Awesome Python Applications

Case studies in successfully shipping Python software

As developers, we spend our days with code. The site you're reading this on is mostly modules, packages, libraries, frameworks, and the like. But users see applications.

When building our own applications, open-source Python applications are a gold mine of practical patterns that we know work together. A production application is worth a thousand blog posts and Stack Overflow answers.

This document is an always-growing list of 426 open-source Python applications arranged by topic, with links to repositories, docs, and more, generated from structured data using apatite. If you have one to add or find some information missing, please let us know!

Read the announcement post to learn more about this list. Subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed to see new applications added, or see the newest additions here in the CHANGELOG.

Contents

1. Internet (45)
2. Audio (17)
3. Video (8)
4. AI/ML (4)
5. Graphics (21)
6. Games (10)
7. Productivity (27)
8. Organization (45)
9. Communication (35)
10. Education (9)
11. Science (24)
12. CMS (11)
13. ERP (5)
14. Static Site (9)
15. Dev (187)
    1. SCM (18)
    2. Code Review (5)
    3. Storage (20)
    4. Ops (28)
    5. Security (30)
    6. Docs (7)
    7. Editor (13)
    8. Package Managers (11)
    9. Package Repositories (5)
    10. Build (13)
    11. Shell (3)
    12. Other Dev projects (37)
16. Misc (13)

Internet

1. ArchiveBox - (Repo, Home, Docs) Self-hosted web archive, for creating local, browsable backups of content from the web. Imports HTML, JS, PDFs, video, subtitles, git repositories, and more, from Pocket, Pinboard, browser history, etc. (organization, linux, windows, docker)
2. archivematica - (Repo, Home, Docs) Digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects, targeted at archivists and librarians. (organization, server)
3. Beaver Habits - (Repo, Home, Demo, Fund) Self-hosted habit tracking app without "Goals". (server, fastapi)
4. Bookwyrm - (Repo, Home) Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub. (organization, communication, server, django)
5. buku - (Repo, Fund, Docs) Browser-independent bookmark manager with CLI and web server frontends, with integrations for browsers, cloud-based bookmark managers, and emacs. (organization, linux, windows, mac, server)
6. Canto - (Repo, WP) RSS daemon and curses-based client.