How ipympl is used
ipympl joined the catalog on its public numbers (442,631 downloads a week on PyPI and 1,661 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 11 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Matplotlib (100.0%), Jinja2 (90.9%), Beautiful Soup (81.8%).
ipympl popularity over time
Gid Score 42: downloads 56, use in agent projects 19, GitHub stars 20, downloads trend 86 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with ipympl
| Matplotlib | 100.0% of ipympl projects · 37.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| Jinja2 | 90.9% of ipympl projects · 41.8× more than average |
| Beautiful Soup | 81.8% of ipympl projects · 37.9× more than average |
| h5py | 81.8% of ipympl projects · 390.7× more than average |
| IPython | 81.8% of ipympl projects · 282.2× more than average |
| ipywidgets | 81.8% of ipympl projects · 241.9× more than average |
How ipympl is funded
Open Collective: Matplotlib
| Received, last 12 months | $14,166 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $10,560 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $35,033 |
| Raised since the start | $120,958 · $85,925 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $134 · $1,290 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -44% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $59,638 since Jun 2025 |
|---|---|
| Kodify Media Group | $63 since Sep 2024 |
Apr 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 1 more tool in our catalog: Matplotlib.
Open Collective lists this collective for the matplotlib organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not ipympl alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Install
| Package | pip install ipympl |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (11) |
| Example projects | Luffy03/Large-Scale-Medical, Luffy03/FreeTumor |
Alternatives to ipympl
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Charts and data visualisation does the same job as ipympl: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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