Kivy - Open Collective Kivy COLLECTIVE android app ios + 7 morekivy linux macos python ui windows Open source Fiscal Host: Open Source Collective Python UI framework for making outstanding desktop and mobile applications This is Kivy's pageKivy Contribute All ways to contribute Budget Transactions Expenses About Submit ExpenseContact Actions Submit expense Contact Contribute Become a financial contributor. Financial Contributions Recurring contribution Backer Support us with a monthly donation and help us continue our activities. Starts at$5 USD / month ContributeLatest activity by + 94 Recurring contribution Sponsor Become a sponsor and get your logo on our README on Github with a link to your site. Starts at$100 USD / month ContributeLatest activity by + 1 Custom contribution Donation Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution. ContributeLatest activity by + 205 Top financial contributors Organizations 1 r2 Solutions GmbH $8,100 USD since Feb 2019 2 Bluedynamics KG (zworkb) $3,400 USD since Feb 2019 3 Autosport Labs $2,610 USD since Apr 2019 4 Alant Health $900 USD since Dec 2020 5 Thymbra eHealth $535 USD since Jun 2023 6 Zilupe Development $400 USD since Jul 2019 7 Raptor $335 USD since Feb 2021 8 Reflektor Consult $250 USD since Dec 2020 9 Prudential Technology Ltd $200 USD since Apr 2021 10 iChemAnalytics GmbH $170 USD since Dec 2021 Individuals 1 Swapbox.cash $3,500 USD since Oct 2023 2 Gabriel Pettier $1,400 USD since Nov 2018 3 Dave McCormick (mackrackit) $1,185 USD since Feb 2019 4 Andre Miras $1,000 USD since May 2022 5 John Buckley $900 USD since Mar 2019 6 Kjetil Andre Liknes $600 USD since Nov 2018 7 Mathieu VIRBEL $580 USD since Nov 2018 8 Daniel Foerster $575 USD since Nov 2019 9 Roman Evstifeev $500 USD since Feb 2019 10 Incognito $500 USD since Dec 2019 Kivy is all of us Our contributors 211 Thank you for supporting Kivy. All contributorsTeamFinancial contributors Gabriel Pettier Admin $1,400 USD Mathieu VIRBEL Admin $580 USD Transfering previous donations from the Kivy As... Mirko Galimberti Admin Quanon Admin r2 Solutions ... Sponsor $8,100 USD Swapbox.cash Sponsor $3,500 USD Bluedynamics ... Sponsor $3,400 USD Autosport Labs Backer $2,610 USD Dave McCormic... Backer $1,185 USD Andre Miras $1,000 USD John Buckley Backer $900 USD Thank you for all the hard work Alant Health $900 USD Budget Transparent and open finances. AllExpensesTransactions Monthly financial contribution to Kivy (Backer) Credit from [emailprotected] to Kivy • August 13, 2026 +$5.00USD Completed Contribution #959459 View Details  Monthly financial contribution to Kivy (Backer) Credit from Incognito to Kivy • August 12, 2026 +$5.00USD Completed Contribution #769195 View Details  Monthly financial contribution to Kivy (Backer) Credit from rke to Kivy • August 5, 2026 +$5.00USD Completed Contribution #971505 View Details  $ Today’s balance $31,591.27 USD Total raised $34,220.88 USD Total disbursed $2,629.61 USD Estimated annual budget $3,187.00 USD About Introduction The Kivy project, through the Kivy framework and its sister projects (Python-for-Android, Kivy-ios, Buildozer, PyJnius, PyObjus…), aims to provide all the tools to create desktop and mobile applications in Python, with great flexibility and ease. Why funding Despite its success, Kivy is not backed by any company, and for all of its existence (since 2010), none of the developers have been employed to work on improving it. While more than a few companies depend on it to build products, this rarely gives time to more than incremental improvements, bigger roadblocks can take longer to resolve. For this reason we are asking the community to help fund the development of the framework, and associated tools, allowing it to continue thriving in a fully open source and liberally licensed (MIT) way. The plan We think the better use of such funding, is to try to employ core developpers full time (starting with one), to work on the project, using this time to advance the larger goals of the project. This would include: Resolving important (and sometime long standing) bugs reported by the community Reviewing and give useful feedback on pull requests to get them in a mergeable state. Keeping the tools up to date with a moving ecosystem (Android, iOS, but also desktop platforms, and new Python versions) Implementing missing features. Every month, founded developers would: Look at the amount of money raised last month, Convert it to an amount of days that can be dedicated, Write a mail detailing the work that is planned for month, At the end of the month, write a summary about what's been achieved. The amount of money asked is considered based on experience and geographical location of chosen developers. Developers We plan to start by funding Mathieu Virbel, one of the most long-standing contributors and leading visionary of the project. Mathieu contributed many of the fundamental concepts and technical foundations to make Kivy possible, and for several years has worked to build a consulting company using the framework in many different projects. This also allows him a flexible enough working environment to consider ramping up paid contributions as they come. Once the objective to fund him full time is achieved, we'll consider next applicant on similar criteria, that is, commitment to the project, and ability to adapt to that payment model. Our team Gabriel Pettier Admin Mathieu VIRBEL Admin Transfering previous donations from the Kivy As... Mirko Galimberti Admin Quanon Admin Contact Collective