Spyder Alternatives

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   Livebook

    5 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Origin

   • Brazil

   Since

   • Since 2023

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Self-Hosted

   • Brazil

   

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   fxSolver

    61 likes

   Online math solver, equation editor and database, graphing calculator and science/engineering problem helper.

   164 fxSolver alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Calculator

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Since

   • Since 2015

   Platforms

   • Online

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

   +8

   

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   PyPI

    10 likes

   The Python Package Index (PyPI) is a repository of software for the Python programming language. PyPI helps you find and install software developed and shared by the Python community. Package authors use PyPI to distribute their software.

   55 PyPI alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Package Manager

   Origin

   • United States

   Since

   • Since 2023

   Platforms

   • Online

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Positron

    5 likes

   A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC. An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data. A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Since

   • Since 2025

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux

   • United States

   

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   Positron vs Spyder Comments

   Positive comment by chtfn · May 14, 2026

   Positron is a great Python (and R) data science IDE, built on Posit's experience developing RStudio. It now has more features than Spyder (packages pane, git integration, Quarto integration, great data viewer...).

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   • Positron is Free and Open SourceSpyder is also Free and Open Source
6. 

   

   Komodo IDE

    51 likes

   Code smarter and faster with Komodo IDE, the cross-platform professional development environment for dynamic languages and open technologies. Komodo's award-winning feature set includes standard editor functionality like code formatting, commenting, auto-indent and syntax...

   64 Komodo IDE alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • IDE

   Origin

   • Canada

   Since

   • Since 2009

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux

   • Canada

   

   

   

   +4

   

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   Kompad

    2 likes

   Open source note application with desktop, web, and mobile web access features intuitive file organization, folder grouping, color-coded tags, side panel search, auto updates, word and character counts, reading time estimates, and customizable themes.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Origin

   • Vietnam

   Since

   • Since 2022

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • Vietnam

   

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9. 

   

   wxMaxima

    52 likes

   wxMaxima is a document based interface for the computer algebra system Maxima. wxMaxima provides menus and dialogs for many common maxima commands, autocompletion, inline plots and simple animations.

   43 wxMaxima alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Numerical Computation

   Origin

   • International

   Since

   • Since 2011

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Flathub

   • Global

   

   

   

   +3

   

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10. 

    

    Polars

     3 likes

    Polars is a highly performant DataFrame library for manipulating structured data. The core is written in Rust, but the library is also available in Python. Its key features are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Origin

    • Netherlands
    • EU

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python

    • Netherlands
    • EU

    

    

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    PyScripter

     22 likes

    PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs available for other languages.

    44 PyScripter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • IDE

    Origin

    • Greece
    • EU

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Windows

    • Greece
    • EU

    

    

    

    +1

    

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12. 

    

    CuPy

     1 like

    CuPy is an open-source array library for GPU-accelerated computing with Python. CuPy utilizes CUDA Toolkit libraries including cuBLAS, cuRAND, cuSOLVER, cuSPARSE, cuFFT, cuDNN and NCCL to make full use of the GPU architecture.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Numerical Computation

    Origin

    • Japan

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python

    

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13. 

    

    Calcpad

     11 likes

    Calcpad is a lightweight mathematical platform for cloud and desktop. It parses simple text scripts and converts them into professional Html reports. Supports complex numbers, variables, functions, graphing, units and numerical methods.

    55 Calcpad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Numerical Computation

    Origin

    • Bulgaria
    • EU

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

    • Bulgaria
    • EU

    

    

    

    +1

    

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    NumPy

     7 likes

    NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing in Python. It is a Python library that provides a multidimensional array object, various derived objects (such as masked arrays and matrices), and an assortment of routines for fast operations on arrays, including...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • United States

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python

    • United States

    

    

    

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