{"slug": "shaper", "title": "Shaper", "summary": "Shaper, an open-source customer-facing analytics platform from taleshape-com, reached version v0.26.5 with 1,269 GitHub stars and its last commit 12 hours ago, offering SQL-driven dashboards embedded via JavaScript and React SDKs rather than iframes. Shaper runs queries through an embedded DuckDB engine, enforces row-level security with JWT tokens, and exports PDF, PNG, CSV and Excel, positioning it for teams that want to keep data in their own infrastructure. The repository is 2 years old and licensed under MPL-2.0.", "body_md": "1,269stars+16(+1.3%)\n\nLast 30 days\n\n- Last commit 12 hours ago\n- Repository age 2 years\n- Version v0.26.5\n- License [MPL-2.0](https://openalternative.co/licenses/mpl-2)\n- Repository [taleshape-com/shaper](https://github.com/taleshape-com/shaper)\n\nCreate **interactive analytics dashboards** with SQL and embed them in your product while keeping full control of your data. Shaper is an open-source platform for customer-facing analytics, built around SQL so data teams can use skills they already have.\n\n- **SQL-driven development:** Build dashboards entirely in SQL without learning a new framework\n- **Full data control:** Keep your data in your own infrastructure and avoid vendor lock-in\n- **DuckDB engine:** Query across data sources with embedded DuckDB\n- **Embedding without iframes:** Use the JavaScript and React SDKs, with row-level security through JWT tokens\n- **Multiple output formats:** Generate PDF, PNG, CSV, and Excel exports, plus scheduled alerts and reports\n\nShaper fits **embedded analytics** projects where you show data directly inside your application. Teams quoted on its site say they can **quickly visualize and share data** with customers while keeping ownership of their data pipeline.\n\nCommon uses include internal research tools, customer-facing dashboards, and automated reporting systems.\n\nEvery Sunday we deconstruct one proprietary app and pick the best open source alternatives worth switching to.\n\n- Stars\n- Last commit\n- License\n\nAI-powered analytics workspace built for investment teams\n\n- Stars 75,105\n- Last commit 3 days ago\n- License AGPL-3.0\n\nConnects proprietary, licensed, and public financial data with AI agents in a self-hostable workspace for asset managers, hedge funds, and banks.\n\nCompare with\n\nSelf-serve data exploration and dashboard builder\n\n- Stars 75,416\n\nUnlock data insights with powerful, user-friendly analytics\n\n- Stars 50,174\n\nConnect, query, visualize, and share your data\n\n- Stars 28,867\n\nTransform SQL into beautiful data stories\n\n- Stars 7,087\n\nOpen-source BI for modern data teams\n\n- Stars 6,222\n\nCreate stunning data visualizations with ease\n\n- Stars 4,065\n\nPython, SQL, and AI in a collaborative data notebook\n\n- Stars 3,030\n\nPowerful open-source business intelligence for data-driven decisions\n\nLast commit\n\n9 hours ago\nLicense\n\nApache-2.0\nConnect any SQL database, build charts with drag-and-drop or raw SQL, and publish interactive dashboards without writing application code.\n\nOpen-source business intelligence platform for data exploration, visualization, and sharing. Empowers teams to make data-driven decisions effortlessly.\n\nRedash is an open-source data visualization and analytics platform that helps teams make sense of their data through SQL queries and interactive dashboards.\n\nCreate data-driven websites and reports using SQL and Markdown, with automatic visualizations and interactive elements.\n\nSelf-serve analytics platform that transforms dbt models into interactive dashboards, enabling data-driven decisions across organizations.\n\nA powerful, open-source platform for building interactive dashboards and charts from multiple data sources without coding.\n\nDeepnote is an open-source collaborative notebook for data analysts and scientists, combining Python, SQL, AI assistance, and live sharing in one cloud platform.\n\n- Stars 1,034\n- Last commit 1 day ago\n- License AGPL-3.0\n\nConnect multiple data sources, build complex queries, create insightful visualizations, and organize powerful dashboards to make informed business decisions.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/shaper", "canonical_source": "https://openalternative.co/shaper?utm_source=openalternative.co&utm_medium=rss", "published_at": "2026-11-05 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-05 16:51:10.443536+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Shaper", "taleshape-com", "DuckDB", "GitHub", "MPL-2.0"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/shaper", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/shaper.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/shaper.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/shaper.jsonld"}}