# Bottle Reviews **Vendor:** Open Source Initiative (OSI) **Category:** [Python Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/python-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About Bottle Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. ## Bottle Reviews ### 1. Light Weight Framework Python **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul J. | Senior Software Engineering, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Bottle?** It's pretty simple and not much learning curve anyone who knows basic Python and has a bit of experience with writing backend can quickly write an API server in some minutes. It's bare-metal, not bulky, and filled with plugins, just simple servers. You can add your plugins. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** It's a fundamental framework, and you won't find much community around this. It's very similar to the flask, and you can use flask instead witan excellent community support and plugins. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems are the same writing fast backend for a prototype application or anything else. You can use the bottle for your internal applications without requiring many configurations. The benefit of the bottle is its very light weight and easy to learn. ### 2. Bottle is a mini web framework for python for setting up simple backends or APIs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian S. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** It is light and simple, it comes built in Qpyhton for android for you to understand how to setup a python backend while on your mobile phone. It can be used to quickly prototype or mock an API service. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** It is not really built for a fully fledged system but it would be nice to have a fully powerful bottle framework considering its simplicity compared to a framework like Django. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bottle was useful during my learning phase of python in understanding how to use and setup a python backend. ### 3. Bottle for Non- profits **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Saves space on hard drive User friendlyeven though sometimes it's not that easy, you can find solutions thanks to the official documentation and in help forums like stackoverflow., I can create services REST in a fast way. Create a web service to receive an image, process it in the server and send back the result from JSON. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Nothing its is a new service and has not been tested effectively A lot ox people to not know about it and its not intergrade **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** Use at trial basis first **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no dependencies other than the Python Standard Library. Learn more ### 4. A simple web framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew T. | Web Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Bottle is simple in every sense of the word. From it's API through to the fact that the whole framework is a single file! **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Bottle doesn't have as rich an ecosystem as Flask, but it's easier to get up and running on any platform that supports Python due to its simplified dependancies. **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** When you just need it to work and get out of your way, Bottle is our go to framework. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Bottle to create simple REST APIs to systems running on remote infrastructure (mainly IoT). ### 5. Very simple and clean. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Minimalistic and simple to kickstart API project. Can also be used as micro services. It has basic framework required to create REST like services. You can use other python library in conjunction with Bottle to create more sophisticated projects. I recommend this for proof of co cepts, college/university as well as for startups. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** There are other sophisticated frameworks like Django REST framework exists which includes wide variety of authentication protocol built out of the box. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple api that acts as micro services for reporting. Data exchange service. ### 6. Easy first step into Python **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** I was able to get a working prototype up and running during the Python class we were attending. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Support options not unlike other open source projects. **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** If you are looking at or using Python, Bottle is a simple and relatively easy way to spin up quick web apps. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** While we work towards a full automation setup with Ansible, Bottle has let us build some quick and dirty tools in the interim. ### 7. The faster and lighter web-framework I have used **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William C. | Analista de Procesos, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Bottle is a simple, fast and light web-framework that you can easy download and install. I have mainly use Bottle for the development of APIs and what I like the most about it is that you can easily create routes, templates and request methods; its documentation is also great and you can find almost everything you need. You can integrate other libraries to Bottle without any trouble, for example, you can add a database connection library to search records and show via get o manipulate these records via post. Works in both Python 2.5+ and 3.x. Bottle is also very useful because you can make a restful API with small memory consumption. Bottle can also merge files. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** The only thing I don't like about Bottle is that it has a really small community, despite that fact, the documentation helps a lot in the development with this framework and you can find help in internet forums and websites like Stack Overflow **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** I highly recommend Bottle as a web developer, if you are considering to create an API or prototype your ideas, in the easy and quickler way, being lighter than other frameworks like Django. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have mainly use bottle for the development of restful APIs with JSON output. This framework has helped us to built and run several web projects and building prototypes of our ideas in the faster and easier way. We love its simplicity ### 8. It is fairly solid **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay B. | Engineering Intern, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Bottle is a very fast and very simple framework. All you need is Python to get started. Bottle also has built in template engines. There is also a lot of documentation available for Bottle. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** It lacks features. Its simplicity makes it far less competitive than frameworks like Flask. Bottle needs to be made extendable. I really hate the one file approach, so I guess I am biased. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Perfect if all you need is a web API. Not great if you need more than that. ### 9. Not what you think **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Well the program works first of all. It has been difficult. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Stops frequently, with no resolve. I do not know who to contact about this issue but it should be looked into and resolved for future users. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** None because of the software ### 10. convenient and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** It’s easy to use once you get the hang of it. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Can be a bit complicated to figure out at first, but ultimately ends up working **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** It is very useful and helpful **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps with the many problems businesses have and works pretty well. ### 11. Bottle is an excellent software but needs minor improvements. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Download is easy, usage is efficient; however, some functions seem very unneccessary and I feel as if they're a waste of space. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** The unessential functions, they seem to be redundant and a waste of space. **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** Download in a secure wifi. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** The unessential functions, they seem to be redundant and a waste of space. ### 12. Python enthusiast **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fatma Z. | Full Stack Application Developer , Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Ease of the product to connect with the front end and back end **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Configuration file are difficult to handle sometime and give hard time while connecting with other tools or language. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting the server side service tiger the data from streams ### 13. An Easy to use Python Framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean Francis N. | Freelancer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Bottle?** Bottle is an excellent web microframework that allows anyone to create web applications from scratch without the "heaviness" of Django. Bottle is very lightweight in terms of storage and execution. You can create applications in a breeze without the complexity of setting up your development environment just to start working on it. As with most Python packages, it works perfectly well when combined with virtualenv to separate system dependencies and project dependencies. Bottle's portability is prominent as well when combined with Docker for development and production. **What do you dislike about Bottle?** Being a microframework, Bottle is not able to provide out-of-the-box solutions such as user authentication and database ORM. Bottle is excellent at being lightweight but being lightweight also means that certain features are discarded just to keep it lightweight. As mentioned earlier, Bottle does not have user authentication out -of-the-box which is a bummer for those willing to use Bottle for a web app that has users. This, however, can be solved by implementing your own user authentication system for your application. Another good thing about Bottle is that it does not force you follow a project structure. You have the freedom to structure your project any way you want. **Recommendations to others considering Bottle:** It is best to read the documentations a lot of times when considering to use Bottle. **What problems is Bottle solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bottle is an excellent microframework that allowed us to create a RESTful JSON API for our projects. Bottle is structured to be a simple to use microframework that allows us to easily create an API that is structured using the MVC (model-view-controller) design pattern quickly and efficiently. - [View Bottle pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bottle/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+06%3A28%3A52+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=03faac2e-045b-4f68-bb7a-a09a158519ba&secure%5Btoken%5D=cd3bf7ffe2fee9751a554666cd4d33136fbc8d88066abd79b4f6ada4a8c03950&format=llm_user) ## Top Bottle Alternatives - [Flask](https://www.g2.com/products/flask/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (49 reviews) - [CherryPy](https://www.g2.com/products/cherrypy/reviews) - 3.0/5.0 (11 reviews) - [Django](https://www.g2.com/products/django/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (170 reviews)