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)KstGUI, CLIGPL20042021, v 2.0.xLinux, macOS, Windows Fast real-time large-dataset plotting and viewing tool with basic data analysis functions AIDA LGPL 2001 / 3.2.1 Open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing Algebrator GUI Proprietary 1999 / 4.2 Linux, macOS, Sugar, Windows 2D graphs Baudline GUI Proprietary 2000 / 1.08 FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris Signal analysis tool D3js JavaScript library BSD 2011 / 5.7.0 web browsers, js engines static and dynamic presentations DADiSP GUI, command line, SPL script language Proprietary 1987 / 6.7 B02 Windows Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interfaceDAP GNU-style copyleft 1998 / 3.10 StatisticsDataGraph GUI, command line Proprietary 2006 / 4.5.1 macOS 2D graphing, animations, data analysis, linear and non-linear curve fitting DataScene GUI Shareware 2009 / 3.0.7 Linux, Unix/X11, Windows 2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring EditGrid GUI (web based) 2006 Any (Web-based application) Online spreadsheet; service to end May 1, 2014 EJS GUI GPL 2014 Linux, macOS, Windows Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets Epi Info GPL 1985 / 7.2.2.6 Windows Statistics EViews Proprietary 1994 / 10 Statistics Fityk GUI, command line GPL 2004 / 1.3.1 Linux, macOS, Windows specialized in curve fitting FlexPro Proprietary 1991 2017 MS Windows only FreeMat GPL 2004 / 4.2 Linux, macOS, Windows FusionCharts GUI (web based), JavaScript Charting Library Proprietary 2002 / 3.11.3 All Web Browsers (including IE 6), JS Engines Interactive JavaScript Charts GeoGebra GUI GPL with non-commercial restriction 2001 / 6.0.385.0 Linux, macOS, Sugar, Windows, Android rendering of geometry, graphs, statistical diagrams, (LaTeX) formula rendering; antialiasing in PNG Export; exports to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF Gephi GUI GPLv3 / 2008 / 0.9.1 Linux, macOS, Windows Networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs ggplot2 R GPL2 2007 / 2.2.1 Cross-platform Based on The Grammar of GraphicsGrafana GUI (web based) GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 2014 / 12.0.1 All Web Browsers Diagrams, Live Data Analysis, Public Dashboards Gnumeric GUI GPL 2001 / 1.12.43 Cross-platform Spreadsheet GNU Octave GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran GPL 1993 / 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 1986 / 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 1988 / 2.2.1 Linux, macOS, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIX Visualization of Earth science dataGraphPad Prism GUI proprietary 1989 / 7.0b Mac, Windows Grace Command line, GUI, various APIs GPL 1998 / 5.1.25 Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin) Uses Motif; fork of XmgrGraphviz DOT language CPL 1991 / 2.40.1 Linux, macOS, Windows gretl GUI GPL 2000 / 2018c Linux, Mac, Windows Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and RHippoDraw GPL v2 1992 / 1.21.3 C++-based data analysis system IGOR Pro GUI proprietary 1989 / 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 2006 / v4.8 Windows and Linux Math library with rich visualization features (interactive 3D scenes, scientific plotting) and MATLAB-like syntaxJFreeChart GUI, Java, Groovy LGPL 2000 / 1.5.0 Any (Java) JMP GUI, scripting proprietary 1989 / 16.0 Mac, Windows Interactive statistical graphicsCalligra Sheets GUI GPL 2010 / 3.0.1 Linux (KDE) The charting tool of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite developed by KDEKig GUI GPL 2006 Geometry diagrams only LabPlot GUI, Qt, C, C++ GNU GPLv2 or later 2001 / 2.11.1 Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku 2D plotting, suitable for creation of publication-ready plotsLabVIEW Proprietary 1986 / 2017 Visual circuits modelingLibreOfficeGUIMPL-2.02011September 8, 2022 / 7.3.6Linux, macOS, WindowsSpreadsheet, Diagrams, Statistical FunctionsLiSiCA Python 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 2008 / 3.0 Any (Java) Nonlinear fitting, batch processingMaple GUI, command line Proprietary 1982 / 2017 Linux, macOS, Windows MathCad GUI Proprietary 1986 / Prime 4.0, / 15.0 M045 Windows Simple GUI driven interface Mathematica GUI, command line, C++ Proprietary 1988 Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language; see Wolfram LanguageMATLAB GUI Proprietary 1979 / R2017b Linux, macOS, Windows Matrix systemMaxima GUI, command line GPL 1982 / 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 2019 / 4.6.2 Linux, macOS, Windows Visualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data; texture & ray-cast mappers MedCalc GUI Proprietary 1993 / 17.9 Windows StatisticsMicrosoft Excel GUI Proprietary 1987 macOS, Windows Spreadsheet NCSS GUI Proprietary 1981 / NCSS 11 Windows Statistical analysis and graphics software Nucalc GUI proprietary 1994 Mac OS, macOS, Windows Numbers (iWork) GUI Proprietary 2007 / 4.1 macOS SpreadsheetOpenDX GUI Proprietary 1991 / 4.4.0 Cross-platform OpenOffice.org Calc GUI GNU LGPL 2002 / 3.3 Cross-platform SpreadsheetOpenPlaG GUI GPL 2007 / 3.5 Any (PHP 5) graph plotter to use on websites Orange GUI, Python scripting GPL 1996 / 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 learningOrigin GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting proprietary 1992 / 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 2002 / 5.5.2 Linux/Unix, macOS, Windows Parallel scientific and computational fluid dynamics visualizations Perl Data Language (PDL) Artistic License / GPL 1996 / 2.019 Perl Data Language PGPLOT FORTRAN, C 1983 / 5.2.2 Linux, Mac, Windows (Fortran) California Institute of Technology, Inactive ploticus Command line, C GPL 1999 / 2.42 Linux, Mac, Windows plots and charts from dataPlotly GUI, command line Python Commercial 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 1989 / 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 2001 / 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 1997 / 1.0.0 Linux, Mac, Windows Statistical analysis of sampled data; free replacement for SPSS QtiPlot GUI, Python proprietary 2004 / 0.9.9.11 Linux, Mac, Windows Python scriptableR Third party GPL 1993 / 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 1994 / 6.14.04 Linux, Mac, Windows De facto standard in high energy physics RRDtool Command line GPL 1999 / 1.7.0 Linux, Windows S-PLUS Proprietary 1988 / 8.2 StatisticsS 1976 Statistics SAS Proprietary 1972 / 9.4 Statistics Scilab CeCILL 1990 / 6.0.2 Linux, macOS, Windows Matrix systemSciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python Python, GUI, command line BSD/matplotlib 2003 / 0.19.1, / 1.13.1, / 2.0.2 FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting SOCR 2002 Online tool suite for statistical computing Sonic Visualiser GUI GPL 2010 / 3.1.1 Linux, macOS, Windows SPSS GUI, command line Proprietary 1968 / 25.0 Statistics Stata Proprietary 1985 / 15.0 Statistics Statgraphics GUI Proprietary 1980 / 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 2005 / 3.81 Systat Proprietary 1979 Statistics SymPy BSD 2007 / 1.3 Linux, macOS, Windows Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics Sysquake GUI, command line Proprietary 2001 / 5.0 Linux, macOS, Windows MATLAB compatible, interactive graphicsSciDAVis GUI, Python GPL 2007 / 1.23 Linux, Mac, Windows Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable SigmaPlot GUI proprietary 1983 / 13.0.0 Windows TAChart Charting library modified LGPL 2012 / 1.6.2 Linux, macOS, Windows Very flexible charting component for Lazarus / Free PascalTableau GUI Proprietary 2003 Windows Spreadsheet Tecplot GUI proprietary 1988 / 2016 Linux, Mac, Unix, Windows Computational fluid dynamics Teechart Charting library Open source 1995 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 2002 Windows Support for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts; direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint Veusz GUI, Python, command line GPL 2007 / 4.2 Windows Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface Visifire Independent of server side scripting Proprietary 2008 / 5.1.7-0 Mac, WindowsVisIt GUI, C++, Python, and Java BSD 2002 / 2.13.2 Linux, Mac, Windows Designed to handle very large data sets Webix JavaScript library GPLV3/ProprietaryWebix - Buy 2013 / 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 1985 Microsoft WindowsWorld Programming System (WPS Analytics) GUI, command line Proprietary 2002 / v4.2AIX, 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 programXgraph GUI, command line Proprietary 1985 / v4.38 Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, Solaris Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting Zoho Office Suite GUI (web based) Proprietary 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; see: :Category:Vector graphics editors Comparison of vector graphics editors Some online editors using vector graphics for specific needs exist. These creative interfaces work well together with data visualization tools like the ones above.

See also :Category:Diagramming software List of graphical methods

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