🆚 Lift vs. Play Framework

📈 Play Framework is much more popular than Lift.
🌎 Play Framework is more popular in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Lift is more popular in Slovakia.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Lift

Play Framework

Type

Backend framework

About

Lift is a secure and modular web framework written in Scala. It offers built-in resistance to many OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, a "View First" development approach, and high concurrency support via Scala actors.

Play Framework is a community-maintained, high-velocity web framework for Java and Scala.

It provides a stateless, asynchronous architecture based on Akka, a modular structure for scalable applications, hot code reloading, built-in testing support, and native JSON handling for APIs.

Headquarters

France

Website

liftweb.net

playframework.com #4,166,636

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Play Framework technology is 70 times more popular than Lift.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Play Framework is more popular in the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom, while Lift is more popular in Slovakia.

United States

Finland

United Kingdom

Germany

Canada

France

Norway

Poland

Netherlands

Japan

Awards

🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Play Framework is more popular than Lift in all market segments.

Finance/Banking

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Job Search

Education/Reference

General News

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14,698

#106,974

#432,750

#551,226

#585,595

Name

Rank

#10,927

#14,359

#18,218

#19,961

#26,096