Shaper
Build Data Dashboards all in SQL. Powered by DuckDB.
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Still maintained? Yes: 179 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.26.4 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Shaper quick facts
- Health score
- 92/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,267
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.26.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Open source, SQL-first data dashboards, reports and customer-facing analytics."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Shaper scores 92/100, #10 of 33 in Analytics: 179 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.26.4, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,267 stars add 12.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 7.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
179 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.26.4 released yesterday
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.4 / 20
1.3k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 179
- Last 90 days
- 593
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between GoModel (#9) and Superset (#11) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Nodejs, Python, Go |
| Latest release | v0.26.4 · yesterday |
| Stars | 1,267 |
| Open issues | 16 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | taleshape-com/shaper ↗ |
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Shaper: common questions
Is Shaper still maintained?
Shaper had 179 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.26.4, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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