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)			Operating system	Distinguishing features
			License	Open Source (yes/no)	Price
Algebrator		GUI	Proprietary	No	$58.99	Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows	2D graphs
Baudline		GUI	Proprietary	No, source available	Free	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris	Signal analysis tool
DADiSP		GUI, command line, SPL script language	Proprietary	No		UNIX, Windows	Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface
DAP							Statistics
DataScene		GUI	Shareware	No	Free express, $169 – $299 std. and pro.	Linux, Unix/X11, Windows	2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring.
Descartes (plotting tool)		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Any (Python)	Inactive as of 2005
EasyPlot	Sample 3-D Plot	GUI (scriptable) and via COM interface using DLL	Proprietary	No	Academic US$349, Corporate and Government US$399, Multi-license discount. Demo is free	Windows	Reads text, CSV, or binary data files. Plots functions by equations. Creates trend-lines, does forward and reverse FFTs on selected data. Multiple axes. 2-D and 3-D plotting. Extremely scriptable.
EditGrid		GUI (Web based)			Free, or with subscription service	Any (Web-based application)	Online spreadsheet
EJS		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets
Epi Info			GPL	Yes	Free	Windows	Statistics
EpsTk		Toolkit for use with MATLAB and GNU Octave	GPL	Yes	Free	Any (Octave or MATLAB)
EViews			Proprietary	No			Statistics
Fityk		GUI, Command line	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	specialized in curve fitting
FlexPro			Proprietary	No		MS Windows only
FreeMat				Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
GeoGebra		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows	Very good for rendering Geometry, Graphs, Statistical Diagrams, (LaTeX) Formula Rendering. All antialiased in PNG Export. Export to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF.
Gnumeric		GUI	GNU GPL	Yes	Free	Cross-platform	Spreadsheet
GNU Octave		GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran	GPL	Yes	Free	eComStation, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris or Windows	MATLAB compatible, built-in ODE and DAE solvers, extensive user contributed toolboxes
Gnuplot		Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk	own licence	Yes	Free	Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS	Built in scripting language
GLE		Command line, GUI	BSD / GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	Graphics scripting language
GraphPad Prism		GUI	proprietary	No	academic US$450, student US$300	Mac, Windows
Grace		Command line, GUI, various APIs	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin)	Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr
Graph		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Windows
Graphviz		DOT language	CPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
gretl		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R
IDPS		GUI, Fortran, C, Python, Socket Server	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, OSF1/True64, Solaris, Windows	Uses Qt 3/Qt 4, runs as a server
IGOR Pro		GUI	proprietary	No	Non-free standard US$550 academic US$395 student $US85	Mac, Windows	3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing
JFreeChart		GUI, Java, Groovy	LGPL	Yes	Free	Any (Java)
jHepWork		GUI, Java, Jython scripting	LGPL	Yes	Free	Any (Java)	Multi-platform, IDE with code assist, Jython/Python scripting
KChart		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux (KDE)
Kig		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free		Geometry diagrams only
kst		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux (KDE), Windows (beta)
LabPlot		GUI, Qt scripting	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux (KDE)
LabVIEW			Proprietary	No
MagicPlot		GUI	Proprietary	No	$159, free for personal use	Any (Java)	Curve fitting, batch processing
Maple		GUI, Command line		No	$1895	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
MathCad		GUI		No	$1195	Windows	Simple GUI driven interface
Mathematica		GUI, Command line, C++		No	$2495	HPUX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows	Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language
MATLAB		GUI	Proprietary	No		Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Matrix system
Maxima		GUI, Command line	GPL	Yes	Free	BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Like OS, Windows	Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTex with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with Sage
Mavis		GUI	Proprietary	No	Free for personal use	Windows	Interactive, animated graphs, charts and diagrams
MedCalc		GUI	Proprietary	No	$395	Windows	Statistics
Microsoft Excel		GUI	Proprietary	No		Mac OS X, Windows	Spreadsheet
MLPlot		Java API	GPL	Yes		Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	SVG
Monarch Charts		Charting library	Commercial	No		Any, Java	Charting library component based on java, SPC charts
Nucalc		GUI	proprietary	No	Non-freeUS$100	Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows
Numbers (iWork)		GUI	Proprietary	No		Mac OS X	Spreadsheet
OpenOffice.org Calc		GUI	GNU LGPL	Yes	Free	Cross-platform	Spreadsheet
OpenPlaG		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Any (PHP 5)	graph plotter
Origin		GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting	proprietary	No	Non-freeUS$ 950(std) 1500 (pro) 50(student)	Windows
Paraview		GUI, Python scripting	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows	Parallel scientific and Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations
PDL					Free	Perl Data Language
PGPLOT		FORTRAN, C		No	Free for non commercial	Linux, Mac, Windows	(Fortran) California Institute of Technology	Inactive as of 2001
Physics Plot		GUI	proprietary	No	Non-freeUS$100	Windows (visualbasic)
ploticus		Command line, C	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	plots and charts from data
PLplot		Ada, C/C++/D, Fortran 77/90, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk	LGPL	Yes	Free	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	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	Statistical analysis of sampled data. Free replacement for SPSS.
QtiPlot		GUI, Python	GPL	Yes	free if compiled from source	Linux, Mac, Windows	Python scriptable
R			GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	Interoperabile with other free software packages.
RLPlot		GUI	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows
ROOT		GUI, C++, Python, Ruby	LGPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	De facto standard in high energy physics
RRDtool		Command line	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Windows
S-PLUS			Proprietary	No			Statistics
S-Lang							Statistics
S-Lang
SAS System			Proprietary	No			Statistics
Scilab			CeCILL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Matrix system
SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python		Python, GUI, command line	BSD/matplotlib	Yes	Free	FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting
SOCR							Statistics
SPSS		GUI, Command Line	Proprietary	No			Statistics
Stata			Proprietary	No			Statistics
Statgraphics		GUI	Proprietary	No	$695	Windows	Statistical software package for exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma.
StatPlanet		GUI	Proprietary	No	Free, Commercial version: $430 - $640	Linux and Mac (web only), Windows (web and desktop)	Interactive graphs and maps, online and desktop versions
Statistical Lab
Systat			Proprietary	No			Statistics
SymPy			BSD	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics
Sysquake		GUI, command line	Proprietary	No	$250 (LE free)	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows	MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics
SciDAVis		GUI, Python	GPL	Yes	Free	Linux, Mac, Windows	Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable
SigmaPlot		GUI	proprietary	No	Non-freeCommercial US$799, Government US$699, Commercial US$549	Windows
Tableau		GUI	Proprietary	No	$999 – $1800	Windows	Spreadsheet
Tecplot		GUI	proprietary	No	varies	Linux, Mac, UNIX, Windows	Computational Fluid Dynamics
Teechart		Charting library	Commercial	Yes		Linux, Windows	Charting, Gauge and Map components for .NET, VCL, ActiveX, Java, PHP.
think-cell chart		GUI	proprietary	No	Annual subscription	Windows	Support for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts. Direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint.
Veusz		GUI, Python, Command line	GPL	Yes	Free	Mac, Unix, Windows	Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface
Visifire		Independent of Server side Scripting	GPL	Yes	Free	Mac, Windows
Zoho Office Suite		GUI (Web based)	Proprietary	No		Any (Web-based application)

Vector graphics

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

• Category:Vector graphics editors
• List of vector graphics editors
• Comparison of vector graphics editors

See also

• List of graphical methods
• Diagramming software
• Comparison of numerical analysis software