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Spyder

The Scientific Python Development Environment.

  • Completely free
  • Windows and Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: debugging, plugins and add-ons.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “It features a unique combination of the advanced editing, analysis, debugging and profiling functionality of a comprehensive development tool with the data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection and…” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “SciPy, Pandas, IPython, QtConsole, Matplotlib, SymPy, and more, and can be extended further with full plugin support.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Spyder is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts. It features a unique combination of the advanced editing, analysis, debugging and profiling functionality of a comprehensive development tool with the data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection and beautiful visualization capabilities of an analysis package. Furthermore, Spyder offers built-in integration with many popular scientific libraries, including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, IPython, QtConsole, Matplotlib, SymPy, and more, and can be extended further with full plugin support. Spyder can also be used as a PyQt5 extension library, allowing you to build upon its functionality and embed its components, such as the interactive console, in your own software.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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