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nteract vs Apache Zeppelin: catalog facts
nteract	Apache Zeppelin
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause license.	Free Free and open source from the Apache Software Foundation.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Web, Self-hosted
Opens notebooks as native desktop documents No browser-based server to launch	Supports SQL, Scala, Python, R and Spark in one notebook Connects to any JDBC data source
Requires compatible Jupyter kernels installed Niche compared with browser-based Jupyter	Needs to be installed and run as a server Setup for clusters and multiple users takes some configuration
Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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