PyCharm is developed by the Czech company JetBrains and built on their IntelliJ platform.

[citation needed] The beta version of the product was released in July 2010, with the 1.0 arriving 3 months later.

The educational functionality is now bundled with the Community and Professional editions of IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm.

[3] Users are encouraged to install the Community or Professional editions and enable educational features through the IDE settings.

This is currently available with the PyCharm community edition and provides an advantage over the use of tkinter which is bundled natively with Python and does not offer a GUI designer tool.