Positron Alternatives

Apps similar to Positron include Microsoft Visual Studio, which is free for personal use. Other options are Jupyter, SageMath, RStudio and Spyder. You're spoiled for choice with Statistical Analyzers like Positron: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for building diverse digital solutions. It supports over 36 programming languages, includes a code editor with IntelliSense, a debugger, and designers for GUI, web, and databases. The Community edition is free and integrates with GitHub Copilot.

    112 Microsoft Visual Studio alternatives

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • .NET Framework
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  2. Jupyter icon
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    The Jupyter Notebook is a web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and explanatory text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, machine learning and much...

    57 Jupyter alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Cloudron
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  3. SageMath icon
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    SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more.

    66 SageMath alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
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  4. RStudio icon
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    RStudio™ is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R.

    59 RStudio alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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    RStudio on Windows
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  5. Spyder icon
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    Combines advanced editing, analysis, debugging, and profiling functionalities with data exploration, execution, and visualization capabilities. Expandable using its powerful plugin system and API, providing flexibility for custom integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Python
    • Flatpak
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  6. PSPP icon
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    PSPP is a free software application for analysis of sampled data. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command line interface. It is written in C, uses GNU Scientific Library for its mathematical routines, and plotutils for generating graphs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. JASP icon
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    JASP is a free and open-source graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS. It offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.

    35 JASP alternatives

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    • Flathub
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  8. Livebook icon
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    Livebook is a web application for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks. Code notebooks with Markdown support and Code cells where Elixir code is evaluated on demand.

    49 Livebook alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Ardos icon
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    Discover Erdos, the secure AI-native IDE that pairs Jupyter notebooks with an embedded assistant to edit code, surface documentation, and accelerate analysis.

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  10. The IBM SPSS software platform offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine-learning algorithms, text analysis, open-source extensibility, integration with big data and seamless deployment into applications.

    70 IBM SPSS Statistics alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Minitab icon
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    Minitab is a comprehensive statistical software package designed for analyzing data in Lean Six Sigma and statistics education, offering tools for quality and process improvement, making it ideal for various educational and professional uses.

    68 Minitab alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Basic Statistics
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  12. roobuilder icon
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    It's a cross between Glade / Visual Studio — the idea is that most 'action' code for an application is actually quite simple - so entering the code on the event handlers for a widget makes the proximity of code to action better.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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