# The most popular tools

Intended audience: beginners, all

Tango Controls provides various tools. You may refer to Index of tools for a detailed list of available tools, applications and libraries or look below for the most used ones.

- Astor which is a tool for management of Tango Controls system.

- Jive which is used to configure components of the Tango Controls and browse a static Tango Database.

- AtkPanel which is a generic control panel.

- Pogo which is a device class and device server generator.

- JDraw and Synpotic which is a synoptic panels builder and viewer.

- Taurus is a Python library for creating GUI applications.