Shiny Alternatives

Apps similar to Shiny include Streamlit, which is open source with a free version. Other options are Dash by Plotly, Voilà, Mercury framework and Panel. In total there are five apps like Shiny for self-hosting, the web, Mac, Windows and Linux.

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  1. Streamlit icon
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    Streamlit is an open-source Python library that makes it easy to create and share beautiful, custom web apps for machine learning and data science. In just a few minutes you can build and deploy powerful data apps.

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Dash is a Python framework for building analytical web applications. No JavaScript required.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  3. Voilà icon
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    Voilà turns Jupyter notebooks into standalone web applications. Each user connecting to the Voilà tornado application gets a dedicated Jupyter kernel which can execute the callbacks to changes in Jupyter interactive widgets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. Mercury allows you to add interactive widgets in Python notebooks, so you can share notebooks as web applications. Forget about rewriting notebooks to web frameworks just to share your results. Mercury offers a set of widgets with simple re-execution of cells.

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Panel icon
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    Panel is an open-source Python library that lets you create custom interactive web apps and dashboards by connecting user-defined widgets to plots, images, tables, or text.

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    • Self-Hosted
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