Makie
Interactive, high-performance plotting ecosystem for Julia with OpenGL, WebGL and Cairo backends.
- Active
- MIT
- Julia
- Julia plotting packages
- GitHub stars
- 2.8K
- Commits, last 12 months
- 199
- Contributors
- 264
- Last commit
- Latest release
- v0.24.15Sep 19, 2026
Overview
Makie is an open-source Julia plotting package released under the MIT license. Its GitHub repository has 2,816 stars, 396 forks, and 264 contributors. It is actively developed with 199 commits in the last 12 months. The latest release, v0.24.15, was published on Sep 19, 2026.
Its GitHub description: Interactive data visualizations and plotting in Julia
GitHub topics: juliaplottingvisualizationjulia-languagegpugraphics
Install
Development activity
Commits per month to the default branch over the last 12 complete months.
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| Month | Commits |
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| Oct 2025 | 13 |
| Nov 2025 | 31 |
| Dec 2025 | 19 |
| Jan 2026 | 8 |
| Feb 2026 | 3 |
| Mar 2026 | 16 |
| Apr 2026 | 17 |
| May 2026 | 21 |
| Jun 2026 | 12 |
| Jul 2026 | 22 |
| Aug 2026 | 11 |
| Sep 2026 | 26 |
Popularity among Julia plotting packages
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| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
| Makie | 2,816 |
| Plots.jl | 1,952 |
| Gadfly.jl | 1,927 |
| UnicodePlots.jl | 1,549 |
Alternatives to Makie
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Plots.jl
Plotting meta-package for Julia with a single API over multiple backends.
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Gadfly.jl
Statistical graphics for Julia based on the grammar of graphics.
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UnicodePlots.jl
Unicode-based scientific plotting in the terminal for Julia.
More comparisons: Makie vs Plots.jl · Gadfly.jl vs Makie · Makie vs UnicodePlots.jl
Makie FAQ
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julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("Makie")'.What are the best alternatives to Makie?
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Data: GitHub API, Julia. Updated Oct 4, 2026.