List of information graphics software
This is a list of notable 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 | License(s) | Initial release year | Latest release | Operating system | Distinguishing features | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Open source (yes/no) | |||||||
| Kst | GUI, CLI | GPL | Yes | 2004 | 2021, v 2.0.x | Linux, macOS, Windows | Fast real-time large-dataset plotting and viewing tool with basic data analysis functions | |
| 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, macOS, Sugar, Windows | 2D graphs | |
| Baudline | GUI | Proprietary | No | 2000 | July 21, 2010 / 1.08 | FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, 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 | Yes | 1998 | April 16, 2014 / 3.10 | Statistics | |||
| 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 | |
| EditGrid | GUI (web based) | No | 2006 | Any (Web-based application) | Online spreadsheet; service to end May 1, 2014 | |||
| EJS | GUI | GPL | Yes | 2014 | Linux, macOS, 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, macOS, Windows | specialized in curve fitting | |
| FlexPro | Proprietary | No | 1991 | 2017 | MS Windows only | |||
| FreeMat | GPL | Yes | 2004 | June 30, 2013 / 4.2 | Linux, macOS, 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 | Yes | 2001 | September 3, 2017 / 6.0.385.0 | Linux, macOS, Sugar, Windows, Android | Very good for rendering geometry, graphs, statistical diagrams, (LaTeX) formula rendering; all antialiased in PNG Export; exports to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF | |
| Gephi | GUI | GPLv3 / CDDL 1.0 | Yes | 2008 | February 14, 2016 / 0.9.1 | Linux, macOS, 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 v3.0 | Yes | 2014 | May 22, 2025 / 12.0.1 | All Web Browsers | Diagrams, Live Data Analysis, Public Dashboards | |
| Gnumeric | GUI | GPL | 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, macOS, 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, 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, macOS, 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, macOS, 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 | |
| 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++ | GNU GPLv2 or later | Yes | 2001 | July 16, 2024 / 2.11.1 | Microsoft Windows, macOS, 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, macOS, 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, macOS, 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 | 14.3.0 (August 5, 2025) [±] | Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi | Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language; see Wolfram Language | |
| MATLAB | GUI | Proprietary | No | 1979 | September 20, 2017 / R2017b | Linux, macOS, Windows | Matrix system | |
| Maxima | GUI, command line | GPL | Yes | 1982 | October 3, 2017 / 5.41.0 | BSD, Linux, macOS, 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, macOS, 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 | macOS, Windows | Spreadsheet | ||
| NCSS | GUI | Proprietary | No | 1981 | May 2, 2016 / NCSS 11 | Windows | Statistical analysis and graphics software | |
| Nucalc | GUI | proprietary | No | 1994 | Mac OS, macOS, Windows | |||
| Numbers (iWork) | GUI | Proprietary | No | 2007 | March 28, 2017 / 4.1 | macOS | 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, macOS | 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, macOS, Windows | Parallel scientific and computational fluid dynamics visualizations | |
| Perl Data Language (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 | ||
| 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. 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 | Proprietary | No | 1972 | July 10, 2013 / 9.4 | Statistics | |||
| Scilab | CeCILL | Yes | 1990 | February 14, 2019 / 6.0.2 | Linux, macOS, 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, macOS, Windows | Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting | |
| SOCR | Yes | 2002 | Online tool suite 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 package for exploratory data analysis, dynamic data visualization, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement, 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, macOS, Windows | Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics | ||
| Sysquake | GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 2001 | November 5, 2013 / 5.0 | Linux, macOS, 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, macOS, 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 11, 2025 / 4.2 | 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 | Yes | 2013 | June 27, 2017 / 4.4 | Cross platforms, cross browsers | JavaScript/HTML5 based; more than 75 widgets and controls; maps; charts; data tables; 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 in one user program | |
| Xgraph | GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 1985 | July 2018 / v4.38 | Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris | Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting | |
| Zoho Office Suite | GUI (web based) | Proprietary | No | 2005 | Any (web-based application) | Online spreadsheet | ||