D3.js AlternativesCharting Library Tools and other similar apps like D3.js

D3.js is described as 'JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS' and is a popular charting library tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to D3.js for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Mac apps. The best D3.js alternative is Graphviz, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like D3.js are RAWGraphs, Chart.js, Plotly and Processing.js.

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  1. Graphviz icon
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    Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design...

    56 Graphviz alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Graphviz is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to D3.js.

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

    • Graphviz is Free and Open SourceD3.js is also Free and Open Source
  2. RAWGraphs icon
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    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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    johnnybilliboy
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    It's more like an enhanced alternative to D3.js since RAWGraph is based on D3.js

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    • RAWGraphs is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to D3.js.

    • RAWGraphs is Free and Open SourceD3.js is also Free and Open Source
  3. Chart.js icon
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    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.

    26 Chart.js alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
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  4. Plotly icon
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    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

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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    • Plotly is the most popular iPhone alternative to D3.js.

    • Plotly is Freemium and Open SourceD3.js is Free and Open Source
  5. Processing.js icon
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    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

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
     
  6. Penrose icon
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    Penrose is a platform that enables people to create beautiful diagrams just by typing mathematical notation in plain text. The goal is to make it easy for non-experts to create and explore high-quality diagrams and provide deeper insight into challenging technical concepts.

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    • Free
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  7. Google Charts icon
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    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.

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    • Free
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    Shawn Eary
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    Easy to use. Highly customizable. Lightweight.

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    • Google Charts is Free and ProprietaryD3.js is Free and Open Source
  8. Highcharts icon
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    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

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    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Java Mobile
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  9. Vega-Lite icon
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    Vega-Lite provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis, comparable to ggplot or Tableau, that generates complete Vega specifications. Vega-Lite specifications consist of simple mappings of variables in a data set to visual encoding channels such as x, y, color, and size.

    6 Vega-Lite alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  10. NVD3 icon
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    This project is an attempt to build re-usable charts and chart components for d3.js without taking away the power that d3.js gives you. This is a very young collection of components, with the goal of keeping these components very customizeable, staying away from your standard...

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    • Free
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  11. 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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    Apache ECharts is a free, powerful charting and visualization library offering easy ways to add intuitive, interactive, and highly customizable charts to your commercial products. It is written in pure JavaScript and based on zrender, which is a whole new lightweight canvas...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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