Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

GnuPlot is described as 'Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility. It was originally intended as to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. It does this job pretty well, but has grown to support many non-interactive' and is a popular graphing calculator in the education & reference category. There are more than 50 alternatives to GnuPlot for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best GnuPlot alternative is GNU Octave, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GnuPlot are MATLAB, GeoGebra, Matplotlib and OriginPro.

Kst is a fast, real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool available and has built-in data analysis functionality.

Technical graphing and data analysis for Macintosh and Windows. IGOR Pro creates publication quality scientific graphics used by scientists and engineers around the world. IGOR Pro 6 is an extraordinarily powerful and extensible scientific graphing, data analysis, image...
DataGraph is a simple and powerful graphing application for Mac OS X. It is a great companion for Excel, Numbers or any of the big statistical packages.



Open source framework for numerical computations and advanced statistical analysis, featuring nonlinear curve fitting, ODE solving, 1D/2D publication-quality visualization, Fourier and wavelet transforms, intuitive syntax, and namespace-based code organization for research.




Grapher is the ultimate technical graphing package available. This easy-to-use, powerful, dynamic program will help you create superior publication-quality professional graphs in minutes!.



KmPlot is a powerful mathematical plotter KDE, capable of plotting multiple functions simultaneously and combining them into new functions.

RGraph is a HTML5 canvas graph library. It uses features that became available in HTML5 (specifically, the CANVAS tag) to produce a wide variety of graph types: bar chart, bi-polar chart (also known as an age frequency chart), donut chart, funnel chart, gantt chart, horizontal...



KAlgebra is a mathematical graph calculator included in the KDE education package. While it is based on the MathML content markup language, knowledge of MathML is not required for use. The calculator includes numerical, logical, symbolic, and analytical functions, and can plot...



JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications.


Core Plot is a 2D plotting framework for Mac OS X and iOS. It is highly customizable and capable of drawing many types of plots