What is the best Kivy tag-line?

[Julian-O]

• According to the web-site:

  Kivy: The Open Source Python App Development Framework.

  Build and distribute beautiful Python cross-platform GUI apps with ease.

• According to the documentation:

  Kivy is an open source software library for the rapid development of applications equipped with novel user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps.

• According to the Readme:

  Kivy is an open source, cross-platform Python
  framework for the development of applications that make use of innovative,
  multi-touch user interfaces.
  The aim is to allow for quick and easy interaction design and rapid prototyping
  whilst making your code reusable and deployable.

• According to PyPI:

  Kivy: A software library for rapid development of hardware-accelerated multitouch applications.

I propose to unify those to use more similar language.

I think the key messages to someone who has never heard of the project:

• Open Source
• Python
• GUI
• Cross-platform, including devices
• Framework (not just a library)

I think the secondary messages are:

• Multi-touch support
• Beautiful
• Easy
• Rapid prototyping
• Hardware-accelerated

The secondary messages don't all have to appear in the first sentence someone reads about Kivy.

So I propose:

Kivy is an open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including on Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

Any objections or suggestions?

[ElliotGarbus]

Kivy is an open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including on Android, iOS and Raspberry Pi.

I like the direction, but perhaps to make it more general...

Kivy is an open-source Python framework for developing GUI apps that work cross-platform, including desktop, mobile and embedded platforms.

[AndreMiras]

I also like the direction, but I would remove Raspberry Pi because it's too specific/reductive. However I do like that we mention the OS like Android and iOS specifically and we should mention Linux too.
I also like what misl6 suggested later here https://github.com/orgs/kivy/discussions/4#discussioncomment-7531563

[misl6]

Please consider that we need two separate sentences for the website. (h1 and h2, for SEO purposes) + the page title (for the website).

So ATM is (and every line can be changed, separately if you have proposals):
page title: Kivy: Cross-platform Python Framework for GUI apps Development
h1: Kivy: The Open Source Python App Development Framework.
h2: Build and distribute beautiful Python cross-platform GUI apps with ease.
additional paragraph, but with high relevance: Kivy runs on Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows.

Then we can have a separate tagline (a mashup of the previous ones) to use on docs and GitHub descriptions.

Important keywords for SEO to keep in mind (in a sorta order of importance - but I may have missed something):

• Python
• build, develop
• apps
• cross-platform
• mobile
• desktop
• android, ios, windows, linux, macOS
• GUI
• framework

[Julian-O]

Re: H1/H2 etc.

Agreed. I used the term "more similar language" rather than "make them all the same" because I realise we need to tailor it for different contexts.

I was really moving away from emphasizing "multi-touch" and "novelty" and "hardware acceleration" which will scare away others like me who were just looking for "You can run Python on both types of phone with one app."

[misl6]

Agreed. I used the term "more similar language" rather than "make them all the same" because I realise we need to tailor it for different contexts.

I did not get that 😅

So ... ok, we're all in the same direction.

I was really moving away from emphasizing "multi-touch" and "novelty" and "hardware acceleration" which will scare away others like me who were just looking for "You can run Python on both types of phone with one app."

Agree.

[FilipeMarch]

On Kivy School we are using this sentence:

Kivy School is the best and easiest way to learn Kivy.
Here you will learn how to build amazing apps for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows with a single framework using Python! Code once and deploy everywhere!

Given that, I think that Kivy: build amazing cross-platform apps for Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, and Windows using a single open-source Python framework. is the most appealing shortest sentence.

[Julian-O]

Kivy was updated so the pypi, Readme and RST documents use consistent descriptions.

Similar work has happened for Buildozer, Plyer and PyJNIus. Kivy for iOS is coming soon.