Matplotlib Alternatives for Mac

There are many alternatives to Matplotlib for Mac if you are looking for a replacement. The best Mac alternative is MATLAB. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try GeoGebra or GnuPlot. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Matplotlib and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Matplotlib are Plotly, LabPlot, GraphPad Prism and SciDaVis.

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  1. MATLAB icon
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    High-level environment supporting numerical computation, visualization, matrix operations, algorithm development, custom interfaces, integration with external languages, symbolic and model-based simulation, and specialized toolboxes for fields like engineering.

    88 MATLAB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. GeoGebra icon
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    GeoGebra is free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for learning and teaching. It has received several educational software awards in Europe and the USA.

    41 GeoGebra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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  3. GnuPlot icon
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    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...

    65 GnuPlot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. LabPlot icon
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    LabPlot is a free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals.

    39 LabPlot alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Haiku
    • FreeBSD
     
  5. GraphPad Prism icon
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    GraphPad Prism is a powerful combination of basic biostatistics, curve fitting and scientific graphing in one comprehensive program. More than 100,000 scientists in over 100 countries rely on Prism to analyze, graph and present their scientific data.

    19 GraphPad Prism alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. SciDaVis icon
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    SciDAVis is a free application for Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization. It's an application aimed at data analysis and

    38 SciDaVis alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. QtiPlot icon
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    QtiPlot is a professional scientific data analysis and visualisation solution. It is meant to be a cheap alternative to proprietary and costly software such as Origin, SigmaPlot, Regressi or Igor Pro.

    20 QtiPlot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Bokeh icon
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    Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of D3.js, but also deliver this capability with high-performance interactivity over very...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9. Veusz icon
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    Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing program with a graphical user interface, designed to produce publication-ready 2D and 3D plots.

    16 Veusz alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. IGOR Pro icon
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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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