List of information graphics software

This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:

either includes the ability to create one or more infographics from a provided data set
either it is provided specifically for information visualization


Software	Example(s)	Interface	Licence(s)		Initial Release Year	Latest Release	Operating system	Distinguishing features
Software	Example(s)	Interface	License	Open Source (yes/no)	Initial Release Year	Latest Release	Operating system	Distinguishing features
Kst		GUI, CLI	GPL	Yes	2004	2021, v 2.0.x	Linux, Windows, Mac	fast real-time large-dataset plotting and viewing tool with basic data analysis functionality
AIDA			LGPL	Yes	2001	October 2003 / 3.2.1		Open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing
Algebrator		GUI	Proprietary	No	1999	2009 / 4.2	Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows	2D graphs
Archim	drawing 2D and 3D graphs		freeware	No	2007	2008	Windows	Graphs in polar (or other) coordinates become specific cases of parametric graphs.
Baudline		GUI	Proprietary	No	2000	July 21, 2010 / 1.08	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris	Signal analysis tool
D3js		JavaScript library	BSD	Yes	2011	August 25, 2018 / 5.7.0	web browsers, js engines	static and dynamic presentations
DADiSP		GUI, command line, SPL script language	Proprietary	No	1987	January 17, 2017 / 6.7 B02	Windows	Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface
DAP			GNU-style copyleft^[1]	Yes	1998	April 16, 2014 / 3.10		Statistics
Datacopia		GUI (web based)	Freemium	No	2012		Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android	Generates a ranked list of several plots & visualizations based on an analysis of the data provided, allowing the user to choose their favorite graphic, share it, and export it as an image.
DataGraph		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	2006	February 17, 2020 / 4.5.1	macOS	2D graphing, animations, data analysis, linear and non-linear curve fitting.
DataScene		GUI	Shareware	No	2009	March 2011 / 3.0.7	Linux, Unix/X11, Windows	2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring.
ECharts		GUI (web based), TypeScript Charting Library	Apache 2.0	Yes	2013	July 18, 2023 / 5.4.3	Any (Web-based application)	Typescript based interactive graphic library
EditGrid		GUI (web based)		No	2006		Any (Web-based application)	Online spreadsheet; service due to end May 1, 2014
EJS		GUI	GPL	Yes	2014		Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets
Epi Info			GPL	Yes	1985	February 2, 2018 / 7.2.2.6	Windows	Statistics
EViews			Proprietary	No	1994	June 21, 2017 / 10		Statistics
Fityk		GUI, command line	GPL	Yes	2004	December 19, 2016 / 1.3.1	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	specialized in curve fitting
FlexPro			Proprietary	No	1991	2017	MS Windows only
FreeMat			GPL^[2]	Yes	2004	June 30, 2013 / 4.2	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
FusionCharts		GUI (web based), JavaScript Charting Library	Proprietary	No	2002	November 1, 2016 / 3.11.3	All Web Browsers (including IE 6), JS Engines	Interactive JavaScript Charts
GeoGebra		GUI	GPL with non-commercial restriction^[3]	Yes	2001	September 3, 2017 / 6.0.385.0	Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows, Android	Very good for rendering Geometry, Graphs, Statistical Diagrams, (LaTeX) Formula Rendering. All antialiased in PNG Export. Export to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF.
Gephi		GUI	GPLv3 / CDDL 1.0	Yes	2008	February 14, 2016 / 0.9.1	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs
ggplot2		R	GPL2	Yes	2007	December 30, 2016 / 2.2.1	Cross-platform	Based on "The Grammar of Graphics"
Grafana		GUI (web based)	GNU Affero General Public License 3.0	Yes	2014	August 1 2022 / 9.0.6	All Web Browsers	Diagrams, Live Data Analysis, Public Dashboards
Gnumeric		GUI	GPL^[4]	Yes	2001	August 19, 2018 / 1.12.43	Cross-platform	Spreadsheet
GNU Octave		GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran	GPL	Yes	1993	April 13, 2023 / 8.2.0	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS), Solaris, Windows, Android	MATLAB compatible, built-in ODE and DAE solvers, extensive user contributed toolboxes
Gnuplot		Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, third-party GUIs	Own license	Yes	1986	June 1, 2023 / 5.4.8	Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS), OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS, Android	Built in scripting language
GrADS		command line	GPL	Yes	1988	April 25, 2018 / 2.2.1	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIX	Visualization of Earth science data
GraphPad Prism		GUI	proprietary	No	1989	October 12, 2016 / 7.0b	Mac, Windows
Grace		Command line, GUI, various APIs	GPL	Yes	1998	February 14, 2015 / 5.1.25	Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin)	Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr
Graphviz		DOT language	CPL	Yes	1991	December 25, 2016 / 2.40.1	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
gretl		GUI	GPL	Yes	2000	September 3, 2018 / 2018c	Linux, Mac, Windows	Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R
HippoDraw			GPL v2	Yes	1992	October 2007 / 1.21.3		C++-based data analysis system
IGOR Pro		GUI	proprietary	No	1989	April 11, 2019 / 8.0.3	Mac, Windows	3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing
ILNumerics		Math library for .NET / C#	GPL / proprietary	No	2006	June 11, 2015 / v4.8	Windows and Linux	Math library with rich visualization features (interactive 3D scenes, scientific plotting) and MATLAB-like syntax.
Ipe		GUI, XML	GPL	Yes	1993	December 10, 2016 / 7.2.7	Linux, Mac, Windows, OS/X	IPE Graphics with LaTeX equations or notations can be stored as PDF files (not only exported to PDF) and be included in LaTeX documents. pdftoipe allows any PDF graph to be edited in Ipe.
JFreeChart		GUI, Java, Groovy	LGPL	Yes	2000	November 5, 2017 / 1.5.0	Any (Java)
JMP		GUI, scripting	proprietary	No	1989	March 9, 2021 / 16.0	Mac, Windows	Interactive statistical graphics
Calligra Sheets		GUI	GPL	Yes	2010	March 21, 2017 / 3.0.1	Linux (KDE)	The charting tool of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite developed by KDE.
Kig		GUI	GPL	Yes	2006			Geometry diagrams only
LabPlot		GUI, Qt, C, C++	GPL-2.0-or-later	Yes	2001	July 16, 2024 / 2.11.1	Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku	2D plotting, suitable for creation of publication-ready plots
LabVIEW			Proprietary	No	1986	May 2017 / 2017		Visual circuits modeling
LibreOffice		GUI	MPL-2.0	Yes	2011	September 8, 2022 / 7.3.6	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Spreadsheet, Diagrams, Statistical Functions
LiSiCA		Python		No	2015		Windows, Linux	Ligand-based virtual screening software that searches for 2D and 3D similarities between a reference compound and a database of target compounds.
MagicPlot		GUI	Proprietary	No	2008	January 18, 2021 / 3.0	Any (Java)	Nonlinear fitting, batch processing
Maple		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	1982	May 25, 2017 / 2017	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
MathCad		GUI	Proprietary	No	1986	March 6, 2017 / Prime 4.0, November 2015 / 15.0 M045	Windows	Simple GUI driven interface
Mathematica		GUI, command line, C++	Proprietary	No	1988	14.1.0 (July 31, 2024; 4 months ago (2024-07-31)) [±]^[5]	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Raspberry Pi^[6]	Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language. See Wolfram Language.
MATLAB		GUI	Proprietary	No	1979	September 20, 2017 / R2017b	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Matrix system
Maxima		GUI, command line	GPL	Yes	1982	October 3, 2017 / 5.41.0	BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows, Android	Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTeX with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SageMath
MayaVi		GUI, Python, scriptable, embeddable	BSD	Yes	2019	August 3, 2018 / 4.6.2	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Visualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data. Texture & ray-cast mappers.
MedCalc		GUI	Proprietary	No	1993	August 17, 2017 / 17.9	Windows	Statistics
Microsoft Excel		GUI	Proprietary	No	1987		Mac OS X, Windows	Spreadsheet
NCSS (statistical software)		GUI	Proprietary	No	1981	May 2, 2016 / NCSS 11	Windows	Statistical Analysis and Statistical Graphics software
Nucalc		GUI	proprietary	No	1994		Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows
Numbers (iWork)		GUI	Proprietary	No	2007	March 28, 2017 / 4.1	Mac OS X	Spreadsheet
OpenDX		GUI	Proprietary	No	1991	January 19, 2006 / 4.4.0	Cross-platform
OpenOffice.org Calc		GUI	GNU LGPL	Yes	2002	January 25, 2011 / 3.3	Cross-platform	Spreadsheet
OpenPlaG		GUI	GPL	Yes	2007	June 12, 2018 / 3.5	Any (PHP 5)	graph plotter to use on websites
Orange		GUI, Python scripting	GPL	Yes	1996	September 3, 2017 / 3.5	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X	A visual programming data-flow software suite with widgets for statistical data analysis, interactive data visualization, data mining, and machine learning.
Origin		GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting	proprietary	No	1992	June 22, 2017 / 2017 SR2	Windows	Multi-layer 2D, 3D and statistical graphs for science and engineering. Built-in digitizing tool. Auto-recalculation and reporting. Programmable, with access to NAG Numerical Library.
ParaView		GUI, Python scripting	GPL	Yes	2002	June 19, 2018 / 5.5.2	Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows	Parallel scientific and Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations
PDL			Artistic License / GPL	Yes	1996	May 6, 2018 / 2.019	Perl Data Language
PGPLOT		FORTRAN, C		No	1983	February 26, 2001 / 5.2.2	Linux, Mac, Windows	(Fortran) California Institute of Technology, Inactive as of 2001^[update]
ploticus		Command line, C	GPL	Yes	1999	May 2013 / 2.42	Linux, Mac, Windows	plots and charts from data
Plotly		GUI, command line Python	Commercial	No	2012		Any (web-based)	plots and charts in browser, web-sharing and exporting, drag-and-drop data import, Python command line
plotutils		command line, C/C++	GPL	Yes	1989	September 27, 2009 / 2.6	Linux, Mac, Windows	Collection of command line programs, C/C++ API
PLplot		Ada, C/C++/D, Fortran 77/90, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk	LGPL	Yes	2001	August 26, 2017 / 5.13.0	Linux, Mac, Windows	Many different output formats: CGM, GIF, Jpeg, Png, Latex, PBM, PDF, Postscript, SVG, XFig, Qt, wxWidgets
PSPP		GUI, command line	GPL	Yes	1997	August 20, 2017 / 1.0.0	Linux, Mac, Windows	Statistical analysis of sampled data. Free replacement for SPSS.
QtiPlot		GUI, Python	proprietary	No	2004	May 31, 2017 / 0.9.9.11	Linux, Mac, Windows	Python scriptable
R		Third party	GPL	Yes	1993	July 2, 2018 / 3.5.1("Feather Spray")	Linux, Mac, Windows	In addition to base graphics, has a large number of graphics packages including lattice and ggplot2.^[7] Interoperabile with other free software packages.
ROOT		GUI, C++, Python, Ruby	LGPL	Yes	1994	August 23, 2018 / 6.14.04	Linux, Mac, Windows	De facto standard in high energy physics
RRDtool		Command line	GPL	Yes	1999	May 17, 2017 / 1.7.0	Linux, Windows
S-PLUS			Proprietary	No	1988	November 2010 / 8.2		Statistics
S				?	1976			Statistics
SAS System			Proprietary	No	1972	July 10, 2013 / 9.4		Statistics
Scilab			CeCILL	Yes	1990	February 14, 2019 / 6.0.2	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Matrix system
SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python		Python, GUI, command line	BSD/matplotlib	Yes	2003	June 21, 2017 / 0.19.1, July 6, 2017 / 1.13.1, May 10, 2017 / 2.0.2	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting
SOCR				Yes	2002			A suite of online tools for statistical computing
Sonic Visualiser		GUI	GPL	Yes	2010	August 14, 2018 / 3.1.1	Linux, MacOS, Windows
SPSS		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	1968	August 8, 2017 / 25.0		Statistics
Stata			Proprietary	No	1985	June 6, 2017 / 15.0		Statistics
Statgraphics		GUI	Proprietary	No	1980	July 2015 / 17.1.08	Windows	Statistical software package for exploratory data analysis, dynamic data visualization, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma.
Statistical Lab				Yes	2005	May 2, 2011 / 3.81
Systat			Proprietary	No	1979			Statistics
SymPy			BSD	Yes	2007	September 14, 2018 / 1.3	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics
Sysquake		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	2001	November 5, 2013 / 5.0	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics
SciDAVis		GUI, Python	GPL	Yes	2007	June 4, 2018 / 1.23	Linux, Mac, Windows	Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable
SigmaPlot		GUI	proprietary	No	1983	2014 / 13.0.0	Windows
TAChart		Charting library	modified LGPL	Yes	2012	November 13, 2016 / 1.6.2	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Very flexible charting component for Lazarus / Free Pascal.
Tableau		GUI	Proprietary	No	2003		Windows	Spreadsheet
Tecplot		GUI	proprietary	No	1988	2016 / 2016	Linux, Mac, UNIX, Windows	Computational Fluid Dynamics
Teechart		Charting library	Open Source	Yes	1995	April 26, 2021	Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android	Full set of chart types, maps & gauges, interactive, real-time, PNG, JPEG export, cross-browser support, integration with WordPress, Drupal, Node.js, Joomla, TypeScript, NuGet among others.
think-cell chart		GUI	proprietary	No	2002		Windows	Support for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts. Direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint.
Veusz		GUI, Python, command line	GPL	Yes	2007	October 7, 2021 / 3.4	Mac, Unix, Windows	Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface
Visifire		Independent of server side scripting	Proprietary	No	2008	June 5, 2014 / 5.1.7-0	Mac, Windows
VisIt		GUI, C++, Python, and Java	BSD	Yes	2002	May 2018 / 2.13.2	Linux, Mac, Windows	Designed to handle very large data sets
Webix		JavaScript library	GPLV3/Proprietary^[8]	Yes	2013	June 27, 2017 / 4.4	Cross platforms, cross browsers	JavaScript/HTML5 based; More than 75 widgets and controls; Maps; Charts; DataTables; Organograms; Gauge charts
Winplot		GUI	Freeware	No	1985		Microsoft Windows
World Programming System (WPS Analytics)		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	2002	March 2020 / v4.2	AIX, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit (AArch64), macOS, PowerLinux, POWER/System p/pSeries (LE), Windows, Linux for System z, z/OS	Statistics. Handles very large data sets. Supports mixing Python, R, SAS and SQL languages within a single user program
XGraph		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	1985	July 2018 / v4.38	Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris	Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting
Zoho Office Suite		GUI (web based)	Proprietary	No	2005		Any (web-based application)	Online spreadsheet

Vector graphics

Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program. Please see:

A few online editors using vector graphics for specific needs have been created.^{[citation needed]} This kind of creative interfaces work well together with data visualization tools like the ones above.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ "The Dap Project for Statistics and Graphics". Retrieved 22 April 2016.
^ "Homepage". FreeMat website. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ The International GeoGebra Institute (April 2013). "GeoGebra Non-Commercial License Agreement". GeoGebra website. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ "Welcome to Gnumeric!". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
^ "Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica". Retrieved 2024-07-31.
^ Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge
^ Lewin-Koh, Nicholas (7 January 2015). "CRAN Task View: Graphic Displays & Dynamic Graphics & Graphic Devices & Visualization".
^ Webix - Buy

[1] "The Dap Project for Statistics and Graphics". Retrieved 22 April 2016.

[2] "Homepage". FreeMat website. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

[3] The International GeoGebra Institute (April 2013). "GeoGebra Non-Commercial License Agreement". GeoGebra website. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

[4] "Welcome to Gnumeric!". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

[5] "Yet More New Ideas and New Functions: Launching Version 14.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica". Retrieved 2024-07-31.

[6] Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge

[7] Lewin-Koh, Nicholas (7 January 2015). "CRAN Task View: Graphic Displays & Dynamic Graphics & Graphic Devices & Visualization".

[8] Webix - Buy

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See also

References