Reviews from AWS Marketplace
0 AWS reviews
-
5 star0
-
4 star0
-
3 star0
-
2 star0
-
1 star0
External reviews
External reviews are not included in the AWS star rating for the product.
I've used Anvil in production government & medical billing projects with strict compliance/IT reqs
What do you like best about the product?
Productivity gains with the visual layout and database builders, web based IDE and project management, integrated ORM, Email, PDF printing, 3rd party integrations (Google and MS services, Stripe, etc.), extensibility using the full Python and web UI ecosystems, rock solid performance and reliability of the open source anvil-app-server in many challenging IT environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The open source server is a relatively large install (>300Mb), so not the best fit for quick little scripting tasks (although the paid hosted version is fantastic for quick little scripts that run on anvil.works servers).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Massive productivity gains in agile software development. The full suite of UI, database, and all-Python front-end/back-end interactions, with a web-based IDE, integrated GIT, autocomplete, etc. makes development work fast. Deployment in a wide variety of IT environments, with deep security and other organizational review and compliance requirements, has been 100% successful in every case.
- Leave a Comment |
- Mark review as helpful
Anvil is hands down the best way to use Python
What do you like best about the product?
Anvil abstracts away every single problem that I've faced when building applications, the hosting, authentication, databases, UI... it's all been taken care of and thought about in a way that makes sense.
If you've ever deployed streamlit with a sqlite database - just stop, go to Anvil, and never look back. It just works.
I don't have to learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript (unless I want to, there's no hard boundary), and can focus on the problem at hand in the language I know best. The team behind Anvil and the community itself are great, every person I've shown Anvil to has been wowed by how simple it is to do things that could take days the "old fashioned" way.
They have a very generous free plan for hobbyists, and an incredible Enterprise offering that I couldn't work without.
They continue to bring more and more impressive features that are taking the product in an extremely strong direction - seriously, give it a go!
If you've ever deployed streamlit with a sqlite database - just stop, go to Anvil, and never look back. It just works.
I don't have to learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript (unless I want to, there's no hard boundary), and can focus on the problem at hand in the language I know best. The team behind Anvil and the community itself are great, every person I've shown Anvil to has been wowed by how simple it is to do things that could take days the "old fashioned" way.
They have a very generous free plan for hobbyists, and an incredible Enterprise offering that I couldn't work without.
They continue to bring more and more impressive features that are taking the product in an extremely strong direction - seriously, give it a go!
What do you dislike about the product?
I have nothing bad to say about Anvil.
If anything, as someone without a background in web development, there's a slight learning curve to a few features - but that learning curve is infinitely less than that of traditional web development.
There's a bit of an art to building a scalable Anvil app, but I've found that process to be extremely smooth - everything I've built has worked, there's just a few different ways to make it work.
If anything, as someone without a background in web development, there's a slight learning curve to a few features - but that learning curve is infinitely less than that of traditional web development.
There's a bit of an art to building a scalable Anvil app, but I've found that process to be extremely smooth - everything I've built has worked, there's just a few different ways to make it work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anvil helps to bring our team to a more modern era. Insurance is a world driven by Excel, and whilst a lot of people have knowledge in Python, they don't have the time to learn how to deploy their applications securely, let alone figure out how to connect everything together. That's the gap Anvil fills for us. It's like an entire infrastructure team built into a website.
From MVPs in record time to full, customer facing, mission critical production apps in record time.
What do you like best about the product?
1. Python at both ends
2. an incredible, integrated IDE
3. built in database/web server, etc. (but you can use your own as well)
4. host on their managed servers or run your apps on a self hosted open source application server
5. if you really want to, you can also develop using your favourite editor (vscode, pycharm, etc.)
6. I find support very helpful (but I do try hard to provide meaningful and helpful issue reports).
Just because its a rapid development environment, do not think it's suitable only for toy apps or MVPs. I and many others build full, mission critical, customer facing apps that get heavy use.
2. an incredible, integrated IDE
3. built in database/web server, etc. (but you can use your own as well)
4. host on their managed servers or run your apps on a self hosted open source application server
5. if you really want to, you can also develop using your favourite editor (vscode, pycharm, etc.)
6. I find support very helpful (but I do try hard to provide meaningful and helpful issue reports).
Just because its a rapid development environment, do not think it's suitable only for toy apps or MVPs. I and many others build full, mission critical, customer facing apps that get heavy use.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard to answer this one, because there's almost nothing. I've been using Anvil since the early days and nearly all my niggles have been addressed. If I have to name one, I'd say the documentation search feature is a little tricky sometimes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed of development in a secure, full stack environment. For my use case, Anvil is a perfect fit.
Python native way to deploy web apps fast
What do you like best about the product?
Anvil makes it dead simple to get a web app deployed to the web. It is Python native (uses Skulpt on the client side) and has a Postgres backed integrated database with their own ORM. This makes it super fast to get going.
I have used Anvil to make very simple apps and very complex apps. Both are possible but the amazing thing is that the simple apps are very easy to get going. Anvil allows you a minimum amount of boilerplate (they generate it for you). When you need to make a complex app, you have the power of Python to create abstractions that are readable and reusable.
When my business needs an app up and running TODAY, Anvil is what enables this.
I have used Anvil to make very simple apps and very complex apps. Both are possible but the amazing thing is that the simple apps are very easy to get going. Anvil allows you a minimum amount of boilerplate (they generate it for you). When you need to make a complex app, you have the power of Python to create abstractions that are readable and reusable.
When my business needs an app up and running TODAY, Anvil is what enables this.
What do you dislike about the product?
Really the only dislike I have about Anvil is the database speed. It isn't actually slow, but it's not as fast as you would get with your own database server. You can always connect your own database and use a Python library on the server side to connect to it. So there are ways around this.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Anvil has solved the internal (and even external) app issue for our enterprises. We are able to make custom web apps fast and reliably.
Fast to get up and running
What do you like best about the product?
I like it. Abstracts a lot of headaches and allows quick iteration.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside is that there's no way to embed any AI for coding with the online IDE. Feels like an opportunity lost there for even faster iteration speed particularly for code completion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using to create web apps, simple and fast for that
Anvil is the easiest way to build complex web apps
What do you like best about the product?
Even as a beginner in programming, I found it surprisingly easy to build complex web applications that would have otherwise required a steep learning curve. Instead of spending time learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, databases, servers, backends, APIs, and more, I only needed a basic understanding of Python. The platform even allows seamless access to JavaScript APIs directly in Python, ensuring that no limitations hold you back. Plus, the community and staff are incredibly supportive and helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, everything is positive about Anvil. Just a few downtimes can become an issue sometimes. However, the Anvil team promptly takes care of them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building a complex web app has become much easier
Excellent designer and very fast deployments
What do you like best about the product?
Excellent IDE
Easy coding in python
Front end coding in python
fast and easy deployment
good for coworking
Easy coding in python
Front end coding in python
fast and easy deployment
good for coworking
What do you dislike about the product?
Speed of database could be a bit faster for our customers
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Wir erstellen eine App zur Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung und sämtliche Funktionen können wir mithilfe Anvil darstellen.
Very easy to use UI and reasonable Python support. Tech support spotty to poor.
What do you like best about the product?
Speed to prototype is excellent since components are just drag and drop. Adding Python libraries and customizing packages is supported.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features don't work properly so getting to a refined production-level result is either very difficult or impossible. (e.g. Data Grid component full-width doesn't work, so users are squinting at tiny text). Getting support is effectively impossible, and customer forums are inconsistent and occasionally hostile.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Speed to prototype and rapid development of business tools
App development is easier now using Anvil
What do you like best about the product?
Anvil is the most useful and effective website for developing apps using Python and it helps to learn developing a new app and the interface is simple and easy to understand
What do you dislike about the product?
Just a feedback to review the pricing and not a dislike, also adding new options would be great and make it a bit more user friendly as sometimes it gets hung up while code writing
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As a small business, it will be costlier to hire a full team for develop and managing the apps and Anvil is helping us with that, it is affordable and support is great
showing 1 - 9