# Data visualization apps & tools

> Standalone apps and language-agnostic tools. 28 tools, ranked by GitHub stars.

Standalone applications and language-agnostic tools: desktop apps for exploring large graphs such as Gephi, web apps that turn spreadsheets into charts such as RAWGraphs, geospatial explorers such as Kepler.gl, and command-line tools such as Graphviz.

| # | Tool | GitHub stars | Commits (12 mo) | License | Description |
|---:|---|---:|---:|---|---|
| 1 | [ChartDB](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/chartdb/) | 22,987 | 116 | AGPL-3.0 | An Open-source tool to visualize database schemas and generate ER diagrams from a single query. |
| 2 | [FlameGraph](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/flamegraph/) | 19,785 | 0 | – | Stack trace visualizer that generates interactive SVG flame graphs from profiling data. |
| 3 | [Data Formulator](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/data-formulator/) | 17,525 | 930 | MIT | AI-assisted tool for transforming data and creating visualizations, from Microsoft Research. |
| 4 | [Sampler](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/sampler/) | 14,810 | 0 | GPL-3.0 | Terminal dashboard that runs shell commands and visualizes their output, configured with YAML. |
| 5 | [QGIS](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/qgis/) | 14,461 | 6,488 | GPL-2.0 | Desktop geographic information system for viewing, editing, analyzing and mapping geospatial data. |
| 6 | [Gource](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/gource/) | 13,159 | 3 | GPL-3.0 | Animated visualization of software version control history. |
| 7 | [Kepler.gl](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/kepler-gl/) | 12,033 | 402 | MIT | Geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets. |
| 8 | [VisiData](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/visidata/) | 9,317 | 576 | GPL-3.0 | Terminal spreadsheet multitool for exploring and arranging tabular data, with basic plotting. |
| 9 | [RAWGraphs](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/rawgraphs/) | 9,033 | 0 | Apache-2.0 | Create web visualizations from CSV or Excel files. |
| 10 | [draw.io](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/draw-io/) | 8,555 | 65 | Apache-2.0 | Client-side JavaScript editor for flowcharts, network, UML and other diagrams. |
| 11 | [SandDance](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/sanddance/) | 7,147 | 67 | MIT | Visual data exploration and presentation with animated unit visualizations, from Microsoft Research. |
| 12 | [Gephi](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/gephi/) | 6,658 | 1,506 | GPL-3.0 | An open-source platform for visualizing and manipulating large graphs |
| 13 | [Spark](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/spark/) | 6,068 | 0 | MIT | Sparklines for the shell. It has several implementations in different languages. |
| 14 | [Orange](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/orange/) | 5,717 | 309 | Other | Visual programming tool for data mining, machine learning and interactive data visualization. |
| 15 | [RATH](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/rath/) | 4,686 | 29 | AGPL-3.0 | Automatic Exploratory Data Analysis & Data Visualization tool which is powered by an AI-assisted Augmented Analytics engine. |
| 16 | [Charted](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/charted/) | 2,745 | 0 | MIT | A charting tool that produces automatic, shareable charts from any data file. |
| 17 | [Graphviz](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/graphviz/) | 1,473 | – | EPL-2.0 | Open source graph visualization command line tool and library. From input text to SVG,PDF,interactive web graph browser. |
| 18 | [DAC](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/dac/) | 779 | 279 | AGPL-3.0 | Dashboard-as-code tool that builds interactive dashboards from YAML and TSX definitions |
| 19 | [Cytoscape](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/cytoscape/) | 731 | 4 | – | Desktop platform for network analysis and visualization, widely used in bioinformatics. |
| 20 | [LabPlot](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/labplot/) | 486 | 1,428 | – | KDE application for interactive scientific plotting, data analysis and visualization. |
| 21 | [sankeydiagram.net](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/sankeydiagram-net/) | 123 | 2 | MIT + Commons Clause | Web app for creating and sharing Sankey diagrams of flows and budgets without code. |
| 22 | [Squey](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/squey/) | 23 | – | MIT | Visualization software for exploring and understanding large amounts of tabular data (using parallel coordinates, timeseries and scatter plots). |
| 23 | [Resseract Lite](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/resseract-lite/) | 7 | 0 | Apache-2.0 | A Data Analytics and Visualization Tool with flexible architecture to visualize and analyse data |
| 24 | [ink-uplot](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/ink-uplot/) | 1 | 81 | MIT | Render uPlot charts in the terminal (React Ink) with truecolor Unicode and kitty/sixel/iTerm2 graphics. |
| 25 | [csvtodashboard](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/csvtodashboard/) | – | – | – | Turn a CSV or Excel file into an auto-built dashboard in the browser - client-side, no upload. |
| 26 | [ERD Lab](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/erd-lab/) | – | – | – | Free cloud based entity relationship diagram (ERD) tool made for developers. |
| 27 | [gnuplot](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/gnuplot/) | – | – | – | Command-line driven program for 2D and 3D plots, with many output formats. |
| 28 | [Plotivy](https://awesomedataviz.com/tools/plotivy/) | – | – | – | Scientific data visualization tool, with AI-generated reproducible Python code, and research-oriented design best practices built in. |

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