From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:
| Software |
Example(s) |
Interface |
Licence(s) |
Operating system |
Distinguishing features |
|
|
|
License |
Open Source (yes/no) |
Price |
|
|
| GeoGebra |
|
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
|
Geometry diagrams only |
| Kig |
|
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
|
|
Geometry diagrams only |
| Maple |
|
GUI, Command line |
|
No |
|
Mac OS X, Linux, Windows |
|
| MathCad |
|
GUI |
|
No |
|
Windows |
Simple GUI driven interface |
| Mathematica |
|
GUI, Command line, C++ |
|
No |
|
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HPUX, Solaris |
Also a statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language |
| Maxima |
|
GUI, Command line |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Unix Like OS |
Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTex with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SAGE |
|
| Software |
Example(s) |
Interface |
Licence(s) |
Operating system |
Distinguishing features |
|
|
|
License |
Open Source (yes/no) |
Price |
|
|
| GraphEasy |
|
GUI |
GPL |
No |
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
|
| Descartes (plotting tool) |
|
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Any (Python) |
Inactive as of 2005 |
| EpsTk |
 |
Toolkit for use with Matlab and GNU Octave |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Any (Octave or Matlab) |
|
| Gnuplot |
 |
Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk |
own licence |
|
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux, VMS, Ultrix, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga, OS-9/68k, Atari ST, BeOS |
Built in scripting language |
| Grace |
 |
Command line, GUI, various APIs |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows (cygwin), Mac(X11), Linux |
Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr |
| Graph |
 |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows |
|
| IGOR Pro |
 |
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
US$550[1] |
Windows, Mac |
|
| JFreeChart |
 |
GUI, Java, Groovy |
LGPL |
Yes |
Free |
Any (Java) |
|
| KChart |
 |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Linux (KDE) |
|
| kst |
 |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Linux (KDE) |
|
| LabPlot |
 |
GUI, Qt scripting |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Linux (KDE) |
|
| LiveGraph |
 |
GUI |
BSD-style |
Yes |
Free |
Any (Java) |
Real-time plotting; Point-and-click interface; API for data handling |
| Nucalc |
 |
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
US$100[1] |
Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X |
|
| OpenPlaG |
 |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Any (PHP 5) |
|
| Origin |
|
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
US$950 (std)/1500 (pro)[1] |
Windows |
|
| PGPLOT |
|
FORTRAN, C |
|
No |
Free for non commercial |
Windows, Mac, Linux (Fortran) California Institute of Technology |
Inactive as of 2001 |
| Physics Plot |
 |
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
US$100 |
Windows (visualbasic) |
|
| ploticus |
 |
Command line, C |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
|
| QtiPlot |
|
GUI |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
|
| ROOT |
 |
GUI, C++, Python, Ruby |
LGPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
|
| SciDAVis |
 |
GUI, Python |
GPL |
Yes |
Free |
Windows, Mac, Linux |
Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable |
| SigmaPlot |
|
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
US$749[1] |
Windows |
|
| Turbo Plot |
|
GUI |
proprietary |
No |
Free |
Windows |
x86/x64, Vectored Plots. |
- ^ a b c d MSRP for full version with physical media. Discounted downloads and academic discounts might be available.
[edit] Statistical software
Graphing functionality are included in almost all spreadsheet programs. Some well-known examples are:
Some online spreadsheets also support charting:
[edit] Vector graphics
Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program. Please see:
[edit] See also
