Jupyter is an offshoot of the IPython project, which aims to create a better interactive mode for Python. While Jupyter incorporates IPython, it's still available as a standalone program.

You can use Jupyter Notebooks to share Python code and its output with third parties, to run code with live interactive feedback, or to systematically track and document the progress of your work.

Jupyter Notebook is not a full-blown development environment for Python. Many of the features you would expect to find in an IDE—e.g., interactive debugging, code completion, and module ...

Because of the client/server architecture, it is very simple to share notebooks with other users. You can — in theory — use Jupyter for anything you could use Python for.