Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Anvil
A better way to build Python web apps
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Anvil launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I’m Jimmy, co-founder of Dropbase (https://www.dropbase.io). We are an internal tools builder for Python developers. All you have to do is import any Python scripts/libraries, declare UI components, and layer app permissions so you can share them with others. We’re a middle ground between Airplane and Retool—simpler UI creation than Airplane, more code-centered than Retool. UI building is declarative and you can bind Python scripts/functions to UI components. You can write Python scripts/functions using our App Studio with support from a Python Language…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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been working on this for nearly a year
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Very excited to share Anvil. I built Anvil to take back control when working with parallel coding agents. It comes with one click worktree isolation, and first class spec support. Claude Code and similar coding TUIs are very eager to get into writing code, even before their human baby sitter fully understands the implication of what they are about to build. The core insight with Anvil is that it is much easier to write high quality code which matches the author's intent after iterating on an external plan with your agent. Align on the architecture, implementation, and verification strategy…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We’re Afnan, Theo and Ruben. We’re all ML engineers or data scientists, and we kept running into the same thing: we’d write useful Python functions, either for ourselves or internal tools, and then hit a wall when we wanted to share them as actual apps. We tried Streamlit and Gradio. They’re great to get something up quickly. But as soon as we needed more flexibility or something more polished, there wasn’t really a path forward. Rebuilding the frontend properly in React isn’t where we bring the most value. So we started building Davia. You keep your code in Python, decorate the…
2025 · davia.ai · its alternatives →
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We would like to introduce Dara - an app framework that allows you to build web-apps in Python. You can explore our open-source GitHub repo here: https://github.com/causalens/dara 2 years ago, our Data Scientists at causaLens were solving real world problems with our tech - causalAI. They found themselves impeded to turn their work into interactive visuals that allow informed decision-making. To overcome this, we built a framework designed to empower our Data Scientists to work effectively with the language they know, and get great looking apps powered by their work. The…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · fastapi.tiangolo.com · its alternatives →
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Loopple 2.0▲172Build websites by chatting with AI, but faster and easier
Oct 2025 · loopple.com · its alternatives →
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