ParaView

ParaView
DevelopersSandia National Laboratories,
Kitware Inc,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Stable release
6.01 / September 25, 2025 (2025-09-25)
Preview release
6.0.nightly / January 15, 2026 (2026-01-15)
Written inC, C++, Fortran, Python
Engine
  • Visualization Toolkit
Operating systemUnix/Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows
TypeScientific visualization, Interactive visualization
License3-clause BSD
Websitewww.paraview.org
RepositoryParaview Repository

ParaView is an open-source multiple-platform application for interactive, scientific visualization. It has a client–server architecture to facilitate remote visualization of datasets, and generates level of detail (LOD) models to maintain interactive frame rates for large datasets. It is an application built on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) libraries. ParaView is an application designed for data parallelism on shared-memory or distributed-memory multicomputers and clusters. It can also be run as a single-computer application.