Anvil
A better way to build Python web apps
Anvil launched on January 31, 2023 with 80 votes, #660 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
Our goal at Anvil is to make it fast and easy to build powerful web apps entirely in Python. So we’ve made Anvil itself faster, easier to use, and more powerful than ever! The launch includes many features based on feedback from our community.
Anvil is a free Python-based drag-and-drop web app builder
Build rapidly with AI. Generate code you understand. All on a platform you can trust. Beautiful. Explicit. Simple. Code with Python and use all your favorite libraries. Use your favourite AI agent directly within the Anvil Editor. Generate code you can actually understand. Edit your apps to create exactly what you want. Every single aspect of your app, driven in a single framework: code, databases, user management, deployment - all in Python, all in Anvil. Anvil is a marvellous example of a tool that gets all the tedious, repetitive, boilerplate activities out of the way so you can concentrate on writing powerful applications; which you can deploy with a single click. Go from idea to…from anvil.works
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