Five ways to discover Django packages
With tens of thousands of available add-ons, it can be hard to discover which packages might be helpful for your projects. But there are a lot of options available to navigate this ecosystem – here are a few.
New ✨ Ecosystem page
Our new Django’s ecosystem page showcases third-party apps and add-ons recommended by the Django Steering Council.
State of Django
The 2025 State of Django survey is out, and we get to see how people who responded to the survey are ranking packages! Here are their answers to “What are your top five favorite third-party Django packages?”
| Responses | Package |
|---|---|
| 49% | djangorestframework |
| 27% | django-debug-toolbar |
| 26% | django-celery |
| 19% | django-cors-headers |
| 18% | django-filter |
| 18% | django-allauth |
| 15% | pytest-django |
| 15% | django-redis |
| 14% | django-extensions |
| 14% | django-crispyforms |
| 13% | djangorestframework-simplejwt |
| 12% | django-channels |
| 12% | django-storages |
| 12% | django-environ |
| 11% | django-celery-beat |
| 10% | django-ninja |
| 10% | None / I’m not sure |
| 7% | django-import-export |
| 7% | Wagtail |
| 6% | dj-database-url |
| 5% | django-silk |
| 5% | django-cookiecutter |
| 5% | dj-rest-auth |
| 5% | django-models-utils |
| 4% | django-taggit |
| 4% | django-rest-swagger |
| 3% | django-polymorphic |
| 3% | django-configurations |
| 3% | django-compressor |
| 3% | django-multitenant |
| 3% | pylint-django |
| 2% | django-braces |
| 2% | model-bakery |
| 2% | Djoser |
| 1% | django-money |
| 1% | dj-rest-knox |
| 8% | Other |
Thank you to JetBrains who created this State of Django survey with the Django Software Foundation! They are currently running a bit promotion campaign - Until November 11, 2025, get PyCharm for 30% off. All money goes to the Django Software Foundation!
Django Packages
Django Packages is a directory of reusable Django apps, tools, and frameworks, categorized and ranked by popularity. It has thousands of options that are easily comparable with category "grids".
Awesome Django
Awesome Django is more of a community-maintained curated list of Django resources and packages. It’s frequently updated, currently with 198 different package entries.
Reddit and newsletters
The r/django subreddit often covers new tools and packages developers are experimenting with. And here are newsletters that often highlight new packages or “hidden gems” in Django’s ecosystem:
- Django News - Weekly Django news, articles, projects, and more.
- Real Python (Newsletter and podcast)
