Shiny Alternatives

Shiny is described as 'R package that makes it easy to build interactive web apps straight from R. You can host standalone apps on a webpage or embed them in R Markdown documents or build dashboards. You can also extend your Shiny apps with CSS themes, htmlwidgets, and JavaScript actions' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to Shiny for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, SaaS, Mac and Windows apps. The best Shiny alternative is Streamlit, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shiny are Dash by Plotly, Voilà, Mercury framework and Panel.

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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.

    7 Streamlit alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Streamlit is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Shiny.

    • Streamlit is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Shiny.

    • Streamlit is Freemium and Open SourceShiny is also Freemium and Open Source
  2. Dash is a Python framework for building analytical web applications. No JavaScript required.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Dash by Plotly is the most popular SaaS alternative to Shiny.

    • Dash by Plotly is the most popular commercial alternative to Shiny.

    • Dash by Plotly is Paid and Open SourceShiny is Freemium and Open Source
  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
     
    • Voilà is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Shiny.

    • Voilà is Free and Open SourceShiny is Freemium and Open Source
  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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