Chartkick Alternatives

Chartkick is described as 'Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. No more fighting with charting libraries! Works with Rails, Sinatra and most browsers (including IE 6)' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Chartkick for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best Chartkick alternative is D3.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Chartkick are RAWGraphs, Chart.js, Plotly and Google Charts.

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  1. D3.js icon
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    D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS.

    76 D3.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • D3.js is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Chartkick.

    • D3.js is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Chartkick.

    • D3.js is Free and Open SourceChartkick is also Free and Open Source
  2. RAWGraphs icon
     44 likes

    RAWGraphs is an open source app built with the goal of making the visualization of complex data easy for everyone. Born as tool for designers and vis geeks, RAWGraphs aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics editors.

    69 RAWGraphs alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Chart.js icon
     27 likes

    Easy, object oriented client side graphs for designers and developers. Open source HTML5 charts using the canvas tag. Chart.js is an easy way to include animated graphs on your website.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
  4. Plotly icon
     37 likes

    Plotly is the easiest way to graph and share data online. Open-source libraries for JavaScript (comparison with HighCharts at https://plot.ly/highcharts-alternative/), Python, R, and MATLAB.

    94 Plotly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
     
    • Plotly is the most popular Windows, Mac, iPhone & Linux alternative to Chartkick.

    • Plotly is Freemium and Open SourceChartkick is Free and Open Source
  5. Google Charts icon
     28 likes

    The Google Charts is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a webpage. You embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Processing.js icon
     24 likes

    Processing.js is an open programming language, port of the Processing Visualization Language, for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. A general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth, and high performance visualizations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Amazon QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data.

    62 Amazon QuickSight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
    • Amazon QuickSight is the most popular SaaS alternative to Chartkick.

    • Amazon QuickSight is the most popular commercial alternative to Chartkick.

    • Amazon QuickSight is Paid and ProprietaryChartkick is Free and Open Source
  9. Highcharts icon
     20 likes

    Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types.

    56 Highcharts alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Java Mobile
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Frappé Charts is a simple, responsive, modern charts library for the web with zero dependencies and a roughly 15k gzipped file size. From the makers of ERPNext, the library offers a fast alternative with minimal effort needed to visualize data in sleek charts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Koia icon
     4 likes

    Create graphs online with CSV, Excel or JSON data. Choose from different chart types, pivot tables and relationship graphs. Easy, user-friendly, open- source.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Squey icon
     2 likes

    Squey is an open-source visualization software designed to interactively explore and understand large amounts of tabular data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Flathub
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
     
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