# Panel (open-source desktop app)

> Panel is a free, open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux. Panel: The powerful data exploration & web app framework for Python. It has 5,782 GitHub stars and is released under the BSD-3-Clause license. Its source code is on GitHub at holoviz/panel.

Panel is an open-source Python library that lets you easily build powerful tools, dashboards and complex applications entirely in Python. It has a batteries-included philosophy, putting the PyData ecosystem, powerful data tables and much more at your fingertips. High-level reactive APIs and lower-level callback based APIs ensure you can quickly build exploratory applications, but you aren't limited if you build complex, multi-page apps with rich interactivity. Panel is a member of the HoloViz ecosystem, your gateway into a connected ecosystem of data exploration tools.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/holoviz/panel |
| Platforms | Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Interface | desktop GUI |
| GitHub stars | 5,782 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause (open source) |
| Replaces | n/a |
| Language | Python |
| Website | https://panel.holoviz.org |
| Official | no |
| Category | Other |
| Latest release | v1.9.4 (Aug 17, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 7, 2026 |

## Install

Download a build for your system from the project's releases (https://github.com/holoviz/panel/releases) or website, or build it from source by following the README.

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