Free Highcharts AlternativesCharting Library Tools and other similar apps like Highcharts

The best free alternative to Highcharts is D3.js, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Highcharts and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Highcharts are RAWGraphs, Plotly, Google Charts and Epoch Charting Library.

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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

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

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

    • D3.js is Free and Open SourceHighcharts is Free Personal and Proprietary
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

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

    • Plotly is Freemium and Open SourceHighcharts is Free Personal and Proprietary
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
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    Free online charts. Easily create animated charts from your data.save your charts as image or HTML.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Koia icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. Squey icon
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    Squey is an open-source visualization software designed to interactively explore and understand large amounts of tabular data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Flathub
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
     
    • Squey is the most popular SaaS alternative to Highcharts.

    • Squey is Free and Open SourceHighcharts is Free Personal and Proprietary
  9. PykCharts.js icon
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    26+ well-designed, themeable, responsive, modular, real-time and easy to use charts and 109+ maps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • PykCharts.js is the most popular Android & iPad alternative to Highcharts.

    • PykCharts.js is Free and Open SourceHighcharts is Free Personal and Proprietary
  10. Datamatic.io icon
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    Datamatic is like WordPress for data visualizations, it offers 70+ interactive data visualization templates, Excel-like data editor & beautiful material design styles. Data visualizations can be easily embedded in any website or web application.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. 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...

    53 NVD3 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
     
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