pip install pyinstaller PySide6 Pillow
python build.py

📝 License

LGPL-3.0


Made with ❤️ by Bayram Kotan

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