# What is the purpose of the aqt module?

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**Created:** [June 5, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-aqt-module/10602 "2021-06-05T17:30:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-aqt-module/10602/1 "2021-06-05T17:30:42Z")

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I believe this is related specifically to anki, right? Because I can’t find any tutorials on it online. Thanks a lot.

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**Post date:** [June 5, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-aqt-module/10602/2 "2021-06-05T18:28:02Z")

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It contains the GUI-related functionality of Anki.

From the [add-on docs](https://addon-docs.ankiweb.net/#/?id=overview):

> ‘aqt’ in the qt folder contains the UI part of Anki. Anki’s UI is built upon PyQt, Python bindings for the cross-platform GUI toolkit Qt. PyQt follows Qt’s API very closely, so the documentation can be very useful when you want to know how to use a particular GUI component.

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**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-aqt-module/10602/3 "2023-05-01T03:18:19Z")

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