On Windows it can use MinGW or MSVC with the default install and can also use Microsoft Console Debugger when compiled from source code.

Development of what would eventually become Qt Creator had begun by 2007 or earlier under transitional names Workbench and later Project Greenhouse.

[6] This was at a time when the standalone Qt Designer application was still the widget layout tool of choice for developers.

[10] Qt Quick Designer is a tool for developing animations by using a declarative programming language QML.

Qt Creator provides support for building and running Qt applications for desktop environments (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and macOS), mobile devices (Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Maemo, and MeeGo) and embedded Linux devices.

[11] Qt Creator displays the raw information provided by the native debuggers in a simplified manner.